Meet our
speakers!
Khrystyna Didukh
An entrepreneur, troubleshooter, consultant, mentor of Board Business, founder of LYSTVA - the most technological flower company in Ukraine, 358 FLOWER BASE - the first flower competence centre in Ukraine, creator of BRAVE2BLOOM CONFERENCE, ambassador of entrepreneurship idea, e-resident in Estonia and volunteer.
Khrystyna Didukh
Troubleshooter, Founder & CEO of Lystva and 358 Flower Base
Kacie Lett Gordon, Katie Louise Mullins
Best friends, business partners, neighbors - Katie Louise Mullins and Kacie Lett Gordon are Creators of the Fuck It All Podcast (16K listeners + counting) for modern women redefining 'it all,' and Co-Founders of IT ALL Media - a home for the new stories that define us and conversations women want to have.
Kacie Lett Gordon, Katie Louise Mullins
Co-Founder, IT ALL Media (both)
Kristel Kruustuk
Kristel Kruustuk is the Founder and Board Director of Testlio. She became the youngest woman millionaire in Estonia at her 24. She focuses on company culture, improving its testing network and testers, and forwarding social impact initiatives, D&I commitments, and angel investing to other female-founded companies.
Kristel Kruustuk
Founder and Board Director of Testlio
Signe Riisalo
Signe has been a member of the Reform Party since its Foundation in 1994. She was one of the founding members of the Estonian Liberal Democratic Party, from which the Reform Party sprouted.
In 2021 she took office as Minister of Social Protection of the Republic of Estonia. This was preceded by a long career at the Ministry of Social Affairs and a seat at the Estonian Parliment (2019-2021) during which she was also a member of the Social Affairs Committee.
Signe Riisalo
Estonian politician, Minister of Social Protection of Estonia since January 2021
Kristina Shehaitli
An international scaling expert, business strategist, serial entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of international scaling business agency BEWEIS, Ph.D., UN Women Mentor, and Ambassador of Women Empowerment. More than 16 years of practice in 50+ countries. Based in UAE, Ukraine, and Canada. Kristina is striving to create, select & connect international opportunities.
Kristina Shehaitli
International Business Strategist /Founder at BEWEIS / Ambassador of Women Empowerment / Entrepreneur
Kaidi Ruusalepp
Kaidi is in the TOP 50 Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space for the sixth year. She is the first IT lawyer in Estonia and a co-author of the Estonian Digital Signatures Act. Also a co-founder of the Estonian Service Industry Association. Ex Member of Startup Europe Advisory Board at the European Commission. A former CEO of the Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange and the Central Securities Depository
Kaidi Ruusalepp
Founder and CEO of Funderbeam, member of the Digital Council of the President of Estonia and President of Estonian Founders Society for 2022
Kristina Mand-Lakhiani
Co-founder of Mindvalley – a global school that
delivers transformational education for all ages. As an entrepreneur, writer, speaker,
and philanthropist, is
engaged in the personal transformation
industry for over 20 years. Started her career in working for the government of Estonia. Later worked for organizations such as the United
Nations, Oxfam, and AIESEC. The author of the transformation programs and the book Becoming Flawesome.
Kristina Mand-Lakhiani
Co-founder of Mindvalley
Andres Sutt
Andres Sutt is currently Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee. As a Minister he was overseeing the development of e-Estonia, cyber security and the 5G rollout, also promoted local startup ecosystem.
Prior he was a Member of Board at Enefit, Head of Banking at the European Stability Mechanism, Senior Advisor and member of the Executive Board of the IMF, and also Deputy Governor responsible for financial stability at Eesti Pank.
Andres Sutt
Member of Parliament, former Minister of Entrepreneurship and IT
Kaimo Kuusk
Kaimo Kuusk began his career in the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, since 1999 as a Head of the Department and later as a Deputy Director-General (2008-2019). In 2019, Kaimo Kuusk was appointed as the Advisor of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, and in September of the same year, he was appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to Ukraine.
Kaimo Kuusk
Ambassador of Estonia to Ukraine
Jaan Kokk
Financial advisor with a knack for turning numbers into magic. With a background in both tech start-ups and traditional finance, Jaan has a unique ability to understand the financial implications of even the most futuristic decisions. He has built entire financial reporting systems from scratch, helped secure bank financing, raise rounds, sell enterprises, and sort out a bunch of other financial challenges. But don’t let his financial prowess fool you, Jaan has a sense of humour and great experience in product development and digital sales funnels.
Jaan Kokk
Analyst @ Superangel | Early stage funding in the Baltics and Nordics
Karolina Ullman
Karolina was born and raised in Sweden with Estonian roots. She moved to Tallinn in 2004 with an idea to set up a law firm. Today, NJORD is a Top 10 law firm in Estonia. Being a lawyer means not only paying attention to compliance and legal acts. Sometimes the cultural and psychological aspects of negotiations are as important.
Karolina Ullman
Co-founder of NJORD Law Firm in Estonia, Vandeadvokaat (member of the Estonian Bar Association), Advokat (member of the Swedish Bar Association)
Kalev Kaarna
Investor and startup coach at Superangel, adept at guiding early-stage tech startups on a fast growth path. Skilled in pattern recognition, he helps founders tackle challenges and get unstuck. He is strong believer in leadership development in every founder.
Kalev Kaarna
Investor & Startup Coach at Superangel
Lilit Sarkisian
An artist, entrepreneur, founder of LILIT ART STORE and the ART ADDICTED art educational platform. She is a mother of two children.
Clients & collaborations: PEPSI, HUAWEI, IQOS, VOLVO, PANDORA, L'OFFICIEL, VOGUE, ELLE Lilit's works are in personal collections of clients from Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Minsk, Paris, Milan, Dubai, Geneve, Zurich.
Clients & collaborations: PEPSI, HUAWEI, IQOS, VOLVO, PANDORA, L'OFFICIEL, VOGUE, ELLE Lilit's works are in personal collections of clients from Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Minsk, Paris, Milan, Dubai, Geneve, Zurich.
Lilit Sarkisian
Artist, entrepreneur, influencer
Shirly Valge
Shirly is an experienced entrepreneurial and business development professional with an explicit history of working in the Crypto Industry (starting back in early 2018). Skilled in global team management, business development, compliance and administrative tasks under Swiss and EU jurisdictions, fundraising, investor relations, and Marketing/PR.
Shirly Valge
COO of Velas I Forbes 30 under 30
Krystel Abi Assi
"CEO at Amazon Sellers Society based in Dubai, UAE with offices in the Istanbul and Estonia.
She is also a certified Blue Ocean business strategist from INSEAD university and an international speaker and is widely regarded as an industry expert who is asked to share actionable intelligence on how Amazon and eCommerce works."
Krystel Abi Assi
Founder at Amazon Sellers Society | Founder at Sellers Society | Brand Ambassador for GCC region at Payoneer
Yaroslav Azhnyuk
Entrepreneur, geek, and lindy-hop dancer.
Working towards accelerating victory for Ukraine and the Free World.
Petcube is connecting pets to the internet and giving them a voice.
O Design, a full-stack cloud design studio.
Fuel is your cloud-based financial department. We do your finance.
Discover awesome products. They’re made in Ukraine - buy them to show your support.
Yaroslav Azhnyuk
Co-founder @ Petcube, O0 Design, Fuel Finance, Spend With Ukraine
Raimo Matvere
Comprehensive experiences in strategical marketing and PR, concept development, event and project
management as well as building up and leading teams. Currently Head of Partnerships at e-Residency and
co-founder of Acento - events sustainability management agency for event organisers and local
municipalities.
Long term volunteer for Let's Do It! World, World Cleanup Day, Arvamusfestival and other NGO's.
Raimo Matvere
Head of Partnerships at e-Residency | Co-Founder at Acento - Events Sustainability Management
Triin Kask
Triin Kask is an experienced entrepreneur. Today she runs her third startup - Soulie. Previously, Triin was the co-founder and CEO at Nevercode, which successfully launched a product called Codemagic in cooperation with the Google Flutter team. He is an active mentor for entrepreneurs, an angel investor and a board member of the Estonian Founders Society. Triin has a master's degree in economics from the University of Tartu.
Triin Kask
Co-founder at Soulie, Board member at Estonian Founders Society, mentor
Sanita Cipruse
Sanita is a keen nature lover, loves animals and art. As far as she can remember herself she had always been most at home out in the nature. She is the happiest when she is being creative
Sanita Cipruse
Floral artist, winner of Afterflorando in Leverano in 2022
Riin Maesalu
Riin describes herself as a curious, bold, and consistent multipotentialist at the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey. A self-made IT specialist, Riin started her career as a volunteer at Tech Sisters NGO and worked her way up to join Pipedrive. She has a Master's degree in Arts. However, she was a lecturer for mechanical engineers and design students at the TTK University of Applied Sciences. Currently, she is influencing people to be smarter with money and pushing them into looking for their authentic "why?"
Riin Maesalu
Teacher, financial education enthusiast, multipotentialist, 8th Woman in Estonian Motocross 2021
Annette Kramer
Annette is a top-level strategy consultant, entrepreneur, non-executive director, and coach for organizations and individuals focusing on women leaders and high-growth businesses. She began in the New York theatre as a dramaturg, going on to earn a Ph.D., and taught at Brown University for six years. Annette brought cross-disciplinary problem-solving from theatre to the first round of the web and has since supported the growth of large organizations, universities, accelerator programs, governments, and social enterprises.
Annette Kramer
Creative collaborator in strategy to make the world a better place
Michael Obod
- Products are used by 1,500+ centers in 65 countries.
- Exports make up 95 percent of the total turnover.
- Production of a full cycle of hardware products: from plastic molding and circuit board printing to Android application and technical support in 7 languages."
Michael Obod
Co-founder at NETRONIC, laser tag equipment and VR games for the entertainment business| military simulators
Peter Woolsey
An expert in entrepreneurial relationship management linked to international sales and marketing.Associate of AED International GMBH, Advisor to Nevastar Finance, a private swiss bank. Director of Wind Farm project in Scotland, via Wind Power Resources Ltd. Specialties: International client relationships between the EU, China and the US via INSEAD and Wharton links and alumni.
Peter Woolsey
MBA and Relationship Management
Denis Radiuk
Denis is a serial entrepreneur and advisor focused on SustainTech commercial, social and international development projects for more than 2 decades. He advises startups and mature companies in business development and strategic partnership. Denis is among the early e-residents from Ukraine.
Currently leading AVERE Ukraine, European Electromobility Association of Ukraine
Denis Radiuk
Leader at AVERE Ukraine, consultant, entrepreneur
Selena Rai
CEO and Founder of Bloomenty - platform for flower professionals. 11 years experience as Co-owner of HOH Holding b. v. and "Export Unie Flora B.V" - export/import/logistic Company in the Nederlands. Author of the book "Basics of electoral technologies".
Selena Rai
CEO and Founder of Bloomenty
Lesia Romaniuk
Floral artist. Lesia's style is based on the European floristic tradition and inspired by Ukrainian landscapes, nature, and culture. Lesia works on the formation and raising of the floristic culture in Ukraine - she teaches floristry, conducts educational work with participants in the floristic business, and creates programs dedicated to the floristic craft for the national television company. Lesia dreams about Ukrainian floristry becoming recognized worldwide as a reflection of the unique national mentality and coloristic.
Lesia Romaniuk
Floral designer, winner of the national competition of florists of Ukraine in 2021
Veronika Zubko
Co-founder of Zubko Decor, the ZubkoVeronikashool, and Preculture educational programs. Co-author of a book “Dress up your home”. Mother of 4 children. Elle Decoration published. Clients: Little Green, Visa, Kachorovska, the Coat.
Veronika Zubko
Entrepreneur, decorator, life-long learning ambassador
Gulsanna Mamediieva
Gulsanna is a Director General of Directorate for European and Euro-Atlantic integration at Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
She is a member of Committee on Artificial Intelligence at Council of Europe, Harmonization Digital Market Coordinator in Eastern Partnership Countries and a Coordinator of Digital Europe Program for Ukraine, and a representative of Ukraine at ITU, WeProtect Global Alliance, GovStack Initiative.
Gulsanna Mamediieva
Director General of the Directorate for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Svitlana Oliinyk
Floral artist and designer. Svitlana takes it as a mission to bond nature with her clients. She promotes the natural beauty of the flowers with her charming arrangements. Sweet Kvitka floral art compositions are always a beautiful love story in every little detail.
