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Mayor of Vilnius City
For centuries, Vilnius has been a welcoming place for the peaceful coexistence of free citizens, while perfectly combining its magnificent history, spectacular natural environment and vibrant creativity.
I am totally committed to continue building the City full of the spirit of freedom and creativity so that it would become a source of inspiration and goodness for the people of Vilnius, of Lithuania and of the entire Europe.
Can there be anything more interesting than creating for your City and in the City? Creation, however, requires certain conditions. My team and myself have been working hard for three years to rid Vilnius of its outstanding debts as well as of any other problems having long plagued our capital.
Today, the residents of Vilnius enjoy the renovated urban infrastructure, honest and professional municipal services, and I hope they appreciate the emerging new creative initiatives. Today, Vilnius has all the reasonable grounds to head towards an even more inspiring future.
I personally have been and will be doing everything I can to make this city the best place to live, create and feel free.
I hope that the last years of my activities are a good testimony to that – we can make a change in the city through bold individual commitments. The determination of each citizen to become a creator of the City will undoubtedly result in the exceptional overall benefit of Vilnius.
Source: www.vilnius.lt
Founder and Manager @ De Vinci Innovation Center Researcher @ MIT Medialab
Keynote What about education in 2020?
Bio:
I’m an optimist researcher of the intelligence world wether in artificial systems, ecological environments or education. I’m actually leading an experimental academic innovation center in Paris, la Defense – De Vinci Innovation Center. I’m also affiliated research at the MIT Medialab and part of several program comittees for the ecological tracks in major international conferences of artificial intelligence such as NeurIPS, ICLR and IJCNN.
In 2012, I received two M.Sc. degrees from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI (nowadays Sorbonne University) in Artificial Intelligence and Decisions and a second one from ECE Paris Engineering School in Embedded Systems.
In 2016, I got a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in Le Havre University applied on Organic Ambient Intelligence. During this work, I develop a theorical and practical framework for the deployment of distributed artificial neural networks on energy constraint wireless actuator and sensor networks. This Environement Monitoring and Management Agents (EMMA) framework offers a new choregraphy paradigm for a fully distributed Internet of Things without Cloud.
In 2017, I did my postdoc in the Responsive Environment Group at the Medialab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I joined the team of the Tidmarsh project which develop technologies in order to study the ecological, bio-dynamic and climate evolutions of industrial scale cramberries farm restoration. My contribution is the developpment of a deeplearning based acoustic analyzer for detecting, identifying and geo-localizing in real-time the widlife activity on site from 25 microphones and 6 cameras.
In 2019, I found and lead the De Vinci Innovation Center in Paris, La Defense which is the expertise center of the Pole Leonard de Vinci. Based on a Fab Lab, its Master and PhD programs offer a unique opportunity of exploring new academic methods based on radical learning, anti-disciplinarity and collective learning. Its leitmotiv "Demo or Die", coming from the MIT MediaLab, is supported by a permanent mix of sciences, technics and humanity in order to address the big challenges of our societies. My student are exploring various technologies from Computer Human Interaction, Collective Robotics, Deep Learning, Immersive Technologies and Soft and Active Matters.
Event Host, Director @ VU Business School
Serial entrepreneur & venture investor @
Keynote Investors - what do they expect from you?
Bio:
Serial entrepreneur & venture investor with a track record of building nine-figure companies from scratch and multiple exits. Currently chairs Nextury Ventures and invests in multiple high-tech areas such as 3D printing, fin tech, sharing economy, mobile and smart sports.
“European Manager of the Year” by European Business Press Association, “25 European Tech Leaders” by Wall Street Journal, “Top 40 People in Mobile” by Informa Telecoms and Media, "20 Brightest Business Minds" by Baltic Business Forum, “10 Start-ups That Will Change Your Life” by TIME magazine and “Technology Pioneer” by World Economic Forum in Davos are only a few of his numerous industry achievements. As a recognized thought leader, Ilja speaks on all major ICT conferences and is regularly quoted in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg and many other media outlets.
Ilja’s book “Business in a New Way” has broken multiple records in Lithuania and is all time #1 non-fiction bestseller in the country.
Developer Advocate @ Unity
Keynote "Unity in Education and Beyond"
Discover how a game engine became the base technology for a variety of industries across the globe. Learn how Unity is being used by working professionals and how Educators are preparing students for tomorrow's jobs.
Bio:
Lifelong gamer turned Unity Developer Advocate, Ben joined the Unity team with eight years experience as a Unity Programmer and three years as a college educator. His recent work includes developing and optimizing console ports, real-time multiplayer VR experiences, and XR simulations. Educated as a low-level C++ programmer, Ben brings technical expertise and a passion for game development to the education field.
People Growth Lead @ Ignitis group
Keynote "Strengths-based development".
Aistė has 9 years of experience in learning and development fields combined of NGO‘s, Global Companies and even teaching job in India. She have seen the field from administrative to strategic range. Also she has been working with Gallup‘s Clifton strengths methodology for past 5 years and is certified strengths coach. Currently she is part of Ignitis Group as People Growth Lead.
Senior Advisor @ CERN
Christoph Schafer was born in 1965 in Grevenbroich/Germany. He studied physics
at the University of Aachen (RWTH) where he graduated in 1994 and where he also
obtained his PhD in 1999 under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Schulze and Prof.
Albrecht Bohm. Christoph Schafer is an experimental particle physicist. Most of his scientific work was related to the study of electron-positron collisions, development of experimental techniques, as well as construction and operating large detector systems.
In 1999 he became a fellow at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva/Switzerland working for the operation of the L3 experiment at the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP) and later for the construction and operation of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Since 2003 Christoph Schafer is a staff member of CERN. At first he was responsible for the upgrade and operation of all experimental gas distribution systems of the L3 detector and then was appointed to be the group leader in matters of safety of the CMS experiment. As head of safety, Christoph Schafer was responsible for the safety of the more than 3000 CMS collaborators as well as the CMS detector, worth several hundreds of million Swiss Francs.
In 2014 Christoph Schafer left the CMS collaboration and joined the CERN international relations ofice. As senior adviser, he assists the Director General and the Directorate in matters concerning international relations of the organization, focusing on relations
with CERN non-member states and associate member states in Europe and Central Asia.
Since 2016 Christoph Schafer is appointed visiting professor at Vilnius University where he gives lectures on topics about experimental particle physics.
President @ National Council of Education, Professor of Innovation @ VU BS
Keynote "Skills (R)Evolution 5.0"
Saule Maciukaite-Zviniene (MA, PhD) is a strategist and educator, her work focusses on accelerating potential of innovation ecosystem, integrating social engineering solutions into business future development.
She is a professor of innovation and knowledge transfer, a President of National Education Council and an expert to different international organisations.
Almost 20 years of experience in education and innovation, including a number of years as an advisor to the President of Lithuania, published dozens of scientic articles and books in innovation, education and dynamic governance. She is a Co-Chair of CERN-Lithuania Committee, and has been advising for many years to EU neighboring countries on human potential and economic reforms.
Founder @ Spark lab, digital learning company
For the past 10 years, Šarūnas has been working in the digital learning field. He spent his career working with large corporations and leading an international team of truly creative learning designers. This gave him a unique opportunity to learn from very experienced professionals in the market, work with various digital learning projects ranging from super-short micro-learning pieces to global multi-lingual training programs.
Šarūnas has a unique skill to extract knowledge from experts in various fields and convert it into engaging and effective learning journeys. Earlier this year he found digital learning company Spark lab.
Event Moderator
HR generalist, lecturer
Event Host, Director @ VU Business School
Chief Marketing Officer @ Hostinger
Daugirdas is the Chief Marketing Officer at Hostinger, one of the fastest-growing web hosting providers worldwide.
The main focus of Daugirdas is driving growth for Hostinger by building and scaling new user acquisition efforts. Since 2017, Hostinger grew more than 5x, with no external investment. He participated in creating SEO, Paid Advertising, Content Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Influencer Marketing, CRO strategies and has built a team of 70+ marketing professionals who work from all over the world.
Digital Creative Lead
"Ieva’s experience and design knowledge are much wider than the Pantone color palette. After getting acquainted with graphic design, and having experienced the adventures of large and small creative works, today Ieva dives even deeper into the design. Together with the IT company Baltic Amadeus, she creates incredible things, goes deep into the science of user experience, user-centered design, web design, and usability testing.
Overseeing, guiding and coaching an international team of designers is not less familiar to her than working with a creative team in order to create concepts for advertising campaigns or address the challenges in real-time.
However, apart from taking care of the aesthetics of design, Ieva also ensures it meets the technical criteria. Ieva’s secret is simple – she believes that good design is not just about beauty. It also has to be functional and help brands by hitting directly at the heart rather than in the brain."
Founder @ Spark lab, digital learning company
For the past 10 years, Šarūnas has been working in the digital learning field. He spent his career working with large corporations and leading an international team of truly creative learning designers. This gave him a unique opportunity to learn from very experienced professionals in the market, work with various digital learning projects ranging from super-short micro-learning pieces to global multi-lingual training programs.
Šarūnas has a unique skill to extract knowledge from experts in various fields and convert it into engaging and effective learning journeys. Earlier this year he found digital learning company Spark lab.
Co-founder @ GoodPeople.lt, Consultant @ EuroPsy
Co-founder of training company GoodPeople.lt, Leadership Professor at Vilnius University Business School
Mantas has 15+ years of experience in employee & management training, including 4 years of experience as human resources (HR) manager in international business. He has deep understanding and practice of adult people training (andragogy), follows the trends of modern organizational training methods and experiential learning. In addition to that Mantas has built wide network in the Lithuanian HR community, he is a board member at Association of HR Professionals (PVPA).
For the last 4 years, Mantas together with his team have been running their own training company GoodPeople.lt
Board member of the Lithuanian Business angel network
Martynas Kandzeras is an experienced business developer who boasts more than sixteen years’ experience developing ventures in Lithuania as well as other European countries.
Currently, a board member of the recruitment company ‘Biuro Baltic’ and the private school 'Pažinimo medis'. In these roles, he focuses on business development and innovation agenda. Martynas is also a board member of the Lithuanian business angel network, which unites more than seventy business angels and invests in a wide range of business projects. As an avid and active supporter of entrepreneurship, Martynas is always open to discuss and undertake new opportunities and challenges.
Entrepreneur, Business Angel
Quality Assurance @ VU BS
Jurgita has 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, including Management of study quality assurance and development in higher education. She has a deep understanding and practice of quality assurance of study programs, ensurance of contemporary curriculum principles, learning and teaching strategy and its implementation, student and faculty excellence and satisfaction.
In addition to that Jurgita is teaching effective methods of learning: how to learn, collaborative learning, creating learning environments in face-to-face and virtual learning environments. Jurgita has a broad experience working in national and international groups and committees as an expert of higher education.
Chief Marketing Officer
• More than $3 million spent on digital advertising profitably (mostly Facebook ads)
• Started freelancing 2.5 years ago with no money and no experience
• 1 year 2 months ago quit freelance/agency business, joined a dropshipping project
• Now quit dropshipping business, owning 3 brands. Showtime:)
• CS:GO no-lifer, in 2015 played Gameon Baltic Cup tournament, reached top 32 out of 500+ teams
• Rode 131.8km with a bike in 5 hours 20 mins with 24.7 km/h average speed
• A crazy guy who tests unusual ideas and wants to share his findings with others
• On a path-building at least $100m business in the next 3 years
President @ National Council of Education, Professor of Innovation @ VU BS
Keynote "Skills (R)Evolution 5.0"
Saule Maciukaite-Zviniene (MA, PhD) is a strategist and educator, her work focusses on accelerating potential of innovation ecosystem, integrating social engineering solutions into business future development.
She is a professor of innovation and knowledge transfer, a President of National Education Council and an expert to different international organisations.
Almost 20 years of experience in education and innovation, including a number of years as an advisor to the President of Lithuania, published dozens of scientic articles and books in innovation, education and dynamic governance. She is a Co-Chair of CERN-Lithuania Committee, and has been advising for many years to EU neighboring countries on human potential and economic reforms.
Board member & co-founder @ LitBAN
Completed High-tech MBA program at Northeastern University in Boston, has experience working at tech Fortune 500 companies including in corporate investments for a global telecommunication equipment manufacturing firm, where Rita was director of Investments for Israel. Country Manager for Transcom Worldwide in Lithuania shortly thereafter began to delve into angel investing reawakening my venture capital past, but now with more concrete hands-on business experience. Currently, a limited partner of several Baltic area VC firms, advise an accelerator who specializes in young, innovative local and international start-ups.
Director @ National Agency for Education
Rūta is the Head of the National Agency for Education (NSA) that is involved in the implementation of state pre-school, and general education policies. NSA contributes to ensuring the quality of education, provides information, consulting, professional development, and training assistance as well as carries out educational monitoring and educational research forms the curriculum and coordinates its implementation.
Rūta has worked as the director of Vilnius Žemynos Gymnasium until 2020 and has been a speaker at many international conferences, educational leadership forums.
The main focus of her career is encouraging teachers and school leaders to become leaders in their ventures, as well as to communicating with all members of the community including social partners and policymakers
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