Speakers 2023

Paul Adams

Marketing Director

Nokia

Philippe Agard

Head of Vertical Defense

Nokia

Inese Andersone

Head of Riga city development committee

Riga City council

Nadia Babych

Chief Specialist of the Mobile Broadband Development Department

Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Uwe Baeder

Director International Relations ITU/UN

Rohde & Schwarz

Jānis Bārda

Chairman of the Board

VAS Elektroniskie sakari (Electronic Communications Office of Latvia)

Aleksandrs Belovs

Associate Professor

University of Latvia

Martin Beltrop

Senior Director Enterprise Campus Edge

Nokia

Inga Bērziņa

Minister

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia

Fredis Bikovs

Managing Director

Riga Investment and Tourism Agency

Andy Billington

Innovation and Digital Architecture Senior Expert

RB Rail AS

Juris Binde

President & Chairman of the Management Board

LMT

Baiba Braze

Ambassador for Special Assignments

MFA

Liene Briede

Vice Rector for Innovations

RTU

Kaspars Briškens

Minister

Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Latvia

Dean Bubley

Director

Disruptive Analysis

Cristina Bueti

Counsellor

ITU

Egons Bušs

Security Director

LMT

Pau Castells

Head of Economic Analysis

GSMA

Maurizio Cecchi

Institute PIIU

Paul Ceely

Director of Technology Strategy

Digital Catapult

Viesturs Celmins

Managing Director

VEFRESH

Nir Chinsky

Managing Director, Google Cloud CEE & Alps

Google

Rowland Corr

Vice President and Head of Government Relations

Enea AB

Nina Cummins

Head of Connectivity Strategy Policy (Global)

Meta

Lucia D'Acunto

Senior Researcher

TNO

Gunārs Danbergs

Vice President, CTO & Member of the Management Board

LMT

Ana de Jesus

Senior Research Fellow

Nordregio

Raffaele de Peppe

6GIA Board Member & Vice Chair

TIM

Andrii Degeler

Head of Media

The Next Web

François Duthilleul

Telco Security Technologist

Red Hat

Joachim Edel

New Business Development Manager

Frequentis

Karen Ellemann

Secretary General

Nordic Council of Ministers

Līga Ellere

Director

EXONICUS R&D

Stefan Eriksson

Director

Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Riga

Mykhailo Fedorov

Vice Prime Minister for Innovations, Development of Education, Science & Technologies — Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Erzsebet Fitori

Executive Director

SNS JU

Per Fröjdh

Vice-Chairman / VP International Standards

ITU Focus Group on Metaverse / Ericsson

Nicola Furness

Engineering Expert (CCS)

Network Rail

Jānis Garisons

State Secretary

Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia

Sofianatos Gerasimos

Deputy Head of Unit B5, Investment in high-capacity networks

European Commission - Directorate General for Communications Networks Content and Technology

Matthias Gerlich

Expert and Senior Business Development Manager ATM Civil

Frequentis

Julia Gifford

CEO and Co-founder

Truesix Co

Sergi Alsina Gonzalez

Global Head of Transport

Cellnex

Walter Greenleaf

Neuroscientist

Stanford University, Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab

Olaf Heisch

Director Target Account Management for Infrastructure Services

Rohde & Schwarz

Heidi Himmanen

Chief Adviser

Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom

Silke Holtmanns

Telecommunication Security Expert

PwC Finland

Tomas Hrozensky

Senior Researcher and Lead on European Engagement

European Space Policy Institute

Luukas Kristjan Ilves

CIO

Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

Petar Ivanov

CEE Key accounts Engagement Manager

Google Cloud

Henrik Jansson

Head of SI Business Group

Samsung Networks

Sigrid Jessen

Research Fellow

Nordregio Research Institute

Nick Johnson

Head

UKTIN

Timo Jokiaho

Telco Technologist

Red Hat

Eszter Jósvai

Technical Solution Manager

Frequentis

Madara Kalnina-Kalnmale

Co-founder

RedFrog, VR/AR Association

Veli Kaukomaa

Partnership lead

Nokia

Edgars Kiukucāns

Director of the Cybersecurity Policy Department

Ministry of Defence of Latvia

Polyzois Kokkonis

Future Programmes Officer

European Space Agency

Juliana Koza

Senior Manager Government Affairs

Qualcomm

Viktors Kupcis

Data Analytics Specialist

Google Cloud

Giada Landi

R&D Technology Leader

Nextworks

Oliver Lekk

Head of Radio Network Department

Telia Eesti AS

Maria Lema

CEO

Weaver Labs

Christoph Leuze

Director

Stanford University, Visualization Lab

Elina Lidere

Head of Innovations Ecosystems

LMT

Aarne Lindroos

Special Projects

Ericsson

Piotr Linke

Mobile Networks Security Consultant

Palo Alto Networks

Simona Lipstaite

Head of Europe

Access Partnership

Sylvia Lu

Corporate Strategy / Advisory Board

u-blox / UKTIN

David Lund

Coordinator BroadEU.net

Public Safety Communication Europe Forum

Mikael Lundman

CEO

Proptivity

Mattias Männi

5G Program Manager

NATO CCD COE

Ioannis Markopoulos

Head EU & International Business

NOVA ICT

Cristina Martinez

Vice-chair ITU FG on MV - Deputy Head of Unit

European Commission

Chiara Mazzone

Programme Officer

Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking

Gerry McQuaid

Director for Telecoms and Internet Security

Ofcom

Jeff Melanson

Strategic Partner

Unity Technologies

Hermann Ludwig Moeller

Director

European Space Policy Institute

Lauma Muižniece

Director

Latvian Council of Science

Álvaro Neira

Partner

Axon

Marios Nicolaou

Business Development Director

p-NET

Dmitrijs Ņikitins

CTO

Tet Ltd.

Michael Nilsson

Project Manager

Centre for Distance-spanning Technology

Toon Norp

Senior Business Consultant

TNO

Rihards Novickis

Senior Researcher

EDI, Institute of Electronics and Computer Science

Tonko Obuljen

President of the Council

HAKOM

Seizo Onoe

Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

International Telecommunication Union

Pilar Orero

Professor

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Didzis Ozoliņš

Systems Engineer

Palo Alto Networks

Gatis Ozols

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation

Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development

Alexander Pabst

Vice President of Market Segment of Wireless Communications

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co

Slawomir Pietrzyk

CEO and Founder

IS-Wireless

Audrey Plonk

Head of the Digital Economy Policy Division

OECD

Daina Podzina

Independent consultant, researcher, Accessibility EU national expert

NGO Apeirons

Kaspars Pollaks

Head of Business Defence & Public Safety

LMT

Jaroslaw Ponder

Head of the ITU Office for Europe

International Telecommunication Union

Stanislav Prybytko

Head of the Mobile Broadband Department

Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Ingmārs Pūķis

VP & Member of the Management Board

LMT

Pekka Rantala

Head of 6G Bridge Program

Business Finland

Bård Reian

Senior engineer

NKOM

Oliver Reichard

Vice President Sales Mainline

Siemens Mobility GmbH

Salvis Roga

Deputy Chairman

Liepaja City Council

Timo Rosendahl

Director, Traffic operations

Port Of HaminaKotka Ltd

Aigars Runčis

Ventures Department Director

LMT

Minna Säpyskä-Aalto

Senior Expert

The Baltic Institute of Finland / City of Tampere

Lina Sarma

Board Member

Riga TechGirls

Thorgeir Sigurdarson

Head of Broadband Data Analytics

ECOI

Evika Siliņa

Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia

Cabinet of Ministers/ Republic of Latvia

Darius Stravinskas

Head of future policy group

Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania

Christoph Striecks

Cryptography Researcher/Scientist

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

Iveta Strupkāja

Acting Director General

Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA)

Elind Sulmina

Project Officer

International Telecommunication Union

Kaili Tamm

Chief Digital Officer

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia

Uldis Tatarčuks

CEO

Tet Ltd.

Evijs Taube

Member of the Board

Latvia State Radio and Television Centre

David Taylor

Head of International Strategy - Telecoms Diversification & Future Telecoms

UK Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology

Will Townsend

VP & Principal Analyst/Contributor

Moor Insights & Strategy/Forbes

Ieva Treija

Editor in Chief

Labs of Latvia

Leo Truksans

Leading QKD Engineer

Latvia State Radio and Television Center

Nikolaos Tsampieris

Senior Manager Innovation Deployment

ERTICO-ITS Europe

Jacob Turowski

Director Public Policy, Central and Eastern Europe

Meta

Mikko Uusitalo

Head of Research Department

Nokia Bell Labs

Sietse van der Gaast

Co-chair/Senior enforcement officer

BEREC WNE Working Group/ACM Netherlands

Zaneta Vegnere

Deputy Head of Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis

European Commission

Natalia Vicente

VP Public Affairs

GSOA

Rob Watson

Founder & Director

On The Layline

Rolf Werner

Head of Europe

Nokia

Colin Willcock

Chairman of the Board

6G-IA

Christina Yan Zhang

CEO and Founder

The Metaverse Institute

Ansis Zeltins

CEO

Freeport of Riga Authority

Lukasz Ziolkowski

Senior Project Officer for Reporting Formalities

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)