Speakers - Deep Tech Atelier

Deep Tech Atelier

Speakers

Deep Tech Stage

Deep Frontier Stage

Edgars Rinkēvičs

President of Latvia

Viktors Valainis

Minister of Economics, Republic of Latvia

Director General of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA)

Co-creator of Riga TechGirls | Head of Startup Programs

Co-Founder Gravity Team

Jarle Steinberg

CTO at Nåva Space

Chair of the Board & CEO at Riga TechGirls, Co-founder & CEO at StartSchool

ESA BIC Latvia manager

Senior Associate on the investment team at the NATO Innovation Fund

Head of the Innovation Hub at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis

Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Arts, University of Latvia

Voldemars Bredikis

Entrepreneur and business angel, advisor at UniLab

Martins Boroduskis

Innovation and technology transfer leading expert at Innovation and Acceleration Center at University of Latvia

Vice rector of academic affairs at Riga Stradins University

Vitnija Saldava

Regional Public Policy Lead, Meta

Deputy State Secretary on Digital Transformation, Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development (VARAM)

Marco R. Provvidera

Founder of Provvidera Law Offices, P.C, Member-expert on four NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO)

Investment Manager at Spintop Ventures, an early stage VC fund investing into New Nordics based SaaS companies

Manuela Schwesig

Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Commercialisation Officer at ESA, ESA BIC Country Manager France, Latvia

Aleksejs Klokovs

Director, Aeronautics, Space Engineering and Transport Institute, Riga Technical University

Monta Viļumsone

Founder at Companon

Andrius Milinavicius

General Partner at BSV Ventures

Co-Founder and CEO at Helve

Managing Director at NGL Riga

Andrzej Guzowski

Director of the Department of Defence Industry at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology

Deputy Director of NCP Department at NCBR

Energy & Power Challenge Manager at NATO DIANA

Igors Berkovics

Co-founder of the Biocatalyst Foundation

Darja Aksjonova

Senior expert in Latvian Council of Science
Horizon Europe NCP

CEO Exonicus Europe

NCP for Horizon Europe Clusters 5 and 6

Advisor, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine/Latvia

Dr. Jirut Wattoom

Head of Innovation Strategy and Portfolio Management

Beāte Krauze-Čebotare

CEO of AMMUNITY

Agnė Vaitkevičienė

Vice President of LithuaniaBIO

Dr. Andrea Altier

Dr. Andrus Tasa

Chairman of the Board at TBD Pharmatech

Ilona Guļčaka

Partner, Commercialization Reactor Fund

Aija Hermane-Sabule

Ágata Horwacik

Business Developer, Euro-Funding EU Projects

NCP for Horizon Europe Clusters 5 and 6

Soufiane El Abdouni

Innovation & Technology Advisor for NBD @AGC

Raivis Skadiņš

Director of Research and Development, Tilde

Annija Mežgaile

CEO at TechChill

Coordinator of Estonian CCC at EIS

Timothy E. McGuire

Pentacle Global - Venture Consultant

Sigvards Krongorns

Investment Associate at Verge HealthTech Fund

The founder of Datorium

Carlo Germano Ravina

Co-founder and managing director of Novacapital

Co-founder of Oruga

Executive Director at IT Education Foundation

Anna Ramata-Stunda

CEO/co-founder of Alternative Plants, lecturer at University of Latvia

Andreas Muehlberger

Infineon Technologies, Strategic Partner Management

Founder of Hospilly; CPO at Xybos

Solvita Kostjukova

STEM & Deep Tech Ecosystem Builder for Women at Unilab, CEO of Alina

Mārcis Donerblics

CTO at VIRATEC, director of VIRAC

Business Analyst at SPRIN-D

RTU Vice Rector for Innovations

Egita Aizsilniece-Ibema

Head of Latvian Innovation and Technology office in Brussels, LIAA

Teemu Seppälä

Technology and Innovation Director, City of Riihimäki

Antoņina Bļodone

National Armed Forces Joint Headquarters’ Battalion Commander, Colonel

Ingmārs Pūķis

VP and Member of the Management Board at LMT

Veiko-Vello Palm

Former Deputy Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces, COO at Frankenburg Technologies (Estonia)

Chair of the MilTech Association Board in Latvia

Gijsbert Wierink

Linn Kretzschmar

CERN Venture Connect Entrepreneurship Development

Ilijana Kovrlija

Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Riga Technical University

⁠Elīna Lidere

Freelance Advisor to the Prime Minister on Innovation and Technology

Editor of Labs of Latvia and co-founder of Finday.lv

Jekaterina Romanova

CEO and founder at PrintyMed

Alessandro Caranci

Senior Vice President of Satellite Communication at Telespazio SpA.

Managing Partner and CEO of BuildIT VC

Kristiāna Grāmatiņa

Co-founder of Prakses Asistents

Alberto Garcia Picazo

Senior International Project and Innovation Consultant at Hello Tomorrow

Deputy Director (EU funds) at the Entrepreneurship Cometitivenes Department of The Ministry of Economics

Kristaps Cīrulis

Co-Founder of Terrawaste, Innovation Lead at Helve, and Acting CEO of the Baltic Sustainability Award

Head of QPU Technology at IQM Quantum Computers

Harri Mäki-Reinikka

Ambassador at MFA Finland

Technology adoption expert, AI and sustainability enthusiast

Edvards Francis Kuks

Head of RIS3 Unit at Ministry of Science and Education

Scarlett Gauthier

Acting director of EIC and EISMEA

Latvian Radio and TV journalist

Freelance Reporter, TechCrunch

Baltic Deeptech startup

Mistery-guest for the audience

Haralds Āboliņš

Semiconductor Strategy Manager

Osvalds Pugovičs

Manager of the BioPhoT Platform

Saulius Tumėnas

Head of Semiconductor Optics Laboratory (FTMC)

Professor of Computer Aided Drug Design

Mariia Krasnoshchok

Innovation Ecosystem & STI Cooperation Specialist

Vitālijs Skrīvelis

Board Member and co-owner, PharmIdea SIA

Healthcare Innovator | Health Ecosystem Builder | Start-up Mentor | Purpose-driven Leader | Growth Strategist | Health Equity Advocate

Karolina Madrak

Coordinator in the International Cooperation Department, NCBR

Chief Expert in International Cooperation Department of NCBR

Deputy Director, Department of Analyses and Strategies, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP)

Proffesor ar University College London

Tomasz Szeratics

Chargé d'affaires a.i. of Polish Embassy in Riga

Dr. Lauma Muizniece

Director General of Latvian Council of Science

Wiebke Hinrichs

Technical Patent Data Analyst – Chief Economist Unit at EPO

Pieter van Beekhuizen

Director Bexperience / Chairman of Netherlands Space Society

Kaspars Pollaks

Director at LMT Defence

European patent attorney

Dāvids Štēbelis

ESA Industrial coordinator in Latvia

Dr. Gianluigi Baldesi

Head of the Ventures and Financing Office at the European Space Agency

Military Expert, Riga Business School faculty member

Māris Andžāns

Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies Riga and Associate Professor at Riga Stradins University

Ņikita Kazakevičs

LMT Ecosystem Partnerships Lead, Innovation Development Division

Zuzanna Filipecka

Business Development at Open Cosmos

Head of Commercialisation Department at European Space Agency - ESA

Jana Budkovskaja

CEO of Beamline Accelerator (Estonia)

Member of the Board Latvian Space Industry Association

Kadi-Ingrid Lilles

Partner at Iron Wolf Capital

Angelina Bekasova

Senior Expert for Space and Innovation Policy at the Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia

Sinéad O'Sullivan

Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, as well as a Board Member of the European Space Policy Institute

Dr. Roey Tzezana

Futurist & Researcher at the Blavatnik Center at Tel Aviv University

Aigars Lazdiņš

Head of the Technology Transfer and Cooperation Unit, RTU Science and Innovation Centre

AI Engineering Manager, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Origin Robotics

Anthony Giannoumis

Motivational speaker on inclusive leadership

Leonardo Rocchetti

Early Stage Investor at Plug and Play Ventures

Markus Herrgard

CTO at BioInnovation Institute

Deep tech Manager at Plug and Play Japan

Lithuania Plug and Play Tech Center Director

President of PACTT

PhD, Co-founder & Managing Director at Pikralida

Head of AI at Riga Stradiņš University

Agris Batalauskis

Director of the Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia

Alcedo ventures, Managing Director

Accenture Growth & Innovation Strategy Senior Executive

Andris Ambainis

Professor of computer science at the University of Latvia

Arturs Bundulis

Leading Researcher

Director, Lead Researcher (University of Latvia, Faculty of Science and Technology, Laser Centre)

Maksims Dimitrijevs

Docent, researcher (University of Latvia)

CEO and Co-founder of Forse AI

Associated professor at Riga Technical university (RTU)

LVRTC leading QKD engineer and an associate professor at University of Latvia

Rihards Novickis

Senior researcher and head of Integrated Circuit and Systems laboratory at Institute of Electronics and Computer Science.

Jānis Sildniks

Head of Social Media at “Delfi”

Ilze Švarcbaha

CEO & founder of Not Scheduled

Edžus Miķelsons

Editor at “Delfi Campus”

Agnese Skrastīte

@agnesereels, Social media creator

Pablo Garcia Tello

Section Head of the Development of EU Projects & Initiatives, CERN

Leszek Roszkowski

Gustavs Lapiņš

Senior Investment Project Manager, LIAA

Jurģis Miezainis

Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia

⁠Andris Baumanis

UniLab, Member of the Management Board

IneseSuijaMarkova

Inese Suija-Markova

Deep Frontier Stage Host

FINEST SCALEUP project lead at Startin.LV

Agnese Oļševska

Deputy Director of Innovation at LIAA

Nikolai Adamovitch

Founder & CEO at "Commercialization Reactor", a seasoned entrepreneur, investor

Editor in Chief "Labs of Latvia"

Partner at Buildit VC

Grzegorz Brona, PhD

Creotech Investments - President of the Management Board, CEO

Natalie Cernecka

Manager @ EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative

Aleksandrs Parfinovičš

Co-Founder at Naco Technologies

CTO and co-founder of Cellbox Labs

Business Coach & Strategic Mentor

Kristīne Stakena

Growth Stage Host

Artis Ozoliņš

Deep Tech Stage Host

Alise Pīka-Ozola

Industry Liaison Officer for Latvia at CERN, LIAA

Anton Adamovitch

MP at Commercialization Reactor, EIT Community Officer Latvia at EIT Community