Ville Miettinen
Ville Miettinen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 June 1975 |
| Citizenship | Finland |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
| Occupations | CEO, Angel investor |
| Known for | Entrepreneurship |
| Relatives | Tuomas Vimma (Brother), Jorma K. Miettinen (Grandfather) |
Ville Ilmari Miettinen (born 5 June 1975) is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and computer programmer. Miettinen was the co-founder and CTO of Hybrid 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]
Life and career
Miettinen was born in Geneva, Switzerland.[6]
Entrepreneurship and venturing
Miettinen is the chairman of the board of the ACM SIGGRAPH Helsinki Chapter,[7] an advisory board member of IGDA Finland,[8] a referrer at the European pre-seed venture fund HackFwd,[9][10] and a startup mentor at Aalto Venture Garage.[11] He has held board seats in a number of graphics and gaming related companies, including Fake Graphics, Xiha,[12] Recoil Games, Ardites (merged with Symbio[13]), and Cowboy Rodeo. He is also a technical advisory board member at the fabless semiconductor company Movidius[14] and a referrer with the European pre-seed investment company HackFwd.[15]
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.[16]
Miettinen is a frequent lecturer at various universities and industry events, such as Game Developers Conference, SIGGRAPH,[17] EUROGRAPHICS[18] and CrowdConf.[19] He also contributes to different blogs related to crowdsourcing[20][21] and entrepreneurship.[22]
Miettinen is an avid hobbyist photographer.[23]
References
- ^ NVIDIA press release: NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics, March 22, 2006
- ^ Arctic Startup: Government-Backed Accelerators Chosen - March on Finland Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, July 24, 2009
- ^ Vigo programme home page
- ^ New York Times: When the Assembly Line Moves Online, October 31, 2010
- ^ Microtask management
- ^ "Sontsa S.à r.l., Société à responsabilité limitée" (PDF). Mémorial. 25 November 2008. p. 22. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
Ville MIETTINEN, investor, born in Geneva (Switzerland), on 5 June 1975
- ^ "ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters". Archived from the original on 2010-11-07. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ IGDA Finland: New Advisory Board Members, December 27, 2010
- ^ "HackFwd people". Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ Arctic Startup:HackFwd has come to Finland Archived 2011-01-11 at the Wayback Machine, 9 November 2010
- ^ Aalto Venture Garage Coaches
- ^ XIHA Closes First Round Financing - Finland Enjoys Increased Activity in VC Investments, 26 January 2010
- ^ GigaOm: Symbio Makes a Global Play With Merger, 22 Sep, 2009
- ^ Movidius Technical Advisory Board
- ^ "HackFwd People: Ville "Wili" Miettinen". Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ^ "dPVS: An Occlusion Culling System for Massive Dynamic Environments". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ SIGGRAPH 2005 courses
- ^ Eurographics 2006: Developing Mobile 3D Applications with OpenGL ES and M3G
- ^ "CrowdConf 2010: Possible vs. Impossible: Determining the Power of Crowdsourcing". Archived from the original on 2011-01-11. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ "Microtask Blog". Archived from the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ "The Daily Crowdsource". Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ Boardman2020 Blog Archived 2010-12-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
- ^ Artist Spotlight: Totally Overdone HDR Photography (& Lovin' It!) 02 Apr, 2010