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2026 27
- How AI changed my work as a designer – Reaktor Talks
- Amsterdam: Reaktor and Friends 2026 winter party
- Reaktor is now Certified in the Claude Partner Network
- Retailers' guide to AI content – How to do it well
- Reaktor @ Gamescom 2026
- Cabin monetization has a hidden cost: the passenger relationship's balance
- Reaktor and Alaska Airlines partner to deliver next-generation in-flight connectivity
- What fashion, airlines, and grocery can learn from each other's apps
- Reaktor takes top honor in Digital Leadership at Cathay Supplier Awards 2025
- The weekly ritual: building grocery loyalty through mobile habit
- Points in your pocket: what great airline loyalty looks like on mobile
- The wisdom that makes agents useful is still locked inside your people
- Between purchases: why fashion loyalty lives or dies on mobile
- AI in customer service – Reaktor Talks
- “If anything, AI raises the bar for engineering” – Nick Evon joins Reaktor as Chief People Officer
- From friction to loyalty: Fixing the 'external web store' problem
- Digital sovereignty: The questions your organization should be asking
- Reaktor secures first major international Defence & Security deal
- From hype to practice: how healthcare is really using AI
- Finns want AI in public services to be transparent, European, and human-led
- Age of agentic commerce: When AI becomes the customer
- Age of agentic commerce: the next evolution in retail
- Reaktor invests in defence to spearhead NATO-era expansion
- How are industrial leaders shifting to service excellence?
- From a hobby to a profession
- There is no such thing as being fully ready
- APEX Tech 2026: When the cabin becomes a platform
2025 18
- Reaktor joins the Findynet Cooperative to drive the future of seamless digital transactions
- Insights from top industrial leaders: 5 factors to service-driven success
- Fostering strong player relationships requires more than one-off tactics
- Unlocking sales excellence: Proven practices for growth in the industrial sector
- Lunch with Reaktor at PG Connects AI insights over lunch with Reaktor at PG Connects.
- Interaction Design Academy Handbook The Interaction Design Academy Handbook is a practical and actionable guide – by designers for designers.
- New Frontiers of Content
- Shoptalk Europe 2025
- Beyond chatbots – How generative AI transforms customer service Beyond chatbots – How generative AI transforms customer service
- Growth through innovation – BLOOM 2025 highlights
- Shoptalk Spring 2025: Rethinking the future of retail
- Bloom2025
- Building a nationwide healthcare data network in the Netherlands
- The success of a public IT project is neither coincidence nor a mystery – Six key factors behind successful projects
- A particular passion for excellence
- If at first you don’t succeed…
- Reaktor Aero wins Gold at German Design Awards for Cathay Pacific's in-flight entertainment system
- From discovery to implementation: The art of building the right things
2024 16
- Event highlights: Unlocking AI’s potential in commercial operations
- Unlock AI's potential in commercial operations
- Not just another chatbot – Three ways to enhance customer service with genAI
- Innovation and stronger collaboration – Samuli Savo to lead Reaktor’s ecosystem business
- 2024 update: DEI and our global progress
- Five ways to get started with GenAI in the industrial domain
- How to utilize STOZ funding to scale up your digital services in healthcare
- BLOOM 2024
- Why some AI projects succeed while others fail
- IQM launches quantum cloud service IQM Resonance™ – in collaboration with Reaktor
- Mastering a GenAI transition: from PoC to production
- Reaktor Japan – Great Place to Work certified for the second time in a row
- What computers can’t do
- Five things we’ve learned developing GenAI applications
- Shifting to a business and product mindset: 4 ways to communicate your technology team's value
- 7 Tips for Becoming More Patient-Centric
2023 13
- Crafting LLM-powered Interactions: Design Principles for Natural-Language User Interfaces
- Let’s get AI in the designer’s toolbox
- Maximizing growth through actionable and accessible Data | Reaktor Live
- Watch: AI in design | Reaktor Live
- NRF Nexus 2023: The future of retail unveiled
- How ambassadors planted the seeds of Reaktor culture in our new(er) Lisbon community
- Finnish Technology Providers Launch Digital Defence Ecosystem
- Reaktor Works With Liverpool FC on a New Digital Experience for Fan Engagement
- The next chapter in digital health: The care companion
- From employer to employee: why former freelancers & entrepreneurs are now happily working for Reaktor
- Make Your Team Click: The Fundamentals of Agile
- Five reasons every software-development team needs a product designer
- 5 Steps to a Future-Proof E-commerce Strategy
2022 15
- Four Seasons: Our Venture into Experiential Design & Development
- Debunking myths In developing digital health services
- My user manual: A tool to learn about your team (and yourself)
- Is Recoil What Will Kill Redux?
- We Listened to 864 Hours of Podcasts so You Wouldn’t Have to
- How to deal with life after heroku
- What is a product experience page and why is it important?
- MLOps: Making machine learning production work
- What’s your occupational personality? — Take a quiz
- How to create a portfolio we’ll remember
- Three women, three stories: celebrating resilience, diversity, and inclusion at the European Women in Tech conference
- Learning by Teaching. Embracing Continuous Learning as a Developer
- Dear Future Colleague, I thought Reaktor was a scam
- Let’s Map This Out! Working with GIS and OpenStreetmap Data
- Lara Saulo and Tanja Dowe join Reaktor’s board of directors
2021 9
- From tech nitty-gritties to overarching design methodologies – Here’s what it’s like to join Reaktor as a designer trainee
- Forget “customer first” – And do this instead
- Transforming the museum experience for a digital world
- Clojure and Its Superpower, The REPL
- Algorithmic fatigue is real – here’s how to combat it
- Shaping the future of preventive healthcare: Nightingale and Reaktor announce partnership
- Time to Ditch the Boilerplate: Safe, Fast and Easy Data Manipulation with Statically Typed Optics
- Dear Future Colleague, find bright people in dark times
- Dear Future Colleague, I had a crazy ride joining Reaktor in 2020
2020 8
- Technical debt is a board-level issue: Here’s how to overcome it
- Notes From the Nine to Five – the hybrid team and public sector edition
- Moving efficiently from Data Science to AI – Learnings from K AI journey
- Keeping an eye on the world and beyond: Satellites as a new form of intelligence
- Adjusting to a new normal: How to have mercy on yourself while working at home with kids
- Notes from the nine to five – an inside look into working at Reaktor
- Adjusting to a new normal: What we have learned from the first weeks of the work-from-home era
- Facing up to a culture of fear – Building resilience series, part I
2019 7
- “Each workday was different” – Anna and Joona’s not-so-secret summer diary
- An Introduction to Codemods: refactoring JavaScript with JavaScript
- Building the smartest pharma company in the world
- We’re expanding to Tampere – Come shape the future of our new office
- Four ways to design a more user-friendly booking system
- How we will continue to work towards equality at Reaktor in 2019
- Why a happy customer can be a silly goal
2018 12
- Dear Future Colleague, your growth starts with you
- Forbes features our human approach to technology
- To disrupt or not to disrupt: Four different takes on what we should do with blockchain
- Unplanned encounters: Jessica Cauchard on designing for human-drone interaction
- Monocle names Reaktor the top B2B tech player
- Dear Future Colleague, I never planned to become a data scientist
- Three ways to build empathy to increase fan engagement in sports
- What dealing with burnout taught us about work, life and taking care of ourselves
- Reaktor Design Camp: coming together to design a brighter future
- Why the market leaders of tomorrow are software companies – a business professional’s guide
- Dear Future Colleague, your career doesn’t have a final destination
- Why I learned to code as a UX Designer
2017 8
- Dear Future Colleague, I’m sure you have a lot to teach me
- Reaktor helps FAO of UN ramp up the fight against climate change with modern tech
- Dear Future Colleague, this is why I enjoy not being the smartest person on my team
- Leadership is making a comeback
- AI won’t save your business – you will!
- How data strategy sprint helps you achieve your business goals
- What makes a wearable successful design-wise
- A story of a microservice: lessons from the trenches
2016 18
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Why we built our ESB using Node.js
- Digitalizing Japanese Enterprises with Hakuhodo
- Unraveling the design process of Finnair’s mobile application
- The Right Way to Design™
- Three JavaScript Performance Fundamentals That Make Bluebird Fast
- What Design Sprints Have Taught Me About Efficient Team Work
- From Radio Waves to Packets with Software Defined Radio
- Dear Client, our autonomy is your competitive advantage
- Node.js On a Satellite Means Anyone Can Be a Space Programmer
- The transport of the future in another reality
- Learning user-inspired visual design
- Approach to Making Your First Satellite: #1 MVP
- Culture eats data science for breakfast
- Virtual Reality Is Just Around the Corner – Now Is the Best Time to Hop on Board
- Why is Reaktor Owned By Its Staff?
- How to Control a Satellite Flying 27,000 km/h?
- Three Steps to Good Service Design
- It Should Be About the Impact, Not the Looks
2015 7
- What Japanese Companies Want to Learn From Finland
- How do the mindsets of entrepreneurs and consultants differ?
- Elixir, your shortcut to the world of Erlang
- Clojure + ClojureScript + Vim + REPL
- Working with JSON in Scala can be as simple as in JavaScript
- Building Roguelike in F#
- React and PureScript: Highlights from a frontend tech-sharing session
2014 3
2013 1
Undated 327
- Avoid getting stuck in the hybrid work pit
- Data to win how industrial companies can leverage data for internal productivity 1
- A letter from your future colleague jabari
- Data wranglers the heroes of cyberworld
- Reaktor and gosta labs partner to reduce administrative burden in dutch healthcare with ai assistant
- How reaktor grew without hierarchy
- What did we learn from using fitbits for a year
- Internet all the things hacking android tv
- Service excellence in industrial companies
- Moving from brand strategy to visual identity
- Dear future colleague fernando
- Helsinki design week
- Optimizing for high performance technology in competitive markets
- When emotions spread
- The foundation of resilience
- Cultivating a product mindset a new way of thinking building
- Every company is a media company
- Six reasons why facilitation is the secret to transforming inefficient meetings
- Applications age like fish data ages like wine
- Improve customer loyalty what 5 experts advise for 2024 and beyond
- Why you actually don t want to work remotely
- Gaming industry veteran ken inagaki joins reaktor as principal advisor
- Is software development becoming obsolete
- Navigating an ai project
- Objective targets how to get out of feature factory
- Code and emotion. why anthropology is important for creating good digital products
- Get to know reaktor creative
- Reaktor partners with fintech farm to unlock emerging technologies in banking
- Dear future colleague let me share some lessons from my father
- The guide to seamless player journeys
- Digital pulse exploring the intersection of technology titness with equinox
- More privacy better personalization
- Magical fairy land
- Feature factories why highly productive teams may not help your bottom line
- Rendering webpages in 3d with javascript and webgl
- Patient centric european healthcare providers report
- Aix 2026 open platforms and the harder question connectivity raised
- Using visualizations to communicate data science case cancer risk analysis
- Reaktor signs second international defence security deal
- Dear future colleague safety is our superpower
- Why csp matters i keeping things in sync
- Reaktor welcomes new ceo pekka horo
- How scalable data systems help future proof your organization
- Ways to make yourself feel at home on a business trip
- Why change makes you like moomintroll midwinter
- The rise of empathy enabling technology
- How to estimate housing prices with demographic data
- Three steps to getting started with omnichannel
- Internal work chat flare up
- Dear future colleague these ancient proverbs are now my own pearls of wisdom
- Jane mcgonigal gamers can change the future
- Hello world open story visuals art and assets
- Four loyalty experts share their priorities for 2024
- Faster spare parts deliveries and lower downtimes for metso s clients
- Graphql academy how reaktor has allowed me to go from a junior developer to a specialist and instructor
- How streaming is reinventing e commerce
- Your guide to platform centralization in gaming
- Minna kaitala and katariina harteela are reaktor creatives new leaders the time of the solo genius in advertizing is dead
- Lidl new partner reaktor creative
- Cathay pacific jpa design and reaktor win crystal cabin award for passenger comfort
- The top 33 signs you are in a command control organization
- Reflecting on my first year as reaktor s ceo
- Where industrial ai actually works and where it doesn t
- Creativity at work an interview with jon kolko
- Age of agentic commerce from customer service logs to strategic insight
- How to turn your side project into an open source project
- So you changed your website how do you now measure success and avoid common ab mistakes
- Getting ready chi2017
- Fear trust and purescript
- Do you really need artificial intelligence in your software
- An americans first impressions of innovation in finland
- Age of agentic commerce from transformation fatigue to strategic clarity
- Software projects differ obstacles dont five key ways tackling common issues
- Ai in healthcare from tasks to transformation
- Forecasting method
- How to have an job interview that s not a waste of time
- What kind of designer do i want to be
- Hello world open a story in the visuals the history
- What six months in the tech industry has taught a marketing strategist
- Your game engine is not your liveops engine
- Information visualisation 101 what you need to get started
- User centric design lightens nurses workload
- Code it aside how to plan launch and promote your side project
- Generating music with f
- 3 ways covid changed e commerce forever
- How retail innovators are rethinking content
- Digital airline experience trends for 2026 reaktor talks
- Why ive tracked every single piece of clothing ive worn for three years
- Walk the talk from statements to actionable brands
- 5 tips for a well communicating health app
- Ecommerce
- Exploring the future of occupational healthcare
- Future of work. making sense of the ai hype
- Personal challenges expose core companys culture
- Key learnings from leadership update
- Speed is currency how organizations can optimize to win
- Ten takeaways from reaktorspace
- Erik meijer software eating world
- Garden variety iot with big data and frp
- On building sustainable dei in the tech industry
- Crash course to amiga assembly programming
- An evening with ai professionals takeaways from symposium ai
- Anouk koudijs joins reaktor as cpo
- The delivery dilemma speed scale and human touch with posti and wolt
- Event recap embracing accessibility in product design development
- A letter from your future colleague laura
- Dear future colleague i learned to embrace my neurodiversity as a developer and so can you
- Amazon grows its focus on healthcare here s what it means for the industry
- How to build player relationships that last beyond any single title
- On giving away our best kept design secrets and why it matters
- Amsterdam summer
- The ai work reshaping banking cx is mostly invisible to customers
- Impact is everything
- Reaktor dev day developer conference organized for the 3rd time
- How to make ai work for you
- Space
- What am i actually doing and why do i like this job
- Tervetuloa aamupalalle reaktorille
- How to grow into your best developer self
- Why great candidates freeze in tech interviews and what recruiters can do about it
- Flow festival
- Lessons developers can take from apple
- From the oil rig to the lake a shift in perspective on data
- Make react reactive by using hooks
- Age of agentic commerce the personalization paradox
- The tyranny of chatbots or why the future is multimodal
- Data meets business lessons learned the hard way
- 9 things most get wrong about usability testing and how to fix them
- Refactoring 30000 lines js types
- How we taught an industrial robot to tweet the story of arska
- Reaktor isn t a company where people just come to work
- Microservices building business
- Free wi fi was just the beginning. now what
- Why csp matters ii how do i know sync works
- Meet our new chief commercial officer lasse nordlund
- Rethinking retail from experimentation to experience
- Like live forever chatbot
- Industry 4 0 is a fad here are the true winning formulas
- Hello world open a story in the visuals light camera action
- Taru tujunen joins reaktor s board
- An abstraction called text styles
- Julkisen it projektin onnistuminen ei ole sattumaa eika salatiedetta onnistuneita hankkeita yhdistaa 6 asiaa
- Scott chacon and a look at the future of open source
- A letter from your future colleague aku
- Dear future colleague value is a concept that can take many different shapes
- 10 tips for polishing your ux portfolio
- Kesko and reaktor continue successful partnership of developing digital services
- Youre hired in other words how to get a job at reaktor
- How to fix a broken customer experience
- Look ui design agile projects chi 2016 san jose
- Retail leaders vision for the future of in store technology
- Truth over convenience. the data analytics episode
- Little server patterns dependency parameters
- From raw data to revenue strategies for effective data monetization
- Modern quality built upon continuous change
- Insights from shoptalk 2024 embracing ai evolving store roles and rethinking loyalty
- Dei duo to scale reaktors global dei work
- What its like to join reaktor as a developer trainee
- Air travel needs the window seat
- Aircraft customer experience on a new level
- Weaving stories and substance into the fabric of fashion content
- How the trust of a product owner let me rebuild adidas product pages with 75 less code
- Deep dive into aktias and reaktors pioneering data lake project
- Reaktor and zap surgical win german design award 2026
- The future of finnish tech a discussion with reaktor solita gofore and futurice
- The other side of data
- From web stores to intelligent player services
- Business design
- Why play games when you can write a game boy compiler instead
- Generating music with f part 2 markov chains 2
- Little server patterns independent tests
- Designing with prompts ai s impact on the creative process
- Retail omnichannel and virtual reality building experiences beyond the physical store
- Digital resilience how to prep for the next crisis when you have no idea what it will be
- Fast simple accessible webvr aids collaboration across distances
- Finns to be the first in the world to define rules for the use of artificial intelligence in public services
- Best application ever
- Cxsphere24
- Ai needs a human touch
- The digital rights of lgbtq communities five steps towards an inclusive design process
- Mind the stories you tell yourself
- Listen more assume less
- Train yourself not the model a designer s view on language models
- D2c in gaming what publishers will prioritize in 2026
- Notes from the nine to five new yorks recruitment team edition
- Capacitated vehicle routing problem simulated annealing and how our holiday puzzle turned into a perfect learning opportunity
- Little server patterns failing quickly
- The future of air travel takeaways from apex global expo
- The top 5 wrong reasons to do large projects
- Llms are turning science fiction to science reality a case in healthcare
- Curiosity drive or why i moved from the us to finland
- Lack of data strategy whitepaper
- Hello world open a story in the visuals in retrospective
- Terveystalo and reaktor develop digital solutions for finland s public healthcare
- Hello world open a story in the visuals new dimensions
- Creating an interactive geoplotting demo experiences with geopandas and plotly
- How to enhance your product s accessibility starting right now
- Hurry driven learning a rust dns client
- The reaktor trainee journey revealed
- Category theory for the non phd and what to use it for
- Reaktor space lab takes off
- New faces to strengthen reaktor s global leadership
- Dear tech industry how to be a good ally to women
- A letter from your future colleague ana
- Reaktor health advises terveystalo on strategic investment in medhelp
- Dear future colleague im on a journey to discover the recipe for good design leadership
- Youve launched digital service now what
- Learning about community from ukrainian women in tech
- The comprehensive guide to omnichannel retailing in 2025
- Fear trust and javascript
- Deep dive into advanced typescript
- A digital experience promoting access to nature for communities of color
- Latest on loyalty
- 5 takeaways moving from hype to impact with ai
- How accessible product design and development can improve your conversion
- Lack of data strategy how to know if the time is right 1
- Airline loyalty programs have an experience problem
- Reaktor and zap surgical win renowned red dot award for zap axon
- Building a design system that lasts
- Flux inspired reactive data flow using react and bacon js
- Promise library
- Reaktor sok summer bbq
- Reaktor and rave aerospace showcase next generation gui concept at aix
- Debugging node js applications using core dumps
- Why personas in interaction design are a trap
- Five ways to break a culture of fear
- Reaktor amsterdam named a great place to work
- Leading finnish companies join reaktor and university of helsinki to study ai s impact on doftware productivity
- Changing the game with google tag managers new version
- Dear future colleague we are all rooting for you to succeed
- Retail path dream state
- Graphql is the god mode of web development
- Introducing the reaktor hello world satellite
- Dei requires vision persistence and patience
- Reaktor appoints kaisa latva as chief legal officer
- Tech for fashion 2025 four shifts in fashion retail
- 10 truths about data
- The power of well crafted content
- Decoding the future of travel vibes from a pre slush hackathon
- Loyalty business dinner key insights
- A letter from your future colleague gab
- Holistic service design in aviation a method for designing future services for future airlines
- Your greatest asset is simply being you
- Reaktor partners up with metacore to make the world fall in love with a mysterious grandma with help from pedro pascal
- Code ux
- Reaktor to continue developing evaka
- Modern wi fi onboarding for inflight connectivity
- Introduction to agentic commerce
- Impostor syndrome
- Code school for children and heads of state
- Autonomous ferries
- Transparency is knowledge
- Scrum improves transparency and maneuverability
- The era of optional accessibility is over
- People already love gaming brands lag behind insights from the cannes lions jury room
- The shop your players keep coming back to
- Dear future colleague let me share some lessons from my father 1
- Positive hallucinations the magical moments with ai
- Don t let being new to something stop you
- Untapped opportunities of ai in moving towards smart manufacturing
- Agentic commerce dinner
- Digital sovereignty event
- 4 things business leaders should understand about ai
- Optics to safe and easy data manipulation
- Hlthy to dance
- Shift to industry 5 0
- 5 lessons finance can learn from omnichannel retail
- Scaling our business beyond 500 with distributed responsibility free of static structures or superiors
- The reaktor way of discovering genai opportunities
- Beyond fun games can virtual reality change way doctors work
- Liberated or disconnected the real impact of remote work on me and us
- How to relocate like a pro
- Organization fit context
- Ai is a solution in search of a problem
- 25 year old reaktor joins helsinki design week s 20th anniversary celebrations
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery for better in flight experiences
- Giving back to open source
- Dear future colleague coding is like composing and playing music
- Star power a practical guide to celebrities in gaming marketing
- Serverless side dropping it like its hot without breaking the internet
- How to land a summer job with reaktor
- Dear future colleague this is why i left reaktor and then came back
- Dear future colleague i suffered from a lack of leadership but working in a team improved my wellbeing
- Concept design the beginning of everything
- Dear future colleague relocation is not a puzzle you have to solve on your own
- Why i love programming
- How company culture can turn the tide of the burnout tsunami
- 4 reasons why healthcare services need to improve their content game
- Reaktor ecosystem drives international growth with seven new companies
- Will harmaja be the react killer weve been waiting for ft. juha paananen jussi saurio
- Impact from day one
- Five takeaways from apex tech
- Designing content is designing user experience
- Reaktor lisbon certified a great place to work
- Why diversity equity and inclusion in tech is more important than ever
- Trusted from day one
- A user manual makes you a better team member and a spouse
- Nain jatkamme tasa arvotyota reaktorilla vuonna 2019
- In conversation with s group value based digitalization
- Generating music in f part 3 note values 2
- Living legend arnold schwarzeneggers recipe to success
- Its all about the money our takeaways from aws reinvent 2022
- Tech for fashion 2025
- Blog better virtual meetings
- Reaktor launches the interaction design academy handbook
- Reaktor ecosystem caf%C3%A9
- Riku and samulis summer in the forum virium helsinki project
- Designing disruptive genai services
- Four shades of coaching 2
- What i learned reading 550 books for work and life
- Introducing marketing science truly personalized marketing framework powered ai
- Agile usability testing
- Age verification laws how to build games for everyone everywhere
- Omnichannel playbook
- Why you should make use of returns as a customer experience
- State of retail in 2024 takeaways from shoptalk europe
- No hierarchy outsiders view one worlds coolest companies
- How to build player relationships that last
- Five tips for nailing that video interview
- Smart spaces dont make you smarter
- Sovereignty first at the points where it matters most
- Youre not surrounded by idiots. youre surrounded by stress
- How to land a job at reaktor in 7 steps
- Ww wins big at the emmys
- Dear future colleague be ready to become your own leader
- Are you neglecting these critical elements of digital transformation
- Nrf nexus 2023 the future of retail with reaktor x adidas