Meeri is the CEO and Co–Founder of Saidot, a start–up with a mission for responsible AI ecosystems. Saidot’s AI governance platform is used by major public and private organizations to apply systematic AI governance and monitoring across their AI portfolios and to communicate transparently about their AI.
Meeri was the chair of the ethics working group in Finland’s national AI program that submitted its final report in March 2019. In this role, she initiated a national AI ethics challenge and engaged more than 70 organizations to commit to the ethical use of AI and define ethics principles. Meeri is also the Chair of IEEE’s Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, and the IEEE’s AI Impact Use Cases Program.
Meeri is an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University since 2019.
Prior to starting her own company Meeri was leading AI strategy and GDPR implementation in OP Financial Group, the largest financial services company in Finland. Meeri has a long background in analytics and AI consulting with Accenture Analytics. During her Accenture years, she has been working in driving data and analytics strategies and large AI implementation programs in media, telecommunications, high–tech, and retail industries. Meeri started her career as a data scientist in telecommunications after completing her M. Sc. (Econ.) in Helsinki School of Economics.
Meeri is an active advocate of responsible and human–centric AI. She’s an experienced public speaker regularly speaking in international conferences and seminars on AI opportunities and AI ethics.
