Kari Terho is the Vice President, Global Sales with Elisa Smart Factory, helping manufacturing companies to leverage intelligent manufacturing opportunities. Kari has over two decades of experience in working with manufacturing and telecommunications enterprise solutions and he is passionate about helping customers drive sustainable growth by using data insights to solve their most challenging problems. Kari holds a master’s degree in Business Administration.

Elisa Smart Factory provides AI, IIoT and lockout/tagout solutions for industry manufacturers. We connect to any data source, harness streams of data, and combine data analytics and machine learning to create outcomes like increased uptime, production quality and yield. In addition, we help ensure the safety of factory employees by enabling them to track safety procedures related to ensuring that industrial machinery is properly shut off and not restarted until maintenance work has been completed. Being part of Elisa corporation, we have decades of experience in managing vast, highly automated network infrastructures as well as predicting and preventing disruptive incidents.