Who am I?

Future Work | Artificial Intelligence | AI-Native | Speaker | Blogger | Organizer in AI-Native Workplace Summit & Global AI Community Chapters Dubai and Helsinki, Microsoft AI User Group Finland & M365 Copilot Community Finland (Founder) | Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 2019

Hi there! I am Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen, a Principal Consultant for Future Work!

In this blog I share thoughts about the Future Work. That means I also write about AI, AI-Native workplace, Microsoft Copilot and AI, and generally about Microsoft tech. Expect to find articles around Microsoft Cloud, such as AI & Copilot, AI Agents, Microsoft Azure AI, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Teams & Loop and Power Platform.

In my early career years (pre-2k – early 2k) I was a software developer and then moved to work with SQL databases for many years as developer, DBA and lead. Later I picked up some skills in Business Intelligence, Project Management, Team Lead, Office 365, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Teams and so on.. This all made me the AI-Native Principal Consultant for Future Work.

I am also proud to say that my employer is Sulava MEA– an AI-Native company born in a cloud and a magnificent place to work at and to look to the future with.

Curious to connect? Let’s network in LinkedIn or in X (Twitter)!

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Event Organizer

  • AgentCon Helsinki 2025
  • AI-Native Workplace Summit 2025
  • Metaverse One 2024
  • Teams Nation 2024
  • Metaverse One 2023
  • Metaverse One 2022
  • Teams Nation 2022
  • Teams Nation 2021
  • Teams Fest 2020 October
  • Teams Fest 2020 Spring Sessions

Speaking history at Microsoft Events

  • Microsoft Ignite 2022
  • Microsoft Build 2022
  • Microsoft Teams Summit 2022
  • Microsoft Ignite 2021 November 2021 Virtual
  • Microsoft Build 2021 Virtual
  • Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021 Virtual
  • Microsoft Teams Summit 2021
  • Microsoft Ignite 2021 March Virtual
  • Microsoft Ignite 2020 Virtual
  • Microsoft Ignite 2019 Orlando

Recent certificates and awards

  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft 365 (Teams) 2019-
  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Azure AI Platform 2024-
  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Mixed Reality 2023-2024
  • CLD267x: Enabling Teamwork with Microsoft Teams
  • Elements of AI (Reaktor/University of Helsinki)
  • See LinkedIn profile page for more information