Biography
Ms. Veera Mustonen is Head of Smart Kalasatama, a large scale Smart City program in Helsinki. She is also Deputy CEO of Forum Virium Helsinki, city owned innovation agency for smart city development. Veera has pursued career for 18 years in the ICT industry and academy. For a decade she worked in Nokia, leading UX, smartphones portfolio planning and mobility development. She has also hold positions as eLearning Manager (Sanoma), as consumer researcher (National Consumer Research Centre) and as an elected city councilor in the City of Helsinki. Veera is trained as a cognitive scientist and is currently a Ph.D candidate at Aalto University, Helsinki. Her special areas of expertise are in fields of smart city business development, Living Labs and innovation management.