Has two university degrees in intercultural communication and international relations. After leaving the civil service, he worked as a correspondent for the international information department of the newspaper Tribune, owned by JSC Gazprom Media.

In 2008 he joined the OZON.ru team as a manager in public relations and relations with authorities. In 2010 he was appointed the position of Head of Marketing Communications and PR. Since September 2011, Mikhail headed digital sales and worked on the launches and development of digital books, games and software at OZON.ru.

In 2014, in the position of head of the project development department, he was engaged in the development and marketing of OZON.ru’s mobile applications as well as the increasing of international sales. Under the direction of Mikhail, versions of the 2.0 application have been successfully launched, the SCAN IT! function has been introduced, a mobile website has been launched and the turnover of foreign sales has increased considerably. In 2015 Mikhail was appointed Web Applications Director for OZON.ru.

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.

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.

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.

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

Arkady has more than 15 years of experience in e-commerce and later AI. Has joined MTS (Russian mobile operator) two years ago and successfully leads AI applications development since. He is a member of the group of consultants at Gerson Lehrman Group. During his entire career Arkady shares his knowledge through teaching at MBA and MA programs at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and the State University of Management.

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 finance.

Raimo Matvere is a Head of Partnerships at e-Residency Estonia team. He is responsible for facilitating cooperation between e-Residency programme and service providers that are helping e-residents to start and grow their cross-border businesses in Estonia. Raimo has 15 years of experience in marketing and creative work, event organising and managing partnerships in telecommunications, business consultancy, creative and also non-government industries.

Igor Rodin possess more than 20 years professional experience in advising international tax planning, IPO, M&A transactions to international and local companies in the Latvian manufacturing and financial services sector. Igor Rodin was the first Latvian to become a partner in Big 4 accounting firm in Latvia and the first local national to lead a Big 4 practice in the Baltics.

Igor Rodin has advised and audited banks in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, and he holds experience in such FSI projects as attracting investors to management companies, leading projects of selling, purchasing and restructuring banks.

Since 2011 Igor Rodin has been an Engagement Partner of Advisory projects that successfully resulted in obtaining Government Tax Grants by seven industrial companies as “Olainfarm”,“Kronus”, “Bolderaja Ltd”, “Valmieras Stikla Škiedra “, “L-Ekspresis”, “Baltic Logistic Solutions”, Stora Enso Latvia.

Viktor 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.

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.

Andrey Ivashin has 20+ years of experience in IT at different levels, including the latest title of Chief Information Officer at Dyninno Group, company providing business processes and IT optimization to the customers all around the world. Andrey is highly skilled at system architecture and design as well as cloud architecture. He is very passionate about finding efficient solutions, using a combined understanding of technology, business and human capital, working at strategic, tactical and operational levels – topic that he will embark on during the conference.

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.

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

Raman is a co-founder and CEO of Travel Union. Raman has 19 years’ experience in banking, capital markets, consulting and finance. He is a co-founder and partner of an investment boutique - Nemera Capital in London. He worked as a board member and CFO for a commercial bank Locko-Bank (Russia) and an international fintech company – ID Finance (Spain). He worked in leadership positions at EY and PWC for almost 10 years in different countries in Capital Markets, Transactions Advisory and Assurance departments and was also responsible for launching a new PwC office in Belarus as the General Director. He is CFA Charterholder and ACCA Member. He holds MBA from the University of Cambridge.