Mika  Rantakokko  is  one of the coordinators of EU Urban Agenda Digital Transition Partnership (https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/digital-transition). Before this he has been working among other things as a coordinator of the  innovation  collaboration  network consisting  of  Finland’s  six  biggest  cities.  Mika has a long and broad experience in  the  fields  of  innovation,  business,  regional  development,  digitalisation  and future internet research among other things from European Commission, Nordic countries  collaboration  and  from  private  sector. Mika is among other things a member of the EU’s Open  Innovation  Strategy  and  Policy  Group  (OISPG),  which  unites  industrial  groups,  academia, governments,  and  private  individuals  to  support  policies  for  open  innovation  at  the  European Commission.