HI Ethics Forum: Ethical Reflections on AI-Driven Growth

Hybrid Intelligence Ethics Forum presents Ethical Reflections on AI-Driven Growth on Monday 23 March 2026 at Tellus Stage, Linnanmaa or online at 12 -14. 00. Warmly welcome to join the event and reflect on the effects AI is having on research and health care with our brilliant speakers. Coffee and snacks will be served to on-site participants.

Please register here to get your spot on-site or online.

Programme

12.00 Opening words
Susanne Uusitalo, Senior research fellow in ethics of AI at Hybrid Intelligence Profi-7 and Transform-AI (STN), University of Oulu

AI transforming research – what to consider?
Marja Matinmikko-Blue, Dr.Sc., Ph.D. Research Director at Infotech Oulu, Director of Sustainability and Regulation at 6G Flagship, Adjunct Professor in Spectrum Management, University of Oulu

Ethics, regulation or market forces in AI-enhanced healthcare; examples from mental healthcare
Samuli Saarni, D.Med.Sci, M.Soc.Sci, PhD, EMBA, Professor of psychiatry, program director of First-Line Therapies, adj. prof. of Healthcare Ethics, Tampere University

Discussion

14.00 Closing

Zoom link: https://oulu.zoom.us/j/66714488038

About the speakers

Marja Matinmikko-Blue is Research Director at Infotech Oulu Institute and Director of Sustainability and Regulation at 6G Flagship at University of Oulu. She also holds Adjunct Professor position in Spectrum Management. She holds a Dr.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering on cognitive radio systems and a Ph.D degree in management sciences on stakeholder analysis from University of Oulu in 2012 and 2018. She conducts interdisciplinary research on future mobile communication networks from business, technology and regulatory perspectives in close collaboration between academia, industry and regulators. She received the Young Scientist of the Year Award in Finland in 2013 for this collaboration. She has led several research project consortia that have demonstrated world's first Licensed Shared Access (LSA) trials and introduced a new local 5G micro operator concept with local licensing.

She has published 170+ scientific publications and prepared 150+ contributions to regulatory bodies in national, European and international levels. She led the development of White Paper on 6G and the UN SDGs that developed a connection between future wireless networks and the UN SDGs.

Samuli Saarni is a professor of Psychiatry at Tampere University, with multidisciplinary background in research, development and healthcare management. Degrees comprising a MD with PhD in Quality of Life research, specialist in Psychiatry, certified psychotherapist; M.Soc.Sc with PhD in Health Technology Assessment, specialist in Healthcare, docent of Healthcare Ethics, EMBA.

His research interests focus on the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of mental health treatments. He has been involved in developing large-scale psychological treatment and digital service programmes, including leading the First-Line Therapies Initiative. His research uses pragmatic trials, real-world clinical data, and national health registers to study how evidence-based treatments can be delivered at scale within public health systems, in addition to more theoretical investigations of ethical, legal and policy issues within healthcare. He is responsible for pre- and postgraduate education and research in Psychiatry.