P2X Digital co-creation infrastructure

Fast Expert Teams

Fast Expert Teams (FET) is a temporary organizing model designed for the rapid assembly of specialized and distributed experts to tackle complex tasks Each FET brings together a temporary expert community and missionspecific teams combining diverse backgrounds, experience, and contextual knowledge. Diverse perspectives challenge assumptions, support shared sensemaking, and foster innovation through structured dialogue and knowledge exchange.

FETs operate entirely online, using a digital platform that enables efficient, sustainable collaboration. Multimodal and asynchronous communication gives participants flexibility, supported by shared digital artifacts and brief realtime meetings. Trust and shared principles are critical for productive collaboration among unfamiliar experts. FETs are ideal for openended, complex tasks requiring complementary expertise. The model leverages and builds human and social capital, supporting crossboundary collaboration for innovation and ecosystem building.

Fast Expert Teams guidebook

Fast Expert Teams 2026 (pdf)

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What participants think about the FET process?

During the P2X Infrastructure project, a total of 132 people were engaged in three FET processes, with three different energy topics: investments in clean energy and power-to-X in South-East Finland, e-methanol variants preparation, and future heating solutions for buildings. Participants learned how to collaborate and co-create knowledge online within a temporary community and teams. Participating experts in all three cases had a cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary background. They were from large companies, start-ups, academia, government, public sector authorities, regulatory stakeholders (lawyers), and an innovation fund (Business Finland), and had backgrounds in Chemical and Process Engineering, Energy Engineering, Sustainability Science, Management Studies, and Computer Science.

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