Nokia Inc.
Ari Jaaksi, a strategist and implementer in mobile communications industry with more than 15 years experience, currently serves as the VP of Maemo Software for Nokia. Jaaksi is responsible for the strategy and implementation of Nokia's mobile open source software platform and software products. He heads the development of Nokia's Linux based software and Nokia's open source developer operations on www.maemo.org.
Jaaksi joined Nokia in 1998, and held various positions including the head of Nokia's mobile browser development and the head of Nokia's software research lab. At Nokia, Jaaksi was instrumental in creating Nokia's open source software strategy, the Linux based software platform running on Nokia 770 and N800 Internet Tablets, and Nokia's mobile browsers and related tools running on all Nokia products.
Prior to joining Nokia, Jaaksi was a professor of software engineering at the University of Tampere and worked as a software developer and engineering manager at various software companies.
Jaaksi is an adjunct professor at the Tampere University of Technology. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences including Linux World, Open Source in Mobile, and Guadec.
Jaaksi earned a PhD of Software Engineering at the Tampere University of Technology and MSc of Education at the University of Tampere. He has published several articles and books on mobile technologies and software development.
