The FAME Flagship warmly welcomes all interested companies and organisations to the Connect & Collaborate Event 2026, a full-day on-site event at the University of Eastern Finland’s Kuopio campus on 26 August 2026!
Aimed at company representatives from research, product development, and operations management, this event will focus on R&D-related challenges, scientific solutions, and real-life applications. Themes of the day’s sessions will be Medical Technology and Imaging and Industrial and Environmental Applications.
Expertise in advanced mathematics, applied physics, and computing drive forward new innovations and solutions to major global challenges. The FAME Flagship actively plans and seeks new avenues for co-operation to refine existing solutions and technologies and pioneer the creation of new practices.
FAME Connect & Collaborate Events bring together the Flagship’s scientific expertise and representatives from industry, hospitals, research institutions, and wider society to create connections, share knowledge, and envision future innovations.
The Connect & Collaborate Event 2026 also includes an opportunity to visit the local Biomedical Optical Imaging and Ultrasound (OPUS) and Kuopio Biomedical Imaging Unit (Kuopio-BIU) research laboratories with a guided tour.
Please note that places for the guided laboratory tours are limited and will be allocated in the order of registration.
Event programme
UEF Kuopio campus, Tietoteknia building, Auditorium (Savilahdentie 6)
8:30-9:00 Registration and coffee
9:00-9:30 Opening and introduction of the FAME Flagship (Prof. Marko Vauhkonen) and FAME at UEF (Director, Prof. Tanja Tarvainen)
9:30-10:30 Medical Technology and Imaging, session I Chair: Prof. Marko Vauhkonen
- Preclinical MRI at the Biomedical Imaging Unit: A platform for MRI development and validation, Prof. Olli Gröhn, A.I. Virtanen Institute
- Predictive brain image computation, Prof. Jussi Tohka, A.I. Virtanen Institute
- Imaging applications in pre-clinical drug development, General Manager Antti Nurmi, IQVIA Laboratories Finland
- AI/ML methods and interdisciplinarity: Cast your problem in a tractable form, Prof. Mikko Karttunen, UEF
10:30-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:30 Medical Technology and Imaging, session II
- Accessible magnetic resonance imaging, Prof. Mikko Nissi, UEF
- Tomography using light and sound, Dir. Tanja Tarvainen, UEF
- Translational nuclear medicine imaging: Bridging advanced modelling and clinical cardiac applications, Deputy Chief Physicist Mikko Hakulinen, Kuopio University Hospital
- Inverse problems in medical imaging, Prof. Ville Kolehmainen, UEF
- Iterative reconstruction with non-local regularization, Dr. Nargiza Djurabekova, Planmeca Oy
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:15 Industrial and Environmental Applications Chair: Prof. Olli Gröhn
- Tomographic imaging with electricity, Prof. Marko Vauhkonen, UEF
- Introduction to Metso automation product family, Director of Automation Concept Development Jani Kaartinen, Metso Finland Oy
- Monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions in facility scale using laser tomography, Prof. Aku Ursin, UEF
- Accelerating wave propagation modeling using Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Prof. Timo Lähivaara, UEF
- Monitoring the atmosphere and environment with remote sensing: From observations to information, Group Leader, Senior Scientist Antti Lipponen, Finnish Meteorological Institute
15:15-16:00 Closing and coffee
16:00-17:00 Laboratory tours:
- Biomedical Optical Imaging and Ultrasound laboratory (max. 20 persons)
- Kuopio Biomedical Imaging Unit (max. 10 persons)
An additional tour to the Kuopio Biomedical Imaging Unit can also be arranged on 27.8. at 9:00-10:00 (max. 10 persons).
Let’s build foundations for tomorrow’s solutions – together!
For more information, please contact: FAMEcoordinator@uef.fi
