Ville Ilmari Miettinen (born June 5, 1975, in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and computer programmer.
[1] Miettinen is a founding partner at Lots,[2] one of the accelerators in the Finnish governmental Vigo Programme.
[4][5] Miettinen is the chairman of the board of the ACM SIGGRAPH Helsinki Chapter,[6] an advisory board member of IGDA Finland,[7] a referrer at the European pre-seed venture fund HackFwd,[8][9] and a startup mentor at Aalto Venture Garage.
[10] He has held board seats in a number of graphics and gaming related companies, including Fake Graphics,[citation needed] Xiha,[11] Recoil Games, Ardites (merged with Symbio[12]), and Cowboy Rodeo.
[15] Miettinen is a frequent lecturer at various universities and industry events, such as Game Developers Conference, SIGGRAPH,[16] EUROGRAPHICS[17] and CrowdConf.