Turku Tech Week 2025 Matchmaking

4–11 Mar 2025 | Turku, Finland

Ilkka Rytkölä

Ecosystem Lead

Meyer Turku Oy

Turku, Finland

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Ecosystem Lead for Meyer Turku Shipyard

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Meyer Turku Oy

Meyer Turku Oy

Corporate

Turku, Finland

Turku shipyard, Meyer Turku, is one of the world’s largest and most advanced manufacturers of large cruise ships and passenger ferries. The highly modern luxury cruisers built at the Turku shipyard are known across the world for their cutting-edge technology, exciting innovations and exquisite design. Over the years, we have built hundreds of ships – with more on the way.
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About me

Ilkka Rytkölä is an innovative and inspiring naval architect working as Ecosystem Lead in Meyer Turku Shipyard in Finland. The program is called Necoleap, the biggest business ecosystem development program in the world aiming to create climate neutral cruise ship and shipyard.

Ilkka has worked with business ecosystems, digitalisation, innovations, concept design and development of several ship types, products and solutions together with ship owners, shipyards, suppliers, universities, research institutions and classification societies.

He holds a Master of Science (Naval Architecture) from the Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) and has over three decades of extensive experience from international and especially from Finnish marine industry. Ilkka is a member of the research council of the Finnish Marine Industry association. His personal drivers are marine life and nature, and he enjoys yachting and Formula windsurfing in the beautiful Turku archipelago. Ilkka is on a mission to predict the future by creating it.