Lahti Software

Lahti is growing into a nationally significant producer of software engineering experts. There has been a significant increase in the number of software engineering experts in Lahti when LUT University launched the first software engineering master's program in Lahti in 2020. After this, an international bachelor's program in software engineering has also been established in Lahti, and in 2023 another M.S.c program in software engineering will start in Lahti. With all three of these programs running, from 2026 Lahti will graduate nearly 200 graduate engineers in software engineering each year. This is a nationally significant amount and it will make Lahti one of the largest producing areas of graduate engineers in software engineering.

Considering these figures, the networking of IT experts and companies in the Lahti region has been very fragmented. Information about operators in the area is incomplete and operators in the field have very few regular networking events. The challenge is also the fact that, with growing digitization, companies other than just IT companies also need experts in the IT sector. Identifying these companies is also in the initial factors.

The idea of this project arose from the need to identify companies and experts in the area and to create a permanent meetup community between companies in the field and experts in software engineering.