This isn’t a high-level vision talk. We’re doing a technical deep dive into real-world pilot stories, implementation requirements, and the actual benefits of integrating agents into ADE workflows.

For the ADE user, this is about taking your engineering skills to the next level—future-proofing your workflow by exploring agentic development within ADE.

Come for the "under the hood" sessions, stay for the peer-to-peer discussions, and celebrate a decade of ADE with the best crowd in the industry.

Check out our speakers and the detailed topics of their presentations below!

Host

Terhi Lämsä is a Service Business Lead with over a decade of experience in the SaaS industry, working across both product development and customer-facing operations. She currently leads service business and customer success, including professional services, with a focus on scaling these areas in large enterprise environments. With a strong technical background and hands-on consulting experience, she brings a pragmatic perspective on aligning product, services, and customer outcomes.

Theme

As the lead for professional services and customer success at ADE, Terhi knows the product, the customers, and the community well — making her a natural fit to host the evening and tie the program together.

Co-founder Agile Data Engine

Harri Kallio is our Chief Product Officer. One of the co-founders of Agile Data Engine, Harri is a visionary tech leader with 20 years of experience in software product development, primarily within data-intensive and operational analytics SaaS. Harri's deep knowledge of modern database technologies and performance architecture dovetails with his hands-on tactical approach to strategic product roadmapping.

Theme

As ADE’s co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Harri opens the evening with a look back at 10 years of building Agile Data Engine — celebrating the journey and the community that has shaped it along the way.

Founder of Agile Data Agent

Henri Hemminki is a data architect with a strong background in data engineering, focused on building scalable cloud data platforms. He enjoys working through complex problems and turning them into practical solutions that help organizations get more out of their data. Lately, he’s been exploring agentic workflows and how new approaches can be applied in a grounded, hands-on way to modern data challenges.

Theme

As the Solutions Architect who has driven Agile Data Agent from idea to reality, Henri shares the thinking behind ADA — why agentic workflows make sense specifically within ADE's metadata-driven approach, and what it took to turn that idea into something engineers can actually use today.

Data Architect and Tech Lead at Solita

Markus Heiskanen is a Data Architect and Tech Lead for Intelligence Platforms at Solita, with over a decade of experience building enterprise data platforms for Finnish organizations. He works across ADE, Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure, building data platforms end-to-end with an agentic approach. Markus is currently using Agile Data Agent (ADA) with a customer.

Theme

Markus shares a practitioner’s point of view on what happens when a consulting team puts ADA into use in an established ADE project. He goes over the basics: prompting ADA, iterating generated metadata, fitting agent skills into an existing modeling workflow. Then he dives deeper into the augmentations: MCP servers, Jira as a source of spec, project context wired into the agent. Markus will also discuss the team-level shift: how roles change, what reviews look like, and what new habits stick. The audience will leave with a practitioner's perspective on the small details that indicate whether agentic modeling actually works.

Lead Data Architect at Solita

Ilkka Vaahtoranta is a Lead Data Architect with broad experience designing modern data platforms across telecom, retail, and finance. He specializes in building scalable data lakehouse architectures in Google Cloud and multi-cloud environments, balancing innovation with stringent security and compliance requirements. With extensive hands-on experience on Agile Data Engine, Ilkka translates technical complexity into strategic solutions—and is currently pioneering how AI-enhanced development practices can reshape data delivery.

Theme

As a Lead Data Architect working across multiple industries and ADE projects, Ilkka brings practical experience in building secure, compliant data platforms within highly regulated environments. Together with Juhani, he shares insights on how ADA is pushing the boundaries of what's possible—combining ADE's metadata-driven approach with agentic development to accelerate delivery, reduce manual effort, and fundamentally rethink the way data architects and engineers work together.

Solution Architect at Agile Data Engine

Juhani Saarinen is a Solution Architect at Agile Data Engine with over a decade of experience in data analytics, engineering, and architecture. He works closely with customers to design and implement modern, scalable data platforms that turn strategy into practical solutions. His expertise spans platform architecture design, master data management, and building end-to-end pipelines that support analytics and business decision-making—with a focus on simplifying complex data landscapes into sustainable solutions that deliver real value.

Theme

In this session, Juhani and Ilkka will share experiences on launching an Agile Data Agent (ADA) pilot within the Telenor customer case. They walk us through how they got the pilot up and running, how it was structured in practice, and what outcomes were achieved. The session highlights real-life lessons and actionable takeaways for teams adopting ADA.

Chief Data Officer at Nordic Investment Bank

Karri is the CDO at Nordic Investment Bank, where he leads the Business Intelligence & Data Architecture team. 
His team is responsible for developing the bank’s data platforms and analytical capabilities. 
 
Prior to joining NIB, Karri has worked for Nokia and in consulting, delivering data and cloud projects for customers in a variety of different industries. 

Theme

Karri joins us for a fireside chat to share their early experiences with Agile Data Agent and how adopting ADA has changed the way their teams work day-to-day. We'll also zoom out to discuss how AI is reshaping data engineering more broadly — what's already real, what's still hype, and what data teams should be thinking about next.

Lead Data Architect at Neste

With over nine years of experience in the data field across multiple domains, Aarni currently leads physical data modeling at Neste’s Enterprise Data Warehouse. In addition to hands-on modeling work, they focus on developing and improving the data modeling and development practices that support Neste’s modern data platform. 

Theme

Along with Karri, Aarni joins us for a fireside chat to share their early experiences with Agile Data Agent and how adopting ADA has changed the way their teams work day-to-day. We'll also zoom out to discuss how AI is reshaping data engineering more broadly — what's already real, what's still hype, and what data teams should be thinking about next.