Juha Miettinen

Mr. Juha Miettinen is responsible for national Ubiquitous Computing Cluster Programme in Finland. Ubiquitous Computing Cluster Programme in Finland is a part of the national Finnish Centre of Expertise Programme. The national objective of the Centre of Expertise Programme is to create a long-term strategy for the full utilisation of the top-level expertise in the regions. The vision of the Ubiquitous Computing Cluster is that by the end of the programme season in 2013, Finland will be the know-how leader in the development, commercialization and capitalisation of embedded intelligence in human-centered, distributed, mobile and constructed environments.

Mr. Miettinen is also COO of Hermia Ltd. Hermia is one of the leading innovation and development companies in Finland. He has 15 years of experience in various project management positions in the business development circles regionally, nationally and internationally. Before joining Hermia, Mr.Miettinen has worked for over ten years in different financing and ICT-companies. Mr. Miettinen holds a M.Sc. in Economics (minoring computer science) from University of Tampere, Finland and University of Oregon, US. He is preparing his PhD-work at Tampere University of Technology on topic “Industrial Clusters as Strategic Development Tools”.