Anssi Komulainen

Anssi Komulainen is a project director with the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra where he is the Head of Gaia-x Finland - a national hub for a Pan-European initiative to define common rules and a federated data infrastructure for European data spaces.

Anssi is a media innovation executive turned into an orchestrator of a new era in digital economy. He was the Founder of Yle Beta, an incubator for future media with The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, where he pushed the boundaries of storytelling and emerging media. He was also the lead of the Strategic Programme on Platforms for the European Broadcasting Union and remains an active advisor and participant in the European media ecosystem.