EUNIS25 Congress

Speaker

Ari Rouvari Ari Rouvari IT Secretary General at AAPA - Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences CIO Forum
Ari Rouvari is the IT Secretary General at AAPA - Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences CIO Forum. In this capacity, he represents the AAPA in national stakeholder groups and international collaboration, participates in national IT development projects, is responsible for internal and external communication within the AAPA, coordinates the activities of the AAPA, and carries out the administrative tasks of the AAPA network. Formerly, he worked as a lead enterprise architect and provided enterprise architecture consultancy services for the Finnish government, especially the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The focus of the work was on national reference architectures in public administration. He has also worked on EU projects as an architect. Rouvari has studied culture and social anthropology, North American studies at the University of Helsinki, management at Aalto University, and information, computing, and mass communication sciences at Tampere University. Nowadays, he studies information and knowledge management and research enterprise architecture and digital transformation at Tampere and Information Systems at the University of Jyväskylä