With over two decades of experience and a track record of award-winning design, he currently leads the Visual Design team and co-manages the Brand Experience offering at Accenture Song across the Nordic region.
Hugo d'Alte Nordic Design Director
Helsinki-based Creative Director
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Prior to joining Accenture, Howard worked as a Prototyper at Meta Reality Labs, where he played a key role in the development and design of Horizon Workrooms, an immersive meeting and collaboration product.
Based in London, he has extensive experience in leveraging advanced technologies—such as Generative AI, Synthetic Media, and Extended Realities (XR)—to develop innovative solutions that push the boundaries of creativity and technology.
Howard Boland Creative Technologist & Generative AI Lead
In his current role, Howard is helping to shape Accenture’s Generative AI strategy
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Mahimahas a M.Sc. degree in Human Computer Interaction and Design from KTH Royal Institute ofTechnology, Sweden. Her bachelors is in Computer Science, providing her all rounded experience and training.
She uses her skills in user research, frontend development, user testing, prototyping and heuristic evaluation to implement client’s vision. Mahima loves solving problems and tackling new challenges and creating synergies and cohesion in teams.
Mahima Bhutani Interaction Designer
Passionate about user-friendly products, environments and systems
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Sunwha has a BA in industrial design in Seoul, Korea and an MA in visual communication in Helsinki, Finland.
Sunwha is a visual designer with a background in industrial, graphic and participatory design. Her work experience includes 3 years in mobile product design and 10 years in tangible and digital design solutions, ranging from branding, creative direction and print design to web design. Passionate about scalable branding and interactive storytelling.
Sunwah Park Senior Visual Designer
Visual design can be experienced with various senses from a multi-dimensional perspective
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Having worked and studied abroad for several years, Heini is also passionate about working in international teams. Heini holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, with a major in Organizational Change and Leadership.
She has concentrated especially on visualizing data with Power BI and gaining advanced insights using AI. Before transitioning into tech, Heini worked for four years in B2B sales, selling and marketing training programs to business executives.
Heini Ailio Data & AI Expert
Bridging the gap between the business and tech.
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Join us for an inspiring breakfast on how AI can accelerate creativity.
Navigating the future of creativity with AI, together.
Play by Accenture Song is hosting AI & Creativity, an exclusive, invitation-only breakfast event on the 6th of November 2024, where we will explore how businesses and brands can harness the power of AI to stay ahead in today’s fast-evolving landscape. We will hear from Song Creative Technology Director, Howard Boland, a visionary creative technologist whose work spans the digital industry and cutting-edge new media art. Howard will discuss how AI can transform brands through the power of creative storytelling, from producing music videos with OpenAI's Sora to building dynamic brand systems, and rapidly bringing concepts to life with AI-driven imagery, copy, and video.
Mahima Bhutani, Sunwha Park and Heini Ailio will showcase the development of the Gen AI Marketing Tool for Accenture Song, unveiled at Cannes 2024.
We look forward to welcoming you for an inspiring morning of insights, innovation, and networking. Find more details below.