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Anatoli Lukkarinen
Anatoli Lukkarinen - Business Development Manager at Avnet Integrated

Anatoli Lukkarinen is the Business Development Manager for Avnet Integrated Embedded Innovation Unit in the Americas. In this role, he works across the company to help customers design, build and bring high-quality Embedded solutions and products to market. This includes providing guidance to chief technical officers, product managers and solution engineers of OEM companies as well as working closely together with Avnet Integrated hardware engineering experts and technology partners. He reports to Brian Toomey, Director, Embedded Innovation Unit.

Anatoli’s passions are customer experience, technology, and quality. He understands the complexity and challenges that OEM companies face when they are designing and implementing computing hardware as part of their product and solution. By leveraging Avnet Integrated hardware engineering capabilities and technology partners Anatoli is helping customers to bring high-quality products faster to the market and securing their long-term return on investment.

Anatoli has 14 years of experience and industry knowledge of designing and implementing computing hardware to industrial and embedded applications. He joined Avnet in 2016 as Business Development Manager for Avnet Integrated in Nordics. Before that, he had spent 10 years at CEF (embedded PC manufacturer) developing a product portfolio and directing sales and marketing activities.

Anatoli was raised in the cold and frozen Finland and he is now defrosting himself in hot Phoenix, Arizona

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Programming secure devices at scale, in a software-defined world
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   March 7, 2025
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Software stored in non-volatile memory plays a crucial role in electronic products. Getting software into hardware and securing those devices in a connected world requires specialized support that is both repeatable and scalable.
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By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   March 3, 2023
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Here are the three leading reasons why IT technology companies, where software is the IP that drives their brand, are making the transition from a traditional original equipment manufacturer (OEM) model to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.
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How engineers cut development time in half for an EV fire warning system
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   December 5, 2022
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Through rapid prototyping, Amphenol developed sensor modules that reliably detect carbon dioxide and hydrogen from cell decomposition venting for early warning of lithium cell thermal runaway.
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Zero-touch computing for extreme edge locations
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   April 26, 2022
Technical article
Avnet partners with HPE and Iceotope as authorized manufacturer of super-efficient Micro Data Centre liquid cooling solution for deploying and supporting real-time applications in extreme edge locations.
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AI Inference at the Edge: A lesson from Marie Curie
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   October 12, 2020
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In 1914, Marie Curie’s work on radium stopped in its tracks as the reality of World War I approached. Undaunted, Curie sent her entire stock of radium to a local bank by train and embarked on a new project – using her knowledge of radiology to save soldie...
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Regulatory insights: Are your computer, audiovisual and information technology products ready for the transition to 62368-1?
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   May 6, 2020
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Regulatory certification can be confusing because of constantly changing standards, the complexity of the process and the amount of time needed to properly complete it.
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Does hardware matter?
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   March 3, 2020
Technical article
I believe every IoT and Industrial IoT system designer and software developer should consider the question in the title. Do you?
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How AI-powered virtual assistants can transform healthcare
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   February 26, 2019
We have witnessed a paradigm shift in the way patients are being treated by the doctors with the help of AI and machine learning.
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The rise of machine intelligence in the AI era
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   February 26, 2019
Technical article
Whether you know it or not, this technology has a lot of potential to deal with business-specific challenges and the benefits of deep learning outnumber its drawbacks.
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5 of the best artificial intelligence use cases
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   January 3, 2019
Technical article
AI’s upgraded algorithms make predictive analytics, parse data, and help businesses make smarter decisions from the boardroom to the factory floor.
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AI From A-Z: The biggest buzzwords around artificial intelligence
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   November 28, 2018
Technical article
Companies across markets from consumer electronics to factory floors are finding power in the introduction of two letters: AI (artificial intelligence).
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For Industry 4.0, Reliability Builds on Robust Connections
By Anatoli Lukkarinen   -   June 11, 2017
Technical article
Looking to relieve increasing product complexity and cost pressures, manufacturers are moving toward the next phase of industrial automation envisioned in Industry 4.0. In this concept, smart factories respond instantly to changing workloads to more
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