Aino Sundholm
Annamari Heikkilä
Annamari Heikkilä is a psychologist who has specialized in how to cope with stress and burnout.
She believes that you can test your beliefs and that people should be loved for who they are,
not who they can become.
Frans Mäyrä
Frans Mäyrä is a professor at the University of Tampere Game Research Lab, where he studies
digital culture, game studies - as well as science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Jamin Hu
Jamin Hu is a student at Etelä-Tapiola high school, where he has inspired his fellow students to
make projects around their strengths and passions. He is spreading ways to do the same to
other high schools with their Hautomo Incubator.
Jarkko Rantanen
Jarkko Rantanen is a psychologist, who has strong experience in coaching organizations and
individuals to embrace their emotions.
Jenni Vartiainen
Aino Sundholm and Jenni Vartiainen have developed a model for teaching science to small
children at the LUMA Center of the University of Helsinki.
Kirsi Hyttinen
Kirsi Hyttinen has a lot of experience in conflict prevention as well as adult and higher
education. She is currently coordinating projects for crisis management and security that are
funded by the European Commission.
Kristiina Kumpulainen
Kristiina Kumpulainen is a professor of education at the University of Helsinki and the founder of
the Playful Learning Center. She examines learning and education from an sociocultural
perspective.
Laura Vanhanen
Laura tells the story of a circus school, which was opened by young Syrian talents, Sirkus Magenta and FCA @FCA_global in Za'atri, Jordan. With her experience in Finnish education sector development and learning solutions, Laura is working with projects strengthening access to quality education in fragile contexts: refugee situations and developing countries.
Maria Heiskanen
Maria Heiskanen is a social scientist, who is one of the developers of a learning game about
how society works. The game combines experiential learning with hard data from social
statistics, and promotes civic engagement while still being fun. Which is nice.
Rita Kannisto
Rita Kannisto has been a teacher for 20 years, and she has supervised too many recesses to
count.
Tanja Piha
Tanja Piha is perhaps the world’s only sales booster, whose job is to get lawyers to learn new
things and try their skills as salespeople. She also has fun doing her job, as she gets to play
with lawyers.
Verna Vuoripuro
Verna Vuoripuro is a journalist and an author, who is working with Hello Ruby to bring
programming knowledge to kids and teachers.
Vesa-Pekka Karinen
Vesa-Pekka found himself in such a situation, along with a bunch of colleagues. They had to
solve problems that led them deeper and deeper into an exciting job. There was even a real
treasure map! But this time, the journey really was more important than the destination.