CaaS Nordic together with VTT, Traficom and ITS Finland organised second DigiLog seminar in 22nd of November. The venue was Botta in the middle of Helsinki. This time the seminar had focus on the twin transition of logistics with a special twist of eFTI. The seminar gathered together close to 100 participants both at the seminar venue and via remote connection. The recording and all the presentations for the seminar can be found from https://its-finland.fi/news-article/digilog-2-shaping-the-future-of-logistics-with-smart-solutions/.
The seminar was opened by welcoming words from the chairman of CaaS Nordic Jarkko Rantala and ITS Finland CEO Marko Forsblom. The actual seminar agenda was divided in four subcategories: keynotes, authority view, industry outlook and panel discussion. Three keynote speakers: CEO of Fintraffic Pia Julin; Marjut Linnajärvi – VP Sales & Railway Operations in Nurminen Logistics and Technical Director of UIRR Eric Feyen guided the audience to the world of digital logistics.
After the keynotes, authorities from Finland, Estonia and Sweden introduced their plans and actions related to data sharing in logistics and especially on eFTI and new eFTI4EU project. These insightful presentations were given by Maria Rautavirta the Director of Data Business Unit at Ministry of Transport and Communication of Finland, Eva Killar the Head of Department at Ministry of Climate of Estonia, Jan Bergstrand the Senior Strategic Analyst at Trafikverket Sweden and Teemu Heikura the Logistics Development Manager Fintraffic (Finland). This time the seminar had honor also to include the EU perspective, as Lia Potec the Policy officer from the European Commission participated also in the seminar and introduced the eFTI regulation work and its status at the EU level.
Following the authority view, the focus was shifted to companies and five company representatives introduced their current actions and developments. Industry outlook was started with a presentation by Yancho Todorov the Senior Scientist & Project Manager from VTT. After Yanco, Petteri Hellen the Development Lead, Systems and Global Stakeholders at Finnair Cargo, Ulrika Hurt the Partner of Digital Logistics Centre at Digilogistika Keskus, Toni Penttinen the Chief Operating Office at Ahola digital and Tomi Dahlberg the Chairman of the board of DBE Core gave their insights and lesson learnt in digitalisation work.
The seminar was ended and wrapped up with the panel discussion, which was hosted by Matti Lankinen. In the panel Petteri Hellen (Finnair Cargo), Jan Bergstrand (Trafikverket), Eva Killar (Ministry of Climate of Estonia), Jonna Paasonen (Managing Director, Railgate Finland Oy and Teemu Heikura (Fintraffic) summarised the discussions of the day and gave insights what the audience could take away from the presentations and talks held at the seminar.
From the organizer point of view, we want to thank all participants and our speakers, without whom organizing the event would not have been possible. At the same time we would like to inform you that now the DigiLog event has been organized two times and that there can’t be two without the third, so a new DigiLog is already planned. So be tuned.
Special thanks also to LIMOWA, which helped organizers during the preparations and also worked as sponsor for the event.