Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts (MA in New Media) works as a Program
Director leading teams working on Forum Virium’s new IoT projects mySMARTLife
and SynchroniCity as well as teams boosting data-driven business through the
Six City Strategy’s Open Data spearhead project. During her years in Forum
Virium Hanna has promoted and piloted open interoperable CitySDK APIs, pursuing
new means to fuel and sustain third party engagement in city service
development. Her list of presentations, hosted sessions and papers covers key
international Smart City and Open Data related events. She has previously
worked at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, digital agency Frantic and
Aalto University, providing her with more than 10 years of experience on
developing digital services for both public sector and businesses.