Previous Speakers

Agate S. Freimane

General Partner at Norrsken VC

Agate is a General Partner at Norrsken VC, Europe’s largest impact venture capital fund focused on investing in rapidly scaling early stage start-ups that use technology to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges while building highly profitable businesses.
She started her career in finance working in investment banking and private equity at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley in London and New York. She then started her start-up journey and was one of the first employees at BrickVest, a London based fintech start-up. In her free time she is most passionate about education and co-founded Bright Mentors, an edtech charity in London.

Mantas Mikuckas

Co-Founder & COO at Vinted | Angel Investor

Co-founder and COO at Vinted, a social marketplace for pre-loved clothing, that has taken the spot as Lithuania’s first tech unicorn. He is an angel investor to many other Lithuanian tech startups like Trafi, Interactio, Pixevia and Qoorio, and has previously served as Founding Partner at Practica Capital.

Martin Tajur

Angel Investor, Co-Founder at Pipedrive

Martin Tajur is an angel investor with B2B SaaS business experience. He cares about how products look, feel and talk. Form and function are equally important, one defines the other. He worked at Skype between 2005—2008 both as a designer and as web front-end engineer. In 2010, he co-founded Pipedrive and helped form its product design, then worked in development and software architecture on a senior level as the CTO. Since 2016, he has been doing angel investing and helping 30+ startups get off the ground and grow 🚀

Dr. Melissa Sassi

Chief Penguin, IBM Z - IBM

Dr. Sassi is IBM Z’s Chief Penguin, heading up Student & Entrepreneur Experience worldwide within the Z division of IBM. Dr. Sassi is also the Founder of the IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator, an early-stage startup program helping founders to build & scale through business & technical enablement. She has 100 startups in her portfolio. Dr. Sassi is the Founder & CEO of MentorNations, a youth-led nonprofit venture that has enabled tens of thousands of young people to code in twelve countries. Her research for her doctorate focuses on the digital inclusion of underserved & underrepresented communities & its ties to enabling economic empowerment, quality education & healthcare outcomes. 

Rytis Vitkauskas

Partner

Rytis is a partner at Lightspeed. Joining in 2019 to help build out the firm’s European presence and global platform. He’s been part of the European tech scene as either entrepreneur, venture or angel investor for over a decade.

Merit Valdsalu

CEO & Co-Founder

Merit is the CEO & Co-Founder of Single.Earth, an Estonian startup tokenizing the world’s nature to save it. She was one of the early employees at Pipedrive as the Head of Localization and is now combining two of her biggest passions – innovative tech and the environment – at Single.Earth.

Dāvis Siksnāns

CEO

Davis Siksnans is the CEO and co-founder of Printful, one of the industry’s largest print-on-demand drop shipping businesses with more than 1,800 employees and ten in-house fulfillment centers around the world. The company has fulfilled more than 40 million items since it launched in 2013.

Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz

President

Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. Currently, he is a Founding Partner at Expon Capital (HQ in Luxembourg) and President at Sepúlveda Capital (HQ in Paris), focused on impact investing at growth-stage. He’s been involved with 70+ transactions.

Ethan Pierse

Director

Ethan wears many hats. Currently, he is the Director at The CryptoAssets Institute, Partner at Borderless Ventures as well as has his own $ETHAN social token on Rally.io. Ethan is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in digital marketing strategy, advising Coca-Cola, HP, BP, large banks, airlines, and governments.

Tuomas Kosonen

Partner

Tuomas has almost 15 years of experience in venture capital and a long career already before joining Inventure in its early days in 2007. He has a deep understanding of the legal and financial aspects of building a business. He’s a big picture thinker who’s determined and driven to win, and always available for his portfolio companies.

Gultan Asgarli

Business Analyst & Co-founder at Inskillz

Gultan is a Business Analyst at Financial Crime Intelligence, Investigation & Analytics department at Nordea, the largest financial services group in the Nordic region and one of the biggest banks in Europe. Also, she is the co-founder of Inskillz, a community that supports game-based learning in various areas, and creates educational board games on different topics, starting from gender equality and ending with very niche games for product managers, marketers, UX/UI designers, etc.

Mirella Yordanova

Community & Network Manager

Mirella joined Seedcamp in November 2021 as Network & Community Manager. Her role is to support Seedcamp’s founders post investment by understanding their needs and how best to support them; and to further accelerate the power of the Seedcamp Nation through their mentor network. Before Seedcamp, Mirella spent two years building the Platform offering post-investment support for LAUNCHub Ventures, working hands-on with founders from Central Eastern Europe. Her career started as the Community Engagement Manager at Google for Startups in London.

Ahana Banerjee

Co-Founder & CEO

Ahana Banerjee is the co-founder and CEO of Clear, which she recently took through Y Combinator. Having been accepted to Y Combinator during the final year of her Physics degree at Imperial College London, Ahana decided to turn down her graduate jobs in finance, leave her degree, and work to innovate in the skincare space with her startup, Clear. Clear is the integrated social commerce app for skincare.

William Jilltoft

Vice President

Will joined Northzone three years ago as Chief of Staff to one of the Partners, PJ Parson. He is now a VP in the investment team and invests across Consumer, Gaming, Web3, and Fintech.

Kristine Nagle

Founder & Sustainability advisor

Kristine Nagle is the Founder and Sustainability advisor of Impact House. Impact House is helping fast-growing tech companies launch and scale sustainability. Her experience includes managing accelerator programs at Startup Wise Guys, gaining a global network as the CEO of TechChill, and recently building a sustainability strategy for the first Latvian unicorn, Printful. 

Arnis Jēkabsons

Managing Director

Arnis has 11+ years in the digital marketing industry. For the past 7 years as a managing director, he’s been leading teams who strive to guide brands to digital excellence through any type of digital solutions while mainly focusing on the added value for the business.

Patricia Allen

Head of Content

Originally from Belfast and now based in Barcelona, Patricia has a real passion for how shared ideas across communities and cultures can bring new initiatives and innovations for the future.

Ernests Štāls

Co-Founder

TechChill Lorem Ipsum.

Liva Echwald

Co-Founder at Intentional

Liva Echwald is the co-founder of Intentional. Intentional is designing for diversity in financial organisations. Liva Echwald is also the co-founder of Diversity Commitment among investors, the accelerator program LEAP FORWARD and the NGO Found Diverse.

Ieva Treija

Editor, Communications Professional

Ieva helps companies to create their stories and share them worldwide.

Andrea Orlando

Managing Partner (Italy)

Andrea had 10+ years in Corporate Strategy before becoming an investor & entrepreneur. Invested in 20+ B2B Digital start-ups both as angel investor and Fund GP. Lived 10+ years in Scandinavia, now based in Milan. INSEAD MBA. 

Annie Lindmark

Program Director

Annie Lindmark is a Program Director at Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova and works with innovation funding of especially deep tech companies and emerging technologies that enable sustainable growth. She is also the Swedish representative in the Nordic Innovation Task Force for Diversity.

Marija Rucevska

Co-founder at Helve & TechChill

Over the years Marija has left an indelible handprint on the local and regional startup scene in Latvia and the Baltics. As a co-founder of Helve, a company that designs open innovation concepts for both state and private scetor, she works with ambitious organisations committed to creating the future, instead of being disrupted by it. She is also behind the Baltic tech and startup event TechChill and has been instrumental in driving the growth of the non-profit organization going by the same name. TechChill is now the leading platform in the Baltics for matching startup entrepreneurs, disruptors, investors, and others with an interest in the sector.

Valeria Kast

Printify, Head of Merchant Support

Valeria Kast is the Head of Merchant Support at Latvian print-on-demand company Printify. She has been working in the tech field for over 5 years now, having previously lead to success different customer support teams at Scandinavian Airlines and Wise. Valeria believes that the best way to build an amazing product or service in today’s world, is by having a very good understanding of who your customer is and what they want/need. And the best way to do that is through a strong relationship with customer facing teams.

Andreas Helbig

Atomico, Principal

Andreas joined Atomico in 2020 and focuses on SaaS (specifically SMB SaaS, AI-based SaaS, and procurement) and B2B marketplaces. Andreas helped lead Atomico’s investments and ongoing work in Katana and Pactum. Prior to Atomico, Andreas was with Project A, where he invested in companies including Sennder, Kry, Dixa, and Voi. He started his career as an Industrial Engineer.

Johannes Steger

Managing Editor Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity

Johannes Steger is a journalist at Berlin’s leading daily “Der Tagesspiegel”. He is managing editor for “Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity”, a daily publication on IT-security for German decision makers in business, politics and academia. Previously, he worked as a consultant in technology and a communications . Prior to that Johannes was a reporter for Handelsblatt, Germany’s leading business and financial dialy and wrote about the start-up and technology scene in Germany and Israel. He is an alumni of the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists

Rolands Mesters

CEO at Nordigen

Rolands Mesters is the CEO and co-founder of Nordigen, the only freemium open banking API that connects to more than 2,200 banks, making it the largest network of bank connections in Europe. Rolands is a sales and growth hacker who is passionate about fintech and alternative lending.

Timmu Tõke

CEO at Ready Player Me

Timmu Tõke is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ready Player Me. The company is building a cross-game avatar platform for the metaverse, used by 1500+ companies.

Lubomila Jordanova

Co-founder & CEO at Plan A

She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of 1000+ startups which are connected to over 500+ advisors from VC, media and business. Prior to Plan A, she worked in investment banking, venture capital and fintech in Asia and Europe. She was recently announced as Marshall Fund Fellow for 2021, 100 Top Women in Germany 2020 (Focus Magazin), Top 50 Women in Tech in Germany 2021 (Handelsblatt).

Benjamin Bathke

freelance / Deutsche Welle (DW)

Benjamin Bathke is a Berlin-based entrepreneurial freelance journalist covering technology, media innovation and global issues like migration for Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international broadcaster, and other global media outlets. In 2018, Ben was a Google News Initiative fellow. During his five years in North America, he was a Global Journalism Fellow and worked for both a tech startup and Washington University in St. Louis.

Ayaz Karimov

Doctoral Researcher at JYU & Co-founder at Inskillz

Ayaz is a doctoral researcher at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. As a part of HUMBLE (Human and Machine based Intelligence in Learning) research group, he investigates the gamification and learning analytics. Ayaz is also the co-founder of Inskillz, a community that supports game-based learning in various areas, and creates educational board games on different topics, starting from gender equality and ending with very niche games for product managers, marketers, UX/UI designers, etc.

Jaïr Halevi

Startup Program Manager at Miro

Jaïr has a founder’s mindset with a passion for innovation, technology, and start-up culture. In the Netherlands and internationally (Nordics and South America), he worked with leading brands, governments, and NGOs. Jaïr started as a social entrepreneur, has led an incubator, worked for Airbnb, and currently for Miro. He has coached over 150 startups on laying their cultural foundation.

Dr Clare Kambamettu

Senior Clinical Psychologist

Dr Clare Kambamettu is a clinical psychologist and in 2010 was selected as the International Rose of Tralee, something she remains very proud of. Despite currently living and working in Galway, Clare still calls Kildare ‘home’. Clare now works as a clinical psychologist in the HSE Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and in 2015 she founded her own business providing psychological assessment and intervention to adults.
Clare’s work as a psychologist has been featured on the RTE documentary ‘Bressie’s Ironmind’ and on the website alustforlife.com

Judith Dada

General Partner @ La Famiglia VC

Judith is Partner at La Famiglia, a European seed stage venture capital fund investing into B2B technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. She focuses on the future of work, as well as data and ML-driven business models.

La Famiglia is backed by a selection of world-leading entrepreneurs from various industries that provide precious early market access, impactful partnerships and deep expertise for portfolio companies.

John Greger

CPO bei Burda Principal Investments | ex CPO at Vinted

Experienced CPO with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry.

Strong product management professional skilled in Digital Strategy, Mobile Applications, Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Acquisition Integration.

Orson Francescone

Managing Director, FT Live at Financial Times

Orson Francescone has worked in the b2b media and events industry for over 15 years. He has led global conference and exhibitions businesses for Euromoney Institutional Investor, the Daily Mail Group and Haymarket Media. Since November 2019 he is Managing Director of FT Live, the global event business of the Financial Times. Throughout his career he has specialised at enabling publishers to monetise their audiences and drive high margin revenues via all formats of events. From conferences, to awards to large scale exhibitions and trade shows and more recently through digital events. He has launched and run some of the world’s most successful and award winning events including Gastec, the Festival of Work and, more recently The Global Boardroom .

Nora is a marketing and business-driven professional with a vast experience in both global companies and startups focusing on branding and creating segmented strategies for a variety of audiences. Nora is also a award-winning serial entrepreneur who knows how innovation and new technologies must be linked to democracy and inclusion if we want to go forward. Nora founded UniTech with the aim to democratize technology and enable people in marginalised groups to succeed.

Chris O'Brien

Founder & editor at The French Tech Journal; co-host at Series.E

Chris has been a professional journalist since 1992. He moved to Toulouse, France in 2014 where now he is an European Correspondent for VentureBeat, a technology blog based in Silicon Valley.

Prior to that, he was a technology reporter at the Los Angeles Times, covering Apple and Silicon Valley.

Chris began his time in Silicon Valley at the Mercury News, working there from 1999 to 2012. In May 2008, he became a business columnist for the Mercury News writing about business and technology in Silicon Valley.

Starting in 2007, he has also focused on trying to help reinvent the newsroom, at both the professional and the college level.

He is available to speak on trends in Silicon Valley as well as the transformation of newsrooms for the digital age.

Specialties: Reporting, writing, social media, blogging, speaking on newsroom transformation.

Victor Krishyanson

CEO & Co-founder at KOFFECO

Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the deep-tech startup’s industry. Victor is a tech geek and environmentally conscious entrepreneur who develops and promote a circular business economy for the sake of our future.

Skilled in Strategy, Negotiations, Business Planning, Sales, International Business, and Market Research. Strong operations professional with a Professional Bachelor’s degree focused on European Business Studies from RISEBA University.

Thomas Bacon

Maki.vc, investor

An operator turned investor, Tom came most recently from London’s Founders Factory and has a passion for any company able to have a significant impact on tomorrow, be that through vaccines, food or gaming.

Yoram Wijngaarde

Founder at Dealroom.co

Yoram Wijngaarde, CEO & Founder Dealroom.co, a global provider of data and intelligence on start-ups and tech ecosystems, comments on the booming health-tech start-up sector, and his company’s role and story to date. Before founding Dealroom, Yoram was a media investment banker in New York and London.

Michael Haase

CEO & Founder at Plant Jammer

At his startup Plant Jammer, Michael manufacture “green kitchen confidence”.
How? They create tasty AI-based recipes that give an unfair advantage to sustainable Food brands, Retailers, and Veggie box players.
They have the IBM Watson AI Prize in 2018, the Creative Business Cup 2018, and Green Entrepreneur of the Year award by Veggie World 2019, Foodtech500 in 2020, Bloomer by COOP Sweden 2020, Techfounders by Aldi in 2020, and Good Food Makers by Barilla in 2020.
Michael is father of one, and lover of litterature, science, and swimming in ice cold water.

Sneakerhead, Kanye West Stan and recovering founder of four companies. One hit and three failures. Rodrigo is an outsider that invested in over fifty companies at the intersection of biology and engineering during his time as a Partner at IndieBio/SOSV. He believes that the best thing a venture investor can do for a company is give them money and get out of their way. Rodrigo holds executive education qualifications in venture capital from UC Berkeley and is a Kauffman Fellow.

Jan Ameri

Executive Chairman at ArcticStartup and Arctic15

Entrepreneur-by-heart – and by actions since 1998. Being an expert in spotting new opportunities and creating new concepts, Jan has been a partner or co-founder in seven different companies in various industries. In the early 2000’s he was pioneering some of the very first WAP, SMS, and interactive TV based wireless games and fantasy sports games in the Nordic countries. Jan loves to watch Shark Tank and The Profit in his free time. And he is an FC Barcelona fan.

Hannes Sapiens Sjoblad

Managing Director at Dsruptive Subdermals

Hannes Sapiens is an internationally recognised thought leader, speaker, media commentator, innovator, investor and professional advisor on biohacking, human augmentation and the impact of exponential technologies on the human condition

Robin Saluoks

CEO & Co-founder at eAgronom

Co-founder and CEO of eAgronom, an AgTech startup transforming the voluntary carbon offset market and accelerating the transition to net-zero farming.

Mina Mutafchieva

Dawn Capital LLP, Partner

Partner at Dawn, Mina builds lasting relationships with founding teams innovating in fintech, e-commerce software, and the future of work across Europe. She’s led investments in Eigen [document intelligence platform], AccessFintech [capital markets data and collaboration platform], LeanIX [continuous transformation platform], Lokalise [translation management system] and CluedIn [master data management platform], and is involved with longer standing partnerships with Templafy [content enablement platform] and Showpad [platform for modern selling].
Prior to Dawn, Mina spent multiple years in growth private equity at Palamon Capital and strategy consulting at McKinsey. Mina is a Harvard Business School and London School of Economics graduate.

Liudvikas Aleliūnas

Rimi Baltic, Corporate Responsibility Strategy and Development Manager

Liudvikas managed to combine work with his hobby. The ideas of sustainability are very close to him, understandable and felt. Adding 12 years of experience in retail results in a pretty good combination to implement the necessary and significant changes.

Luc Jodet

Co-founder at Arianee

Luc is the co-founder of Arianee, an end-to-end web3 solution. The Arianee protocol is already in use by major brands such as Breitling, Audemars Piguet or Mugler. Before Arianee, he co-founded BUYECO, a Renewable Energy Marketplace. This is where he discovered blockchain technology while working on energy traceability solutions.

Kat Borlongan recently joined Contentsquare as Chief Impact Officer. She served under the Macron administration for over 3 years as Director of La French, a government-led mission built to bolster France’s startup ecosystem. During her tenure, they created world’s most open tech visa, the French Tech Next40/120 program, a €25M meta-accelerator for underprivileged founders, and supported thousands of startups at the onset of the Covid crisis.

She is also co-founder of the open innovation agency Five by Five (acquired by Cap Gemini). Older hats include Director of the Open Data Institute Paris, Techstars Entrepreneur-in-residence and Managing director of Reporters Without Borders Canada.

She lives in Paris, but (proudly) hails from Manila.

Nina Shariati is a sustainability thought leader, UN expert in transparency and circular economy, advisor, board member, lecturer, and founder of Circular Transparency and Donate-hour. 17 years of work experience within fashion industry, and has held leading global positions in sustainability, innovation, purchasing and supply chain. She has an exciting blend of industry knowledge and experience of living and working in countries such as China, Bangladesh, South Korea and Sweden.

Amy Lewin

Sifted, Editor

Amy Lewin is editor of Sifted, the media platform for Europe’s startups and tech ecosystem, backed by the Financial Times. She leads Sifted’s team of journalists, hosts Sifted’s podcast and regularly appears onstage at leading industry events across the continent. Before joining Sifted as its first employee, she was features editor at print magazine Courier, also covering startups.

Rob Pegoraro covers the problems and possibilities of consumer technology–computers, gadgets, telecom, social media, apps, and other things that beep or blink–for USA Today, Fast Company, PCMag, Wirecutter and other outlets. He also speaks frequently about them on radio, podcasts, TV and at conferences. Pegoraro has met most of the founders of the Internet and once received a single-word e-mail reply from Steve Jobs.

Sianne Haldane

Chief Impact Officer - Maanch

Sianne is an impact evangelist, helping organisations to understand, track and measure their impact. She works with organisations of all sizes but really loves working with start ups to embed a culture of sustainability from the start. She is also a board adviser on impact funds and not for profits.

Helery Pops

CEO at Honey Badger Capital

I use my experience in sales, research and product management to invest into early stage start-ups along side 3 Pipedrive founders. We look for the honey badgers and underdogs and do our best to nurture them.

Agnese Klints

Printify, SRE Engineering Manager

Agnese is one of the very first Printify employees and has grown within the company from DevOps engineer to SRE Engineering Manager over the past 4,5 years. She has lead and participated in multiple migrations across cloud infrastructure providers and built scalable and reliable infrastructure from scratch while helping company shift to DevOps from 0.

Federico Fini

Karma Ventures - Associate

I am an associate at Karma Ventures, Deep Tech VC based in Estonia backed by Skype founding engineers. Previously Product Manager at Octo telematics and Cazana (acquired by Cazoo). Italian with a passion for emerging technologies (Quantum computing, Web3, VR…)

Ana Wolsztajn

VC Investor & CMO at KAYA

Ana started her career as a copywriter before “Mad Men” series made it cool, then she continued as tech journo, a founder, community builder and brand strategist for startups. 15 years of work as an operator later, Ana draws from her experience at a number of venture builders, and big event organizers eg. SaaStock, Startup Sesame, SouthStart in a variety of growth, product, marketing, and comms roles in mainland Europe, the UK, Asia, and Australia. Nowadays Ana invests in early stage tech startups across Europe with KAYA. She also gives back via mentoring as Included VC alumna and startup advisor to various communities across Europe.

Martin Gauss

CEO & President at airBaltic

Under the leadership of Martin Gauss, airBaltic successfully carried out a robust turnaround plan and achieved a strong growth path. Now the company is on its path to recovery from the largest crisis in aviation history. Martin Gauss has almost 30 years of aviation management experience.

Emil Syundyukov

Co-Founder & CTO at Longenesis

Emil Syundyukov is a computer scientist who uses his skills to solve problems in the healthcare industry. Ten years of experience in applied research and development of industrial and academic solutions in the healthcare industry worldwide.

Dr Clare Kambamettu

Senior Clinical Psychologist

Clare is a Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience within the field of mental health. Clare believes that just like our physical health we need to learn how to take care of our mental health so that we can be as happy, productive and successful as possible! She is passionate about spreading awareness of psychological concepts and ideas that can help us to manage when times get tough!

Ali Adil

Microsoft - Startup Program Manager

Helping startups from idea to exit! Startup ecosystem has always been part of my life.
14 years in sales and partner development.

Anisah Osman Britton

Calm Company Fund, Director of storytelling

Anisah’s mission is to ensure that building the future is an inclusive venture — she hopes that the future of the tech industry will represent and serve the society we live in. Anisah is currently the director of storytelling at alternative VC fund Calm Capital Fund and a startup life reporter at Sifted. She also founded coding school for women 23 Code Street.

Maria Wlosinska

Co-founder & CEO at Unlock

Maria Wlosinska is the co-founder and CEO of Unlock, a virtual platform helping remote teams to connect more meaningfully to build better cohesion and belonging. She founded the company in 2020, has raised more than $2 million dollars, grown the team to 18 and seen hundreds of teams around the world use Unlock to build meaningful and fun connections through experiences and activities on the platform.

Mathieu CHARLEUX

MD101, Partner

Mathieu Charleux has extensive experience (19+ years) in building value for medical device start-ups and mid-size companies in an international environment.

Occupying strategic key management roles as EVP of International Sales and Marketing at Olea Medical (medical imaging software), Director of Marketing and Director of Sales Europe at Alphatec Spine (former Scient’x – spinal implants manufacturer), Mathieu Charleux is a strategic thinker and entrepreneur (co-founder of MD101, MDxp, Hirondelle Medical, .EMT), having a key advisory role for different innovative medical device companies.

Mathieu Charleux holds an MSc. International Business & Economics from the Copenhagen Business School (CEMS affiliate), Denmark and loves to travel.

General Partner at Unconventional Ventures, a Nordic VC that focuses on impact tech companies founded by diverse founders. She is the the award-winning brand strategist who became a tech entrepreneur only to become the investor she needed, who focuses on diverse founders and sees ownership and entrepreneurship as the strongest tools for equality.

Tomas Okmanas

Co-founder at Nord Security

Tom Okman is a co-founder of Nord Security, a family of market-leading digital security and privacy solutions for individuals and businesses. He also co-founded Tesonet, the largest tech startup accelerator in the Baltics, creating and investing in over 15 various global products and projects, like Yours app, Hostinger, CAST AI, Whatagraph, Touring college, and others. Tom has extensive experience in business development, partnerships, and management. He is also an angel investor to more than 50 tech projects and startups.

Daniella Lorenzo Rhodes

Toqio Fintech / CTO

I’m a computer engineer that has grown into a management role without abandoning my passion in development. I’m resilient, creative, curious and slightly hard-headed, characteristics that have allowed me to continue to seek challenges and learn along the way. Building a high-performance team has been my focus over the past year, help people do great things they don’t think they are capable of.

Andris K. Berzins

Managing Partner, Change Ventures

First and largest pan-Baltic seed fund backing ambitious Baltic founders that want to build massive global businesses. We invest typically 400k-2M Euros in initial investments, with more capital available to follow on. Our portfolio includes great Baltic success stories such as Veriff, Printify, Interactio, Giraffe360, Nordigen, Aerones, Eurora and Planet42.

Lina Zakarauskaite

Stride.VC, Principal

Lina Zakarauskaite is the Principal at Stride.VC. Scientist by education, operator by experience, Lina is passionate about solving hard problems to unlock growth. She was previously the Head of Growth at Secret Escapes, a notable UK startup, and holds a BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh. Plus a black belt in karate in her spare time (don’t let the ponytail fool you).

Vattan PS

Founder at Founderly

Vattan is a startup influencer whose multi-faceted career spans founding Founderly, angel investing, mentoring, and writing for various startup publications. He is changing how startups are built by spreading self-awareness and mindfulness throughout the startup ecosystem.

Anna Andersone

CEO at Riga TechGirls

Anna is one of the startup ecosystem leaders in Latvia and Chief Empowerment Officer of the Riga TechGirls movement. Her background and experience lies within building design and tech companies like FROONT, berta.me and HungryLab and supporting the start-up ecosystem in Latvia by founding designer and developer co-working space THE MILL, being on the board of TechHub Riga and actively being outspoken about gender equality in tech. She has grown the Riga TechGirls community supporting women in IT at a start-up acceleration rate, training more than 4000 women in 2020 and more than 6000 in 2021. Currently she is developing her brand and special clothing that promotes hugs and touches for warmer relationships: bewithclothing.com.

Jānis Sārts

Director, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Janis Sarts is a Director of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, – a multinational, cross – sector organisation providing comprehensive analysis, advice and practical support in strategic communications to the Alliance and the allied nations. Prior to that, he has been the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Latvia for a bit more than seven years, – leading defence sector reforms during an economic crisis period, developing a new state defence concept, and encouraging regional defence cooperation within NATO and the EU. He has also led the Latvian Government’s efforts to increase its security and defence in cyberspace. As Chair of the National Cyber Security Board, he was responsible for formulating and overseeing the implementation of Latvia’s cyber security policy, as well as for overseeing the work of the National Information Technology Security Incident Response Institution – CERT.LV.

Madeline Lawrence

Peak | Head of DACH

At the age of 20, Madeline Lawrence helped build ASIF Ventures – a pre-seed VC fund to invest in the next generation of entrepreneurs. Today, Madeline leads investments in the DACH region for founder-backed European VC Peak. She has her eye on bold “day 1” founders.

Szymon Jankowski

CEO

CEO and founder of HashUp, co-founder of Blockchain Alliance, involved in building blockchain and DeFi community in Poland. Cyberpunk.

Eamonn Carey

Tera Ventures - General Partner

Eamonn is a General Partner at Tera Ventures, where he invests in pre-seed and seed rounds in the Nordics, Baltics and beyond. He was previously an MD at Techstars in London and New York.

Judith Dada

La Famiglia VC - General Partner

Judith is a General Partner at La Famiglia, a European seed stage venture capital fund investing into B2B technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. She focuses on the future of work, as well as data and ML-driven business models. She also advises the German government on matters relating to technology and innovation and is an ESG activist, with a special focus on gender and migration.

Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Reporter

Kai is a London-based journalist at Sifted, the FT-backed media platform which covers startups and tech in Europe, and has a specific focus on healthtech. He’s reported on the rise of telehealth, AI in healthcare and a number of startup raises in the sector.

Jan-Soeren Zinke

Iris Capital, Associate

Jan-Soeren is an early-stage investor at Iris Capital, a leading multistage European VC specialized in the digital economy, with offices in Paris, Berlin and Munich. Before joining Iris Capital, Jan-Soeren was part of the investment team of a Berlin-based pre-seed and seed VC, investing across the D-A-CH region. Furthermore, he worked on InnovatorsRoom, a global network of founders, investors and innovators. Before starting his career as a full-time investor, he worked and studied on both sides of the Atlantic, living in Berlin, Munich, North Carolina and New York City. If he’s not in the office or on the go, you will most likely find him in his local coffee shop with a good read in his hand.

Ru Wikmann

CEO & Co-founder at BeeSage

Self-taught web developer with a sales & marketing background. After 15 years abroad I returned to Riga and started BeeSage when I stumbled upon a problem in beekeeping and met my co-founder at a hackathon. On a mission to enable bees to share climate knowledge with the human race.

Liina is the Head of Expansion CEE at Deel. Liina’s role includes opening new markets, increasing sales and most importantly making Deel the go to solution for global hiring. Liina has been in the startup field for nearly a decade and is an advocate for diversity and remote work.

Paweł Majtkowski

eToro

Paweł Majtkowski eToro markets analyst and commentator in Poland. Paweł Majtkowski is a recognized expert on the financial markets, with extensive experience as an analyst in financial institutions. He has been chief analyst at Aviva, Expander Advisors and Poczta Polska and is one of the most cited experts on the economy and financial markets in Poland.

Tomass Pildegovičs is a PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as a Policy Assistant in the European Parliament, advising MEP Sandra Kalniete on issues related to foreign interference in democratic processes, hybrid threats, and EU-Russia relations. Pildegovičs has been selected as a NATO 2030 Global Fellow, as well as a 2021 GLOBSEC Young Leader in Security and Defence.

Julian von Eckartsberg

Burda Principal Investments, Managing Director Europe

Julian is Managing Director Europe at Burda Principal Investments (BPI), one of the most active growth capital investors focusing on Series A to Series D rounds. Julian is responsible for deals conducted all over Europe with a strong passion for last-mile logistics, marketplaces and e-commerce models. Previously, Julian has been a founder and operator himself. Before joining BPI, he was CEO of Stylight, a leading platform for fashion and furniture with more than 100m users worldwide owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and General Atlantic.

Dainis Krūze

Co-founder & CEO

Dainis Kruze has studied Computer Software Engineering and has 22 year experience in IoT. When Dainis Kruze was 18 his first company was established. The first successful business was developed together with another Aerones co-founder Janis Putrams on 2005, company Intelligent Systems that has become the largest GPS fleet tracking and management service company in Latvia.

Daria Shepetko

Trind Ventures, Investment Analyst

Gen Z investor at Trind Ventures focus on consumer and community driven cases. Co-creator of the accelerator for teenagers in Ukraine. Anders Wall Scholar – Swedish entrepreneurship scholarship recipient.

Hannes Sapiens Sjoblad

Dsruptive - Managing Director

Founder and CEO, Dsruptive Subdermals. Biohacker and expert in human augmentation technologies.

Rune Theill

Rune has more than ten years of experience in building ecosystems for entrepreneurs. Rune started his career at Venture Cup in 2010 where he was part of the building out the largest business plan for students in the Nordics. In 2011 he joined Startupbootcamp where he focused on community development, marketing, and deal-sourcing. In 2012, Rune moved to Amsterdam to co-found Rockstart. During his time at Rockstart, Rune has had a leading role in selecting and fast-tracking startups across AgriFood, Energy and Emerging Tech. He has also been actively involved in building Rockstart’s two current funds. Rune took the position of CEO in 2016.

Andrii Degeler

Founder at Proceed.to

Tech journalist, podcast host and producer. Andrii has covered the technology ecosystem in Europe for the past decade for the likes of Tech.eu, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Engadget, and more. In 2021, he founded Proceed.to, a tech-focused podcast production and content strategy company.

Lina Marta Sarma

Co-creator & Board Member at Riga TechGirls

Lina is the co-creator and board member of Riga TechGirls, a community geared towards inspiring, encouraging and supporting women and girls to pursue careers in the IT. During the last five years she has also helped to run the main startup hub in Latvia – TechHub Riga and now acts as board member there, continuing to support the ecosystem. Lina believes in diversity in tech and inspiring the younger generation to find the creative side of science and build things that are conscious about our society and environment.

Dariusz Zalewski

Microsoft

I work in Microsoft CEE as Partner Marketing Manager, helping partner by advising them how to grow their business with Microsoft

Arın Özkula

500 | General Partner

General Partner @ 500 Istanbul, a €50m seed fund investing across CEE.

Madhukar Kumar

DevRev, Head of Growth

Developer turned PM turned Growth/Marketer. Worked in several tech companies in the Bay area like Zuora, Redis to HP and Oracle where I can the product strategy for all of CX products (Sales cloud, Service, eCommerce, Social, contact center). Specialize in building PLG zero-touch experiences.

Mike Butcher

TechCrunch, Editor-at-large

Mike Butcher MBE is the London-based Editor-at-large for TechCrunch. He’s also co-founder of The Europas Awards, TechVets and Techfugees.

Stéphane Ouaki Head of Department – European Innovation Council (EIC) in the newly established European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency. In his role, he ensures effective and efficient implementation of the EIC from the emergence of new technologies having the potential to generate game changing innovation up to the scaling up of deep-tech enterprises (mainly startups and SMEs). He also chairs the Investment Committee of the EIC Fund. Beyond the EIC, Stéphane oversees the implementation of the Research, Innovation and Digitisation Window under the InvestEU Programme.

John Greger

Burda Principal Investments; CPO

John joined Burda in 2019 and is Chief Product Officer for Burda Principal Investments. Before joining Burda, he was CPO at Vinted, leading the product and tech teams during a successful turnaround phase. Prior to this, he worked as CPO or Head of Product for Rocket Internet, Mister Spex and Immobilienscout24. His earlier experience as Strategy Consultant includes positions at Lexington and Lexta Consulting. John studied at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, San Diego State University, CERAM Sophia Antipolis, and the EBS University. He currently sits on the board of The Female Company and Felmo.

Amit Vaghasiya

Httpool, Client Partner

Sales and marketing professional, technologist, former tech entrepreneur, public speaker, universal traveler, into storytelling, startups, helping people and companies scale paid media globally.

Remco Janssen

Founder & publisher at Silicon Canals

Remco Janssen is the founder and publisher of Silicon Canals, one of Europe’s leading technology news websites on startups, scale-ups, and technology. Ever since his days at a food order website after the dotcom bubble, he has an undeniable passion for fast-growing startups and disruptive tech.

Nina Gunell

OpenOcean, Investment Associate

Early-stage investor looking to meet ambitious B2B SaaS founders, who are creating the fair data economy of the future. Non-traditional VC background with a career path involving a degree in engineering physics and mathematics, military aircraft route optimization and strategy consulting. Sports enthusiast, who enjoys to relax by swimming in ice cold water.

Elviss Strazdiņš

CEO at SIA bool

Programmer, game developer, founder of Latvian Game Developers Association. Been in the games industry since the early 2000s

Gintas Daniusevicius

Practica Capital Partner/CFO

Partner and CFO in Practica Capital, one of the most active and largest Baltic VC firms. Have been working in industry for 8 years. Member of management board of Lithuanian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

Over the course of 10 years, he’s trained thousands of executives to pitch in meetings, events, including trade fairs such as the Mobile World Congress, Smart City Expo, Electronica—and startup founders pitching for capital at Slush, Latitude59, TechBBQ, LOGIN, and TechChill. From founders and developers to scientists and designers, Gleb trains people to speak to audiences with clarity and meaning.

Pauls Pērkons

Httpool / Twitter Performance Director

Pauls is leading the Twitter performance advertising team in EMEA as well as the regional team in the Nordics across multiple platforms. His team manages some of the largest advertisers that are looking to achieve performance-based KPIs on Twitter at scale. Pauls will cover how the gaming landscape is changing and its connection to social media.

Melinda Havas

Head of Marketing & Business Development @ ff.next

Melinda conducted her BA studies in the field of International Business and gained meaningful knowledge through a Marketing MA course at Corvinus University of Budapest. After getting to know the B2C FMCG segment at Nestlé, she deepened her knowledge in the B2B services marketing sector while working for enbrite.ly, where she also got to know how technology startups work. At ff.next, she started to dive more into the field of startup and SME marketing within the fintech sector and gained meaningful knowledge of B2B online & digital marketing, while also representing the company at several international events and conferences in Sofia, Warsaw, Zurich, Lisbon and Barcelona, amongst others. Currently she is Head of Marketing & Business Development at ff.next, concentrating on strengthening the company’s brand and managing communications and PR.

Valentino Megale

CEO at Softcare Studios

Tech entrepreneur focused on digital health and XR technologies, with a Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology. CEO at Softcare Studios and Advisor of Medical XR Council at the XRSI Safety & Privacy Initiative. TEDx speaker and writer on the topics of emerging tech, healthcare, and social impact.

Marina Petrakova

CEO & Co-founder at VREACH

Marina is a co-founder and CEO of health-tech startup VREACH, providing children with disabilities the access to human needs centred cognitive neurorehabilitation services through VR, a data-driven approach and gamification.

She is involved in the National Digital Health strategy design from the Digital Health Cluster of Latvia side and continues to educate and inspire women in tech at Riga TechGirls by organizing and co-creating programs and events dedicated to technology and digital skills.

Liudas Kanapienis

CEO & Co-founder at Ondato

Liudas is the Co-founder and CEO of Ondato company, specializing in customer compliance management. He has 15 years’ worth of experience in the field, specializing in fintech, digital banking operations, AML/KYC procedures, licensing, and legal risks.

Dor Bachar

Account manager at eToro

Veteran Account manager at eToro’s customer facing department, with over 10 years of trading experience in the financial markets. Very passionate about cryptos, blockchain and NFTs. Here to disrupt the financial markets!

Marko Oolo

General Partner at Superangel

First employee at Superangel, now a General Partner for the second fund. Ex growth analyst and product manager at TransferWise. An active retail investor with 10+ angel investments. Founder of Investeerimisklubi – Estonian investment community

Albane Bruyas

COO at Scaleway

As Chief Operating Officer at Scaleway, Albane is responsible for the global operations of the company : supply & hardware chain of its 7 data centers, in France, Holland and Poland, from R&D to fleet maintenance and CSR. Her team is also responsible for developing new Scaleway data centers throughout Europe, and for ensuring these facilities count amongst the most sustainable on the continent. Albane spearheads major strategic shifts, transforming IT from a functional focus to an enabler of innovation for the business, and integrating the finance organization to support a truly global company.

Vytautas Kubilius

Google, Country Manager - Baltic region

Vytautas Kubilius is a Country Manager for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at Google. Outside of Google, Vytautas is actively involved in the startup ecosystem – he is an angel investor, Board Member of Vilnius Tech Park and Venture Partner at Change Ventures.

Kristjan Laanemaa

Partner at Karma Ventures

Kristjan is a founding partner at Karma Ventures – an early-stage venture capital firm, specialized in late seed and A round investments in Europe’s most promising tech startups.

Peter Johansen

Project Director

Peter heads the Nordic Asian Venture Alliance (NAVA), that connects the Nordic-Baltic tech startups and VCs with East Asian VCs and LPs.

Jekaterina Govina

Partner at Response Legal

Jekaterina has spent 9 years at the Central bank of Lithuania and has extensive experience and understanding of regulation and supervision of financial sector in European Union. She is partner in law firm Response Legal, leading Fintech and Startup group at the firm.

Jekaterina Bitus

Head of Startup Partnership at ROCKIT

Jekaterina Bitus is a Head of startup partnership. With more than 20 years of experience in banking, project management, product development and corporate partnership she focuses her energy at ROCKIT – the Home of FinTech and Sustainable Innovation in Lithuania. Jekaterina is deeply involved in the startup ecosystem where she advises and helps startups to bring innovative solutions to the business and find new partnerships.
She is an active participant in various events, discussions, and mentoring sessions where she shares her knowledge, experience, and best practices.

Janis Berzins

Lead of sales within FS industry at Accenture Baltics

Janis Berzins has more than 15 years of experience in solution sales, 7 years in Telecom and 5 years in IT industry.

Rizwan Khan

Director of Customer Relations at Uizard Technologies

Rizwan Khan is Director of Customer Relations at Uizard, the design tool for non-designers. He leads relationships with the Uizard community, made up of entrepreneurs from all backgrounds and teams at the biggest companies in the world.

Mari Luukkainen

Head of Growth at Icebreaker.vc

Mari Luukkainen is Head of Growth of Icebreaker.vc, a 140M€ VC firm investing in Nordics and Baltics. Growth professional for over 20+ years she has been growing hands-on multiple startups such as a home cleaning startup Freska from 700K€ to 13M€ ARR in 2 years. Mari is also training the next generation of growth professionals of Europe by training almost 100 immigrant women with her Herizon.io growth hacking internship program.

Rainer Sternfeld

Managing Partner at NordicNinja & co-founder at Kood/Jõhvi

Rainer is an entrepreneur turned investor with 20 years of experience in building technology businesses and products across diverse cultures in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. He was the founder & CEO of Planet OS (acquired by Intertrust), and after 8 years in Silicon Valley, he moved to Estonia in 2019 to build NordicNinja and help mission-driven Nordic & Baltic founders scale their businesses globally. In addition, he is the co-founder of Kood/Jõhvi and a the “Global Estonians” podcast.

Charlotte Aschim is the CEO & Founder of TotalCtrl, a top global food waste prevention and traceability company that helps consumer-facing businesses optimize their operations, cut costs and prevent food waste. Since late 2017, Charlotte has managed to get TotalCtrl on rankings alongside Amazon and Walmart, be one of Europe’s most inspiring food waste changemakers, among the world’s top 15 tech startups in 2021, a Norwegian Food Mentor, ranked among the top 10 best leaders within sustainability in Norway for 2020, among the top 80 Norwegian leaders under 35 in 2019, 2020 and 2021, one of the amazing Fairforce 100 Environmental Data Entrepreneurs, a European Green Capital Ambassador and so much more.

Dr Anna Hultin Stigenberg

Director at EIT Manufacturing Co-Location North

Dr Anna Hultin Stigenberg has over 30+ years of industry experience, including roles in research, business development, management, strategy & heading venture units. She has a broad view of the sector, sitting on the European Commission High-Level Strategy Groups on Key Enabling Technologies and Industry 5.0. She is also an inventor with several patents.

I am cofounder of Storm Ventures (a Silicon Valley based b2b software VC) and coauthor of Survival to Thrival.

Graham Major-Ex

Head of Green Business at sennder

Graham Major-Ex is the Head of Green Business at sennder, Europe’s leading digital freight forwarder. He has an MBA in Renewable Energy and speaks fluent German and Mandarin Chinese.

Part of #Techchill family for the 5th year. Strong community believer and tech enthusiast whenever and wherever.

Anna Vildaus

Head of Business Development at Vigo Health

Anna is the Head of Business Development at Vigo Health, a Riga-based medtech reinventing stroke recovery by making it more accessible and affordable. She leads the US expansion team partnering with Yale and Stanford University medical centers amongst others. Her past work experience covers strategic business consulting and brand and marketing management for organizations of various industries, including TechChill where she has held the CMO role.

Juozas Nainys

CEO & co-founder at Droplet Genomics

Juozas Nainys is co-founder and CEO of Droplet Genomics, a startup that is breaking new ground in high-throughput single-cell analysis technologies. Juozas holds a PhD in biochemistry, is a co-author of over 10 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and is a co-inventor on 4 patents.

Justinas Simkus

CEO

Cofounder and CEO of Baltic Classifieds Group which owns the portfolio of leading marketplaces. The company is traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with market value at around 1 billion EUR.

Kärt Rääbis

Associate & Community management at Change Ventures

Kärt has background working as Community Manager at LIFT99.co and managed Buildit Green accelerator pilot for ClimateTech hardware startups. She is managing community relations and events, and supports the investment team with pre and post-investment research. Passionate about helping pre-seed & seed startups from Baltics.

Zane Bojare

Head of Brand at Startup Wise Guys

Communications professional, social entrepreneur, and active mover and shaker of the Baltic startup ecosystem. As part of Startup Wise Guys accelerator Zane is helping founders become true entrepreneurs. Zane is also an active member of Riga TechGirls and the person behind comprehensive reports on the Baltic startup scene.

Emīls Pauls Eglītis

Senior Revenue Operations Analyst at Lokalise

Emils was the first one employee in Lokalise to actively start looking at data and utilizing it. Participated in both financing rounds, as well as established predictable growth models to ensure organizational capacity for the future & allow for data-driven decision making across the company. Passionate about solving complex problems using processes & data.

Edgars Vecozolins

Co-Founder at Colizeum

Edgars is founder of Colizeum.com and Beetroot Lab mobile game development studio. Edgars is a game, system and game economic architect with more 8 year experience. Edgars have had the opportunity to work hand in hand with senior game architects and monetization specialists from well know companies like MachineZone, Scopely, Playrix and others. In 2021 Edgars was included in Forbes 30 under 30 list in Baltics.

Déborah Loye

CEO at SISTA

After working for 5 years as a journalist covering the French and European tech and startup ecosystems at Les Echos, the leading French business newspaper (10,8 million readers), Déborah Loye joined SISTA as CEO.
SISTA is a non-profit organization that aims at reducing the funding gap between male and female entrepreneurs, with a community of 70k people in France and around Europe. SISTA empowers female founders and helps investors reducing their bias. The organisation also has a voice in the public sphere, assisting government officials in drafting and implementing laws on professional and economic equality.

Kriss Pujats

CTO at Gravity Team

Tech visionary, philanthropist, angel investor and Co-founder/CTO at Gravity Team – Crypto market maker, liquidity provider and one of the largest crypto trading firms in the world. Kriss is a seasoned startuper and serial software developer with 13 years of experience, and previously has built many well known platforms like Twino, Evolution Gaming and Walmoo.

I am the founder of KIIND Agency of which the focus is on providing support to start-ups and SMEs both in Denmark and Latvia with their sustainability journey.

Ernest Jenavs

Co-founder and CEO at Edurio

Ernest is a co-founder and CEO of Edurio, one of the largest EdTech start-ups in the Baltics. Edurio helps school leaders manage stakeholder feedback to take better care of their people. Ernest is a frequent public speaker on organisation culture, stakeholder feedback and school improvement.

Ksenia Moskalenko

Building tools for a new space economy at Mission Space

Studying at two universities simultaneously while being on the USA National Gymnastics team, Ksenia used to work in non-profit companies and the finance department of P&G Gillette HQs in Boston. Wanting to implement her vision and work toward a dream, she then decided to switch gears and pursue the leadership of a new space economy startup – Mission Space.

Liva Perkone

Co-founder & CEO at Helve

CEO and Co-founder at Helve, where we work on open innovation and help build bridges between startups and market-leading companies. Actively rooting for Baltic tech on a global scale as a Member of the Board at TechChill Foundation and involved in non-profit initiatives that help push forward the innovation ecosystem.

Lauma Sīle

COO at TechChill

Lauma started her startup journey with TechChill in late 2018 as a volunteer and in later 2019 joined as a member of the core team. Ever since then she has been actively involved in supporting the ecosystem through mentoring programs, hosting events, helping create content for international information outlets, and so on.

She is also the Program Lead at Junior Achievement x Riga Buisness School x Printful Tech Track which promotes entrepreneurship and innovation for high school students. You can also catch her on the Podcast of Things by Techie Foundation.

Last year she made it to the list of Forbes 30 under 30 honorees at just the age of 22 for her contribution to the startup ecosystem in Latvia.

Egita Aizsilniece-Ibema

Lat.tech, LIAA representative in Brussels

Advisor on Innovations, technologies, science, and startups from Latvia for the EU programmes and initiatives since 2021. Prior LIAA representative in the Netherlands from 2014.

Donatas Keras

Founding Partner at Practica Capital

Entrepreneur and investor with 10 years of experience in VC in the Baltics, Donatas Keras participated in more than 65 Venture Capital (VC) deals over that time.

Julija (JJ) Jegorova

Founder & CEO at Black Unicorn PR

I count with 12+ years of experience in PR and Communications, having worked both in-house and agency-side internationally. In 2018 I founded Black Unicorn PR – a new breed of a strategic PR agency for B2B tech startups, located in London and present internationally.

My team has grown strong with professionals across different fields and worked with a number of companies from across Europe. Black Unicorn PR’s has secured media placements for her clients in publications such as the BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Entrepreneur among others.

Aleks Koha

CEO

Aleks is the founder of Promoty. He’s an unlimited idea machine, likes to build stuff & solve problems. He comes from a tech background but mainly operates in the business world so he’s good at making complex things seem simple.

Liam Boogar-Azoulay

VP Marketing at Scaleway

Liam is the VP Marketing at Scaleway, Europe’s fastest growing Cloud Provider helping 20,000+ startups to scale worldwide. He is passionate about helping builders to build great things, having previously working at Algolia. He is also an angel investor in Qovery, Detech & Refty.

Klara Ritter

Investment Manager & Head of Nordics at Proptech 1 Ventures

Klara Ritter is Investment Manager and Head of Nordics at Proptech 1 Ventures, one of the leading independent Proptech funds in Europe. Klara views startups and venture capital as an enabler for systematic change and an important source for innovation and is recognizing the green revolution as an economic opportunity to create a more sustainable built environment.

Kayla, known as “Kay”, entered the NFT space June 2021 as a part of the founding team at Holaplex – a place to mint, sell, and discover NFTs on Solana. She is also a co-founder of Women In NFTs an organization that supports, connects, and educates women and non binary people with one goal – amplify their voices in the NFT/ Web3 space.

Liza Aizupiete

Managing Director

Liza Aizupiete is a Co-founder and Managing Director of Fintelum – an equity crowdfunding platform, which also serves the burgeoning crypto capital markets industry. Previously Liza was a founder and the Managing Director of a cryptocurrency exchange Globitex, as well as the General Director of Lithuanian e-money institution NexPay UAB. A Latvian native, Liza graduated from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, majoring in Philosophy. Liza is experienced in the financial industry, including trading, fund and portfolio management. Since 2012, she has been passionate about Bitcoin and later crypto industry at large, as a proponent of a decentralised and sound monetary system.

Helmuts Bems

CEO

Cofounder and CEO of Sonarworks. Serial entrepreneur with 1 previous exit. Passionate about deep tech.

Kristine Dorosko

VA Purpose

ESG and sustainable products professional with an extensive experience in EU environmental policy. Currently working as Sustainability consultant at VA Purpose, helping out Latvian and Baltic companies to become more environmentally and socially responsible. Also EU Climate Pact Ambassador.

Nicklas Pavoncelli

Global Partnership Manager at TechBBQ

Italian Swedish that has lived in Estonia, Sweden and Denmark. Specialized in building connections between tech ecosystems with relatively low level of engagement, internationalization and has worked on TechBBQ’s pivot abroad.

After spending over 4 years in venture capital with Superangel and Overkill Ventures, Diana is now the BizOps and Finance Lead at Whimsical, a Series-A stage startup.

Alīna Mežciema

Head of New Development Areas Division at LMT

As a Head of New Development Areas Division for leading Latvian mobile telecommunications company LMT, oversees the development of such growth verticals as IoT, drone technologies, mobility, and defence and public safety. The potential of 5G technology is leveraged within all these future growth verticals, as demonstrated by the LMT innovation projects.

Anastasija Oleinika

CEO at TWINO Group

Anastasija is the CEO of the international holding company TWINO Group. TWINO Group offers a wide range of financial technology services, including investment brokerage services in Europe, non-bank lending in several countries, such as Poland, Latvia, Vietnam, focusing on tech and smart data. Anastasija has extensive experience in the financial sector and financial management, including working on the acquisition of several large companies, raising capital, as well as reorganizing and selling assets. She is listed among the most influential women in Tech in Europe by Sifted, the media backed by The Financial Times, and has been included in Forbes #30under30 and #40under40 lists as one of the most promising and talented leaders in the industry.

Kirils Solovjovs

Founder at Possible Security

Kirils Solovjovs is an IT policy activist, bug bounty hunter, and the most visible white-hat hacker in Latvia having discovered and responsibly disclosed or reported multiple security vulnerabilities in information systems of both national and international significance. He has extensive experience in social engineering, penetration testing, network flow analysis, reverse engineering, and the legal dimension.

He authored e-Saeima, helping the Latvian Parliament become the first parliament in the world that is prepared for a fully remote legislative process.