speakers
Speakers
Discover the people bringing bright ideas to the stage!
Kristina Kallas
Minister of Education and Research of the Republic of Estonia
"Our chance for an evolutionary leap is to consciously train as many people as possible to be constantly in the flow of higher cognitive processes."
Dmytro Fishman
Co-Founder/CSO of Better Medicine · Associate Professor of AI at the University of Tartu
"AI that started decades ago with simple visual patterns and handwritten digits can now support real doctors working with real medical workflows."
Elina Nechayeva
Estonian Soprano · Creative Entrepreneur
"What if discipline and creativity are not opposites, but partners?"
Mark Braschinsky
Founder of Tartu University Hospital’s headache clinic · Senior Neurologist
"Stress as migraine treatment?"
Dmytro Khutkyy
Head of the University of Tartu Ukraine Centre · Research Fellow in Digital Governance
“Digital democracy is not something you watch. It is not something that happens to you. It is something you do.”
Maryna Starodubska
Author of books · Adjunct-Professor and Visiting Lecturer
“The beauty of small talk is that it is small: a tiny gesture with outsized power to make us feel seen.”
Kristjan Pulk
Lecturer and Researcher · Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Tartu
"Knowledge of what to do is not the only factor for getting finances in order".
Francisco José Maldonado Torralba
Research Fellow in Computational Neuroscience · Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu
“The point is not only how something looks from the outside. The point is how it is connected from within.”
Kyrylo Martyniuk
CEO and Co-Founder of OptilinEx OÜ · Business Administration student at the University of Tartu
"The question is not whether your technology is ready for it. The question is whether your people are."
Piret Paal
Deputy Scientific Director · Ars Moriendi Estonia 2030
"Dying should not be a checklist-based event. It should be about having conversations with people."
Hanna Maria Kariis
Pharmacogenetics Researcher · University of Tartu Institute of Genomics
“The goal is not medicine that works for the average patient. The goal is medicine that works for the person receiving the treatment.”
Hüseyin Rüzgar Akcan
Attorney · IT Law at University of Tartu
"If you disappeared tomorrow, who would own your story? A company? An algorithm? Or... you?"
Julija Sovane
Business Coach · Go To Market Strategist
"Transformation begins the moment we stop resisting reality."
Ruby Gupta
PhD student in Neuroscience · Yoga instructor
"When we live fearlessly, we do not steal from the version of us that deserves to live"
Aljona Galazan
Landscape Architect · Teacher and Event Creator
"The government may make the city effective, but people make it livable."
Teele Siim
Translator and Interpreter · Coordinator of Foreign Students at University of Tartu
"AI chooses probability. Humans choose meaning."
Bogdan Janakov
Project Manager · UNA Estonia
“Maybe the goal of global cooperation is not paradise. Maybe it is preventing hell on Earth.”
Sander Šašlov
Medical student at the University of Tartu · Social events coordinator
"If an ADHD person is interrupting you it means they are 100% into the topic you talk about."
Helena Valvur
Avid Reader, Master's Student · Estonian University of Life Sciences
“You don’t have to read highbrow literature to reap the benefits of reading."
Aikaterini Niovi Triantafyllaki
Junior Research Fellow in Stellar Physics · Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu
"A label says: this is who you are. Curiosity asks: what are you capable of?"