Pitch
10:30 - 12:15
Reverse Pitches by Investors
Jana Budkovskaya
CEO @ Beamline Accelerator
Christopher Mills
Discovery partner at Kiilto Ventures
Zygimantas Susnys
Managing Partner at Iron Wolf Capital
Raimondo Pili
Senior Corporate Partnerships and Investor relations at Plug And Play
Erki Ani
General Partner at SFV
Dominykas Milasius
Investment Partner at Baltic Sandbox Ventures
Céline Triquel
Head of R&D Open Innovation (Servier)
Serban Mogos
Investment Manager, TRUMPF Venture
Yuri Navarro
Managing Partner at Kanata Ventures
Inge Grini
Co-founder @ Intellectual Labs
Pitch
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch Break
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Challenges Across Different Ecosystems
Anton Adamovitch
Managing Partner, Partnerships & Ecosystem Architect @ Commercialization Reactor; EIT Community Officer of Latvia @ EIT
David Ordonez
NATO Innovation Fund
Vaido Mikheim
Deep Tech Project Lead @ Startup Estonia
Leonardo Rocchetti
Investor at Plug and Play Tech Center
Michalis Stangos
President and Partner of L Stone Capital
14:35 - 15:00
Deep Tech Talent Initiative - Jewel in the crown of EIT
Verneri Välimaa
Founder, Impactology
Natalie Cernecka
Manager @ EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative
Anton Adamovitch
Managing Partner, Partnerships & Ecosystem Architect @ Commercialization Reactor; EIT Community Officer of Latvia @ EIT
Aija Hermane-Sabule
CEO @ WatchBuilt
Liga Zuka
Director or Rīga Stradiņš University Innovation Centre
15:00 - 15:30
Networking Break
Networking
15:30 - 16:10
Deep-tech support in Latvia – lessons learned
Anda Asere
Journalist at Labs of Latvia & Co-founder of Finday.lv
Agnese Oļševska
Director of Innovation and Technology Department at the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA)
Liene Briede
RTU Vice-Rector for Innovation, Board Member of the European Innovation Council
Aleksandrs Parfinovics
CEO, Co-founder @ Naco Technologies
Ieva Jagere
Head of Private Equity Department at ALTUM
Angelina Bekasova
Space and Innovation Policy Senior Expert, Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia
Krists Avots
Tet Chief Development & Strategy Officer
Pitch
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch Break
Lunch
15:00 - 15:30
Networking Break
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Baltic Biotech Ecosystem
Igors Berkovics
Co-Founder at Biocatalyst Foundation
Emilio Parisini
ERA Chair, Biotechnology Group, Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis
Donatas Staniulis
Executive Director at LithuaniaBIO
Janis Locs
Director at RTU Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering and Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence
09:00 - 10:30
Startup Demo Semifinals (Growth Stage)
Pitch
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch Brake
13:00 - 15:00
Communicate or die - scientists on communication
Ieva Treija
Editor in Chief "Labs of Latvia"
Anda Asere
Journalist at Labs of Latvia & Co-founder of Finday.lv
Elina Lidere
Head of Innovation Ecosystems at Latvijas Mobilais Telefons
Krista Krumina
Co-founder of "TrueSix"
Tatjana Pladere
Head of the Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Latvia
Viktors Haritonovs
Faculty of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Institute of Civil Engineering, Senior Researcher
Aleksejs Zolotarjovs
Leading researcher, Head of Optical metarials laboratory, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia
Ingus Pērkons
Researcher at the Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment "BIOR"
Arita Dubņika
Scientific Direction Leader
Daniela Godiņa
PhD in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) Researcher at Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry
Oskars Teikmanis
Researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (EDI) and board member of the Latvian Association of Young Researchers.
09:30 - 10:30
What is Big Science Market and as a Deep Tech Company Why You Should Know More?
Paolo Acunzo
Director of BSBF 2024 and Head of service, Industry Liaison Officer Network Italia in ENEA
Alise Pīka-Ozola
Industry Liaison Officer for Latvia at CERN, LIAA
Giovanni Anelli
Knowledge Transfer Group Leader Industry, CERN
Adam William Horridge
Procurement Officer, CERN
Dāvids Štēbelis
ESA Industrial Coordinator
10:45 - 11:45
The Key to Succeed in EIC Accelerator
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch Break
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
SpaceTech Discussion Roundtable by LatBan
Nikolai Adamovitch
Founder and CEO at Commercialization Reactor
Angelina Bekasova
Space and Innovation Policy Senior Expert, Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia
Cyril Golub
Venture Capital professional, Chairman of the Latvian Business Angel Network, Board Director at European BAN Association
Andris Baumanis
UniLab, Member of the Management Board
Ella Kalniņa
Managing Partner at Navigate the Future
Miks Dzenis
Cēsis Space Center, Head of the Space Intelligence Center
Pavels Razmajevs
Eventech, Chief Operations Officer
Andris Treijs
Heephotonic.eu, Chief Executive Officer
Jekaterina Kuzmina
Board Member 2AM
Alexey Nikolas
2AM, Co-Founder & Member of the Board
13:00 - 15:00
On The Wave of Technology
Dr. Anda Ikauniece
Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Marine Monitoring Department
Dr.Agnese Stunda-Zujeva
Dāvids Štēbelis
ESA Industrial Coordinator
Uldis Garančs
LIAA, ELWIND
Joel Lindholm
Under Ytan, CEO and Co-Founder
Magnus Hansten
Nemo Seafarms, CEO
Svetlana Lampiga
Investment and Developments Agency of Latvia (LIAA)
Dr. Ausra Baradoke
Deep Scientific, CEO and Founder