Speakers


Ben Goodyear Exove Ltd	Ben is a senior developer at Exove, focusing mainly on the front end implementation of varying projects. He has had the pleasure of getting down and dirty with a multitude of Drupal based projects where his main experiences have been with Drupal theming.
David Corbacho Drupro	David Corbacho Román, Drupal specialist at Drupro, Helsinki, building high-scalable-beautifully-designed web applications and great customer relationships. Originally from Málaga, Spain.
Dick Olsson NodeOne	Dick is a developer at NodeOne, the leading Swedish Drupal provider. He has been involved in and contributed to the community actively for over two years. His focus is on backend development. His latest contributions has been some significant new features to the Deploy module which is heavily used in NodeStream. NodeStream is a new Drupal distribution aimed for modern newspapers on the web, built by NodeOne with Dick as the lead developer.
Janne Kalliola Exove	Janne is responsible for Exove’s operations, customer relationships and business development. Using his thorough technical expertise, Janne participates on a daily basis with the design and implementation of projects where needed. Before founding Exove, Janne has led product development in both First Hop, a telecom middleware company, and Continuent Inc. that specialises in high availability databases. He has been responsible for several joint projects with Nokia, Siemens and Vodafone. Janne is also an acclaimed publishing technology lecturer in Helsinki University of Technology.
Johannes Wehner Dagbladet Information	I'm a developer at the Danish daily newspaper, Dagbladet Information - the first major media organization in Denmark to switch to Drupal. I do module development and theming. Right now my biggest interest is OpenLinkedData integration and autotagging. And I'm a part of the DrupalCon Copenhagen team. Are you coming?
Juha Niemi Mearra
Kalle Virta Exove Ltd	Team leader and software architect who specializes in high performance systems and complex integrations. A well-seasoned Drupal developer and architect.
Maarten Balliauw RealDolmen	Maarten Balliauw is a technical consultant in web technologies at RealDolmen, one of Belgium's biggest ICT companies. His interests are ASP.NET (MVC), PHP and Windows Azure. He's a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ASP.NET and has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature such as MSDN magazine Belgium and PHP architect. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events. His blog can be found at http://blog.maartenballiauw.be.
Mikelis Zalais Mearra	Mikelis is a seasoned Drupal developer, his focus is on specific functionality development, integration with external systems, data migration, Drupal site architecture and general site building. Mikelis' favorite assignment is finding the right solution (e.g. Drupal module) for specific situation. He's passionate about product quality, agile methods and working with great people. Mikelis currently resides in Valmiera, Latvia where he leads Mearra Latvia development team and works on Drupal projects for clients in Finland in Latvia.
Joonas Kiminki Mearra	Partner at Mearra and development manager at Uusi Suomi. Special interests in the Drupal world are media/newspaper sites, project management and communities.
Panu Muhli National Land Survey of Finland	Expert on geoinformation and web portals at the Development Centre, National Land Survey of Finland since 2008. Primary responsibilities focus presently on the design and management of the Finnish National Geoportal using agile methods. Earlier activities include a 12-year career as scientist in astrophysics at the University of Helsinki.
Robin Bade Activeark Ltd	Robin Bade is a passionate entrepreneur who founded Activeark in 2003 while studying at the Helsinki School of Economics. Ever since he has been developing and driving the company to become a true player in the digital industry. Today Activeark is a team of 80 professionals located in Helsinki, London and Mumbai delivering creative digital solutions in all areas – marketing, sales and customer service. Robin is a frequent speaker at seminars where he speaks about entrepreneurship, digital creativity and digital opportunities within marketing and sales. Being a combination of an engineer, a marketer and a salesperson is probably the reason why Robin has found his passion in the digital industry.
Robert Douglass Acquia	Drupal "Old timer". Love talking about search, performance, and scalability.
Santeri Lindgren Soprano Brain Alliance Oy	Consult at Soprano Brain Alliance Oy and a huge Drupal enthusiast. Focusing mostly about the future and newest technologies at Drupal world and how to use them properly to deliver the best webpages the technology can provide while retaining they stay secure and up-to date.
Tomi Mikola Mearra	Tomi has 10 years of experience in different internet technologies through education from the department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki and through various IT projects. Previously Tomi has worked for Yleisradio’s New Media Unit, Valve Branding and Razorfish Finland both as application developer as well as user interface developer. Involvement in projects of different caliber have given versatility that Tomi considers his strongest side. With an entrepreneur background, Tomi understands not only web application development but also the requirements of the bottom line in the business world. Currently Tomi focuses ambitiously on enhancing production process and guaranteeing overall technical quality. The starting point is careful analysis and understanding of problems a client desires to solve; the technological aspects come into picture only later on.
Vesa Palmu Mearra	Serial entrepreneur Vesa Palmu has been working as designer and technical project manager on web projects since 1995. Vesa has founded and co-founded a number of different web related companies, biggest of which has been Satama Interactive. Satama was one of leading European web agencies employing over 400 people and used to be publicly traded in Helsinki Stock Exchange. Satama was merged to Trainers' House in 2008 and the name is no longer used. Currently Vesa is CEO of Mearra, an active member of Drupal community and working hard to get few new startup companies up and running. Vesa has experience with Drupal since 4.6 and has been working in many different Drupal 5 and 6 projects over last two years. Latest Drupal projects Vesa has been involved in range from intranets to online communities, customer service applications to CRM integrations, and data migrations to automated site deployments. Mearra is a full service Drupal consultant with services ranging from design to implementation and from project management to hosting.