Future Interfaces Forum

Dispelix pioneers ultra-thin transparent waveguide displays that seamlessly merge real and virtual worlds. Antti Sunnari, co-founder and CEO, leads an expert nanophotonics team that has secured global recognition, with over 200 patents and partnerships with major players, and is at the forefront of redefining AR display form, function, and scale.

In this talk, Antti will explore how scalable, high-performance waveguides are laying the foundation for smart glasses to emerge as the next major computing platform, transforming how we work, communicate, and interact with digital information.

The Companion Era: How AI Rewrites Brand-Consumer Trust

Cadentia builds “Brand Companions” — AI-powered channels that let consumer brands hold direct, trusted, one-to-one conversations at scale, not just push messages. Their toolkit brings a company's real content, rules, and data into each dialog so updates are accurate, on-brand, and personal.

Tatu Heikkilä (Co-founder & CEO) will trace how digital consumer experiences evolved over the past 25 years, and why agentic AI changes the relationship from campaigns and funnels to ongoing, value-adding companionship. He'll discuss what this means for brand trust, loyalty, and measurable outcomes.

Basemark builds Rocksolid AR—easy-to-use tools that let carmakers place helpful, real-time guidance on windshields and screens, and even on smart glasses.

CEO Tero Sarkkinen will show what this looks like in practice—from AR navigation already on the road to what's next when cars and glasses share the same “live” view of the world.

He'll also talk candidly about building a user-interface platform for automakers: fitting into existing vehicle stacks, working with partners, and earning the trust to operate a critical component the customer doesn't own.

Off-Screen Futures: Service Design with AI

Accenture Song's Chief Design & Product Officer, Olof Schybergson, has spent two decades moving service design into the corporate mainstream—co-founding Fjord in 2001, scaling it globally, and bringing it into Accenture where design became a core lever for growth.

In this talk, he examines what that shift changed inside large organizations. How services are conceived, governed, and measured, and what AI now adds: faster research and personalization, new off-screen, real-world experiences, and redesigned operating models.

From Plans to Progress, Faster

In Parallel makes it easier to turn big goals (OKRs) into real progress in the tools people already use. Their AI “Pulse” checks in with teams, gathers quick updates, and spots blockers—so work moves forward instead of getting stuck in status meetings.

Co-founders Markku Mäkeläinen and Kristian Luoma will show what this looks like day-to-day, and share a simple loop—Goals → Problems → Solutions—for keeping strategy and execution aligned. They draw on years of building products and innovation programs to make the lessons concrete.

Interface design in the invisible interface.

Distance Technologies’ XR light field and digital optics seamlessly blend real and virtual worlds, introducing opportunities to integrate new AI Agent technologies to augment various environments where rich content can be critical to smooth efficient operations.

Urho Konttori, founder of free mixed reality glasses Distance Technologies and Varjo, will explore some of the design challenges and challenge us to think how AI Agents will augment these experiences.

Working with emerging operating systems.

Younite.ai is an AI agency developing next generation marketing experiences fusing CAD, Simulation and AI. Sami has unique experience working with emerging platforms and will paint a vision how a new operating system is emerging around NVIDIA. These emerging operating systems are new fields for AI Agents to be built and operated at.

How can we predict and design our relationships to machines and future devices?

Christian Lindholm is an Executive in Residence at Aalto University's Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and serial entrepreneur having sold his company Koru to Google and Fjord to Accenture. He is also Chairman and Co-founder of Vertical, a healthcare and pharma innovation consultancy.

Christian has been passionate about creating the future in user interfaces and platforms for three decades and they have touched more than 1BN people. He is now working with Future Interfaces at Aalto.