Drone hackathon at Nokia Arena concludes as winners are announced

The rapidly evolving drone industry gained further momentum at Nokia Arena during a drone developers’ competition event.

Industry companies, hobbyists, cybersecurity experts, electronics and software engineers, and researchers worked together to solve the assigned challenges and share their expertise.

Challenge winners:

The Future of Nokia Arena
In cooperation with: Business Tampere and Unikie
Winner: Team Aalto & SATA – SäRes Analysing and Testing Area – SäRes Center

4G/5G-Driven Drone Innovation Challenge
In cooperation with: Elisa
Winner: Drone Valley & Beyond VLOS

Low-Signature Drone Design Challenge
In cooperation with: Elisa and Loopshore
Winner: Skyward Sentinel

The Invisible Intruder
Main partner: Crown Defence Ltd
Supported by: Missing-Link Oy
Winners: Janne Rajala, Joonas Vesterinen, Skyward Sentinel

A total of 18 teams from six countries took part in solving challenges at the Drone Innovation at 5G Counter-Drone Arena event. The teams had the opportunity to test their capabilities and develop new business opportunities and connections. At the same time, Nokia Arena was tested as an indoor drone testing environment.

Among the attendees were Member of Parliament Jarno Limnell, often referred to as the architect of Finland’s national drone strategy and a working-life professor of cybersecurity at Aalto University, as well as Mykhailo Vydoinyk, Ambassador of Ukraine to Finland. Mr. Mykhailo Vydoinyk´s interview can be found here.