Recent cyber-attacks, hacking of people's private data and content stolen are just few examples how vulnerable the cloud is. In his keynote speech, CEO of F-Secure Christian Fredrikson discussed security and privacy in the cloud. See here (in Finnish)Įurope a trusted region for Cloud and sensitive data The Finnish MTV3 evening news did a story on how shopping is changing covering RetailerIN analytics tool, Bitsign and Internet of Light. These are the key elements when new retail concepts will be introduced to the market, " explains Petri Liuha, lead for Smart Spaces. Also the retailer gets more sophisticated analytics services than can be obtained in the web stores alone. The services help the shopper to discover products and their information easily, and do easy shopping. " We saw concrete products and services that show how the best elements of e-commerce and physical retail stores can be blended together to create a new shopping experience. For example Bitsign, a way finding solution for indoors, is being piloted at the Kamppi shopping mall in Helsinki and Internet of Light at the Gant flagship store in London during Christmas. Smart retail raised a lot of interest since many of the solutions are already in the market or piloted with real users. The Smart Spaces innovation area showcased a lot of cool things ranging from augmented reality app for tourist attractions, smart office chair and mobile search solutions for real 3D objects like buildings to different tools for virtual collaboration. Smart retail solutions raised a lot of interest " I was proud to see the breadth of outcomes we are producing: brilliant students graduated, key European opportunities addressed, many innovations going to the market and startups being accelerated", stated Marko Turpeinen, Node Director for Helsinki. With 38 demonstrations from three innovation areas, 13 start-ups pitching, 300 visitors and coverage on the Finnish MTV3 evening news the Results Day Helsinki held on Thursday 4 December was truly a successful event.
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