Ville Miettinen Explained

Ville Miettinen
Birth Date:5 June 1975
Birth Place:Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality:Finnish
Known For:Entrepreneurship
Occupation:CEO, Angel investor
Alma Mater:University of Helsinki
Relatives:Tuomas Vimma (Brother), Jorma K. Miettinen (Grandfather)

Ville Ilmari Miettinen (born June 5, 1975, in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and computer programmer. Miettinen was the co-founder and CTO ofHybrid Graphics, a graphics technology company acquired by NVIDIA in 2006.[1] Miettinen is a founding partner at Lots,[2] one of the accelerators in the Finnish governmental Vigo Programme.[3] Miettinen is also the CEO and co-founder of the crowdsourcing technology company Microtask.[4] [5]

Entrepreneurship and venturing

Miettinen is the chairman of the board of the ACM SIGGRAPH Helsinki Chapter,[6] an advisory board member of IGDA Finland,[7] a referrer at the European pre-seed venture fund HackFwd,[8] [9] and a startup mentor at Aalto Venture Garage.[10] He has held board seats in a number of graphics and gaming related companies, including Fake Graphics, Xiha,[11] Recoil Games, Ardites (merged with Symbio[12]), and Cowboy Rodeo. He is also a technical advisory board member at the fabless semiconductor company Movidius[13] and a referrer with the European pre-seed investment company HackFwd.[14]

Graphics industry technology focus

Miettinen was actively involved in the Khronos Group, participating in the standardization of OpenGL ES, OpenVG and OpenKODE, as well as in the Java Community Process where he contributed to the JSR-184, JSR-297, and JSR-239 standards. He is the co-author of the SurRender 3D engine and the dPVS occlusion culling middleware.[15]

Miettinen is a frequent lecturer at various universities and industry events, such as Game Developers Conference, SIGGRAPH,[16] EUROGRAPHICS[17] and CrowdConf.[18] He also contributes to different blogs related to crowdsourcing[19] [20] and entrepreneurship.[21]

Miettinen is an avid hobbyist photographer.[22]

Notes and References

  1. [NVIDIA]
  2. http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/07/24/government-backed-accelerators-chosen-march-on-finland/ Arctic Startup: Government-Backed Accelerators Chosen - March on Finland
  3. http://www.vigo.fi/frontpage Vigo programme home page
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/business/31digi.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=microtask&st=cse New York Times: When the Assembly Line Moves Online
  5. http://www.microtask.com/company/management/ Microtask management
  6. http://chapters.siggraph.org/acm_rss_pc.php ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters
  7. http://igda.fi/?p=1403 IGDA Finland: New Advisory Board Members
  8. Web site: HackFwd people . 2011-01-19 . 2015-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150509000637/http://hackfwd.com/people . dead .
  9. http://www.arcticstartup.com/2010/11/09/hackfwd-has-come-to-finland Arctic Startup:HackFwd has come to Finland
  10. http://aaltovg.com/coaches/ Aalto Venture Garage Coaches
  11. http://www.technopolisonline.com/index.php?article_id=19493&blogPage_id=193&showPage=true XIHA Closes First Round Financing - Finland Enjoys Increased Activity in VC Investments
  12. http://gigaom.com/2009/09/22/symbio-makes-a-global-play-with-merger/ GigaOm: Symbio Makes a Global Play With Merger
  13. http://www.movidius.com/technical-advisory-board/ Movidius Technical Advisory Board
  14. Web site: HackFwd People: Ville "Wili" Miettinen. 2011-02-17 . 2015-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150509000637/http://hackfwd.com/people#ville-%22wili%22-miettinen . dead .
  15. http://research.nvidia.com/publication/dpvs-occlusion-culling-system-massive-dynamic-environments dPVS: An Occlusion Culling System for Massive Dynamic Environments
  16. http://www.siggraph.org/s2005/main.php?f=conference&p=courses&s=35 SIGGRAPH 2005 courses
  17. http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/events/EG06/program-t1005.php Eurographics 2006: Developing Mobile 3D Applications with OpenGL ES and M3G
  18. http://crowdconf.com/possibleimpossible.html CrowdConf 2010: Possible vs. Impossible: Determining the Power of Crowdsourcing
  19. Web site: Microtask Blog . 2011-01-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110119152525/http://www.microtask.com/blog/ . 2011-01-19 . dead .
  20. http://dailycrowdsource.com/author/ville-miettinen/ The Daily Crowdsource
  21. http://www.boardman2020.fi/authors/5 Boardman2020 Blog
  22. http://designora.com/inspiration/hdr-photography-wilihybrid/ Artist Spotlight: Totally Overdone HDR Photography (& Lovin' It!)

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