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Ott Velsberg

Government Chief Data Officer - Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

Working groupExpert Group on Compute & Climate
Stakeholder TypeGovernment
ONE AI Member

Ott Velsberg is the current Chief Data Officer of Estonian Government with experience in coordinating data governance and data science, including domains of artificial intelligence, open data, citizen-centric data governance, data privacy and regulation, once-only principle, data architecture and much more. Strong experience with innovation management, strategic thinking, data management, data science and digital transformation. Leading Estonia to a trendsetter status in data governance, open data and artificial intelligence. He also serves as a board member for various boards, such as board of Statistics, board of Estonian Language technology, IT Academy AI and machine Learning advisory board. He holds PhD at Informatics from Umea University.

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