Programme

11.35-12.40 Lunch

12.40-14.10

Aurora: Business, City & Cycling

• Amalie Gottschalk, Donkey Republic, Aleksanteri Repo, KaaKau: How to optimize the city life with bikes and modern technology
• Stella Aaltonen, City of Turku: Boosting cycling services – experiences from Turku
• Morten Agerlin Petersen, Ramboll: Parcel delivery – By cargo bike or car?
• Lawrence Penn, WSP: The role of e-cargo bikes in sustainable urban freight, and what local authorities can do to facilitate their introduction

Puisto: Mountain biking tourism

• Darco Cazin, Allegra Tourismus: An Outsiders Perspective: How Developing MTB Tourism in Finland compares to International Benchmarks
• Mikko Saarinen, Klue: Case Lahti
• Laurent Guennoc, Eco-Counter: How bicycle tourism can boost local economy: 2021 key trends and figures using ground-truth data (On-line presentation)
• Pekka Tahkola: Oulu’s MTB, hiking and trailrunning network

14.10-14.40 Coffee brake

14.40-16.00

Puisto: Jewls of Finnish Cycling Tourism

• Henna Palosaari, Heli Laukkanen, What kind of bikeland is Finland?
• Taneli Roininen, Artic by Cycle -bikebacking route
• Ville Vuorelma, Raaseporin kaupunki: South by Cycle – Things we learned this summer
• Tero Kylä-Kaila, Ylläksen matkailuyhdistys ry: Possibilities of Fjells

Rossi: Figuring out cycling tourism – Your plan for the ever changing market

• Tiina Kattilamäki, Johannes Sipponen, Ellare Oy:  Kotimaan pyörämatkailututkimuksen tärpit – suuntaviivat kohteen menestykseen
• Tilman Sobek ja Stephan Grapentin, Absolut GPS (On-line): How to find your own sweet spot in the developing cycle tourism market – International view; Cycle tourism success in just one year? – Quick and successful implementation of Gravel bike tourism; Visitor monitoring and measuring impact of cycle tourism on the local economy

16.00-17.45

Tour: Oulu Baana & tech tour

• Pekka Tahkola & Timo Perälä, Navico Oy
• Harri Vaarala, City of Oulu

Tours will start from front of Lasaretti.

17.45-19.00 Brake

19.00-22.00

Aurora: Dinner & Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha performances lasting 6 minutes and 40 seconds that give you new perspectives and thoughts. Same time with presentations we’ll enjoy a wonderful dinner made of the best ingredients from the Gulf of Bothnia and Northern Finland.

This event is not included in the VeloFinland admission ticket. Menu costs 29 € and you can buy it when registering.

Evening is sponsored by WSP Finland Oy and Cyklos Oy.

Climate friendly menu

• Grilled vendace from the Gulf of Bothnia, smoked mayo, caesar-salad, marinated broccoli, feta-eggplant salad
• Potato flat-bread & butter
• Roasted salmon & buckthorn sauce
• Smoked tofu-beetroot casserole
• Smashed potato with dill and grilled carrots
• Licorice pannacotta

Pecha Kucha –presentations

• Martti Tulenheimo, Finnish Cyclists’ Federation: Let It Snow – Let’s Show Winter Cycling Together!
• Federico Ferrara & Apaar Tuli, Finnish Cyclists’ Federation: Bikes 4 Refugees
• Emil Rensvala, Syklistenes Landsforening: Cycling in Norway and Oslo – a Swede’s first impressions
• Pekka Tahkola & Timo Perälä, Navico Oy: Best of BikeBusters
• Devi Lockwood: Deep Listening & Environmental Justice (On-line presentation)
• Taneli Roininen, Bikeland.fi: Making Finland top destination for Gravel riding and Bikepacking
• Pekka Tahkola, Navico Oy: A five hundred kilometer kebab roll

• Tapani Launonen: Meeting -video piece
• Bar open until 0.30 AM.

Saturday 1.10.

Arthotel Lasaretti

8.30-9.00 Coffee and registration

9.00-10.20

Aurora: Cycling for All

• Federico Ferrara, Finnish Cyclists’ Federation, Taina Renkonen, Helsinki Region Cyclists’ & Marjo Harju, Tampere Cyclists’: Learning how to bike: a key to mobility and integration
• Otso Laxenius: Designing the World of Cycling for Us All
• Hampus Ekblad, Ramboll Sweden: Guidelines for diversion of bicyclists at roadwork construction sites (On-line presentation)
• Cycling for All -Discussion: Sanna Ojajärvi, Network of Finnish Cycling Muncipalities, Otso Laxenius & Elisa Maljamäki, Lapland University of Applied Sciences. Discussion hosted by Matti Koistinen, Finnish Cyclists’ Federation.

10.40-11.40

Aurora: Decision making

• Samuel Williams, Swedish Cities for Cycling / Cykelfrämjandet: Cycling and Elections: take-aways from the Swedish experience (On-line presentation)
• Milos Mladenovic, Aalto University: A neocolonial undercurrent in the mainstream cycling policy literature and what can we do about it
• Emil Rensvala, Syklistenes Landsforening: Road tolls, Town development agreements and the world’s biggest bicycle office – possibilities and challenges in Norway and Oslo

• Anthony Desnick, Finnish Cycling Embassy