Sunday 9 June
Unfortunately, we must cancel the Sunday programme because MS Tiira has broken down and the weather forecast looks too unfavourable for other options. We are very sorry for the inconvenience.
Instead, you can join us in an informal get-together at Rewell Center on Sunday at 18.30. Let’s meet in the main hall on the ground level of the shopping centre.
Monday 10 June
Auditorium Nissi in Ankkuri
08.30 Registration and coffee
09.00 Opening words, Tero Vartiainen, Chair of The Finnish Society for Computer Science (in English)
09.15 Keynote 1: Kimmo Rousku, Finnish Digital Agency: Our digital world – the role of the critical infrastructure in activities (speech in Finnish, slides in English)
10.00 Break
10.15 Dissertation and master’s thesis awards. Presentation by the master’s thesis author. (in English)
10.45 Postdoctoral Researcher Petra Berg: Resilient Digital Sustainable Energy Transition (REDISET) (in English)
11.00 Professor Heidi Kuusniemi: Distributed AI for enhanced security in satellite-aided wireless navigation (RESILIENT) (in English)
(11.30 Lunch, restaurant August in Fabriikki)
Auditorium Nissi in Ankkuri
12.30 Keynote 2: Antti Laine, Sweco: Code as a tool to increase sustainability (in English)
13.15 Invited Talk: Professor Scott Kruse, Texas State University: Digitization of the healthcare infrastructure enables safer, patient-centered care (in English)
13.45 Break
Rooms F118 and F140 in Fabriikki
14.00 Finnish CS Symposium parallel sessions (in English)
Session 1 (room F118): Agile development and process models
- Nirnaya Tripathi, Woubshet Behutiye & Minna Isomursu: Agile software development education in hybrid learning environments
- Md Tanvir Hasan, Annika Wolff & Antti Knutas: Involvement of end user in scrum-driven organizations: Four anti-patterns
- Kristian Tuusjärvi, Jussi Kasurinen & Sami Hyrynsalmi: How does migration to microservices happen? A survey of the Finnish software industry
Session 2 (room F140): Software development and design
- Nelli Leinonen, Zheying Zhang & Timo Poranen: Evaluating keyboard accessibility of product filters on fashion e-commerce websites
- Aki Lempola, Timo Poranen & Zheying Zhang: Comparing automatic accessibility testing tools
- Chuyang Wu, Shanshan Zhang & Jussi P P Jokinen: Detecting changes in mental models during interaction
- Nada Elgendy, Anna Teern, Pertti Seppänen & Tero Päivärinta: Design and knowledge requirements for human-machine hybrid intelligence in autonomous driving systems
15.30 Break
Nissi in Ankkuri
15.45 Annual society meeting (in Finnish, members only)
Restaurant Strampen
18.30 Dinner at restaurant Strampen, address: Rantakatu 7v
Tuesday 11 June
Auditorium Nissi in Ankkuri
08.30 Registration and coffee
09.00 Opening words, Heidi Kuusniemi (in English)
09.00 Keynote 3: Peter Sund, Finnish Information Security Cluster (FISC): Digital critical infrastructure and risks: between the soft and the hard (speech in Finnish, slides in English)
09.45 Break
Rooms F104 and F140 in Fabriikki
10.00 Finnish CS symposium parallel sessions (in English)
Session 3 (room F104): Data management and organisations
- Yekaterina Kovaleva, Ari Happonen, Manuel B. Garcia & Jussi Kasurinen: Female-inclusive practices for software engineering and computer science higher education: A literature review
- Saumya Munasinghage, Heidi Hietala & Nada Elgendy: A model for data management and governance practices for everyday business
- Sampsa Rauti, Robin Carlsson, Samuli Laato, Timi Heino, Panu Puhtila & Ville Leppänen: Health data leaks to third parties in web-based health services
- Laura Havinen: Effect of self-serving bias in IS success model – implications for e-learning system success research
Session 4 (room F140): Computer science in action
- Olli Timonen, Toni Bomström, Nicklas Stafford, Samuli Määttä, Alireza Bakhshi Zadi Mahmoodi, Tero Päivärinta & Ella Peltonen: Kuura: Leveraging eclipse kuksa in vehicular data collection and digital twin creation environment
- Alireza Bakhshi Zadi Mahmoodi & Ella Peltonen: Kubernetes edge/cloud continuum task offloading framework for vehicular computing
- Shanshan Zhang, Chuyang Wu & Jussi Jokinen: Quantifying uncertainty in machine theory of mind across time
(11.30 Lunch, restaurant August in Fabriikki)
Auditorium Nissi in Ankkuri
12.30 Keynote 4: Kirsi Karlamaa, Traficom: Digital critical infrastructure – ruptures and uncertainties (speech in Finnish, slides in English)
13.15 Panel discussion with industry and general discussion (in English), moderator Heidi Kuusniemi
Digitalization of critical infrastructure – company viewpoints to challenges and solutions
Jyrki Keskinen, Wapice
Jani Hirvo, ABB
Ross Bailey, Wärtsilä
14.00 Information Systems Researcher of the Year award; closing words & event in 2025, Tero Vartiainen & organiser of the event in 2025
14.15 Special interest groups:
- Teaching SIG (room Vuokko in Ankkuri)
- TJT SIG/IS SIG (gathering in front of auditorium Nissi in Ankkuri)
Map
We will meet on the beautiful seaside campus in Palosaari, just 2 km from the railway station. We start our days in Ankkuri (address: Yliopistonranta 7). We will have lunch and listen to sessions in Fabriikki (on the ground floor, address: Yliopistonranta 10).
Get to know Vaasa: City Map of Vaasa (pdf)
Accommodation in Vaasa
There are a number of good hotel options in the centre of Vaasa. It is advisable to book your stay as early as possible as availability will decrease. Here are some hotel options found at the center of Vaasa.
Scandic Vaasa
Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna
Hotel Astor
