MTW STUDENT SCHEDULE
The Midterm Week 2026 at Aalto University will take place in these spaces:
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- Undergraduate Center, Lecture Hall E
- Dipoli
Sunday, 11 January
​As of 11.00 Arrival & Hotel check-in
16:00 - 18:00 MTW event registration at the Heymo 1 by Sokos Hotels
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome Dinner at Restaurant Fat Lizard with Students & Coaches
Monday, 12 January @ Design Factory & Undergraduate Center
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08:30 - 09:15 Welcome from Aalto University & UNITECH
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Team work
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 Team work
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:45 Team Work
16:45 - 17:00 Commute to the Undergraduate Center
17:00 - 17:30 Daily debriefing | Undergraduate Center, Lecture Hall E
17:30 - 18:00 1:1 Q&A | Undergraduate Center, Lecture Hall E
Tuesday, 13 January @ Design Factory
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08:30 - 08:45 Daily briefing
08:45 - 10:00 Lecture "UNKNOWABLE"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Team work
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 Team work
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 Team work
16:00 - 17:00 Stress management
17:00 - 17:30 Daily debriefing
17:30 - 18:00 1:1 Q&A
Wednesday, 14 January @ Design Factory
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08:30 - 08:45 Daily briefing
08:45 - 10:00 Lecture "Building Powerful Presentations"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 Inspiration Session
11:30 - 12:30 Team work
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Please go to the plenary at 14:00 to take your Case Advisors to the team rooms.
13:30 - 15:00 Team work
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Team work
17:00 - 17:30 Daily debriefing
17:30 - 18:00 1:1 Q&A
Thursday, 15 January
Sessions @ Undergraduate Center, Lecture Hall E & Learning Center
Lunch @ Dipoli
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08:30 - 08:45 Daily briefing | Lecture Hall E
08:45 - 10:00 Lecture "Delivering Powerful Presentations" | Lecture Hall E
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break | Learning Center
10:30 - 12:00 Team work | Learning Center
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch | Dipoli
13:00 - 15:00 Team work | Learning Center
13:00 - 15:00 Rehearsals | Learning Center
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break | Learning Center
15:30 - 16:00 Rehearsals | Learning Center
15:30 - 17:00 Team work | Learning Center
17:00 - 17:15 Meet the Account Managers | Lecture Hall E
17:15 - 18:00 Daily debriefing | Lecture Hall E
18:00 - open Team work | Learning Center
Friday, 16 January @ Dipoli
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08:30 - 09:00 Opening remarks & briefing | Auditorium Lumituuli
09:00 - 10:10 Presentations (see detailed schedule below)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:20 Presentations
12:30 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:25 Presentations
14:30 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:30 Feedback & next steps in teams, Students & Case Advisors
16:30 - 17:00 Closing session | Auditorium Lumituuli
17:00 - 18:00 Optional: individual feedback with coaches
19:00 - 22:00 Closing dinner | Arvo
UNITECH BUSINESS CASE PRESENTATIONS
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Friday, 16 January @ Auditorium Lumituuli, Dipoli
08:30 - 09:00 Opening remarks & briefing
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@ Auditorium Lumituuli, Dipoli​
09:00 - 09:20 Sanofi - Chalmers 1 | Next-Generation Integrated Drug Delivery & Digital Ecosystem for Immunology Therapeutic Area
09:25 - 09:45 Sanofi - INSA 1 | Community-based carbon offsets portfolio management tool specification
09:50 - 10:10 ABB - Aalto 2 | Generative AI in Business Development​
10:45 - 11:05 Accelleron - Loughborough | Enhancing Sales: AI-Powered Lead Qualification of Upgrade Solutions at Accelleron
11:10 - 11:30 Airbus - RWTH 3 | Follow-up: sustainable Aircraft repurposing of electronic parts
11:35 - 11:55 Danfoss - Aalto 1 | Role of AI in distributed energy-resources (DERs)
12:00 - 12:20 Bühler - TCD 2 | Product Management Excellence: Doing the right things
13:15 - 13:35 Bühler - Polimi 2 | Project Management Efficiency through Simplifications, Automation & AI
13:40 - 14:00 Danfoss - NTNU 1 | Strategic Market Entry and Route-to-Market Optimization for Data Center Power Components Across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America
14:05 - 14:25 IWC - UPC 1 | Sustainability as Enabler for Supply Chain Optimization
16:30 - 17:00 Closing session | Auditorium Lumituuli
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@ Room Palaver, Dipoli​
09:00 - 09:20 Evonik - RWTH 1 | Marketing campaign for Evonik’s new sustainable 100% bio-circular TROGAMID® eCO BC100 product for the optics sunglasses market
09:25 - 09:45 Geberit - UPC 2 | Advancing Sustainability in Ceramic Kiln Technologies
09:50 - 10:10 Wella - INSA 2 | Last-mile Direct-To-Consumer Sustainable Packaging
10:45 - 11:05 Grundfos - Chalmers 3 | Exploring Grundfos’ Role in the Future of Desalination
11:10 - 11:30 GF - Chalmers 2 | Engineering Water Safety: How Can Digital Innovation Prevent Legionella in Complex Building Systems?
11:35 - 11:55 Hilti - NTNU 2 | Re-Invent the Internal Innovation Motor for Global Manufacturing
12:00 - 12:20 Infineon - RWTH 2 | Cross-Industry Lessons for Sustaining Leadership Amidst Emerging Competition
13:15 - 13:35 Omya - TCD 1 | Agile organizational structure to improve teamwork and accelerate innovation in R & D
13:40 - 14:00 Omya - Polimi 1 | Does the Critical Raw Materials Act open up new opportunities for Omya?
16:30 - 17:00 Closing session | Auditorium Lumituuli
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