Merete Kvidal

NTNU, Norway

Merete Kvidal, born 1968, MSc (Civil Engineering) NTNU 1993. Kvidal has 25 years of experience with managing and finalizing a high number of projects in both private and public sector and is currently working as Project Director for campus development at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In addition to project management, Kvidal has competence and skills in management consulting, business strategy, entrepreneurship and communication.

Lennart Ilke

Karolinska Institutet

Lennart Ilke, born 1953, is facilities director at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm since 2014. Before that head of Buildings Office at Uppsala University 2004-2014 after six years as project leader at the same place. Originally project engineer for two decades at several architecture and construction bureaus in Uppsala, where he is living since 1973. In free time engaged in long distance running and translation of literature.

Lars Mitens

Aarhus University, Denmark

Lars Mitens has as a manager been dedicated at facility development and operation in more than twenty years with experience from the industry and university world. Has managed and finalized a high number of projects. From site planning, engineering, IT-systems/digitalization, business process reengineering to change management projects like implementation of new systems and concepts in a large organization.

Satu Kankaala

Head of Workplaces and Sustainability, Aalto University Campus & Real Estate

Satu Kankaala shares passion for customer understanding and creating outstanding campus experience. She is responsible for leading the workplaces team, sustainable campus development and R&D within Aalto University Campus & Real Estate. Her key focus areas are workplace development and design concepts, sustainable development and energy efficiency, service, business and digital development.

Satu has overseen complex development and change projects. In addition, she has wide experience in corporate real estate and facilities, R&D and project management, business development and service sales.

Presentations Monday:
Campus planning session: "Transforming Aalto Campus into a unique collaboration hub – campus roadmap."
 
Digitalization session: "Aalto Space – finding and booking a space as easy as cycling"

Teemu Lehtinen

Chief Digital Officer of the governmental KIRA-digi project, Finland

Teemu Lehtinen is Chief Digital Officer of the governmental KIRA-digi project which aims to boost digital transformation within the real estate and construction sector in Finland. KIRA-digi is a joint effort of public and private sectors and promotes digital experimentation by 40% of governmental funding. Over 100 experimental projects worth over 10 Million Euros have been ignited during 2017-2018 covering the whole lifecycle of the built environment - from land use planning and zoning, all the way to the project level of design, construction, and use and maintenance of our built assets. The project also promotes better information flow with open data and APIs and analyses the needs for legislative changes in order to achieve true platform economy within the built environment. Teemu has graduated from Information Networks study program and is finalizing his doctoral thesis at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University. Teemu has been at Stanford University as a visiting scholar twice and is the local lead for AEC Hackathons in Finland. As a continuation for KIRA-digi, Teemu wants to co-found a Built Environment Innovation Hub in Helsinki to unite the Finnish innovation ecosystem and take the collaboration in the Nordics and globally to the next level.

Presentation: “The future of buildings is digital - What will it mean in practice?”

Lena Bohlin

Umeå University, Sweden

Lena Bohlin is Head of University service at Umeå University. Her background as a manager and have been that for the last 20 years. With passion for business development and special focus in the changing process and to work with goals. The recent years of development within the academy as well as learning from others to find the best solution of working environment for employees and students.

Tomas Rimbark

Umeå University, Sweden

Tomas Rimbark is a Project manager at Umeå University. He has a background as a Systems Analyst and has worked with Web development and Digital analysis at Swedish Television and in the private sector for the last ten years.

Digitalization of buildings – research from Umeå University
Lena Bohlin och Tomas Rimbark, from Umeå Universitet
The project addresses the challenge of managing and modernizing old real estate through digitization to optimize operation, maintenance and use of public premises. Through sensors gathering data on the actual activity in the premises, the project will contribute to new real estate services in the area of the Internet's Internet-of-Things (IoT) for public operations. The presentation will address develop and purpose to operate and manage smart property services. As an academic part, Universitetsservice, has 251 learning spaces, cleans 240 000 m2 and other services where we investigates how IoT can help us managing the daily service based from the needs from the users.

Steinar Morland

MazeMap, Norway

Steinar Morland is MazeMap's VP of Business Development, and has been with the company since the early stages in 2014. He has scoped out and overseen the implementation of many large-scale digital wayfinding projects at large universities. He has worked with customers on all continents of the world, and recently spent six months in Melbourne opening MazeMap's operation down under. Steinar holds a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from NTNU, and did his thesis on management of radical technology innovation. He has spent his career at various tech companies being a traffic officer at the intersection between new technology and viable commercialisation. Furthermore, he travels the world in search of the perfect premium-class apple juice.

Oddvar Skjæveland

Mellomrom Architectural Psychology/Høgskulen på Vestandet, Norway

Oddvar Skjæveland is a psychologist, advisor in Mellomrom Architectural Psychology and senior researcher at Høgskulen på Vestlandet. He has applied and received projects for NOK 60 million from Forskningsrådet in Norway. The most important result of the projects is the SMAP checklist system, which is a research-based "gold standard" for office premises. He has worked with both private and public sector, among them the University of Bergen and several others.

PhD, Adjunct Professor, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Suvi Nenonen works both in practice and academia. Her key focus areas are learning and working environments, change management and user participation. Her research has focused on people, organisations and places since 2005 after her PhD “The Nature of the Workplace for Knowledge Creation”.

She is currently working in Tampere University of Technology and is in charge of research projects connected to digitalization and facilities management. Additionally, she is supporting co-creation processes in diverse university campus in Finland for University Properties of Finland. Her interest all in all is in usability of the built environment and the methods how to develop both digital and physical working and learning environments.

Presentation: "Transformation of Academic Workplace - choice and crossing borders"

Siri Hunnes Blakstad

SINTEF, Norway

Siri Hunnes Blakstad is returning to research and development as business developer in SINTEF, after several years in practice as managing director of the architectural practice tegn_3 and of engineering companies ÅF and Reinertsen Engineering. She is also Adjunct Professor at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has experience from practice both as a workplace consultant and in Corporate Real Estate and Workplace strategy from Telenor. She has earlier been a full professor at NTNU and research director in SINTEF Building and Infrastructure, where she was involved in education and conducted research in workplace- and FM-related R&D-projects. Her current research and practice aims at developing methods for strategic briefing and campus / workplace design, as well as evaluation of use of space and effects on the user organization.

Arve Hjelseth

NTNU, Norway

Arve Hjelseth, born 1966, mag.art (sociology) UiO 1992, dr.polit (sociology) UiB 2006. The doctoral dissertation analyzed how Norwegian supporters relate to the commercialization of football. Hjelseth has been associate professor of sports sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU since 2008 and has previously been affiliated with Molde University College, the University of Bergen, Nord-Trøndelag University College and NKS Nettstudier / Högskolen Kristiania. He is a permanent columnist in Dagbladet and Panorama.

Marie-Louise Edwin

Stockholms universitet

Marie-Louise Edwin er Projektledare på Fastighetsavdelningen vid Stockholms universitet. Har arbetat med lokalprojekt såväl strategiskt som operativt sedan 2005 och vid Stockholms universitet sedan 2010. Marie-Louise kommer att berätta om framgångsfaktorerna i Stockholms universitets Fastighetsavdelnings egna utmanande men lyckade resa från traditionellt cellkontor till aktivitetsbaserad arbetsplats.

Presentation Tuesday (Workplace facilities session): "Stockholm - Property department in new activity based locals - the prosess before and experience afterward"