Dr Sanna Härkönen works as R&D Director at Sitowise Oyj. She is responsible for R&D projects and leads the artificial intelligence team developing services for forestry, energy and municipality sectors. She has a long experience in forest information systems development, remote sensing applications, machine learning models and the use of different forest resource data in forest growth and carbon balance modelling. Before Sitowise, Härkönen has worked at Bitcomp Oy related to AI projects, and before that as a researcher at the University of Helsinki, the Finnish Forest Research Institute (former LUKE) and the University of Eastern Finland in versatile research projects.