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Professor at University of Tartu (Estonia)
Anastasija Nikiforova
Anastasija Nikiforova is an Associate Professor of Applied AI and Information Systems at the University of Tartu (Estonia). Her research focuses on data and AI governance and digital transformation, with particular emphasis on the responsible adoption of emerging technologies, especially AI.
She examines how (Gen)AI affects organizational processes and data governance, incl. data quality, human–AI collaboration, and delegation mechanisms, and their ethical, societal, and environmental implications, such as responsible, sustainable, and green AI, within the public sector and broader digital ecosystems.
By exploring the interplay between technology, society, and policy, her work contributes to the resilience, sustainability, and inclusiveness of complex socio-technical systems and informs AI governance and decision-making.
In essence, she is a scholar who studies where AI ambitions collide with governance, legitimacy, and readiness, and how to design systems that don’t break under that pressure.
Anastasija Nikiforova
CTO of Managed Services at Eficode (Finland)
Kalle Sirkesalo
Dedicated to AI-powered innovation, secure DevOps, and platform excellence
Kalle Sirkesalo is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Managed Services at Eficode. He guides organizations through the complexities of modern software development, with a focus on integrating AI-powered tools, DevSecOps best practices, and advanced platform engineering.
Kalle actively shares his insights on how AI-native software development can enhance developer productivity and secure software delivery. He is a familiar face at industry events, webinars, and podcasts, frequently speaking about responsible AI adoption, secure DevOps governance, and the future of platform engineering.
Outside his professional engagements, Kalle enjoys sailing – an activity that reflects his commitment to precision, strategy, and adaptability.
Kalle Sirkesalo
CTO & Co-Founder at TODAY (Germany)
Artem Demchenkov
Artem Demchenkov is a technology expert specializing in voice AI and cloud infrastructure. With extensive experience in building compliant, EU-based voice AI solutions, Artem focuses on combining affordability with high-performance architecture. His expertise spans speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and large language models (LLMs), with a strong emphasis on latency, quality, and regulatory compliance. Artem is passionate about helping businesses in highly regulated industries such as FinTech and InsurTech innovate with confidence.
Artem Demchenkov
Co-Founder of Optimational (Italy)
Silvi Nuñez
Silvi Nuñez is a translator, marketer, and multilingual SEO specialist. As Co-Founder of Optimational, she helps brands reach new audiences, improve customer experience (CX) and increase brand awareness through localization and multilingual strategies.
Silvi is also passionate about leveraging AI to make localization faster and more efficient.
Silvi Nuñez
Founder & CEO of APG MEDIA | Seasoned Digital Marketing Strategist (Lithuania)
Aurimas Paulius Girčys
Aurimas Paulius Girčys is a seasoned digital marketing strategist and the founder of APG MEDIA, a performance-driven agency based in Vilnius, Lithuania. With over 15 years of experience, he specializes in SEO, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and LinkedIn Ads, helping businesses grow through data-driven strategies and AI-powered marketing automation.
Under his leadership, APG MEDIA has become a trusted partner for brands aiming to scale in Lithuania and international markets. The agency is recognized for delivering measurable results and driving profitability for its clients.
Aurimas Paulius Gircys
Founder & Experienced Business Developer of Digiwise (Estonia)
Lauri Antalainen
Lauri Antalainen is the Founder and CEO of Digiwise, Estonia’s leading digitalization and AI consulting firm. He is also a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Brain Research Committee under the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
Lauri currently serves as the President and a Board Member of EstBAN (Estonian Business Angels Network), a vibrant community of over 250 angel investors.
Lauri Antalainen
Head of Business Automation & AI at Make (UK)
Sara Maldon
Sara Maldon is a dynamic and driven leader in the AI space, helping companies unlock the value of AI for their business. As Head of Business Automation & AI at Make by Celonis, she leads efforts to deliver impactful automation, empower teams with AI tools, and foster an AI-first mindset across the organization. Before spearheading AI transformation at Make, Sara managed data projects at a Paris-based scale-up and led a cybersecurity program at BNP Paribas. She is also a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech, with a focus on supporting women in STEM.
Sara Maldon
Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting (Germany)
Lennard Schiefelbein
Lennard Schiefelbein is a Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting. In addition to his work as an engineer on various AI projects, he contributes to multiple topics within TNG’s Innovation Hacking team There he worked in various fields including reinforcement learning,. computer vision, and large language models. Prior to joining TNG, he studied mathematics in Bonn and at TU Munich.
Lennard Schiefelbein
Founder and CEO of AAI Labs (Lithuania)
Aistis Raudys
Dr. Aistis Raudys is a leading expert in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithmic trading, with more than 20 years of experience. As the founder and CEO of AAI-Labs, he has delivered innovative AI solutions across finance, GovTech, energy, and public safety, specializing in areas such as credit-risk prediction, crime forecasting, and smart transport systems.
A Professor at Vilnius University, he teaches algorithmic trading and robotics while contributing to cutting-edge research. With extensive expertise in systematic trading and high-performance computing, Dr. Raudys has developed hundreds of strategies and AI-driven models. His blend of academic insight and practical innovation makes him a key figure in advancing AI and data-driven solutions for the public and private sectors.
Aistis Raudys
Author | CNCF Ambassador and Managing Consultant at Wavestone (Switzerland)
Fabrizio Lazzaretti
Fabrizio Lazzaretti is a Managing Consultant at Wavestone and CNCF Ambassador who bridges cutting-edge cloud-native technologies with enterprise architecture. As maintainer of the CloudEvents project and co-author of “Crafting Great APIs with Domain-Driven Design,” he brings deep expertise in event-driven architecture and microservices to complex challenges. With over ten years of experience in software architecture, development, and DevOps, he currently drives architectural transformation in the insurance industry, helping to bridge the gap between business and IT.
Fabrizio Lazzaretti
Chief AI Officier at Miquido ( Poland)
Jerzy Biernacki
Jerzy Biernacki, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Chief AI Officer at Miquido, focuses on leveraging technology—especially artificial intelligence (AI)—to solve complex business challenges. Since 2018, he has led the company’s AI initiatives, delivering nearly 50 commercial AI implementations across various industries. In his role, Jerzy not only consults, designs, and supports clients but also educates and drives innovation, with a primary emphasis on using AI to transform businesses.
Jerzy Biernacki
CTO | Co-Founder | Early-Stage Advisor & Investor at Tego AI (Israel)
Tal Melamed
Tal Melamed is a technology entrepreneur and security expert with deep experience in building and scaling software businesses in the cybersecurity space. He is the Co-Founder of Tego AI, Inc., a company focused on securing the next generation of autonomous AI systems.
Prior to Tego, Tal founded CloudEssence, a cloud-native application security company that was acquired by Contrast Security, where he continued to lead innovation efforts. Throughout his career, he has combined hands-on engineering leadership with product vision and strategic insight, helping organizations navigate emerging risks at the intersection of cloud, automation, and security.
Tal is also an early-stage advisor and investor, and an active voice in the AI security community.
Tal Melamed
Head of BD at Laminar (UK)
Sam Komesarook
Sam Komesarook is Head of Business Development (BD) at Laminar, where he works on the premier agent analysis platform. He has previously worked as a forward‑deployed engineer and software engineer at Palantir, Fern Labs, and several Y Combinator (YC) startups.
Sam Komesarook
Film Director | Founder & CEO at Marina Meli Directs | Senior Sales & Marketing Operations Specialist at LeanIT LTD
Marina Meli
Marina Meli is an award-winning short film director who specializes in AI-powered corporate films. Her work fuses cinematic storytelling with emerging technologies to simplify complex IT solutions and drive sales.
In parallel, she serves as a Senior Sales and Marketing Operations Specialist at LeanIT LTD, where she leads B2B IT sales and strategic marketing initiatives for cybersecurity, backup, and AI-powered solutions. With over eight years of experience in the tech sector, Marina understands the needs of enterprise clients and transforms them into actionable, creative strategies.
She holds a Master’s degree in Film from Edinburgh Napier University and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which fuel her passion for the intersection of technology, narrative, and human behavior.
A firm believer in the power of storytelling across mediums—and a huge anime fan—Marina has also lectured on anime history and aesthetics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Film Club.
Her work bridges art and industry, inspiring new ways to communicate innovation.
Marina Meli
Senior Product Owner at Bettermile (Germany)
Marie Cattelin
Marie Cattelin is a product leader specializing in AI- and data-driven products, with a strong focus on real-world use cases. She is currently a Senior Product Owner at Bettermile, where she builds data products leveraging large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI to deliver actionable insights for last-mile logistics operations.
Before joining Bettermile, Marie played a key role at 365Talents, where she shaped AI-powered HR tech solutions—designing intelligent products that matched skills to opportunities using advanced AI algorithms. With a background in customer success, she brings a deeply user-centric mindset, consistently focusing on solving meaningful problems rather than applying AI for its own sake.
Marie Cattelin
PhD | Author | President at tuxedo concepts (Canada)
Stephanie Gutnik
Dr. Stephanie Gutnik is President of tuxedo concepts, providing management consulting and public speaking to organizations across the world. Her focus areas are integrated marketing communications, business transformation and professional wellness.
Stephanie has spoken globally from Taiwan to Brazil, with notable events including Advertising Week New York and London, Ad Age’s Business of Brands in Chicago, Brand Innovators in New York, Possible in Miami and AdAI in Toronto. Her articles and interviews can be found in publications such as Adweek, AdExchanger, Digiday and the Association of National Advertisers. She has also been a juror for the likes of The Drum and Future is Female.
Stephanie has previously held roles as Global Chief Strategy Officer at Billups, Global Head of DOOH at Yahoo, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Programmatic Sales at OUTFRONT Media, and Vice President, Business Development at Broadsign. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of New York and Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal.
Stephanie graduated with a BA from McGill University and has a MBA and doctorate from Edinburgh Business School.
Stephanie Gutnik
Professor Global ICT Law at Tilburg University | Senior of Counsel Morrison Foerster
Lokke Moerel
Prof. Lokke Moerel is among the world’s best-known experts on new technologies and the governance of digital transformation and its impact on companies, the workforce, and society at large, as well as the geopolitical implications of increasing global digital dependencies (i.e., digital sovereignty issues).
She is a pioneer of the Responsible AI movement and is regularly called upon by regulators and global tech companies alike to advise on how to best regulate and implement digital technologies and business models based on privacy‑by‑design, ethics‑by‑design, and
Lokke Moerel
Product Manager at GPT-NL (Netherlands)
Saskia Lensik
Beyond GPT-NL, she contributes to European projects focused on the development of sovereign European large language models. Saskia is a frequent speaker at events, where she shares insights on generative AI. Her work is driven by a commitment to advancing digital sovereignty in Europe and shaping the strategic vision for AI across the continent.
Saskia Lensik
Founder | CEO | Email Marketing Expert | eCommerce and Online B2C Marketing Automation Strategist at Stripo Inc (USA)
Dmytro Kudrenko
Dmytro Kudrenko, the Founder and CEO of Stripo, is a passionate email marketing expert with over 15 years of industry experience and 25 years as an entrepreneur. He specializes in email marketing automation and is a licensed specialist in Lead Management and Email Messaging, certified by MECLABS, a world-renowned organization known for its extensive research in marketing.
Dmytro has been a speaker at numerous industry conferences across the USA, Germany, Estonia, Portugal, and the Netherlands. His mission is to make email marketing more accessible and effective for businesses and their subscribers.
Dmytro Kudrenko
Co-founder | CEO | Shopify Specialist at eCommerce Today (Romania)
Stefan Chiriacescu
Stefan Chiriacescu is the Founder and CEO of eCommerce Today, a remote-first marketing agency serving global clients. A systems thinker at heart, Stefan combines strategic vision with operational rigor, transforming business chaos into clear, scalable processes.
He focuses on integrating AI not as a replacement for human talent, but as a superpower that redefines traditional roles—turning executors into editors and strategists. His leadership style is grounded in clarity, accountability, and the belief that a well-structured agency enables both high performance and human well-being.
Stefan Chiriacescu
Dalius Kazlauskas
Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks (India)
Raghav Matta
Raghav Matta is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks, where he helps organizations tackle complex big data challenges. With over ten years of experience across cloud data platforms, he has assisted numerous clients in deploying scalable analytics solutions. His expertise spans Microsoft Azure, big data, and Apache Spark.
As a Microsoft Certified Trainer for eight consecutive years, Raghav has delivered sessions at multiple conferences and meetups, sharing insights on the Azure Data Platform and AI (artificial intelligence) services.
Raghav Matta
Cofounder & CTO at Lamatic.ai (US)
Aman Sharma
Aman Sharma is a serial AI entrepreneur with three successful exits and over a dozen digital and AI products. His journey began as an ML (machine learning) researcher at TU Wien, where he pioneered convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for large-scale recommendation systems.
A pillar of the South Florida tech scene, Aman leads the AI Collective Miami Chapter. He has delivered more than 100 tech talks using his signature Miro diagram–style storytelling, which has inspired thousands of founders, executives, and developers worldwide.
These contributions have established Aman as a two-time Most Active Speaker and a respected AI innovator.
Aman Sharma
Solutions Lead, Cognitive Industries at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
Sini Rytky
Sini Rytky is a technology commercialization leader with over 25 years of experience turning complex innovations into real products and businesses. Her background spans consumer and industrial electronics, industrial automation, automotive, and circular economy technologies, working with global organizations at the intersection of emerging tech and real-world operations.
Today, her work centers on Cognitive Autonomy & Readiness, combining AI (artificial intelligence), intelligent robotics, spatial computing, and extended reality to help humans and systems perceive, learn, and act effectively in uncertain, high-consequence environments. She focuses on moving beyond siloed AI pilots toward scalable, readiness-driven autonomy with tangible business impact.
Sini brings a uniquely human-centered perspective to technology, shaped by a deep interest in how both people and systems adapt, learn, and stay resilient under pressure.
Sini Rytky
Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting (Germany)
Jonathan du Mesnil de Rochemont
Jonathan du Mesnil de Rochemont is a Software Consultant at TNG
Technology Consulting. As part of the Innovation Hacking team, his main focus lies on the benchmarking and evaluation of large language models. Additionally, he is involved in various projects in machine learning and robotics. Before joining TNG he studied computer science at RWTH Aachen with a focus on graph learning
Jonathan du Mesnil de Rochemont
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