From Hype to Shipping: AI Products, Platforms & Profitable Apps

📅 Tuesday, 10 February 2026
🕔 17:00 – 20:00
📍 Codemate Office (Kaisaniemenkatu 1 B, 5th floor), Helsinki. Hosted by Codemate.
🍕 Pizza & drinks included — limited to ~60 attendees for high-quality conversations.
AI tools and features are now common across product roadmaps — but the toughest work is designing AI that fits real workflows, governing it, and scaling it in production. This meetup brings together product-level UX, enterprise platform strategy, solo-founder validation techniques, and indie app monetization — four practical angles on shipping AI that creates value.🎤 Talks & Speakers
🔹 Ville Lindfors - Director of AI, Cloud & Data at CodemateUpgrading CX with AI – Building Production-Ready Generative Interfaces
How can AI improve real user experiences inside your existing apps? In this developer-focused session, Ville Lindfors presents GenUI, a concept for generative interfaces built with Flutter and Firebase that connects LLM capabilities directly to real user actions. You’ll learn how to bring AI into customer-facing applications securely, and see a live example of how to integrate these patterns into production-ready environments.
🔹 Paramartha Sajjana Narendradhipa - Founder, Startup Blueprint | Maria01

From Idea to Validation: Solo-Building with AI

Para from Maria 01, will share how he leveraged AI to solo built a validation tool for idea stage startup founders. Recently launched and already over 100+ founders have started to build using Startup Blueprint, attracting interests from both local, and international idea stage VCs and Accelerators.
🔹 Murat Menzilci - Developer Adovcate at Adapty.io

From $0 to $10K MRR: The Indie App Playbook

A hands-on playbook based on building and growing an indie app to its first $10K in revenue. Covering launch strategy, growth experiments, monetization choices, and the mistakes that shaped the final result, with clear takeaways for solo app builders.

🔹 Jarkko Lipponen - Chief GenAI Officer at Teamit.fiEnterprise GenAI Platforms: From Strategy to Execution
Jarkko Lipponen, Chief GenAI Officer at Teamit, will share how organizations can move beyond GenAI pilots and build enterprise-ready AI platforms. He’ll cover aligning AI initiatives with real business value, designing secure and governed GenAI architectures, and scaling AI across teams using platform thinking and agent-based automation.

🗓️ Agenda

17:00 — Doors open

17:30 — Welcome & kickoff (GDG Helsinki)

17:45 — Ville Lindfors

18:05 — Jarkko Lipponen

18:25 — Break, pizza & networking

19:00 — Para

19:15 — Murat

19:30 – 20:00 — Networking & conversations

Agenda

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Speakers

Murat Menzilci - http://adapty.io/ (Developer Advocate - Growth Expert)

Ville Lindfors - Codemate (Director of AI, Cloud & Data)

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Paramartha Sajjana Narendradhipa - Startup Blueprint (Founder)

Jarkko Lipponen - Teamit (Chief GenAI Officer)

Hosted By

Azidin Shairi, GDG Organizer

• GDG Helsinki Organizer
• Google Developer Expert

baderkhane oussama, GDG Helsinki Team

Niko Hälvä, Developer Advocate

I used to be developer like you but then I took an arrow in the knee.

Matteo Nista, Front-End Engineer

Marko Nissilä, GDG Helsinki

Lauri Suomalainen, GDG Helsinki

Cloud Architect and consultant. Helming the Cloud Consulting function at Teamit. Enthusiastic about Google Cloud and building superb IT organisations.

Eliška Čejpová, GDG organizer

Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-helsinki-presents-from-hype-to-shipping-ai-products-platforms-amp-profitable-apps/.