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.NVIDIA press release: NVIDIA Corporation to Acquire Hybrid Graphics, March 22, 2006 Miettinen is a founding partner at Lots,Arctic Startup: Government-Backed Accelerators Chosen - March on Finland , July 24, 2009 one of the accelerators in the Finnish governmental Vigo Programme.Vigo programme home page Miettinen is also the CEO and co-founder of the crowdsourcing technology company Microtask.New York Times: When the Assembly Line Moves Online, October 31, 2010Microtask management
Life and career Miettinen was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
Entrepreneurship and venturing Miettinen is the chairman of the board of the ACM SIGGRAPH Helsinki Chapter, an advisory board member of IGDA Finland,IGDA Finland: New Advisory Board Members, December 27, 2010 a referrer at the European pre-seed venture fund HackFwd,Arctic Startup:HackFwd has come to Finland , 9 November 2010 and a startup mentor at Aalto Venture Garage.Aalto Venture Garage Coaches He has held board seats in a number of graphics and gaming related companies, including Fake Graphics, Xiha,XIHA Closes First Round Financing - Finland Enjoys Increased Activity in VC Investments, 26 January 2010 Recoil Games, Ardites (merged with SymbioGigaOm: Symbio Makes a Global Play With Merger, 22 Sep, 2009), and Cowboy Rodeo. He is also a technical advisory board member at the fabless semiconductor company MovidiusMovidius Technical Advisory Board and a referrer with the European pre-seed investment company HackFwd.
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.
Miettinen is a frequent lecturer at various universities and industry events, such as Game Developers Conference, SIGGRAPH,SIGGRAPH 2005 courses EUROGRAPHICSEurographics 2006: Developing Mobile 3D Applications with OpenGL ES and M3G and CrowdConf. He also contributes to different blogs related to crowdsourcing and entrepreneurship.Boardman2020 Blog (in Finnish)
Miettinen is an avid hobbyist photographer.Artist Spotlight: Totally Overdone HDR Photography (& Lovin' It!) 02 Apr, 2010
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