Xuan Jin is the head of Alibaba Cloud UKI and Nordics, responsible for business development and customer success of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence in the region. He joined Alibaba Cloud UK in 2017, leading the solutions architect team. Prior to Alibaba Cloud, Xuan was a tech lead in Cisco, after worked in software engineering for IG Group and Oracle. Xuan received MSc in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Herman Van Rompuy, President Emeritus of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Belgium, is now President of the European Policy Centre – one of the leading think tanks of Brussels. He is also a visiting Professor in several universities (SciencesPo Paris, the College of Europe, UCL, KULeuven, Ugent, etc).

Herman Van Rompuy’s presidency of the EPC follows an impressive career in national and European politics; a former economist at the National Bank of Belgium, he began his political career in 1973 as national vice-president of his party's youth council, before holding various responsibilities within his party and in the Belgian Parliament and government, serving in turn as Senator (1988-1995), Secretary of State for Finance and Small Businesses (1988), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Budget (1993-1999), Member of Parliament (1995-2009), Minister of State (2004), and Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007-2008).

At the time of his first appointment as President of the European Council in 2009, he was Prime Minister of Belgium. He was the first full-time President to take office when the Lisbon Treaty came into force. In 2015, King Philippe II of Belgium ennobled Herman Van Rompuy by making him an earl.

Dr. Ivan P. Yamshchikov is a researcher for AI and Cognition in Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and an AI-evangelist at ABBYY. He is also a passionate educator with more than 10 years of experience in data analytics, focusing on popularizing AI and its versatile industrial and business applications. Ivan is also a co-founder of Creaited Labs (creaited.com) — a project focused on development of creative potential of AI.

Daniel’s background is in leading transformations in world-class companies such as CEZ (leading CEE utility), Česká spořitelna (leading CEE bank) and RSA (global insurance). His mandate was using data driven approach for improving efficiency of the front-office organization. He will speak how to change management and organizational culture to allow for faster adoption of big data and machine learning technologies and how to improve digital awareness at senior management level and foster learning culture. He will share his views of the emerging role of Chief Data Officer (CDO): where to get or how to grow an effective CDO in a large company with successful legacy business model, is this a business or technology role.

Ilya Kretov is the General Manager for Russia, Israel and Emerging Europe at eBay. He was
appointed to this role in November 2016. Previously, Kretov held the position of Deputy
General Manager, Marketing, Russia and Emerging Europe. He joined eBay in 2013 as the
company’s Marketing Director. Prior to that, Ilya worked for Google and Mars. He has more
than 10-year experience in marketing and developing brands of major Western companies.
Kretov is also a lecturer in marketing at the RMA business school.

Nikolay leads MTS AI business actives. His focus is on establishing MTS AI ecosystem allowing internal and external customers to enjoy hassle-free digital transformation and implementation of complex AI projects smoothly and effectively.

Prior to joining MTS Nicolay served in senior sales and marketing roles leading regional expansion in Russia and CIS for NASDAQ100 global telecom vendors as well as US and Israeli startups. His experience spans design, development, marketing and deployment of communication systems focusing on future-proofing business operations through digital transformation and introduction of cutting edge technologies to telecom, vertical and governmental markets.

Neela Das leads Accuity’s global, multi-disciplinary innovation team with regional hubs in London, Paris, and Singapore. She is responsible for developing the innovation strategy, collaborating with the financial crime and payments business and technology teams across the globe. Her teams focus on driving ideas from concept to prototype quickly and efficiently using lean methodologies.



Neela brings a wealth of experience working in disrupted markets. She previously held the Digital Director role at New Scientist, and as part of the senior management team, developed and successfully implemented its digital strategy at a time when the publishing industry was experiencing unprecedented change.

At Accuity Neela’s projects have included everything from making use of geolocation data to PoCs for distributed ledger technology. She has a particular focus on the implementation of AI, collaborating closely with clients to uncover pragmatic solutions to their problems.

Thomas has 15 years of experience in card payment industry and the last 5 with Visa. Mr Nielsen has gathered great experience from card issuing banks and processor across many themes. At Visa he has the last two years been leading Nordic e-commerce initiatives and the last year in Nordic lead of the implementation of Strong Customer Authentication and related services. AI plays a pivotal role in the services that we develop for SCA and many of Visa’s risk related services.

Dovilė Arlauskaitė is a project manager at the Bank of Lithuania (central bank), responsible for coordination of Newcomer programme and Regulatory sandbox. Newcomer programme offers regulator’s cooperative attitude for entrants to the financial sector, considering acquiring a license in Lithuania. Regulatory sandbox creates opportunity for potential and existing financial market participants to test financial innovation in a live environment under the regulatory guidance. Almost every day communicating with FinTech companies, assessing business models, including innovative ones, Dovilė strongly believes in innovative future and endless opportunities for improvement.

Kaspars Kauliņš is Business Development Director and Head of Language technology business at Tilde. Kaspars brings over twenty years of solid expertise in Business Development, HR and strategic business consulting. Throughout his career, Kaspars has held various senior leadership, business development and talent management positions within the FMCG, Financial Services, Professional Advisory, and IT & Telecommunications industries. He has also held senior HR positions with Swedbank Group, and has served as the Group HR Director for SPI Group in Luxembourg.

Key expertise areas: Strategic Business Development , Client Relationship Management, Executive search and assessment; Performance management, Leadership and Talent management, Rewards (Compensation & Benefits), Learning and Development, Organizational design and development, Strategic HR, Business process improvement, Customer service development, Competency management.

Roman Kumar Vias, co-owner of Qlean (World’s 3-rd on-demand cleaning service)
CEO&Founder of Qmarketing Agency (Marketing for technological companies in SF, UK, RU)

Roman will present the unique workshop: Digital Marketing in B2B. How to boost your b2b sales using the latest tools of paid social marketing.

Agur Jõgi is an innovator, founder, experienced manager, and technology enthusiast. He performs best when creative solutions are needed for "impossible to solve cases". Starting-up a new idea or a company, planning and delivering a complex strategy change in an established company are situations he enjoys the most, because it’s an opportunity to learn something new every day. He uses his strengths and hires a team to cover for his weaknesses. One man can lead, but constant delivery comes from teamwork.

Agur’s professional life is mostly related to tech and product people management in companies of various capacity in IT, telecommunication and

In 2004, under her leadership, airBaltic implemented airline’s first online tickets sales system, without which today’s airline business is unimaginable. Since then, J.Rema has introduced online sales for various ancillary services and now has undertaken leadership of the company’s digital marketing team.

Nowadays good UX&UI is no longer enough to engage users of website and convert them into customers. Big data or everything we know about our website visitor and customer has become an integral part of the company’s commercial strategy. At the conference, J.Rema will take you on a journey of how does the Baltic’s largest airline use those data to offer customers the right product at the right time.

A native of Dundalk, Ireland, Donal is currently based in Slovakia and has a strong track record in biometrics, managing strategic partnerships in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for Innovatrics, a global leader in identity management technology.

Passionate about technology, Donal believes that biometrics plays a critical role in developing robust and secure identity ecosystems. This demand was traditionally driven by government and law enforcement, however he believes that we are on the cusp of a period of exponential growth in the use of biometrics in enterprise, particular in the area of regulatory technology, or RegTech

Līva has been part of Circle K Business Centre for almost 8 years, participating in various projects like process transfer and implementing new ERP system. Currently Līva is leading Robot process automation (RPA) program for European units. RPA and AI has been a buzzwords for some time now. A lot of companies has tried to use various tools, some end their journey during pilot phase while others utilize it successfully for years. What is the key to success? At the conference Līva will give an insight to successfully build ongoing RPA program that is part of overall business transformation.

Viktor Troicin, Chief Commercial Officer in Maxima, is very passionate about modern technologies in retail. His main areas of interests are upscaling operational efficiency and capacity as well as enhancing user experience through digital domain. Viktor holds MBA in Stockholm School of economics

Executive Creative Director (ECD) at Tribe Riga Creative Solutions Agency

Began working in the advertising industry in 2005 at BBDO agency. Later worked at Grey Group and Young & Rubicam. Since 2015 leads a multidisciplinary team at Tribe Riga Agency.

Worked with the world and local brands and companies: Nike, GM, BMW, Jaguar, Mini, Subaru, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Nokia, Land Rover, GlaxoSmithKline, NASDAQ, mail.ru, airBaltic, Danone. Gatis directed advertising campaigns and creative solutions later shortlisted and marked by international advertising awards Golden Hammer, AdWards, BestBaltic, and also included in Jean Marie Boursicot's collection "The Night of the Adeaters".

Many times worked as a member of the jury at advertising festivals Cannes Young Lions Georgia, AdWards, LisbonAdFestival, KIAF, White Square AdFest, AdBlackSea, Tagline Awards, Fakestival, where gave talks and shared his insights and experience.

Gatis is a frequent guest speaker in universities, advertising and design-themed meetings and events. He also teaches workshops on creativity and digital and magazines publish his articles on innovations, strategies and creative thinking.

Gatis focuses on new technologies that can change the world perspective, their development, and application. His portfolio features interactive exhibitions, social apps, hi-tech campaigns.

Rozenfelds often meets with creative agency founders, creative directors, and designers to talk about work, development, and experience. These interviews are available on Gatis's YouTube channel.

Chief Revenue Officer and late co-founder at Salto.co, bringing CEE's best startups and digital talents to enterprises. Raimonds is a tech geek who loves building products, and helping corporates innovate. After spending some time in Deloitte, Raimonds founded his startup, accelerated through 500Startups, moved to Silicon Valley, worked with amazing institutions like Oxford, Cambridge, Westpoint, Georgetown, UC Berkeley, and sold the startup to the market leader in US. Next step was to join forces with Citadele Bank to build a new fintech - klix.app digital wallet to streamline the checkout process. And now - bridging the gap between enterprise and startups at Salto.co

Kārlis Danēvičs joined SEB group in 2003 and currently serves as a board member responsible for Compliance and AML, previously taking different managerial roles inside the company. Kārlis has lived and worked in Sweden covering Country and Financial Institution risks and limit decisions. Kārlis is a very passionate speaker, frequent lecturer and excellent communicator with wide range of interest. During the conference Kārlis will be moderating panel discussion on how Fintechs are disrupting the banking market.

Miks Lūsītis is TWINO Group Data Science and Risk Management Lead and Executive Board member of TWINO. Miks leads a team of top industry experts in machine learning, business intelligence and risk analysis and ensures that TWINO processes in these fields are ahead of industry and follow the latest innovations in technology. Prior joining TWINO Miks gained strong experience in analytics, data processing and has continued the started in TWINO. In TWINO Miks has worked on developing data science area from scratch to the level it is now, been part of developing our lending policy and has lead data teams. Miks holds a professional bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Latvia.

Pavel experience with start-ups was gained early and firsthand. After graduating from university, he started his own small consulting firm where he matched local Czech companies with relevant and eager foreign investors. Business–IT alignment is Pavel’s greatest strength. He spent 12 years in IBM, solidifying his experience in technology. Another domain Pavel has been focusing on is cultivating an innovative corporate culture at the companies where he has been involved.  Currently Pavel leads the Deloitte Consulting business in Central Europe. He also serves on the advisory boards of several technology startups, where he identifies and builds alliances with various technology vendors (both startup and big tech).

Rui is the Head of Digital Transformation for the Oracle Digital Strategic Accounts in the UK. With a varied background, that spans from the database, analytics, machine learning, AI and e-commerce, Rui’s mission is to create value and bring organizations closer to their goals through digital transformation.

With over 15 years of experience in IT, from startups to companies like Oracle, Salesforce and HP, and an academic background in management and business consulting, Rui helps organizations of different sizes and industries, reaching their goals through advice on how to create a roadmap of innovation that will connect and support their strategic objectives and growth plans.