EMS & BEYOND 2026

hosted by the Estonian Electronics Industries Association

3rd of December 2026

Swissotel

(Tornimäe tn 3, Tallinn)

You can register for the seminar here.

Programme

09:00-09:30 Registration & Coffee

09:30-09:50 Welcome and introduction

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Republic of Estonia

Otto Pukk, Chairman, the Estonian Electronics Industries Association

9:50-10:50 Supply Chains Under Pressure: The Causes of the New Cost Spiral in the EMS Industry

Dieter Weiss, In4ma

11:00-11:30 Coffee & Expo

11:30-12:00 TBD

Jury Serikov, EBRD

12:00-12:30 Supply chain – from design to production

Martina Drimala, Vice President EMEA, Mouser

Marc Winfield, Senior Vice President EMEA, TTi Inc.

12:30-13:00 Beyond Board and System Assembly: Why Mid-Sized EMS Has to Redesign the Operating Model

Richard Nilsen, CEO and Chairman, Tepcomp

13:00-14:00 Lunch & Expo

14:00-14:30 Electronics Industry in Estonia

Arno Kolk, Managing Director, Estonian Electronics Industries Association

14:30-15:00 .

Global Electronics Association

15:00-15:30 TBD

Mika Holappa, Global Pre-sales Lead for Operational Excellence, Siemens Digital Industries Software

15:30-16:00 Coffee & Expo

16:00-16:30

TBD

16:30-17:30 Panel discussion:

Moderated by Philip Stoten

17:30-19:30 Networking reception with wine and snacks

Speakers

Otto Richard Pukk is the President and CEO of Incap Corporation – a trusted partner and full service provider in Electronics Manufacturing Services that offers state-of-the-art technology backed up by an entrepreneurial culture and highly qualified personnel. Incap has operations in Finland, Estonia, India, Slovakia, the UK, USA and Hong Kong and employs approximately 2,700 people. Incap’s share has been listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd stock exchange since 1997.

He is also the Chairman of the Council of the Estonian Electronics Industries and has been re-elected to this position several times since 2019

Mika Holappa is the Global Pre-sales Lead for Operational Excellence at Siemens Digital Industries Software. With more than 30 years of manufacturing experience and over 15 years as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, he helps manufacturers identify strategic improvement opportunities, accelerate operational excellence, and maximize the value of their digitalization investments.

Dieter G. Weiss is the head behind in4ma, the most reliable data source for the European EMS Industry. He has 42 years of experience in the electronics industry and has been studying the European EMS industry for many years – developing a database of more than 2150 EMS companies in Europe. The database provides a lot of detailed information which is regularly updated and fed with actual data in order to study actual market developments.

Richard Nilsen is CEO and Chairman of Tepcomp Group Oy, a Finnish-Estonian EMS company. Over more than two decades he has led and operated electronics manufacturing companies across the European market, from small firms to mid-sized groups and in several of the Nordic-Baltic countries. His work centres on the operating model of small and mid-sized EMS and why the conventional way of running one is no longer financially sustainable. He writes on these questions for the industry, most recently in EMSNOW, and was profiled in Forbes in December 2025.

Arno Kolk

Arno Kolk is the Managing Director of the Estonian Electronics Industries Association. He has extensive experience in the electronics sector – he started his career as an R&D engineer in Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and worked in different engineering and management positions in EMS and engineering companies in several countries.

In his presentation, Arno Kolk will give you an overview of how Estonia’s world-class electronics industry is embracing modern practices and why this small and agile country is uniquely positioned to be the perfect test site for new products and processes.

ACCOMMODATION

A special room rate

at the Swissotel Tallinn is available for the seminar attendees

To book a room, please use this booking link

Use the opportunity, stay for the weekend and explore the snowy Tallinn and the #1 Christmas market in Europe!

Partners

Seminar is supported by

electronics

Exhibitors