Mentoring is best described as an educational process when mentors share knowledge with the purpose of surfacing potential in their protégés.
Giedrius Kriščiukaitis. Head of Software development. Ignitis group
Head Of Software Engineering at Ignitis Group. Experienced web developer. Engineering IT solutions and business value using Lean-Agile mindset. Strong project management skills, good communicator, speaker in conferences, colleague and people leader.
Rimantas Žukaitas. System Architect. EIS
I am system architect from EIS Group, working with Java stack for almost 20 years. My specialisation is business rule engine technologies, data validation and model driven software architectures. I can give a presentation on challenges and various aspects on data validation and how business rules can be leveraged to address that.
Donatas Vlasovas. Head of Operational Excellence & Industrial Engineering. HELLA LITHUANIA
I am a highly motivated professional working in automotive industry and specialising in lean manufacturing
and continuous improvement fields. I had my first encounter with “lean” concept while doing my internship
at Vauxhall Motors UK and was immediately facinated by the huge potential. Now, over 6 years have
passed and I can confirm that, indeed, potential is huge and there is a reason why more and more companies
try to follow “lean” principles and methodologies. During my carer I had a chance to work on various
improvement activities ranging from simple Kaizen workshops to more complex DMAIC projects. I feel that
the time has come for me to share my experience and inspire others.
Andrius Bartminas. CEO and co-founder. SUPER HOW?
Andrius is Chief Executive Officer as well as blockchain researcher at SUPER HOW. He is a passionate blockchain visionary and a prominent business development professional with a passion for new technologies and innovations. Andrius has a proven experience in the field of international business development and working in large-scale innovative projects such as building Lithuania’s archive for electronic documents, or digitisation project of Lithuanian documentary archives. Currently he is an active participant of governmental and institutional working groups setting the regulatory framework in Lithuania and European Union in blockchain and digital assets adoption process. Andrius also holds Blockchain Business Analyst Certificate and had done several research papers on Blockchain topic.
Alexandra Jushkova. User Research/UX Design. Fortum Sweden
For the past 4 years, I have been working in the UX/User Research field. Both as consultant in startups and established companies. At my current position, I am more working as a User Researcher. I work in a multi-cultural environment, this really opened my eyes to how each individual is unique. This brought more compassion and empathy towards my colleagues and also my self. Deeper connections, being heard, empathy, and seeing purpose in your work somethings that I see is more and more thrives on people.
Gintautas Mežetis. Director. Ivpk
Through accumulated knowledge and experience, Gintautas Mežetis aims to create added value to those business which are going through a digital transformation. Key to his success has been understanding the full processes of the business and then amending them in order to achieve positive results, whilst motivating and encouraging others along the way.
Kęstutis Gardžiulis. Founder & Chief Innovation Officer. Etronika
I have a huge experience in FinTech and business development. Extremely interested in technology and what the future holds. Strongly believe in interdisciplinary approach, power of collaboration and love to pursue the craziest ideas.
Dovilė Kurpytė-Lipnickė. Lecturer, CEO, Engineer. Vilnius Tech
Dovilė has finished Electronic engineering BSc, MSc, and Management and Business administration studies. Experience in various tech projects, a founder of two tech start-ups, experience 13+ years. If you are interested in engineering, programming, your own business from conceptual to detailed level – have a chat.
Virgita Abaravičiūtė. Vice President, Global Customer Operations. Adform Lithuania
Have eight years’ work experience in the ad tech industry. Leading the Service organization consisting of 90+ talents. Helped individuals and leaders to grow within the company by focusing on their strengths and passion. Passionate about the leadership topic.
Daiva Kaštelionė. Project manager. Zenitech
Professional project manager +10 years managed different scale and technologies projects, using Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies. In a world where everyone is hugely busy, a project manager’s job of bringing a team together to work as one is far from easy. You might not have the specific skills or knowledge of each project member, but what is excellent at is seeing the bigger picture of how the jigsaw fits together and moving the right pieces to the right place at the right time. I want to encourage Woman Go Tech participants to dive deeper into PM’s profession and ready to share my experience.
Julija Varneckienė. Director of Operations. CapitalBox (Multitude group)
A systematic approach and broad knowledge in systems give me a chance to be a great addition to any company and bridge business with IT. I stand for customer experience, process optimization, and operational efficiency. I am onboarded when companies buy systems but do not know how to make them valuable. I do know. My more than ten years of experience administrating, developing, fixing, maintaining, and being a product owner for different systems gives a valuable understanding of a journey.
Baran Ozkan. Co-founder & CEO. Flagright
Baran is an accomplished builder with a track record in Product Management and high-performance team building. Having worked across different geographies and cultures, successfully launched and scaled software products in fast-growth environments where fast-pace and continuous change were the norm.
Miks Miķelsons. Program manager. Adform Lithuania
Project management professional with a background in finance and adtech. 10+ years of experience in leading business expansion projects and strategic product development in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Šarūnas Leonas. Development and Product Director. Visma Tech
Experienced C-Level Executive with a long working history in the financial services industry. Strong IT professional skilled in Business Processes, Agile, Scrum, Analytical Skills, project management, product ownership and lot more. I am oriented into Customer service first: delivering easy and friendly customer end solutions & products, aiming for fully automatic solutions. Always seeking for a long-term and reliable solutions.
Sharing, precision and passion in daily work are main factors that I always try to fulfill when working with team members and customers. Also, following best learning practice and personal experience from Scandinavian markets, I try to promise things that I am sure I will deliver.
Lina Zubytė. Head of Quality. Doodle
Lina Zubyte is a passionate Quality Advocate who loves to ask questions, test, collaborate with diverse
departments, and investigate issues. Lina has worked in companies of different sizes (large multinational
companies and startups), moved between countries for work, and has had to adapt quickly to get out of
her comfort zone. She shares her writings on all things quality at https://qualitybits.tech, and you can find
her on Twitter as @buggylina.
Justina Vaitkienė. Senior developer. Ignitis group
I’m a senior Oracle developer. Nine years ago I started my career with Oracle technologies. In
this time I’ve worked on every step of software development from business needs analysis and
solution design to development and testing. I’m passionate about Agile and worked as a Scrum
master for a year and a half. Being a Scrum master and working in senior positions I was in a
mentoring role which made me realize that I really enjoy sharing my knowledge and gaining
new perspectives from the people I coached.
Darius Grinvaldas. Head of Model Risk & Validation department. Luminor Group
Experienced risk management professional with a demonstrated performance in leading
experts/teams/leaders in the financial services and modelling industry. Before Luminor, I have
worked for ten years in Danske Bank as expert and leader.
Have deep understanding of IRB (PD, LGD, EAD) area, including various business contexts,
methodological modelling considerations and regulatory environment challenges. Currently
focusing on model risk aspects of IRB, IFRS9, ICAAP/ILAAP and other modelling areas.
Andrius Didžiulis. Head of Analytics. Barbora
My decade long career is all about data. At first, I sold it, then produced it, eventually collected and analyzed it. Now, it is high time I started sharing my knowledge about this vast field with others.
Vytenis Pakėnas. CEO. Lucid Agreements
He is an entrepreneur by heart, identifying new opportunities in traditional sectors. Then he combines a fast-growing business with IT knowledge and long-term ambitions. Fast and standard iterations help to achieve common goals with the teams I lead.
Vaidas Lauzeckas. CEO. Metasite Data Insights
Vaidas, Founder of Metasite Data Insights, leads a small team that is passionate about working with numbers in all shapes and colors. By using the best products/tools in the market, we help companies to analyze and better understand their data. Analytics is often not the core business of an enterprise and it is normal that one may not know how to store/process data, ensure its quality or what instruments to choose for reporting. MDI provides a wide range of services: from classical data engineering to data warehouse building, dashboard development, authority reporting or more advanced topics like machine learning, revenue recognition & reconciliation and more.
Udeme Udofia. Data Scientist. TELESOFTAS
I am a Data Scientist with vast experience across different teams and sectors like Oil and Gas,
Education, Telecommunication, Health, Banking and Finance, IT. I am passionate about the
growth of Data enthusiasts and helping them to jump start their career in the world of Data
Science.My interests cuts across sharing my Tech experience with IT practitioners in order to help
them with making the right decisions and choices in their Tech career.
Mantas Venslauskas. Data analytics projects lead. ESO
My professional career with data started via Tesonet and continued in Exacaster. Now, I am in ESO, leading data projects. Started Data Guild (internal data analytics learning initiative) and Data Talks (internal data conferences). Also, I am one of data analytics lectors at Vilnius Coding School.
Tadas Bružikas. Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Marketing. Vinted
I am particularly interested in using data to accelerate the company growth. To me, well-functioning econometric and machine learning models are simply the means to an end rather than the goal itself.
I’m looking forward to sharing my experience and knowledge with smart and curious minds! Currently, I’m leading the marketing data science & analytics teams at Vinted where we ensure that all decisions in the company are data-driven. No matter if it’s a multi-million euro marketing investment or a decision which TV ad to air – data science and machine learning are at the core of our decisions.
Next to the big data and complex models, I’m growing the team and helping fellow data scientists and leads to improve as professionals. Having a long-term plan and strategy, enabling others, and removing blockers for them to do their best is are main responsibilities.
Rūta Vitaitė. Project Manager assistant. HENT AS
I have 8 years of experience in Project Management in the building construction industry. Graduated transport engineering and started my career in Lithuania as a design engineer in aluminium facade company and climbed my steps from design engineer to a Project Manager. During my career I was living and working in Finland, Sweden and Denmark and have been a part of the biggest projects in Scandinavia. Currently living and working in Copenhagen and building 40.000m2 Comfort Hotel Airport.