Mika works as Digitalization Director at Business Finland with responsibilities covering 5G, Industrial Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Platforms Economy, New Space Economy and Smart Mobility programs as well as the digitalization strategy.

Mika holds a PhD degree in Data Mining and has more than 20 years of academic and industrial experience, e.g., from Nokia and EU collaboration as well as from wireless communications, IoT, Big Data, MyData, artificial intelligence, intelligent solutions, cyber security and global collaboration. Mika is a member of minister Lintilä’s national artificial intelligence and digitalization steering group in Finland with the responsibility of facilitating the data and platform economy subgroup. Additionally, Mika is responsible for the Finnish government’s national data policy preparation through running the artificial intelligence and data group.