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Kaja Kallas is the Prime Minister of Estonia. She has served as a member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2018, representing the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Before her election to parliament, she was an attorney specialising in European and Estonian competition law.

Minister of Economic Affairs and Information Technology from 17 April 2023.

In 2016–2021, he was the Director of the Office of the President of the Republic.

Kersti Kaljulaid served as the President of the Republic of Estonia from 2016-2021. During her time in office, she made her presence felt in both her homeland and the international arena. Over the years, President Kaljulaid has robustly defended the principles underlying our society: democracy, human rights, equal treatment and freedom of speech. One of the principles of her own time in office has been the one she set out upon her inauguration: “I am never silent when our security is in question, when our freedoms are at stake or when those weaker than us are treated unjustly.”

In summer 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed President Kaljulaid to the position of Global Advocate for the ‘Every Woman Every Child’ strategy on the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents around the world for the next two years. The head of state was also the first Estonian to be selected by the prestigious magazine Forbes as one of the world’s 100 most influential women.

Kersti Kaljulaid has become a sought-after speaker at high-level forums on digital, security and foreign-policy topics and more broadly for analysing and interpreting social change.

Taavi Rõivas is the former Prime Minister of Estonia (2014-2016), a tech entrepreneur and Digital Transformation Leader. He takes serious interest in digital transformation, AI, cyber and e-government, foreign and security policy.

In his personal life he is a marathon runner, reserve officer, international keynote speaker, married and father of 3 incredible children.

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Liina Maria is the Director of the Estonian Tourist Board at Estonian Business and Innovation Agency. Her previous experience includes 12 years at LHV Bank, as well as 2 years as the CEO of Tallinn Film Wonderland. She has been active in the Financial sector and the industry, and has written articles on the Tourism sector in Estonia.

Tartu Science Park is the oldest science park in the Baltics. For 30 years, we have supported business innovation activities in the region by networking with universities, public and private sector.

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Dr. Ott Velsberg is the current Chief Data Officer of Estonian Government with experience in coordinating data governance and data science, including domains of artificial intelligence, open data, citizen-centric data governance, once-only principle, data management, government-to-business data exchange and much more. He has lead Estonia to a trendsetter status in data governance, open data and artificial intelligence.

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Kristjan Vassil, who holds a doctorate degree in political and social sciences, has been the Vice Rector for Reasearch at the University of Tartu since 2017. His main fields of research include technology research, economic and behavioural impacts of e-government, use of machine learning and artificial intellect for prototyping public e-services, voting behaviour, government and political sciences. His team helps companies and governments turn their live data streams into business and policy decisions using predictive analytics and machine learning techniques.

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Märt-Erik Martens is the co-founder and CEO of Gelatex Technologies. Gelatex is a materials technology company that specializes in the high-throughput manufacturing of nanofibrous materials for applications such as 3D cell culture, wound care, or cultured meat. Their patented halospinning technology reduces the cost of nanofibers by over 90% making them accessible in applications that were unfeasible before. This way one day wounds can be healed without scaring and no animals will be required for meat production or drug development. Märt-Erik has MSc in materials science and has devoted his whole scientific career to nanofibers and bio-based materials. Besides that, he has engineered robots, satellites and is the main inventor of Gelatex’s halospinning technology.

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Kaspar Korjus is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Pactum AI – a tech startup that is revolutionizing the world of business negotiations with chat and AI. Walmart, Maersk and other Fortune 500 companies use Pactum’s autonomous negotiation to automate their supply chain and logistics operations while realizing millions of dollars in savings.

As a co-founder of Pactum, Kaspar has been involved in many aspects of building the company – from leading business discussions with clients, pitching to investors, building the brand, to developing the company strategy, and leading product development. In his most current role as the Chief Product Officer, Kaspar’s team developed the Pactum Negotiation Suite, a comprehensive array of powerful negotiation tools that empower large companies to create agreements with vendors without human involvement.

Prior to Pactum, Kaspar was the founding Managing Director of Estonia’s e-Residency, an ambitious Government initiative that attracted over 100,000 e-residents, generating over $400M in net new income for Estonia. Kaspar has a bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Bradford, UK, and a Master’s degree in e-Business from the University of Lancaster also in the UK.

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Jevgeni Kabanov is the President at Bolt, the European super-app with the mission to make urban mobility more affordable, safe and sustainable. Bolt has over 150 million customers in more than 45 countries and 500 cities across Europe and Africa and offers a range of mobility products including ride-hailing, scooter and e-bike rentals, food delivery, grocery delivery and car rentals.

Jevgeni was the founder and CEO of ZeroTurnaround, a development tools company with 230 employees and 10s of millions of revenue acquired by Rogue Wave. He is an entrepreneurship champion and was the president of the Estonian Founders Society. In 2015, he received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award in Estonia.

Jevgeni has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tartu and has published papers on topics ranging from category theory notions to typesafe Java DSLs. He has initiated several open-source projects and serves on the board of a number of startups.

Jevgeni doesn’t have a driver’s license and believes in a future where cities are built for people, not cars.

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GScan is a world leader in cosmic-ray muon tomography.

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Sirli is a highly experienced food scientist with expertise in food technologies and protein research. Over 10 years, she has led various research projects and teams in different food research areas, in recent years with a particular focus on alternative proteins and meat alternatives. She has gained various recognitions through international grants and competitions. In 2022 she founded a start-up company FUNKI that provides tasty and healthy high-protein food products from mycoprotein to diversify people’s everyday food choices and nudge their consumption habits towards more sustainable baths. FUNKI products are vegan but are made to provide a new taste experience and not imitate meat.

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Ronald Liive is a tech journalist at Geenius.ee Over the years he has covered the rise and fall of Estonian startups. He has written in depth coverage of various fuckups and scandals associated with the Estonian digital nation. He is the host of “Kriitiline intsident” (“Critical incident”) podcast which fully focuses on all things related to Estonian e-state and e-services.

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James Acuna has over 32 years of experience spanning various sectors of corporate and government enterprises focusing on advanced technology, foreign policy, security, special operations, and emerging technologies and markets. He specializes in security, geopolitics, and intelligence operations in Eurasia, and central Asia. James Acuna is taking this talent set to assist VC/PE, Start Up, and other corporations wishing to understand the market in eastern and central Europe and in Central Asia. From due diligence, to security consulting, to understanding the intangibles of a corporation or CEO, his experience has allowed him a unique opportunity to assist you in your endeavor.

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Clevon develops and manufactures autonomous delivery vehicles, making last-mile delivery more innovative, environmentally friendly and efficient. Clevon is a spin-off of Cleveron, a successful company operating globally in 50 different countries and serving major clients such as Walmart, Zara (Inditex), The Warehouse, and Falabella.

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eAgronom helps farmers generate additional revenue streams, improve soil quality, and access better financing.

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Food technologist with more than 15 years of experience in the food industry. Katrin Liivat has dealt with food safety issues as a manager of different restaurants, including her own, and she has provided food safety consultancy as a service provider.

FoodDocs is Liivat’s newest project. “I feel it makes the world a better place – It’s a smart and fast tool for creating and maintaining food safety management systems.

Setting up and managing your HACCP is now 10 times easier and 500 times faster!”

How will the world be different with FoodDocs?

Food safety topics will be understandable for everyone. There is always a lack of specialists – consultants, technologists, etc. FoodDocs can replace and help these people.

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Kalev Koidumäe is a Reserve Colonel with 30 years of experience in the Defence Forces, having served as the Commander of the Support Command, as a Defence Attaché in the Nordic countries and until the end of last year he was the Commander of the Territorial District North of the Defence League.

The main objective of Kalev Koidumäes as the new CEO at Estonian Defence and Aerospace Industry Association is to support Estonia’s national defence in peacetime and in times of crisis by producing defence materials and providing services according to the needs of the Ministry of Defence and other agencies. Another important goal is to strengthen the competitiveness of the defence industry sector in export markets, which is a sector with a high level of development and smart jobs. To this end, the association will continue to participate in research and development activities involving ministries, research institutions and the defence industry. This multi-stakeholder cooperation will provide a very good basis for the domestic defence industry to contribute to the Estonian economy and research through increased export turnover.

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With over 15 years of experience in the public sector, Andres Raieste is a passionate and visionary leader who drives digital transformation for governments worldwide. As a Partner and Senior Vice President at Nortal, a leading global provider of digital society solutions, he is responsible for managing and growing our public sector business across different regions and markets.

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Andrean Razumovski co-founded Mati foods – a startup that make real food from mushroom roots. Their mycoprotein-based chicken fills your mouth with the most amazing sensations, while containing only natural ingredients and loads of nutrients. Next generation meat & fish analogues are coming to the market soon!

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Currently starting up YOOK – the only plant-based drinks factory in the Baltic states, which is planned to introduce its products to various markets during fall, 2023. Being a seasoned business executive with a demonstrated history of launching and turning around companies in FMCG and retail area, building successful teams and brands and creating sustainable businesses, YOOK brings the opportunity to introduce Estonian large-scale foodtech to the international markets. YOOK, with its innovative approach to the market, R&D and scalability enables to concentrate the previous 20+ years experience in the sector and bring a fresh, well-capitalized and ambitious company to the world.

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Rasmus Rask fluidly navigates multiple roles as entrepreneur, citizen activist, and community builder. In 2012, Rask the entrepreneur established La Muu ice cream company, Estonia’s first eco-friendly product which became a huge success.

In his role as socialpreneur, Rask co-founded a school anti-bullying foundation, which helped reduce bullying by 17% in schools that implemented the pilot program. He is also a founder and board member of the re-use center MTÜ Uuskasutus, founder of a multilingual school in Tallinn, and a board member of the Healthy Estonia movement to combat alcohol consumption and advertising.

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Sten-Kristjan Saluveer is a strategic advisor and head of Cannes Next, the innovation platform of the world’s leading film market and festival, Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes. With over 20 years of experience in the media and content industry, he is a MA with honors and PhD candidate in Media, Science, Technology and Society from the University of Tokyo, and he has a deep expertise in bridging the gap between creativity, tech, and venture capital.

As a passionate ecosystem builder and visionary, Sten-Kristjan Saluveer curates, advises, and supports various initiatives and organizations that foster innovation, collaboration, and diversity in the media and tech sectors. He has a global track record of delivering high-impact projects, events, and strategies for startups, governments, and A-list media and content platforms. Saluveer says his mission is to empower creators, entrepreneurs, and audiences with the tools, skills, and opportunities to shape the future of content and media.

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Milrem Robotics provides innovative robotic solutions for challenging environments.

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Food and biotech innovation has been her passion ever since she took her first steps in TFTAK as a master’s student. She has been part of #teamTFTAK for almost 15 years in three different positions.

She started as a researcher there in 2008 and focused on studying the peculiarities of the microbial communities of fermented foods during her PhD years at TalTech. As the Head of Food Research at TFTAK she could apply her knowledge, reliable and motivating working methods, constructive planning, lab life know-how, and project writing skills and implement the agile product and service development approach to applied research. This devoted contribution gave her the opportunity to become Head of Innovation in 2020. “My amazing journey in TFTAK continues together with my 115 professional colleagues. My experience from being a student and researcher to being part of the management is necessary to enhance TFTAK’s competitiveness and bring us into international cooperation and bigger markets.”

She has high working capability – writing high-level projects, supervising students and colleagues, giving knock-out presentations, providing input to projects, and writing reports are all part of her daily activities in TFTAK.

Bridging the gap between research and industry is her fuel.

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Petri-Jaan Lahtvee is a professor in Food Tech and Bioengineering at Tallinn University of Technology, where his research is focused on the valorization of organic waste (mainly food and wood waste) into value-added food and feed supplements, but also biomaterials and chemicals. He co-founded Äio – a startup that is future-shaping fats and oils.

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Arnaud Castaignet is Vice-President of Government Affairs & Public Relations at Skeleton Technologies, a European leader in high power, fast charging energy storage, member of Cleantech for Europe and the European Battery Alliance. He is responsible for stakeholders engagement, including Public and European Affairs, International and Government Relations. Skeleton Technologies Group currently employs more than 300 people and has four main locations: its HQ, electrical engineering and module development in Tallinn (Estonia), its supercapacitor manufacturing in Großröhrsdorf (Germany), its materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen (Germany), and is currently building a new factory, which will be the largest supercapacitor factory in the world, in Markranstädt (Germany). The company also has offices and subsidiaries in Finland and France.

Arnaud has been working in public relations and government affairs for over 12 years. In the public sector, he previously worked as Head of Public Relations for the Republic of Estonia’s e-Residency programme and as a Communication Officer for the French President François Hollande. In the private sector, he worked as Director for Political Outreach and Communication at DIGITALEUROPE, the European organisation that represents digitally-transforming industries in Brussels, and as a consultant for iStrat (now, Avisa Partners), an international public affairs consultancy in Paris. He started his professional career as a business journalist specialised in geopolitics of energy in Istanbul.

Arnaud is a French Foreign Trade Advisor, appointed by the French Prime Minister, a senior fellow at Open Diplomacy, a French think tank where he contributes on European affairs, innovation, industry, energy issues, and Ukraine.

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MDSC Systems is specialized in designing and manufacturing all kinds of Special Containers and Shelter systems.

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Providing AI – powered solutions against unautohorized and hostile drones and helping freedom defenders in their national security.

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Silver Kelk’s curiosity for innovative technologies and business models together with strong writing and communication skills have enabled him to create value in business development, innovation consultancy, and grant writing.

He is driven by building and improving processes around sales, business development, and company strategy. He values organizations with strong missions, inspiring and inclusive cultures, and ambitious visions.

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Erki Mölder is a strong entrepreneurship professional skilled in Healthcare, Business Planning, Strategical Management and coaching. He is also experienced Chairman Of The Supervisory Board with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organisation.

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Grab2Go‘s innovative solution revolutionizes convenience store and pharmacy operations. Their solution focuses on reducing daily business costs. Grab2Go challenges issues like labor shortages, high operational costs, and inefficient logistics. They also address food waste, scaling challenges, rent costs, real-time data utilization, and sustainable practices like CO2 neutrality.
Their innovation lies in autonomous store technology, optimizing operations through IoT data.

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Maarja Laos is an experienced manager who has worked in the field of Digital Health, Information Technology, and Supply Chain Management. She is skilled in Process Management, Continuous Improvement, Leadership, Supply Management, Management of IT systems development and implementation projects, Marketing, Sales, Agile Development Methodology SCRUM, and Cross-functional Team Leadership. She holds a master’s degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from TalTech and in Organizational Behaviour from Tallinn University.

As a Head of Digital Health at Net Group, Maarja Laos is responsible for the coordination of customer relations, marketing, sales, team building and resource planning. She is supporting the growth of digital health and strategy development.

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Jürgo Preden is an automation engineer, scientist and entrepreneur who has been with Nokia, Microsoft and multiple research institutions in Estonia and the US.

Jürgo is currently leading ThinFacility, a company that solves energy management of buildings, which helps our society to reach our sustainability goals. Buildings consume over 40% of our total energy, smart building energy management enables us to reduce our overall energy consumption as well as adapt to sustainable energy sources as buildings can be used as huge energy storage devices – storing energy when there is too much of it and extracting energy, when we are lacking it.

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Hubertus Groepper joined Airbus in 2009, where he has contributed to the evolution of helicopter programmes and the execution of innovation projects. He is the Airbus lead of LifeSaver, a new service by Airbus and International SOS for governments that want to provide effective emergency medical services to their population. LifeSaver integrates innovation in aviation, medical and digital domains to deliver a direct positive impact to communities and stimulate economic development.

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Auve Tech specializes in the development and manufacturing of autonomous transportation systems. They offer a full-scope service that entails autonomous vehicles, their integration to various environments and fleet management.

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Dan Bogdanov passionately believes in privacy and data protection. He likes to look at the whole picture and see where the world is going. His R&D background allows him to analyse the advantages of one technology over another. Cybernetica draws on multiple synergies to deliver effective, safe and secure solutions. While Dan Bogdanov started with a local focus, today he is also responsible for helping build Cybernetica’s international capabilities.

At Cybernetica, they are constantly learning and improving upon what other companies are doing in our field. Creating a tech surprise for their competitors is what Dan Bogdanov lives for. Thanks to their technical and cultural advantage, Cybernetica is able to do things differently. Key partners in the creation of e-Estonia, they have a deep and practical experience in understanding the power of data along with the importance of individual and corporate privacy, governmental data security and integrity. Working closely with clients, they can confidently provide a team of specialist professionals with a track record of robust and resilient solutions.

“I want people to pick up on the ideas we are working on, realise their importance and raise awareness of the new digital world, which is growing at an exponential rate, and with it, the risks.”  He is a big believer in the importance of education. He lectures for Master’s and PhD students. There is currently a huge lack of awareness about the control of identity and data. That is something he wishes to remedy.

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Building the future mental health assistance in Mental Pin. Mariin Petoffer is an interaction designer with a background in business, marketing and design.

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Marten has a long track record as a community and innovation builder throughout various organisations and projects. As the former National Digital Adviser for Estonia, he was responsible for digital and innovation in Estonia, driving resilient change toward more adaptive governance through technical, cultural and other crucial components. He is the initiator of the Estonian AI policy, law and practice which is in the bleeding edge of governance. He is also the Co-Founder at GovStack, a global initiative to build open-source and re-usable building blocks for digital governance. Currently working as and independent consultant and helping organisations with their digital transformation.

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The Autonomous Driving Lab makes cars drive. By themselves.

Founded in 2019 in cooperation with the Estonian mobility company Bolt, the Autonomous Driving Lab of the University of Tartu is a lab for future autonomous mobility where technology, research, and education are merged.

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Karl Kaju’s purpose in life is to learn, find solutions for problems, and make the world around us a better place to live. He has always enjoyed challenges and constant growth. Already at the age of 19, he founded his first company.

Karl Kaju is experienced in different roles and companies, ranging from consumer subscription products to the defense industry.

Vegvisir develops an XR based 360° Advanced Situational Awareness System for the crews of armoured vehicles.

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TrackDeep is an A.I.-powered self-learning surveillance system for monitoring large scale border areas and high sensitivity military bases or prisons.

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With a background in banking and innovation management, Liis Narusk has a strong understanding of what it takes to innovate legacy systems and bring breakthrough ideas to life. Throughout her career she has led and/or mentored hundreds of teams from an idea on a back of a napkin to defining a problem, a value proposition, creating a prototype and launching it.

Certific empowers patients by enabling them to do simple medical procedures at home, but to a medical standard.

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Certific empowers patients by enabling them to do simple medical procedures at home, but to a medical standard.

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BLRT Grupp is one of the largest industrial concerns in the Baltic Sea region. Today BLRT Grupp is more than 50 companies that are actively working and developing in the markets of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Finland and Norway.

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Priit Kruus believes healthcare can be improved with focused yet highly interoperable digital services, which cover the full care process, are focused on value and outcomes and are implemented with smart change management.

Dermtest enables visual data management in healthcare. The powerful B2B SaaS platform is used by 75 paying hospitals and clinics in Estonia and Germany. Dermtest’s platform of digital tools helps to prevent, detect, treat and monitor diseases in 15 different visually heavy specialties. For example, they help to manage body-surface conditions like skin cancer (for early detection), chronic wound treatment and psoriasis monitoring.

Before being a CEO at  Dermtest, his previous experience includes 12 years of healthcare analytics, health policy research, and digital health consulting and team management in public, non-governmental and private sector; health tech consulting and market access experience in 8 countries.

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Specialized in embedded systems design – from concept and prototype to large scale manufacturing and integration.

Kristjan Tozen has designed and lead various projects for industrial, military and consumer applications. Expertise lies in project management, electronics design and design for manufacturing. Certified products for FCC and CE.

He has been a part of building a successful embedded systems design and consulting company Krakul since 2017.

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Anna-Liisa Vahtras is an ambitious achiever in whatever life throws at her – once co-organized a 10k audience concert in just 3 weeks. Most comfortable in the fields of culture, sports, PR, marketing and communications. She is passionate about (audio)visual content production, true believer of storytelling. “Everything has a story – the trick is to find an angle and the right tool.”

She loves good books, good music and most of all, travelling. Anna-Liisa Vahtras values education, curiosity and broadmindedness: “to prove that, I have MA degree from one of Europe’s most respected universities and around 30 countries in my done-that list. Currently she is wokring as a CMO at Vool – the only electric vehicle charging solution utilizing full grid capacity.

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Milrem Robotics is providing innovative robotics solutions for challenging environments.

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Building Vok Bikes – the smartest electric cargo bike for last-mile deliveries and other business use cases in the city centre.

Voks are easy to ride and offer sustainable working conditions for riders. Engineered from the ground up to be a green mobility solution with a high focus on durability, cost-efficiency, and environmental impact. Modular design makes it easy to customize, upgrade, and re-purpose.

Driving a Vok, you will no longer worry about traffic jams & accessibility, bad weather, insufficient cargo space, huge maintenance costs, or overheating our planet. For businesses, it means lower costs, increased efficiency, and well… establishing a caring eco-friendly brand image.

“Our team believes in a smarter future, and I believe in our team. Over six years ago, we started building electric-racing cars, and we quickly became one of the top teams in the world. Past three years, we’ve spent on various micromobility projects, where we saw how necessary yet insufficient these current vehicles are. The idea of VOK was sparked.

For a greener tomorrow, we need to act today. As human beings and as business leaders.”

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Enn Laansoo Jr is the cofounder of both ELMO and the PAKRI Science and Industrial Park, northern Europe’s leading greentech science park. Enn’s academic background and early career are in real estate, and since 2013 his projects and businesses have exclusively been environmentally friendly.

ELMO provides 4G remote-controlled vehicles and environmentally friendly car-sharing in Estonia.

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Export professional of manufactured goods from Estonia for over 10 years. Interested in Transport solutions, Metal Fabrication and Woodworking.

MDSC Systems is specialized in designing and manufacturing all kinds of Special Containers and Shelter systems.

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Threod Systems provides outstanding unmanned aircraft systems and sub-systems for intelligence collection and surveillance tasks.

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Experienced executive and technology entrepreneur on a mission to radically extend human healthspan. 15+ years of experience in running complex business development projects, launching digital products and services, implementing go-to-market strategies and managing multidisciplinary teams across different markets.

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Making Estonia one of the most attractive destinations for working and living & offering the best UX for foreign talents in the world.

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Joonas Vänto is the director of Invest Estonia, one of the most digitally developed investment agencies in Europe. Invest Estonia has won awards for being innovative and agile in attracting FDI to Estonia. His background is diverse by having an education in business and experience from both the private and public sectors. He has been an entrepreneur and an advisor to the Minister of Interior as well.

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Kata Varblane helps innovative businesses and people benefit from the most advanced digital society in the world by spreading the word about Estonian developments. She works as Deputy Director of Marketing and International Relations at the Estonian Investment Agency, a part of Enterprise Estonia, which is a government agency under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.

Her startup and tech-oriented mindset comes from being the very first Marketing Manager for the Estonian unicorn Bolt, which is by now the fastest-growing tech company both in Europe and Africa. Her previous experiences are from the leading Estonian design agency Velvet and NASDAQ Tallinn Stock Exchange. She has a master’s degree from The University of Tartu in Communication Management and a BBA from the Estonian Business School.

Leading the Sales Support team, she continuously pioneers digital tools and solutions that redefine the client journey, embodying the essence of creative and efficient e-Estonia.

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Currently focusing on events and visit management for boosting Estonian economy.

Events manager who’s been working the field since 2007. Coordinating and managing theatre productions, concerts, festivals, conferences, workshops, award ceremonies, TV broadcasts in Estonia, mostly in the third and public sectors.

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As a lifelong sci-fi fan Vaido trusts that the combination of humans, science, and tech is the path to sustainable prosperity. For the last decade Vaido lives and breathes the startup scene in Estonia. He’s eager to talk about business incubators and accelerators such as S2B Launchpad or ESA BIC Estonia, about rocking business festivals in Estonia like Latitude59 or sTARTUp Day or how to convert science to business.
Today he pioneers Estonian deep tech startup ecosystem onwards as Deep Tech Project Lead at Startup Estonia.

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After living and working abroad, Erika Piirmets has grown to value the perks of living in a digital society that facilitates everyday life. Erika believes in equity and accessibility of government services for every citizen through the best user experience. Having contributed previously to education and youth work, Erika is a strong advocate of automatisation and proactive services so that people can focus on what matters – interpersonal communication, both professionally and in private – rather than engaging in bureaucracy.
As the Digital Transformation Adviser at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre, Erika’s objective is to support spreading the Estonian digitalisation experience and creating bridges to form a network of interconnected digital societies based on decades of Estonia’s know-how.
E-Estonia Briefing Centre is a governmental body created in 2009 for the development and promotion of e-Estonia brand. Estonia is the world leader in digitalisation of government services.

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