Meeri is the CEO and Founder of Saidot. Saidot is an AI governance and alignment company helping enterprises build safe AI-driven businesses. Saidot’s AI governance SaaS platform is used by major public and private organisations to apply systematic AI governance and to communicate transparently about their AI for trust, safety and compliance.
Meeri was the chair of the ethics working group in Finland’s national AI program that submitted its final report in March 2019. Meeri is also the Chair of IEEE’s AI Impact Use Cases Initiative and an alumnus of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Meeri has been a member of Snap Inc.’s Safety Advisory Board since June 2023.
Prior to founding her own company, Meeri was leading AI strategy and GDPR implementation in OP Financial Group. 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 fintech, 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 at international conferences and publishing writings on AI ethics, governance and policy.