Forum Virium Helsinki is the Innovation Company of the City of Helsinki. We aim to build Helsinki into the most functional smart city in the world in collaboration with companies, the scientific community and residents. Our focus areas are smart city, smart mobility and open data & IoT. We are fully owned by the City of Helsinki and our operations are funded by the City of Helsinki and different EU projects.
Forum Virium Helsinki is one of the founding members of MyData Global and has a long history of promoting the use of open data. In our work we help the city of Helsinki to produce, utilise and share the best open data in the world and develop the most innovative digital services by following the MyData principles.
Website: https://forumvirium.fi/
Twitter: @ForumVirium
Partner interview
Piia Hanhirova
Project Manager,
+358 40 643 4050 piia.hanhirova(at)forumvirium.fi
Pekka Koponen
Development Director,
+358 40 5017114 pekka.koponen(at)forumvirium.fi
Timo Ruohomäki
Director, IoT and Data,
+358 406615500
timo.ruohomaki(at)forumvirium.fi
Why did you decide to partner with this unique conference? What’s the added value?
Forum Virium Helsinki’s work is driven by data and MyData principles. We are actively promoting interoperability and common standards between cities in a global context as we share the values of a fair, transparent and prosperous digital society. Our aim is to enhance trust and human-centricity in the utilisation of data and analytics and help the city of Helsinki to produce individual and tailored services for the city residents, proactively and when they need them.
We are very interested to meet with new partners and get involved with new initiatives in using data and making cities better places to live. We have a long background in facilitating companies to pilot new services based on data in a smart city context so we welcome all interested organisations to contact us and hear more about the opportunities Helsinki Smart City presents.
We do not have a presentation this year as our projects in relation to MyData are in a too early phase, but we would like to reserve the opportunity to present in the next conferences! 🙂
What are you looking forward to most about the conference?
In addition to finding new partners with whom to work with, we are excited to hear inspiring talks and discussions on personal data economy, empowering citizens with MyData approach, interoperability, standardization and so much more on this important topic!
Are you working on MyData issues currently in your organisation?
Yes. I would like to especially highlight a project called SmashHit – Solving Consumer Consent and Data Security. It is a three-year Horizon 2020 EU-project (smashhit.eu) where the aim is to enhance trust in the data economy by creating new and better services by using the data from the connected car. The aim is to assure trusted and secure sharing of data streams from both personal and industrial platforms which are needed to build sectoral and cross-sectoral services, solve the consumer consent and create fair rules to data exchange by following the MyData-principles. In Helsinki, new solutions for consumer consent and secure data sharing will be tested in smart mobility. For more information, click here (hyperlink) https://forumvirium.fi/en/smashhit-project/