🇪🇪 🇫🇮 Futura-Mobility in Estonia and Finland, end 2026

Futura-Mobility is organising a field trip to Estonia and Finland from 16 to 19 November 2026, on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for responsible mobility.

📅 The trip will take place over three days, on 16, 17 and 18 November. On 19 November, participants will have the option to attend Slush in Helsinki, one of the biggest trade fairs dedicated to start-ups and technology.

Visiting Estonia and Finland will provide a unique opportunity to discover two of Europe’s most advanced ecosystems, where AI is already transforming all forms of mobility – from maritime and rail to air and land transport. These two countries function as veritable open-air laboratories: Tallinn and Helsinki are experimenting with autonomous shuttles, delivery robots, smart ports, AI-optimised public transport systems, and unique cross-border projects. Their strength lies in close collaboration between universities, government, and businesses, which are working together to develop innovative solutions and accelerate large-scale deployments. Exploring these territories will provide real understanding of how AI is reinventing planning, safety, energy efficiency, and integration of multimodal transport.

🙋 If you are interested, please let us know as soon as possible by mail:  

contact@futuramobility.org

Please note, in order to keep the group on a human scale, the number of places is limited. This will ensure discussions between companies are just as interesting as those with our hosts.

Join Keolis, Bouygues, SNCF, and the ESTACA mobility engineering school, who have already confirmed their participation!

💶 BUDGET:

The budget announced excludes tax = including all taxes (Futura-Mobility is not subject to VAT). It does not include round-trip flights or the SLUSH conference ticket. The budget includes all on-site expenses: accommodation, meals, transport… as well as organisation costs.

• For think tank members:
  – €1,900 for the first two people, then €2,500 for every additional participant
• For non-member companies: €3,500 per person

To attend the Slush trade show — optional on Thursday, 19 November — add between €600 and €1,300 per person to the budget, depending on what can be negotiated as a group.

🗓️ PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME:

Arrival in Tallinn on Sunday, 15 November 15, in the evening at the latest.

Departure from Helsinki on Thursday, 19 November, in the evening for those attending the SLUSH event (earlier on 19 November 19 for the others, if they so wish).

Futura-Mobility is organising the trip on Monday, 16 November, Tuesday, 17 November, and Wednesday, 18 November, up until dinner on 18 November, 2026. Hotel rooms will be reserved from Sunday evening, 15 November, to Thursday morning, 19 November.

Over these three days, we are specifically looking to meet with the key players in AI and mobility:

🧠 FinEst Centre for Smart Cities (Tallinn University of Technology)

At the heart of Tallinn–Helsinki cooperation.

Areas:

• urban digital twins,
• AI for urban mobility,
• optimising traffic,
• cross-border, smart mobility projects.

🧠 VTT – Technical Research Centre of Finland (Helsinki/Espoo)

Finland’s most influential technology research centre.

Key areas:

• AI for autonomous mobility,
• optimising rail and logistics,
• transport cybersecurity,
• smart maritime systems.

A must for understanding the Finnish vision of smart mobility.

🚀 ITS Estonia & the FinEst ecosystem

Estonia and Finland jointly presented a shared pavilion at CES 2026, showcasing 30 pioneering companies in autonomous and sustainable mobility.

Key players to meet:

• autonomous vehicle startups,
• connected mobility solutions,
• smart logistics technologies.

🤖 Star-ups and leading companies (non-exhaustive list!)

In Estonia:

• Starship Technologies: autonomous delivery robots (global pioneers).
• Auve Tech: autonomous electric shuttles, operating at several sites, including airports.
• Bolt: multimodal mobility (scooters, taxis, ride-hailing, deliveries).
• Ridango: smart ticketing systems and analytics for public transport….

In Finland:

• Wärtsilä: maritime AI, energy optimisation, autonomous navigation.
• KONE: smart management of vertical mobility flows (lifts, hubs).
• Finnair: AI for optimising aviation and its maintenance.
• Donut Lab: innovative batteries, electric mobility. Founded by an Estonian!
• AMD Silo AI: Europe’s largest, private AI research centre.
  …

🚢 The Ports of Tallinn & Helsinki West Harbour

Innovations:

• logistics optimisation,
• AI projects for maritime connections with Helsinki, smart ferry management.
• use of drones and AI for analysing passenger and vehicle flows, and smart passenger management.

🏙️ Tallinn Transport Department

Meet municipal teams working on:

• AI for public transport management,
• smart ticketing systems,
• mobility data integration,
• cross-border projects between Tallinn and Helsinki.

🏙️ Forum Virium Helsinki (Smart City Lab)

The City of Helsinki’s innovation agency.

It is steering:

• AI projects for traffic management,
• trials and testing of drones for mobility flow analysis (cars, trams, bikes and pedestrians),
• testing of autonomous shuttles,
• European projects like AI4Cities.

A great opportunity to meet municipal teams.

🚗 Future Mobility Finland (Finnish national platform)

A nationwide initiative dedicated to transport innovation, supporting the use of AI in:

• public transport,
• logistics,
• autonomous vehicles,
• sustainable solutions.

OPTION: visiting the Slush trade show (which takes place on 18 & 19 November, 2026) on Thursday, November 19.

Provisional at this stage, the programme is being further developed on a daily basis…

In addition to the programme for this visit, the trip will be an experience in itself: meeting our hosts from different cultures, sharing unique moments with other members of the group, discovering local transport and gastronomy!

Join us!