
AI Transformation Expert | Automation Consultant | Chief AI Officer at NorthstarB LLC (Italy)
Alex Northstar Enache is an AI Productivity & Automation Consultant at NorthstarB LLC and serves as a Chief AI Officer & Automation Strategist. He has trained 10,000+ people globally and has worked with companies such as Google, Volvo, and Heygen. He is a former corporate trainer, has tested 500+ AI tools and 1,000s of prompts, and [began working in AI in 2019, completing his] Master’s Thesis in chatbot communication.

PhD | Author | President at tuxedo concepts (Canada)
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.

Head of BD at Laminar (UK)
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.

Chief AI Officier at Miquido ( Poland)
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.

Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks (India)
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.

Founder & Experienced Business Developer of Digiwise (Estonia)
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.

Founder of TU Marketing (US)
Claire Taylor is the founder of TU Marketing, a UK-based SEO and digital marketing agency. She specializes in helping businesses grow visibility, trust, and leads in a search landscape shaped by Google, AI, and changing user behaviour. Known for her straight-talking, practical approach, Claire focuses on what actually drives growth — without the jargon or hype.

Lecturer | Author | Partner at First Impression Consulting (Lithuania)
Malcolm Stewart offers expertise, energy, and inspiration, all delivered with a personal approach. A highly experienced executive coach and trainer, he has been helping people improve their storytelling, public speaking, and C-level communication skills for over a decade. As a writer, event host, ISM lecturer, public speaker at LOGIN, and performance poet and recording artist, he has performed in London, Paris, and Vilnius. He knows precisely how to engage an audience.

Founder & CEO of APG MEDIA | Seasoned Digital Marketing Strategist (Lithuania)
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.

Professor at University of Tartu (Estonia)
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.

CTO of Managed Services at Eficode (Finland)
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.

CTO & Co-Founder at TODAY (Germany)
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.

Co-Founder of Optimational (Italy)
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.

CTO | Co-Founder | Early-Stage Advisor & Investor at Tego AI (Israel)
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.

Head of Business Automation & AI at Make (UK)
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.

Senior Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting (Germany)
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.

Co-founder | CEO | Shopify Specialist at eCommerce Today (Romania)
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.

Professor Global ICT Law at Tilburg University | Senior of Counsel Morrison Foerster
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

Author | CNCF Ambassador and Managing Consultant at Wavestone (Switzerland)
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.

Film Director | Founder & CEO at Marina Meli Directs | Senior Sales & Marketing Operations Specialist at LeanIT LTD
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.

Staff ML Engineer at SmartCat.io (Serbia)
Stanko Kuveljić is a Staff ML Engineer specializing in production AI systems, semantic search, and multi-agent architectures. He has led AI deployments across e-commerce and regulated environments, delivering systems that combine machine learning with strict operational constraints. His current focus is on the engineering discipline required to make generative AI reliable in production, bridging the gap between impressive demos and systems that can be trusted under real-world conditions.

Product Manager at GPT-NL (Netherlands)
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.

Founder | CEO | Email Marketing Expert | eCommerce and Online B2C Marketing Automation Strategist at Stripo Inc (USA)
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.

Fractional CMO | AI Marketing Consultant |Lecturer Harvard University
Christina Inge, EdD, is the architect of Harvard’s AI Marketing Microcertificate Program and one of the world’s leading voices on AI in marketing education. A three-time textbook author whose work has been adopted by over 1,500 institutions globally, she has consulted with organizations ranging from Nissan to the Smithsonian. Awarded one of Harvard’s top honors in business instruction in 2021, she speaks internationally on digital media and AI applications in marketing, including recent presentations at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is also the founder of the Marketing Metrics Association.

CTO | Software Delivery Coach (Latvia)
Andrey Adamovich is an experienced software developer interested in building systems that learn.

Cofounder & CTO at Lamatic.ai (US)
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.

Solutions Lead, Cognitive Industries at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
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.

Software Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting (Germany)
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

Co-founder of mindberry (Austria)
Nina Bordet is the co-founder of Mindberry and a website optimization expert with 17+ years of experience helping companies worldwide – from startups to Fortune 500 companies – turn user insights into business growth. Her work focuses on understanding user behavior to create better digital experiences, boost conversion rates, and deliver measurable, long-term results.

Founder and CEO of AAI Labs (Lithuania)
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.

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat (Belgium)
Maarten Vandeperre is an experienced software professional who recently joined Red Hat as an Application Development & AI Specialized Solutions Architect. With a strong background in software development and architecture, he brings a wealth of expertise to his role. Maarten’s primary focus is on application development and AI, with particular emphasis on leveraging Red Hat OpenShift from a developer’s perspective.
One of Maarten’s key passions is advocating for clean architecture as a guiding principle in software development. He firmly believes in designing software systems that are modular, maintainable, and scalable. As part of this approach, Maarten works to map these principles to infrastructure solutions, ensuring that the underlying technology supports and enhances the overall architecture. His deep understanding of integration technologies—such as API gateways, Keycloak, Kafka, service mesh, and Apache Camel—enables him to create seamless connections between systems while adhering to clean architectural principles that empower organizations to thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Frontend SME, Engineering Manager at eBay (Netherlands)
Eugene Fidelin is an Engineering Manager and Frontend Subject Matter Expert at eBay, and a former Frontend Architect at Marktplaats. He is an experienced full-stack web developer with 20+ years in the field. He enjoys helping teams use AI agents to build well-tested, high-performing, and secure software with JavaScript, Node.js, React, and Marko.js.

AI Advisor | Trainer | Founder of Finnable OÜ
Gerlyn Tiigemäe is an AI implementation practitioner specializing in finance teams. She has trained over 2,000 professionals across 40+ organizations in energy, manufacturing, banking, and the public sector, focusing on practical AI adoption, AI governance, and finance-specific use cases. Gerlyn is an experienced international speaker, holds two master’s degrees in Finance and IT from TalTech, and has 13+ years of corporate finance experience. She is the co-founder of Estonia’s largest AI podcast, AIPowerment, and runs her consulting practice using the same AI workflows she teaches to enterprise teams.

Founder | Principal Certified AI Strategy Consultant at TÜV Rheinland Europe (Germany)
Askold Zimmermann is a TÜV-certified AI consultant and a 23-year veteran of the IT industry. He is the founder of the Askold Assessment Framework™, a proprietary methodology designed to help organizations bridge the “”Value Gap”” between technical AI hype and scalable, real-world return on investment (ROI). Having witnessed numerous technology waves, Askold’s mission is to rescue organizations from “”Proof-of-Concept Purgatory”” — a state in which 80% of AI projects fail to reach production due to a lack of strategic alignment and human-centric planning.He specializes in providing “”pharma-grade”” precision for highly regulated industries, including the pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods (CPG) sectors.His expertise is currently utilized both globally and locally, including on the ground in Riga, where he consults for Latvia’s two largest pharmaceutical companies, Olpha and Grindeks.Askold is known for his “”safety-first”” engineering approach, ensuring that AI implementations respect strict data integrity standards and the European Union (EU) AI Act.At the heart of his work is a commitment to actionable results. Rather than offering abstract theory, Askold provides a battle-tested blueprint that guides organizations through a structured four-step process: Goal Definition, On-Site Process Analysis (using the Five Whys method), Use Case Discovery, and ROI-driven Prioritization.He is dedicated to empowering leadership teams with practical tools — such as the AI Use Case Canvas and Data Readiness Checklists — to ensure AI initiatives are not only innovative but also sustainable and measurable.

Developer Advocate (India)
Vikram Vaswani is a developer advocate, open-source consultant, and technical author with over two decades of experience. He is the author of seven books on software and database programming for McGraw-Hill.
He is an active contributor and speaker in the open-source community and the maintainer of SUGAR, an open-source web application for blood glucose monitoring.
In addition to his technical expertise, he is skilled in developer relations, product marketing, and community management.

Product Owner | Co-founder | Chief AI Innovation Officer at NTT DATA (Belgium)
Abhishek Sakhuja is a visionary Chief AI Innovation Officer at NTT DATA and a passionate public speaker with over 14 years of experience driving AI, cloud, and data transformation initiatives. He specializes in turning emerging technologies into scalable, business-ready solutions that deliver measurable impact across sectors. He is known for leading AI initiatives for over a decade, building cost-efficient, future-ready AI ecosystems. Sakhuja combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to help organizations innovate with purpose. Through global speaking engagements and thought leadership, he inspires enterprises to harness AI responsibly and transform ambition into action.

Author | Coordinator | Data Analyst | Senior Frontend Engineer at Uberall (Germany)
Burak Güneli is a Senior Frontend Engineer at Uberall who strives to understand how things work under the hood to unravel their mysteries, especially in JavaScript. He is also a software engineer highly interested in building a sustainable web.

CEO | Co-Founder at Desktop Commander
Eduards Ruzga is CEO and Co-Founder of Desktop Commander, an AI automation startup that builds the local execution layer for AI. Its open-source MCP server ranks among the top tools in the Anthropic ecosystem with 5,500+ GitHub stars and 411,000+ installs. The company’s desktop app brings one chat, many models, and end-to-end local execution – a technical assistant for anything on your computer. Previously, Eduards spent nearly eight years at Prezi as a Staff Engineer, shipping AI integrations, editor systems, and performance optimization at scale. Through his blog and YouTube channel, he shares the real challenges of using AI – both as a power user and as a founder building an AI-first company

CEO | Co-founder of Cookie3 (Poland)
Filip Wielanier scaled Cookie to a multi-million-dollar annual revenue, working with hundreds of crypto companies and processing large-scale social and on-chain datasets to power growth and intelligence workflows.
Today, he is working on Cookie Pro, an AI-powered research platform tracking 460k+ accounts and detecting real-time market events. His focus is on designing proprietary data layers and AI systems that help teams understand causality and signal quality, not just metrics.

CEO of Tilde
Arturs Vasilevskis is the CEO of Tilde, a leading European language technology company specializing in innovative solutions such as the training and customization of foundation large language models (LLMs), machine translation, localization, and AI-powered virtual assistants. With over 15 years of international experience, Arturs Vasilevskis has played a key role in driving large-scale language service infrastructure solutions, helping organizations, public administrations, and language service providers enhance their multilingual capabilities. His leadership has been instrumental in advancing Tilde’s mission to break down language barriers and improve digital communication worldwide.
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