Embedded Conference Finland 2024

Embedded Conference Finland is Finland’s only independent embedded technology conference. I took part in the Embedded Conference Finland 2024 few weeks ago.

Program Thursday September 26 2024

The morning started with congatec’s presentation, where the topic is the aReady concept announced in the spring. In it, the customer is offered the building blocks of a ready-made embedded application, from the COM card all the way to the cloud service.
9.30 congatec
aReady – your cyber secure building block
Timo Poikonen, Senior Key Account Manager Nordics

Testhouse Nordic presented Keysight’s new product. The HD3 series is a 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) oscilloscope.
10.15 Testhouse Nordic
The All-New InfiniiVIsion HD3 series from Keysight. HD3 series is a 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) oscilloscope that delivers four times the signal resolution and half the noise of other general-purpose oscilloscopes.
Sales manager Petri Sutela

CVG Convergens’ presentation considered the differences between customized embedded iron and ready-made commercial solutions. What should the designer pay attention to right now? This was my presentation.
11.00 CVG Convergens
Custom vs off-the-shelf – perspectives for 2025
Choosing custom embedded hardware over Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware depends on several factors. What should you consider in 2024/25 before making the decision?
Tomi Engdahl, Senior Software Engineer

12.00 Lunch

Adlink Technology presents the role of OSM modules in the selection of different COM standards.
13.00 Adlink Technology
OSM – a shortcut for full custom single board computers
Adlink will be presenting the latest open standard for Computer On Modules (COM) called Open Standard Module (OSM). The presentation will be focusing on the advantages the new OSM standard has compared with full custom single board computers and existing COM standards like Q7 and SMARC.
Henrik Petersen, Key Account Manager, Adlink Technology

Science Information Technology Center told about Europe’s most powerful LUMI supercomputer and how the system was used to train the generative artificial intelligence models Poro and Viking produced by the University of Turku and Silo AI.
14.00 LUMI – Europes fastest supercomputer
LUMI is the fastest super computer in Europe – Dan Still, CSC
How LLM models are trained in LUMI – Aleksi Kallio, CSC

At the end of the day, Etteplan provided an up-to-date overview of the EU legislative projects concerning each designer. The NIS2 cyber security regulation will come into force in the near future, but other regulations are also in the works. This was a very interesting presentation on lots of materials on the cyber regulations that will affect embedded systems market in next few years.
15.00 Etteplan – NIS2, RED, CRA, AI Act and Data Act
New regulations affecting embedded devices
Antti Tolvanen, Sales Director, Etteplan

The conference program was streamed live to YouTube when they were presented.
The presentation slides can be viewed through seminar program page. The videos can be found at Embedded Conference Finland YouTube Channel.

You can find articles on those presentations (written in Finnish) through this link https://etn.fi/index.php/embedded-conference-finland/

The CVG Convergens’ presentation that considered the differences between customized embedded iron and ready-made commercial solutions was presented by me. I got my picture to the news article on the live streaming of the event:

There is a news article on the presentation at https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/16678-ecf24-miksi-tehdae-kustomoitua-rautaa. The slides and video of the presentation are also available.