Mari Nilsson Bjorkman

Mari Nilsson Björkman is a globally recognized telecom advisor with almost 3 decades of experience. She began her career in the telecom ecosystem in roles at Ericsson and later founded her own telecom consultancy, supporting communication service providers and industry partners. 

At SAS, Mari collaborates and advises C level leaders and cross functional teams on where and how to drive transformation and business values using data, AI and analytics with focus on the telecom industry’s important role across all industries and societies as an enabler of the digital economy through connectivity, interconnectivity, services and applications. 

Mari has contributed to esteemed publications such as Pipeline Magazine, The Fast Mode, telecom.com, TelcoNews and Fierce Networks, where she discusses the role of data and AI across all business and operation areas in telecom.

Her passion and dedication to advocate for the responsible AI adoption is not only for achieving regulation compliances as she believes addressing challenges related to security, data privacy, bias and ethical considerations are equally important to drive trusted business values.

As a frequent speaker Mari is known for making complex topics practical and relevant and for bringing a future oriented perspective shaped by her deep industry knowledge and a strong, extensive professional telecom relationship network and her continuous curiosity about what’s next.