AI Products
AI product leadership and delivery
Portfolio decisions, agent architecture, AI Center of Excellence design, operating models and fractional product leadership for teams moving beyond pilots.
Explore AI Product ServicesJarkko Moilanen, PhD
AI product
leadership
from strategy
to working
systems
I help government and enterprise teams decide what to build, how to govern it, and how to move from AI pilots to working products. The work combines executive judgment, first-hand implementation experience, and hands-on architecture across AI agents, MCP, APIs, knowledge graphs and data products.
Available for consulting, fractional leadership and focused delivery through my UAE company.
4+ years in UAEResult270% delivery speed improvement
Scale2.5M+ users served through national digital infrastructure
LeadershipScaled Data and AI product work
ReachData product thinking moving into practice across 56 countries
Ways to work with me
Two focus areas. Two named service paths.
Choose the path that matches the problem: AI product decisions and delivery, or data product standards and ODPS foundations.
Data Products
Data product standards and ODPS
ODPS assessment, adoption, implementation, agent-ready data product architecture and advisory for organizations building governed product foundations.
Explore Data Product ServicesSome programs involve both. An AI portfolio or agent architecture engagement can expose the need for stronger data product foundations. An ODPS engagement can expand into a wider AI product operating model.
Credibility
Credibility across the placeswhere AI decisions get difficult
Representative organizations and ecosystems from government, enterprise data, AI, and open standards work, including delivery across dozens of Abu Dhabi Government entities.
Government scale
AI delivery, data exchange, and public-sector transformation contexts.
- Abu Dhabi Government
- Core42
- Finnish Government
- Estonian Government
Enterprise data products
Operational data product, catalog, platform, and analytics work.
- BASF
- Alation
- Kruger
- Nasdaq
Open standards ecosystem
Vendor-neutral data and AI standards work that travels across platforms.
- Linux Foundation / LF AI & Data
- FIWARE
- VesoAI
Third-party proof
What people say
Feedback from executives, engineers, clients, and delivery professionals I have worked with.
Toni Luhti
VP-level Executive
Jarkko is one of the only very technical people who really understand business, who has a genuine passion to achieve all the given goals and to lead the entire organization's data strategy in a better direction by his own example.
Matti Saastamoinen
COO, Aplika
In the first year of the Open Data Tampere Region project he was one of the key persons bringing bright ideas and very agilely making them happen.
Jarkko can hack, talk, listen, analyze, perform, and is a reliable and hard working character.
Baraa Zaid
Lead AI Engineer, Abu Dhabi Department of Government Enablement
Dr. Jarkko is an excellent example of what a leader should be. He promotes a culture of transparency, collaboration and clear communication.
His ability to translate business expectations into simple technical requirements and vice versa makes him ideal for both business people and developers.
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Rebecca Elias Poozhipuram
Former User Acquisition Manager, Wolt
Jarkko has a clear vision and is extremely passionate about whatever he takes up. He is analytical and very articulate.
What makes him stand apart is his ability to break down complex problems and his seamless communication skills.
Preeti Singh
Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst
He pushes himself as well as the team to think out of the box while keeping the focus on the target. He is the best client I had worked with.
Current focus
Five areas. One professional body of work.
01
AI products at Scale
Leading business-led AI product portfolios, entity collaboration, data readiness, governance, and delivery in Abu Dhabi.
02
Data Products at Scale
Building the operational platform and Portfolio Studio for creating, governing, and scaling data product portfolios.
03
Open standards and SDK
Maintaining the Open Data Product ecosystem and developer tooling under the Linux Foundation.
04
Open Data Value
Turning real open data catalogs into data products, use cases, value graphs, analysis, and AI-agent-ready resources.
05
School 4 AI
Building a community learning initiative in Vietnam where young people learn practical AI and English by creating visible outcomes together.
Writing, books, and courses from the work itself.
Available for new challenges
Bring me the problem that needs senior attention.
Discuss an engagement
I now have the time needed for executive advisory, workshops, portfolio reviews, architecture reviews, and strategic assignments that deserve proper senior attention.
International advisory, workshop, and review engagements can be billed through Data Maestro Academy FZE LLC in the UAE.
Abu Dhabi, UAE