SPEAKERS
Tomas Okmanas
Co-founder of Tesonet
Co-founder of Tesonet accelerator and a business development professional currently focusing on building and scaling cybersecurity products in global markets. Today Tesonet is a fast-growing accelerator, distinguished by its innovative ecosystem and infrastructure.
Mantas Mikuckas
Co-founder and COO at Vinted
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.
Tomas Banišauskas
Founder of Bored Panda
Founder of Bored Panda, a leading art and pop culture magazine, that he launched while being a student at Vilnius University. Bored Panda has now grown to attract nearly 100 million views on its website each month and is one of the top 10 most viewed pages on Facebook in video content category.
Tadas Burgaila
Co-Founder and CEO at Kilo Health
Co-founder and an investor of companies in wellness and beauty. Tadas is currently a CEO and a co-founder of Kilo health, a venture studio working in the health industry striving to be the leader in the wellness category globally.
Rita Sakus
Co-founder and board member of LitBAN
Rita is an active investor, board member & advisor in start-ups and is one of the founding members and currently proud board member of LitBAN. A Lithuanian-Canadian born in Toronto completed a High-tech MBA in Boston, USA. She was responsible for Israel investments portfolio 21 years ago while working alongside some of the top VCs in the world at the time.
Inga Langaitė
CEO of Unicorns LT
CEO of Unicorns LT - association of Lithuanian tech startups. Inga has previously worked in the finance and tech industries. As a social entrepreneur, she founded the first ever online donation portal - aukok.lt, which has become one of the strongest social business projects within the country, with +10k regular users.
JB Daguené
Partner at 70V
Since 2014, he has helped 60+ companies to build/scale specialized sales teams with 3 key roles. Currently he is adding 5 companies to that list every quarter! JB has notable achievements when it comes to sales: going from 4 to 600 customers in 2 years, +1000% YoY sales growth and generating 10M+ USD of revenue in 9 months.
Dalia Lašaitė
Co-founder and CEO at CGTrader
CEO and co-founder of CGTrader, the world's leading provider of 3D content. Dalia joined the company in 2015 and has been instrumental in growing the CGTrader community, including highly skilled professional 3D designers, which now tops 3.9 million.
Laimonas Noreika
Co-founder and CEO at ZITICITY
Laimonas Noreika is the CEO and co-founder of ZITICITY, one of the fastest-growing logistics startups in Europe. It is the leading same-day delivery provider in the Baltics and a promising success case in the rest of Europe. ZITICITY platform empowers hundreds of merchants to compete with Amazon dominance by providing affordable same-day deliveries.
Danielius Stasiulis
Co-founder and CEO at BitDegree
He is one of the founders of EdTech Lithuania and a co-founder & CEO at BitDegree, one of the leading EdTechs in Lithuania. BitDegree (est. 2017) has recently been crowned as the Global Champion of the UN-backed World Summit Awards in the field of Education for leveraging technology to bring digital skills to the masses.
Edgaras Jasalinis
CEO at TAMO
Edgaras is a CEO at various fast-growing K-12 Edtech startups including TAMO, EDUKA, EMA, and Egzaminatorius.lt. He has been investing in K-12 Edtech at Zabolis Partners investment group and is a co-founder at Edtech Lithuania, an umbrella initiative for making Lithuania a great place for EdTechs and making an impact on the Lithuanian education sector.
Monika Katkutė
Founder at Teachers Lead Tech
Monika is the founder and strategist who built Teachers Lead Tech, space where primary school teachers learn to create with technologies and bring these skills to classrooms.
Aidas Kavaliauskas
Co-founder at Amberlo
Aidas Kavaliauskas is a Co-founder at Amberlo - a cloud-based law firm management software used by law firms from 25 countries. He has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing cloud-based software for top international enterprises from multiple industries.
Arūnas Mark
Public and Private Sector Lead at AI Boost Lithuania
Arūnas Mark is a Public and Private Sector Lead at AI Boost Lithuania, a project by the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology, where he leads the AI policy related matters, ensures cooperation between various stakeholders and manages the AI Boost Accelerator programme for Lithuania's AI startups.
Donatas Smailys
Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer at Billo
Donatas Smailys is the Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer at Billo, a marketplace for custom-made eCom Video Ads. Donatas has previous experience as Chief Business Development Officer at Unboxed, a micro-influencer marketing company and CEO at Startup Space.
Laurynas Karpus
Co-Founder & CEO of Biomatter Designs
Laurynas Karpus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Biomatter Designs, a startup that pioneers the technologies for protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI. Biomatter Designs strives to transform the protein engineering industry.
Viktorija Vaitkevičienė
Manager of Venture Capital Fund CoInvest Capital
Investor with 14+ years of experience in financial sector. Viktorija is the Manager of venture capital fund CoInvest Capital, that invests in start-ups in co-operation with groups of business angels.
Edmundas Balčikonis
Co-Founder & CEO at Eddy Travels
Edmundas Balčikonis is a Co-Founder and CEO at Eddy Travels, a travel tech startup building an AI travel assistant with over 4 million users worldwide. Eddy Travels raised $1.2million from Techstars Toronto, Practica Capital, Open Circle Capital venture funds, and angel investors from the UK, US, and Canada.
Ruslanas Trakšelis
Founder & CEO of Millo Appliances
Ruslanas Trakšelis is an inventor, innovator, and an avid athlete. He is the founder and CEO of Millo Appliances, a startup he founded in late 2015 with the goal of reimagining how we approach nutrition, leveraging technology and design to help people achieve healthier and more sustainable diets.
Märt Aro
Chairman of the Board at Nordic EdTech Forum - N8.
Since 2004, Märt has established numerous organisations and companies in the area of education development. The solution, DreamApply.com Student Application Management Platform, Märt co-founded in 2011. Today DreamApply is used by 300 universities from across 35 countries, serving millions of users annually.
Alex Gibb
Co-founder of Paysolut
He has over ten years' experience founding, co-creating and investing in startups. His passion is supporting entrepreneurs to grow themselves and their businesses. Alex has also worked in banking, the European Parliament and the NGO sector. When Alex grows up he wants to be a food anthropologist.
Patrick Collins
Founder of Prospect Labs
Patrick is the founder of Prospect Labs - a lead generation service for startups & SMBs. Patrick has been working as a sales consultant, advisor and public speaker for the past 6 years helping startup companies with all aspects of sales - from lead generation and marketing, to closing deals and customer service.
Justas Malinauskas
Co-Founder & CEO @ Whatagraph
Justas Malinauskas - Co-Founder & CEO @ Whatagraph, passionate about data & data-technologies. Justas & Whatagraph team are building the first data-technologies SaaS business in the area, which serves mostly US businesses.
Lukas Kaminskis
CEO & Co-Founder of Turing College
He is CEO & Co-Founder of Turing College. Lukas organized his first coding bootcamp at 16. Became a university lecturer of software engineering at 22. Graduated CS at Vilnius University & studied one-semester at Harvard. 3 years was the CEO of the largest coding school for high school students in Lithuania.
Vytenis Pavalkis
CEO and co-founder of Paysolut
Vytenis is the CEO and co-founder of Paysolut - a core banking system provider. He has been leading Paysolut from its first steps in 2017 to becoming a part of a global financial technology company SumUp in 2021, and now into further expansion of the Paysolut's talented team and services.
Jonė Vaitulevičiūtė
Partner at Startup Wise Guys
Jonė Vaitulevičiūtė is a Partner at Startup Wise Guys. Jonė has over 9 years of experience working directly with early stage companies both in consulting and as an investment fund manager. She has been helping them to evaluate market and tech potential, do market validation, setup initial sales and build the team.
Marijus Andrijauskas
Portfolio Principal at Startup Wise Guys
Marijus is an entrepreneur, analytical and creative thinker, technologist. He's a team-oriented leader with over 15 years’ experience spanning company management, strategy, sales, marketing, business development and operations for software markets and technologies.