Reaktor is a technology company, specialised in design, development and strategy of digital services and products. Founded in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

in 2000, Reaktor has offices in

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, and

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. Reaktor employs 700 people. In 2023, its revenue amounted to 120 million euros, approximately $130M. Reaktor Group's CEO is

Pekka Horo Pekka is a Finnish male given name. It was most popular around the middle of the 20th century. As of 2013 there were more than 100,000 people registered with this name in Finland. The nameday is the 29th of June in the Finnish tradition and the 25t ...

. Reaktor builds digital products for clients including

Finnair Finnair Plc (, ) is the flag carrier and largest full-service legacy airline of Finland, with headquarters in Vantaa on the grounds of Helsinki Airport, its airline hub, hub. Finnair and its subsidiaries dominate both domestic and international ...

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, and

Varian Medical Systems Varian Medical Systems is an American radiation oncology treatments and software maker based in Palo Alto, California. Their medical devices include linear accelerators (LINACs) and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with ...

. Its work has been awarded and recognized by the Red Dot awards,

Webby Award The Webby Awards (colloquially referred to as the Webbys) are awards for excellence on the Internet presented annually by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a judging body composed of over three thousand industry experts a ...

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

s, and

German Design Council The German Design Council (German: '' Rat für Formgebung'') is a non-profit organisation with the aim of representing the interests of German companies focussed on design. The foundation has more than 300 members today in industry, design, asso ...

, among others. In 2019, Reaktor was named as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies by the American business journal

Fast Company ''Fast Company'' is an American business magazine published monthly in print and online, focusing on technology, business, and design. It releases six print issues annually. History ''Fast Company'' was founded in November 1995 by Alan Webb ...

. Reaktor is known from being the creator of

Elements of AI Elements of AI is a massive open online course (MOOC) teaching the basics of artificial intelligence. The course, originally launched in 2018, is designed and organized by the University of Helsinki and learning technology company MinnaLearn. Th ...

massive open online course (

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) with the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

. The online course about

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

has been taken to over half a million participants worldwide.

Initiatives

In 2020, Fast Company listed Reaktor Education and the +POOL project in New York among world-changing ideas. In 2019, Reaktor partnered with

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and

+POOL Plus Pool (often stylized as "+ POOL") is an initiative started in 2010 to create an innovative, floating swimming pool on the East River in New York City. Architect Dong-Ping Wong developed the concept of a floating pool that would filter river ...

to build an installation in

East River The East River is a saltwater Estuary, tidal estuary or strait in New York City. The waterway, which is not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates Long Island, ...

in New York. Named +POOL Light, the sculpture changes colors based on water conditions that are tracked by

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s and

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s by the university and Reaktor. On November 29, 2018, Finland's first commercially-built

nanosatellite A small satellite, miniaturized satellite, or smallsat is a satellite of low mass and size, usually under . While all such satellites can be referred to as "small", different classifications are used to categorize them based on mass. Satellites c ...

, Reaktor's Reaktor Hello World (SATCAT: 43743, COSPAR: 2018-096AA) was launched into space. The nanosatellite carried an infrared hyperspectral camera built by

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is a state-owned and controlled non-profit limited liability company. VTT is the largest research and technology company and research centre conducting applied research in Finland. It provides resear ...

. The satellite was built in collaboration with

Aalto University Aalto University (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economic ...

and the same people who were behind the launch of Finland's first two satellites, Aalto 1 and Aalto 2. Reaktor's satellite platform is also used in the W-cube satellite by ESA, European Space Agency. Reaktor Hello World satellite decayed from orbit on 22 October 2023. Elements of AI is a massive open online course (MOOC) designed and organized by Reaktor and the

. The course teaches the basics of artificial intelligence, and it was originally launched in 2018. With over half a million participants, the course is being translated into all official EU languages. The government of Finland has pledged to offer the course for all

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by the end of 2021. In 2019, the course won the global grand prize in the Inclusive Innovation Challenge by the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. Reaktor has also held the world's first coding championships in 2014 together with the Finnish game developer

Supercell A supercell is a thunderstorm characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft. Due to this, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (su ...

References

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