Meet Forum Virium Helsinki at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, November 2026

As the Innovation Company of the City of Helsinki and a leading repatriator of EU innovation funding, we offer our partners the opportunity to use Helsinki as a world-class testbed (Living Labs). Our main themes this year include:

• Space technology and satellite data for climate adaptation
• Digital twins in urban planning and resilience
• Green infrastructure innovations
• Data ecosystems and data spaces

Find us at: European Twinning & Citiverse Plaza, Hall 3, stand D71.
Drop by for a chat or book a meeting with our experts!

Our Program at SCEWC 2026

Experts from Forum Virium Helsinki and the City of Helsinki will be featured in the following presentations and demos:

FORUM VIRIUM HELSINKI PRESENTATIONS

Tuesday 3 November

• 11:20–11:35 | Sandbox Area: Digital twin demo tool for climate adaptation and socioeconomic risk (Heli Ponto)
• 11:40–11:55 | Sandbox Area: Pedestrian tracking lidar for understanding the use of public spaces to support planning (Juho-Pekka Virtanen)
• 12:45–13:30 | Move Stage: Panel discussion: New Governance of Multimodality (Nilla Möller)
• 17:00–17:15 | Central Stage: Opening satellite data for smarter urban planning – using space for cities (Renske Martijnse-Hartikka)

Wednesday 4 November

• 14:40–14:55 | Central Stage: Developing satellite data solutions for water challenges across Europe (Meri Vainio) + Digital twin tool for cross-examination of climate risks and vulnerability (Heli Ponto)
• 15:00–15:15 | Sandbox Area: 5 Innovative satellite data solution pilots for more resilient European cities (Ari Kaukiainen)

Thursday 5 November

• 12:35–13:05 | Central Stage: Urban Wellbeing Lab: Enhancing Resident Wellbeing with Data-Driven Solutions (Anne-Mari Sandell) + GenAI & Well-Being: Building a Scalable Adoption Model (Silja Peltonen) + Scaling Up Shared Mobility in Helsinki (Nilla Möller) + Zero-Emission Maritime Logistics in Helsinki (Joel Hakuli)

CITY OF HELSINKI PRESENTATIONS

Tuesday 3 November

• 15:40–15:55 | Sandbox Area: Leading AI at city scale: a practical view of Helsinki’s AI governance solutions (Nuutti Kytö)
• 16:00–16:15 | Sandbox Area: Planning Urban Airspace with Helsinki’s City Aviation Digital Twin | From Airspace to Landing Sites (Christina Suomi & Jukka Keski-Jaskari)
• 17:20–17:35 | Central Stage: Empowering city employees to innovate new AI-solutions Case: Experimentation accelerator (Ville Meloni)

Wednesday 4 November

• 11:00–11:15 | Sandbox Area: Local vegetation species in the Helsinki 3D-city model (Lauri Lemmenlehti)
• 11:40–11:55 | Central Stage: Governing AI at city scale: From the EU AI Act to trusted AI-enabled public services (Nuutti Kytö)
• 14:20–14:35 | Sandbox Area: Data and Technologies Enabling Proactive Services in Helsinki (Pasi Rautio)
• 14:40–14:55 | Sandbox Area: Helsinki in Data Ecosystems (Hedeko) project (Tanja Lahti & Ville Meloni)
• 15:00–15:15 | Central Stage: Dynamic vegetation models of local vegetation species for Helsinki’s urban digital twin (Lauri Lemmenlehti)