Ville Ilmari Miettinen (born June 5, 1975, in

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) is a Finnish

serial entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

and

computer programmer A programmer, computer programmer or coder is an author of computer source code someone with skill in computer programming. The professional titles ''software developer'' and ''software engineer'' are used for jobs that require a progr ...

. Miettinen was the co-founder and CTO of

Hybrid Graphics AMD Hybrid Graphics technology is a collective brand from AMD for features of its Radeon line of discrete and integrated GPUs, promoting higher performance and productivity while reducing energy consumption. The technology previously applied t ...

, a graphics technology company acquired by

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in 2006.

press release
''NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics''
March 22, 2006 Miettinen is a founding partner at Lots, one of the accelerators in the Finnish governmental Vigo Programme. Miettinen is also the CEO and co-founder of the

crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Contemporary crowdsourcing often involves digit ...

technology company

Microtask Microtask was a Finnish technology company founded by Ville Miettinen, Harri Holopainen, Otto Chrons and Panu Wilska in 2009

Entrepreneurship and venturing

Miettinen is the chairman of the board of the

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Helsinki Chapter, an advisory board member of

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Finland, a referrer at the European pre-seed venture fund HackFwd, and a startup mentor at Aalto Venture Garage. He has held board seats in a number of graphics and gaming related companies, including Fake Graphics, Xiha, Recoil Games, Ardites (merged with Symbio), and Cowboy Rodeo. He is also a technical advisory board member at the fabless semiconductor company Movidius and a referrer with the European pre-seed investment company HackFwd.

Graphics industry technology focus

Miettinen was actively involved in the

Khronos Group The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computat ...

, participating in the standardization of

OpenGL ES OpenGL for Embedded Systems (OpenGL ES or GLES) is a subset of the OpenGL computer graphics rendering application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics such as those used by video games, typically hardware-accelerate ...

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and OpenKODE, as well as in the

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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. Miettinen is a frequent lecturer at various universities and industry events, such as

Game Developers Conference The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like the Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year, Game Developers Choice Awards and ...

SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) is an annual conference centered around computer graphics organized by ACM, starting in 1974 in Boulder, CO. The main conference has always been held in North ...

EUROGRAPHICS Eurographics is a Europe-wide professional computer graphics association. The association supports its members in advancing the state of the art in computer graphics and related fields such as multimedia, scientific visualization and human–compu ...

and CrowdConf. He also contributes to different blogs related to crowdsourcing and entrepreneurship. Miettinen is an avid hobbyist photographer.Artist Spotlight: Totally Overdone HDR Photography (& Lovin' It!)
02 Apr, 2010

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