Tech Lead, Partners, Microsoft Finland

Vesa-Matti “Vesku” Paananen is the Tech Lead of Microsoft’s partner unit in Finland. Vesku has held various positions at Microsoft for the last 18 years, witnessing how mobility and digitalization have changed consumer behavior, modernized work and transformed business. And most recently, how artificial intelligence has become part of everyday work. Vesku made his first artificial intelligence applications in the early 90s while studying mathematics at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.