Develop competence in the process industry with a digitalized operator learning path

Pekka Qvist is an Educational Games Manager in the NAPCON Games group of Neste Engineering Solutions. He has 20 yr of experience in software development and information systems, with 10 yr of expertise in virtual learning environments, educational games and gamification of learning, focusing on higher education and adult education. He has published more than 15 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles in the fields of virtual reality, eLearning, simulations and learning analytics.

Ari Vepsäläinen is an Application Engineer in the NAPCON Operator Training Simulator group of Neste Engineering Solutions. He has 20 yr of experience in product development of process equipment and software, research and development, process modeling and real-time process analytics. He holds a doctor of science (Tech) degree in energy technology and a university pedagogy degree from Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland.

Prateek Agarwal is an Application Engineer in the NAPCON Operator Training Simulator group of Neste Engineering Solutions. He hold an MS degree from the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP School) in Paris. He has strong experience in working in projects related to dynamic simulation modeling, and he is presently involved with operator training simulator projects.