eNativeMachine
Open Workshop
Oct 6 | 2026 | Tampere Hall | Tampere
SIX Mobile Work Machines cluster is organizing a full-day open workshop “eNativeMachine” on October 6th at Tampere Hall.
The mobile work machine industry is undergoing the biggest transformation in its history.
Yet even the most futuristic concepts still carry the legacy constraints and burdens of the ICE era and operator in the cabin. To overcome these boundaries, the industry and research players must collaboratively look for new ways of thinking, researching, designing, and creating value, from task-driven development to software defined collaborative machines and entirely new opportunities throughout the value chain and beyond.
This event combines perspective-shifting presentations and group workshops
to explore the key issues, methods, and tools to kickstart the journey towards eNativeMachine.
Target audience: RDI & subject experts from industry and research.
Time and place
Oct 6, 2026 at 8.30 – 15.30
Tampere Hall, Yliopistonkatu 55, Tampere
Main Venue: Sopraano
Workshops: Aaria, Opus 1–2, Opus 3, Riffi
Main themes
Background:
The mobile work machine industry is in the middle of the biggest transformation in its history. Everything is changing. Work machines are becoming electrified and digitalized on many different levels. However, in the bigger picture, even the most futuristic concept machines and designs still carry the legacy burden of the ‘ICE era’ and operator in the cabin.
Key questions:
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How can the mobile work machine of the future be developed in a task-oriented way, fully utilizing new/upcoming technical capabilities while also challenging the traditional concept of the task itself?
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How can thinking around the task be extended beyond an individual machine? Future mobile work machines may perform tasks collaboratively.
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The work machine as an enabling platform. What new, unseen value can future mobile machines enable, even beyond the traditional boundaries of the industry?
The program consists of two sessions. Morning session is about awakening to new thinking by top expert presentations and the afternoon session is about defining eNativeMachine.'
Starting point of the workshop
Participants will be divided into four workshop groups to explore and define theconcept of eNativeMachine from two complementary perspectives: Machine-first & Value-first
Machine-first: Rethinking the Machine
Starting from the machine itself, participants will examine what becomes possible when traditional constraints such as the internal combustion engine (ICE) powertrain and an onboard operator no longer dictate machine layout and design.
Key question:
How could future mobile work machines, their capabilities, and the entire value creation process evolve when freed from the legacy assumptions of the ICE era?
Value-first: Rethinking the Value Creation Process
Starting from a reference architecture perspective, participants will redesign the value creation process without assumptions inherited from the ICE era or the requirement for an onboard operator.
Key question:
What kind of task-driven reference architecture is needed to create value and solution swhen future work processes are designed from the desired outcome backwards?
Outcome:
The workshop will identify key principles, opportunities, and design directions that help define what an eNativeMachine could be and how it may transform future value creation in the mobile work machine ecosystem.
Programme
Registration & morning coffee
8.30
Registration and morning coffee
Morning session
9.00
Opening words: Sr. Manager, Research & Advanced Engineering Petri Hannukainen, Valtra
Morning session: Awakening to new thinking
11.35
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Case examples: Redefining concepts, services and machines
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Starship (EST), Eevi Heikkinen, Government Affairs Manager
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Ioncor, Juuso Kelkka, Senior Manager, Technology Development
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Trombia Technologies, Antti Nikkanen, CEO
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Tools for revolutionary design
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Dassault Systèmes (FRA), Bertrand Lacoste-Bourgeacq, Industrial Equipment Solution & Technical Director
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Tech-solute (GER), Dr. Dirk Schweinberger, CEO & Martin Mucha, Innovation Engineer
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Mikko Pihlatie, Research Professor & Pasi Pyykönen, Senior Solution Scientist
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Tampere University, Tero Juuti, Associate Professor
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Redefining mobile machine – introduction to workshop session:
Harri Nieminen, Professor of Practice, Tampere University
Petri Hannukainen
Valtra
Eevi Heikkinen
Starship (EST)
Antti Nikkanen
Trombia Technologies
Pasi Pyykönen
VTT
Tero Juuti
Tampere University
Harri Nieminen
Tampere University
Bertrand Lacoste-Bourgeacq
Dassault Systèmes (FRA)
Dirk Schweinberger
Tech-solute (GER)
Martin Mucha
Tech-solute (GER)
Juuso Kelkka
IONCOR
Mikko Pihlatie
VTT
11.45
Lunch and networking break
Afternoon session: Define 'eNativeMachine'
Participants will be divided into four workshop groups to explore and define theconcept of eNativeMachine from two complementary perspectives: Machine-first & Value-first
12.45
Workshop in 2 x 2 groups – Part 1
Short break
Groups switch perspectives and continue the discussion from the opposite viewpoint, allowing all participants to contribute to both approaches.
Workshop in 2 x 2 groups – Part 2
13.30
13.40
14.25
Coffee break 30 min
Summary and call to action
15.00
Summary and call to action
15.30
The event ends
Contact
Veli-Mikko Mäkelä
Coordinator
veli-mikko.makela@tamlink.fi
Organiser
