Tamas Muller
Tamas Muller - Tamas Muller is a creative and energetic business leader who co-founded Pizi.io and founded the Women Startup Competition. He has over 18 years of experience and knowledge in project development, especially in the digital field. Aside from his experience in digital agencies, startups and entrepreneurship, he knows the rules and techniques of company investment on a CEE level as well as international strategic communication.
Juozas Olekas
Juozas Olekas - Juozas Olekas is a Member of the European Parliament. Currently, he is the Head of the Lithuanian delegation. He participates in the work of the Agriculture and Rural Development, the Foreign Affairs Committees, and in the work of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. He is a member of Euronest PA and co-chair of its Social Affairs, Employment, Education, Culture and Civil Society Committee; chair of delegation for relations with Belarus, member of delegations to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and to Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Giedrius Bagušinskas
Giedrius Bagušinskas - An MBA in finance, Giedrius Bagušinskas, worked for 18 years in the areas of sales management consulting, process development, and business analysis. Cluster Manager of Smart Food Cluster. Over the last decade, he has participated in exhibitions, and business missions, and represented members' interests in various export promotion and knowledge transfer initiatives. Worked on COSME and Erasmus+ projects founded by the EU. He is the founder of the SMART food cluster and LitMEA association. He is a board member and director of both organizations. His work has led to the development of food cluster networks in Eastern Europe in 2017 and Lithuanian cluster networks in 2019.
Mika Kukkurainen
He says that food is going through the biggest revolution since the discovery of fire today. Mika Kukkurainen is food retail and industry expert.
He is one of the four founders of the first Nordic food technology venture capital fund. His managing VC fund investing in early stage innovative future food and FoodTech (incl. agritech) companies in Nordic and Baltic countries.
He is concept and brand developer turned to investor.
Antonio Novo Guerrero
Antonio Novo Guerrero - Antonio Novo combines his training as a technologist and psychologist to develop his professional life around Collaborative Innovation through Clusters. Antonio is Managing Director of the Cluster IDiA, which brings together 81 aragonese companies and institutions that collaborate in the development of ICT projects. He holds the presidency of the European Cluster Alliance and Clusters.es, the Spanish Federation of Clusters. He is also member of the EU Industrial Forum, the expert group on Interregional Innovation Investments and the one focused on Clusters at the European.
Akram Shhaideh
Akram Shhaideh - As an Agriculture Policy Analyst and Natural Resource Management Expert (with two PhDs), he has more than 35 years of experience in the Middle East and Europe. Besides writing two books, he also worked as a university professor and produced many specialized materials. Akram is also obsessive about creativity, precision, multidisciplinary work, and teamwork.
Alexander Berlin
Alexander Berlin is a professional startup developer and investment adviser on the European level. He has a strong financial background as well as advanced skills in programming, software conception and good understanding of internet technologies.
Alexander Berlin is also an experienced EU project manager and works on the development of a competitive European entrepreneurial infrastructure at projects like Diversity and FIWARE. He is a part of advisory groups on the EU level.
Dr. Artūras Jakubavičius
Artūras Jakubavičius - Arturas Jakubavicius is an innovation management expert and consultant who offers innovation consulting and support services to companies and research institutions. Contributes to the development of innovation policy advice for the Ministry of Science and Education and Research, Ministry of Economy and Innovation. He is adept at facilitating stakeholder consensus, building and/or facilitating activities related to intervention priorities, smart specialization, and technological cluster facilitation in multiple sectors.
Tautvydas Pipiras
Tautvydas Pipiras - As a project manager at Lithuanian Innovation Centre, Tautvydas Pipiras manages a variety of business support initiatives that contribute to the growth of local businesses and facilitate the consolidation of European countries to boost the region's innovation and start-up ecosystems. Over the past five years, he has been a project manager at the Lithuanian Innovation Centre, providing support services to enterprises and business organizations across various international innovation projects.
Anda Penka
Anda Penka - Anda Penka is the co-founder and CEO of Fermentful. A Latvian company called Fermentful produces fermented plant-based alternatives to milk beverages made from green buckwheat. In addition to being packed with beneficial microorganisms, Fermentful products have additional functional properties that contribute to sustainable and healthy living. Drinks made from fermented green buckwheat are healthy, delicious, and nutritious. They do not contain gluten, soy, or dairy. Choosing fermentable products is not only good for your body, but also for the planet.