Selected public talks, seminars, and outreach activities for general audiences: schools, adult education centres, civic organisations, business events, and community groups in Finland and Austria.

For academic talks, please see the Research page.

Upcoming

• 2026-10-13, 19:30 · Public evening lecture on artificial intelligence, Katholisches Bildungswerk (KBW) Frankenburg am Hausruck (AT).
• 2026-11-26, 19:00 · “KI verstehen.” Free public science evening (admission by voluntary donation), hosted by the Marktgemeinde Böheimkirchen, Veranstaltungssaal im Bürgerzentrum, 3071 Böheimkirchen (AT). Register here.

Past

• 2026-05-05 · “Künstliche Intelligenz: Was sie kann, was sie nicht kann, und was das für uns bedeutet.” Invited public lecture, Katholisches Bildungswerk Oberösterreich, Kirchheim im Innkreis (AT).
• 2025-11-24/25 · “Künstliche Intelligenz in der Arbeitswelt.” Two-day seminar for works councillors (Betriebsrät:innen) covering ML basics, GDPR, the EU AI Act, ISO standards, and co-determination. Arbeiterkammer Steiermark, Graz (AT).
• 2025-11-18 · “Wie schlau ist künstliche Intelligenz wirklich? Ein verständlicher Einblick für alle.” Public evening lecture, Volkshochschule (VHS) Hainfeld (AT).
• 2025-11-07 · Hosted a visit of the International School of Helsinki (36 pupils and 3 teachers) at Aalto University: presentation on artificial intelligence and student Q&A by my research group, Espoo (FI).
• 2025-10-08 · Guest lesson on artificial intelligence for an active-citizenship and media-literacy course (Scientists in Schools visit, Aalto University Junior), Tammerkosken lukio (upper secondary school), Tampere (FI).
• 2024-03-07 · Guest lesson on artificial intelligence, including a discussion of AI ethics built around the “Ask Delphi” moral-judgment bot featured in the students’ course materials (Scientists in Schools visit), Haukilahden lukio (upper secondary school), Espoo (FI).
• 2023-11-02 · Hosted a campus visit of two grade-5 classes from the International School of Helsinki: presentation on artificial intelligence and a tour of Aalto University premises, Espoo (FI).
• 2023-10-31 · Guest lesson on artificial intelligence and machine learning (Scientists in Schools visit), Otaniemen lukio (upper secondary school), Espoo (FI).
• 2023-10-27 · Guest lesson on artificial intelligence (Scientists in Schools visit), Haukilahden lukio (upper secondary school), Espoo (FI).
• 2021-11-05 · Guest lesson on applications of machine learning in everyday services (music recommendation, web search, social media) for the advanced mathematics course MAA12 (Scientists in Schools visit), Sibelius-lukio (upper secondary school), Helsinki (FI).
• 2020 (autumn) · Guest lesson on applications of machine learning (music, web search, social media) for the advanced mathematics course MAA12, Sibelius-lukio (upper secondary school), Helsinki (FI).
• 2019 (autumn) · Guest lesson on applications of machine learning for the advanced mathematics course MAA12, Sibelius-lukio (upper secondary school), Helsinki (FI).
• 2019-03-04 & 2019-03-08 · Two-day hands-on machine learning course during Turku ICT/AI Week, organized by Turku Business Region; participants worked on their own datasets and on open data from the City of Turku, Turku (FI). Materials on GitHub.
• 2018-09-07 · “Semi-Supervised Learning for Network-Structured Data.” Evening talk at the Turku.AI meetup, Turku (FI). Recording on YouTube.
• 2018-09-03 · “Summer Coding School.” Full-day hands-on workshop (lectures and afternoon mentoring, up to 35 participants), organized by Yrityssalo Oy, Salo IoT Campus, Salo (FI). Slides and notebooks on GitHub.

Executive & professional education

Trainer engagements for Aalto University Executive Education (Aalto EE):

• 2024–2025 · Swedish National Audit Office (NAO) Data Science Program 2024. Lectures and project sparring across four modules (on-site in Stockholm and online), Q2 2024 – Q1 2025.
• 2023-11-23 · Swedish NAO Advanced Data Science Program. Invited lecture (online).
• 2023-02 – 2023-05 · Swedish NAO Data Science Program. Lectures and project coaching (on-site at the Swedish NAO, Stockholm, and online).
• 2022-05 – 2022-09 · Swedish NAO Data Science Program. Design of the overall program, including project work.
• 2022-01-26/27 · Diploma in Artificial Intelligence. Two-day lecture module with pre- and post-assignment feedback.
• 2021-12-15 & 2022-01-12 · Data science upskilling program for City of Helsinki employees. Python machine learning workshop and evaluation of participant projects (online).
• 2020-02-13/14 · Diploma in Artificial Intelligence. Two-day “AI Methods” lecture module with feedback on pre-assignments and project plans, Helsinki (FI).
• 2019-02-12/13 · Diploma in Artificial Intelligence. Lectures, assignments, and project supervision, Helsinki (FI).

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