Webinar: Resilience Capabilities for the Factory of the Future

The webinar will provide insights to one of the key capabilities of CyberFactory#1: Resilience. The keynote speech is given by Sauli Eloranta, Professor of Practice at VTT, on “Industry challenge to resilience in the factory of the future”. Afterwards, experts from a number of project partners will discuss the different aspects that need to be considered for a resilient Factory of the Future. The first half focuses on access management approaches and protection of AIs. After a short Q&A, presentations are given on monitoring of the FoF and dealing with cyberattacks, followed by another Q&A.

Recording:

Keynote Speaker:

Sauli Eloranta (Professor of Practice at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)

Sauli Eloranta, M. Sc. (Tech.), began working as Professor of Practice at VTT on 1 January 2020. Eloranta, elected the CTO of the Year in Finland in 2019, came to VTT with a long experience of promoting technology and digitisation in industry and maritime transport.

Before VTT, Eloranta acted as Head of Innovation and Technology at Rolls-Royce Marine, later Kongsberg Maritime. Eloranta earned the CTO of the Year title granted by the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries for his merits as an active influencer in the Finnish innovation scene and promotor of autonomous marine traffic. He chaired the One Sea Autonomous Maritime Ecosystem in 2016-2019. Sauli has chaired the Business Finland digital advisory board and is a member of the transport sector growth programme. In addition, he has been involved in supporting the collaboration of the private sector and societal actors.

In his role as Professor of Practice, Eloranta focuses on the overall resilience of the Finnish society. His area also covers cyber security, autonomous systems and smart transport & mobility. Recently, Sauli has given program management support to Finland´s Ministry of Economics & Employment (TEM) in establishing domestic production of face masks for public health care.