AI and Digital Transformation

Our training programs in AI and digital transformation equip executives and experienced professionals to lead strategic change and translate emerging technologies into business value. You will build the understanding needed to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape, identify where data and AI create impact, and make informed decisions.

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AI and Digital Transformation

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Turning Digital and AI into Business Value

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations must both build relevant capabilities and lead continuous transformation. Modern competitiveness depends on connecting strategy, technology, and execution. This enables organizations to turn digital potential into tangible outcomes by recognizing opportunities and prioritizing the right initiatives.

Aalto EE equips both experts and leaders with the capabilities needed to succeed by combining business insight with technological understanding. By connecting strategy, data, and emerging technologies, our approach helps you drive meaningful transformation, unlock new value, and build long-term competitiveness.

For leaders and decision-makers, the challenge is more strategic: ensuring competitiveness in the digital economy. This includes integrating digital technologies into business strategy, making informed investment decisions, and building organizations that can adapt and scale in a changing environment.

For experts and specialists, the key challenge is identifying where data and AI create real business value. This means recognizing opportunities, defining impactful use cases, and supporting the development of solutions that align with strategic goals.

How to Develop Data and Analytics Competences

The Data and Analytics Competence Development Plan contains questions that are useful to consider when planning the development of data and analytics competences. Download the PDF to support your planning.

How do the Leading Digital Transformation and Data, Analytics, and AI for Professionals programs differ from each other?

Program	Main focus	Key benefits	Target groups	Levels of responsibility
Leading Digital Strategy	Leading organizational improvement and driving business value through digital technology, AI, and data	Develops the ability to build effective digital strategies, align technology with business needs, and develop the structures and skills required to turn new technologies into real business value.	Senior executives, strategy team members, business development leaders, and digital transformation leaders	Corporate, business unit, and functions, development responsibilities
Data, Analytics, and AI for Professionals	Building expertise in data analytics and AI, from core concepts to practical applications and deployment of AI-driven solutions	Equips professionals with both technical understanding and strategic insight to identify opportunities, evaluate AI technologies, and develop solutions that drive business innovation and data-led decision-making	Business development leaders, managers and directors, HR professionals, project and product managers, analysts, IT specialists, cloud engineers, programmers, and engineers across fields	Specialist, professional, and managerial levels across business units and functions

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Minna Koivu and Vesa Kohtamäki

Nokia Oyj

"Nokia accelerated the adoption of large language models with support from Aalto EE"

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Nora Airas

Business Development Manager, Elisa

"I now ask tough questions and challenge assumptions more boldly – most importantly, to uncover real opportunities for leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence."

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Emil Bergdahl

Business Development Manager Europe and Middle East, Quant

"The Leading Digital Transformation program strengthened my conviction that digitalization is not an independent domain but a powerful enabler for driving efficiency, improvements, and value creation."

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Andrus Kuus and Jan-Henrik Svensson

"Leading Digital Transformation offers a first-rate training experience that gives you a fresh mindset about digital opportunities."

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Meet Our Faculty

Matthew Wooller

Matthew Wooller is the Lead Data Strategist and Evangelist at Codento, and he keeps his hand in on the technical side of things by contributing engineering and architecture to client work where required.

Wooller has over thirty years of experience working on data-centric projects with companies such as MTV Networks Europe and Asia, the UKTV group, Sulake, Rovio, and Sanoma. In the past ten years, he has returned to consulting (it is where he started) and worked with global brands across many and varied domains to deliver data-led initiatives and instill a data-driven mindset. sentences)

Tomi Kauppinen

Tomi Kauppinen is the head of Aalto Online Learning at Aalto University. His background is in media technology and computer science. He aspires to bring an entrepreneurial mindset and lean and agile creativity to all his projects and teaching.

Tomi Kauppinen is Head of Aalto Online Learning at Aalto University. He holds a habilitation (2014) in geoinformatics from the University of Muenster in Germany and the title of docent (2014), a Ph.D. (2010) in media technology from Aalto University, and an M.Sc. (2004) in computer science from the University of Helsinki. Kauppinen's passion is to create, study, and teach information visualization, spatial thinking, cognitive systems/artificial intelligence, and blended learning design. Since 2016, he has led the Aalto University-wide strategic development initiative, Aalto Online Learning, which covers activities ranging from blended learning to fully online textbooks and exercises, from video production to online social interaction, from artificial intelligence-based recommendations and assessment to interactive visual simulations, and from augmented/virtual reality to games and gamification. With his background in startups before a calling to academia, he aspires to bring an entrepreneurial mindset and lean and agile creativity to all his projects and teaching.

Kimmo Karhu

Kimmo Karhu is an Assistant Professor at Aalto University School of Science.

Karhu is an expert on platform business models and a seasoned teacher on digital strategy. By combining hands-on industry experience with academic thinking, he seeks to explain how AI, machine learning, and other technologies can be leveraged for scaling platform business.

In his doctoral thesis, Karhu analyzed open platform strategizing and digital tactics in mobile ecosystems.

Eeva Vilkkumaa

Eeva Vilkkumaa is an Assistant Professor of Management Science in the Department of Information and Service Economy at Aalto University.

Professor Vilkkumaa is an expert in modeling uncertainties and developing mathematical models to support decision making and resource allocation at companies and public organizations.

Henri Schildt

Henri Schildt is a Professor of Strategy at Aalto University School of Business and Aalto University School of Science.

Professor Henri Schildt’s research interests span technology strategy, organizational change, and strategy process (with specific interest in reasoning under uncertainty and the use of data analytics). He is currently heading two research programs on data-driven management and the management of digitalization in Finnish manufacturing companies.

He is a tenured professor with a joint appointment at the Aalto University School of Business and the School of Science’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Henri Schildt completed his PhD at Helsinki University of Technology in 2007.

Jari Ylitalo

Jari Ylitalo, PhD, is a University Lecturer in Leadership at Aalto University School of Science and Aalto Ventures Program.

He teaches, in particular, master's students on leadership, teamwork, and self-management.

Ylitalo's pedagogical approach emphasises a dialogical and resource-oriented approach. He also works as a supervisor, coach, and workplace facilitator. He has a long and diverse experience in coaching and developing leaders, management teams, and organisations in both corporate and public organisations.

Ylitalo's research has focused on leadership and leadership development, with a particular emphasis on the effectiveness of guidance, resource-centred and dialogue-based development approaches. He has also studied the social dynamics and development of cooperation and partnerships between companies and organisations, as well as network management and the development of a network approach.

Kari Hiekkanen

Kari Hiekkanen is a Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. He has extensive experience in various IT management and leadership roles in R&D and management consulting.

Hiekkanen has over 20 years of experience combining IT and strategy in various industries. He has a solid knowledge of IT management practices, enterprise architecture, and IT governance both as a practitioner and educator. Hiekkanen's research interests include the industrial Internet and the digitalization of Industries. He is an expert on machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence.

Iiris Lahti

Iiris Lahti is a data and AI strategist who specializes in driving the utilization of data and helping companies to evolve their data-driven culture, scale up their data capabilities, and gain sustainable business value from data and AI solutions.

For the past 15+ years, she has been focusing on understanding and resolving how different companies find the most relevant data and refine and integrate it into their business processes and daily work. She has worked as a business controller, a consultant helping clients in various industries to utilize the full potential of their data and analytics systems, and as a development director of data utilization in Sanoma Media Finland. Her role at Sanoma was to drive the company-wide data-driven culture transformation and lead a team of 20+ analysts and data scientists supporting consumer sales, media content design, customer service, and digital service development operations.

Lahti is a founding partner of AI Roots, a network and agency for data professionals. At AI Roots, she helped companies across various industries build winning data teams and exploit the potential of data through the right skills and talent. Currently, she works as Head of Services & Customer Success at Saidot, contributing to the development of an AI governance platform that aims to support the responsible use of AI in organizations.

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