The consortium of LifeFactFuture (LFF) gathered for a successful event on 12 March 2025 at Nokia in Espoo. Nokia provided an exceptional venue for the event, showcasing their advanced facilities and ongoing development efforts.
Our host, Veli-Pekka Luoma, who opened the event, introduced the magnificent facilities of the Executive Experience Center in Espoo.
Nokia shared valuable insights into their LifeFactFuture activities. Tomi Lahti presented the new Nokia factory campus in Oulu and discussed Nokia’s initiatives in MTP and Modular Automation within the Biopharmaceutical Industry. His presentation emphasised Nokia’s cutting-edge capabilities, the significance of data architecture and common reference models (OPC UA), and the benefits of Edge computing over Cloud solutions for latency-critical operations, especially in times of geopolitical uncertainty.
Perry Suojoki supplemented the discussion with a fascinating view on how RXRM (Real-time eXtended Reality Multimedia) can enhance industrial productivity, particularly in the life science sector.
See the presentations from Nokia:
Veli-Pekka Luoma: LifeFactFuture at Nokia Espoo Campus
Nokia Oulu New Campus
Tomi Lahti: MTP and Modular Automation in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Perry Suojoki: Nokia RXRM for Pharmaceutical Industry
After the introduction to Nokia and their ongoing projects, each university-based Work Package presented the state of their research. Finally, each company partner briefly introduced where they are with their internal projects. All consortium partners demonstrated progress in their projects and showed strong commitment to the LifeFactFuture initiative. Several companies already reported demonstrable results, for example a solution that after successful deployment in Finland is now already being rolled out to company locations elsewhere.
Key Takeaways:
Excellent facilities and development work at Nokia
Insights into Nokia’s LifeFactFuture activities, including MTP and Modular Automation
The importance of data architecture, common reference models, and Edge computing
The potential of RXRM to boost industrial productivity
The importance of joint ecosystem cooperation
Strong progress and commitment from all partners
Veli-Pekka Luoma has also already summed up in LinkedIn the event with additional photos from the day.
As he writes beautifully in the comments:
“We may see that ‘everything’ circulates around the Data, and AI as a toolkit consuming, processing, assessing, operationalising it. Data is the new Soil.”
