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It is difficult to connect a milk carton, a golf club or a blood bag to the Internet. What is the common factor between such objects, as far as equipping them with sensors is concerned? How about human skin? Is the location of a wearable device for health monitoring limited by user comfort due to bulky batteries? The presentation will give answers to such questions, and describe some inspiring applications, which are benefiting from thin and flexible batteries designed and developed by Enfucell.

Markku Ellilä received his PhD degree in 1988 at the Helsinki University of Technology as a result of particle physics research at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. After his academic career he has held a number of R&D and general management positions in world leading technology companies, such as Valmet Paper Machinery, Nextrom and Nokia. Most recently, until 2013, he was the Managing Director of Tellabs Oy. He is a board member of PYN Fund Management Ltd, and an angel investor.