Ari Kynäslahti

VP, Strategy & Technology, CTO, Mobile Networks, Nokia, and Board Director at AI-RAN Alliance

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Mr. Ari Kynäslahti has a long career working at Nokia. He joined Nokia in the beginning of 1995. In Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks, he has worked in many manager positions, for example as Head of Mobile Networks Product Management, Head of LTE Product Management, Head of Global Radio Sales and Head of WCDMA Product Management as well as multiple positions in R&D and Business Development.

In his current position as Vice President, Strategy & Technology, CTO, he is responsible for creating business, technology and partnership strategies for MN and contributing to Nokia-level strategy. He is also responsible for MN-level portfolio and investment management as well as roadmaps and product decisions for MN SoCs, the BTS platform, including RF platforms and baseband platforms, as well as defining and maintaining the product leadership plans in RF, BB, automation, AI/ML, ORAN/vRAN architecture and Private Wireless Networks. In addition to these, in his current position, he is managing the cooperation with key interface partners, i.e., R&D, sales, standardization, research, chipset vendors and device vendors.

Mr. Kynäslahti has an M.Sc. in Radio Technology with two minors: Corporate Strategy & International Business and Economy from Helsinki University of Technology.