ESA / INNOVATION AGENCY

MBSE 2025

5–7 Nov 2025 | Vilnius, Lithuania

Juha-Pekka Tolvanen

CEO

MetaCase

Jyväskylä, Finland

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Expert on modeling, modeling languages, code generators. Consultant world-wide on language engineering with MetaEdit+ tool.

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MetaCase

MetaCase

Jyväskylä, Finland

MetaCase is the leading provider of Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) environments. Since 1991, MetaCase has been enabling its customers to improve their productivity and competitiveness with modeling languages and generators designed to meet their needs. The company's flagship product, MetaEdit+®, is providing thousands of developers worldwide with a more productive, higher quality approach to system and software development. MetaEdit+ has been winning awards since its first version, which was ranked as Best Application Development Software at CeBIT '95. Since then, MetaCase was presented with the Finnish National Prize for Innovation, selected multiple times by Software Development magazine as a Jolt Award finalist, twice named by SD Times as one of the world's top 100 software development leaders and influencers, and 2024 received AIS Impact Award.
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About me

Juha-Pekka Tolvanen works for MetaCase. He has been involved in domain-specific languages and tools since 1991 and acted as a consultant world-wide on their use. Juha-Pekka has co-authored a book (Domain-Specific Modeling, Wiley 2008) and over 100 articles in software development magazines and conferences. Juha-Pekka holds a Ph.D. in computer science science and he is a regular speaker at international conferences.

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Skills

  • MBSE
  • Language Engineering
  • code generation
  • domain-specific modeling
  • Ontologies
  • modeling languages

Interests

  • Modeling languages that truly fit the tasks

Speaker sessions (1)

Friday, 7 November 2025

11:00 - 12:00

From Ontology to Domain-Specific Languages: Turning Domain Expertise into Actionable Models

Location:EPSILON hallTrack:Day 3 - Track 4
  • Modeling
  • Code generation
  • Domain-specific modeling
  • Domain-specific languages
  • Ontology
  • Language engineering

We describe how to create domain-specific languages that bring ontologies and terminologies to life. The resulting languages allow domain experts to express their knowledge easily and precisely, then use it to generate code, configs, tests, and more.

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