Ryan Wang

Founding Partner at Outpost Capital

Maria Barsuk

EBRD Venture Capital

Fabian Sepulveda

Managing Partner at The Madeleine Group Ab, & Partner at Courage Ventures Funds

Can Saracoglu

Founding Partner String Ventures

Yury Melnichek

Founding Investor @ BulbaVentures

Anton Vasiliev

Chief Investment Officer at RBC, Deputy Director аt InfraFund

Alexei Kanunnikov

Chief of investment direction at InfraFund

Volodymyr Nesterenko

Managing Partner at Digital Future

Oleksii Vitchenko

Founder at Digital Future

Cyril Golub

CEO, co-founder at Aheadworks

Founding member at Belarusian Business Angels Network
Founding member at LitBAN

Zoltan Szalas

Venture Partner at Starta Accelerator and Co-Founder & CMO at Croissant

Proven entrepreneur and product marketer with extensive experience in technology, marketing, and strategic partnerships. He is the Co-Founder & CMO of Croissant, a the world’s leading digital coworking pass that is in over 20 cities with over 10,000+ customers worldwide. He is also an avid crypto investor and the Founder of Zaruti, a savings account for cryptocurrencies. Recently joined Starta Accelerator as Venture Partner.

Sergey Vasilev

Co-Founder, Managing Partner at Starta Ventures

Valery Astrinski

BBAN

Arvydas Bložė

Investment Manager, Practica Capital

Practica Capital: 24m EUR under management, raising 40m EUR VC fund.
Arvydas stage focus: pre-seed, seed, tech, incubation & acceleration.

Donatas Keras

Founding partner, Practica Capital

Practica Capital: 24m EUR under management, raising 40m EUR VC fund.
Donatas stage focus: seed, early stage, tech

Robert Riley

U.S. Charge d'affaires to Belarus

Kai Mykkänen

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development of Finland

Jamy T. Nigri

Co-founder @BDXcoin.com

Cofounder BDXcoin.com. BDXcoin.com is a platform run by one of the Europe’s leading brokers BDSwiss with a kind of gamification which has everything to conduct pre ICO and ICO.

Patrick Halford

Nordic Robotics and Drone Ecosystem Director @ IBM

Having worked at IBM for over 15 years, Patrick Halford is a frequent speaker widely experienced in the ecosystems approach of disruptive technologies and in the business applications of these technologies. With a special focus on robotics, drone technology and healthcare ecosystem advancements, Patrick is a true tech advocate, helping the world solve complex challenges across industries. A guy literally bringing the future to our doorsteps.

In his talk Patrick will help you picture the world we’re moving towards thanks to all new technologies out there, and teach you how global ecosystems can come in handy. He will also let you in on some concrete tools he uses in actual client work.

Eugene Nevgen

CEO & Co-Founder @ MSQRD

Arkadiy Dobkin

Founder & CEO @ EPAM

After working for several years as a programmer he started his first private software company. In 1991, after immigrating to the United States, he held technical and leadership positions in big companies before focusing on developing EPAM.

Sergey Gonchar

CTO & Co-Founder @ MSQRD

Ken Singer

Head of entrepreneurship and tech center @ UC Berkeley

Ken is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, university lecturer, and director/advisor to numerous startups in the US and Europe. A 14-year veteran of the mobile industry, Ken created solutions spanning all forms of mobile technology and has founded or co-founded five companies in the mobility space. Ken was the co-founder and CEO of AppCentral, the first enterprise app store to let companies distribute mobile applications to their employees’ iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Ken successfully led the company through difficult market conditions and several rounds of venture financing.

Kiryl Chykeyuk

Co-founder @ Kino-mo

Yury Melnichek

Founding Investor @ BulbaVentures

Yuri Melnicek is a Belarusian IT entrepreneur, a partner of Bulba Ventures. The founder of MAPS.ME (sold to Mail.Ru Group in November 2014) and AIMATTER (sold to Google in August 2017).

Rupert March

Developer and Platform Experience Director for the CEE region @ Microsoft

Started his IT career as a Cobol developer, working for 3M UK. He moved into sales with 3M and progressed into the specialist datacomms industry. In 2002, he progressed to Microsoft CEE HQ as the regional partner lead. Currently Rupert March is the Developer and Platform Evangelism Director for the Multi Country Region and also manages the regions Business Resource Group.

Al King

Global Brand Director @ WARGAMING.NET

International marketing professional with extensive experience in games, online and home entertainment marketplaces gained in market leading organisations. Fully rounded Marketeer with knowledge of all areas of the discipline including digital. Have launched multiple chart topping titles in numerous markets. Very professional attitude. Natural and charismatic leader. Award winning innovator. MBA. BAFTA member. Outstanding contacts in entertainment, media & technology sectors. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Gary Stewart

Director @ Wayra UK

Director of Wayra UK (cohorts of 20 for-profit businesses in which Telefónica invests as a minority shareholder) and Wayra UnLtd. (cohorts of 10 social ventures in which Telefónica and the British Cabinet Office invest as minority shareholders)
* Former director of Wayra Spain, overseeing academies in both Barcelona and Madrid. Helped Spanish start-ups to raise more than $13 million (and counting) over the last 18 months.
* Redesigned and relaunched IE Business School’s accelerator for MBA students, and taught entrepreneurial management courses to MBAs.
* Proactive entrepreneur. Co-founder of nuroa.com, an Internet start-up based in Barcelona, Spain that has raised over €4 million in financing.
* Results oriented, highly creative, out-of-the-box strategic thinker with strong orientation toward understanding customer behaviors.
* Yale-trained lawyer with first-class experience in top global law firms. Specialized in mergers and acquisitions and securities law.

Can Saracoglu

Founding Partner @String Ventures

Serial entrepreneur with three exits — two as a co-founder and one as a VC.
Can co-founded Litespell, a next generation interactive marketing communications agency with full-service capabilities.
He’s the founding partner of String Ventures, a pre-seed/seed VC fund, which invests in disruptive startups in Silicon Valley and a region that stretches from Berlin to Moscow — he’s running String Ventures’ Istanbul Office.

Maria Barsuk

EBRD Venture Capital

Maria is an Investor at EBRD Venture Capital team, a €100 million dedicated fund which invests in early and growth stage technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and Northern Africa. Here she mainly works on origination of investments, deal execution and portfolio management. Previously Maria was a CEO of one of the most successful start-ups in Ukraine and fifth largest microstock agency in the world – Depositphotos, Inc. headquartered in New York and the EBRD portfolio company. Maria’s other experiences include consulting with PWC, working in Private Equity as well as holding a number of CFO positions in telecom and tech companies. Maria completed Executive MBA program at London Business School.

Fabian Sepulveda

Managing Partner at The Madeleine Group Ab, & Partner at Courage Ventures Funds

Fabian has 20+ years of working experience in Engineering, Management Consulting and Investment Banking with the likes of Lucent Technologies, A.T. Kearney and JP Morgan.

For the past ten years, he has been actively involved in Finland’s entrepreneurial ecosystem as an entrepreneur, startup coach, Lean Launchpad® trainer, Business Angel and Venture Capitalist. Fabian also helps established organizations adopt Lean Startup practices and Customer Development and teaches numerous venture related courses at Aalto Executive Education, and other universities. He has co-founded three companies: eyescubed, (automotive technology); Courage Ventures Consulting (Entrepreneurial Training); and most recently, he co-founded Courage Ventures Funds, a Venture Capital firm investing in Health, Education, and Environment verticals.

Fabian has a BSc in Electrical Engineering, an MSc. in Finance and a PhD in International Business (Entrepreneurship).

Hrish Lotlikar

Co-Founder & CBDO @The Rogue Initiative, Co-Founder @SuperWorld

Michael Rumiancaŭ

CEO and Co-Founder @FriendlyData, Inc.

Vasilyi Shinkorenko

Co-Founder & CEO @Storyline

Sander Gansen

Chairman of the Board at Robotex

Ryan Wang

Founding Partner at Outpost Capital

Ryan Wang, founding partner of Outpost, an early stage VC fund based in SF and Beijing focusing on VR and Blockchain investments. They invested into unicorn Jingtum and MOAC, a top 30 tokens by marketcap. Please book your ticket for Venture Day Minsk to secure discussion about Blockchain 3.0.What’s after ethereum, what’s driving the next wave and what’s the real-world adoption of the blockchain technology.

Merilin Lukk

Startup Visa Project Manager at Startup Estonia

Olga Balakina

Former Chief Global Operations at Slush

Changing entrepreneurial culture Globally.

Dennis Uitz

BDXcoin Co-Founder | Crypto Investor

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a proven track record. Experienced Private Equity investor with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Sales, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital. Strong business development professional, graduated from LSE.

Zoltan Szalas

Venture Partner at Starta Accelerator and Co-Founder & CMO at Croissant

Proven entrepreneur and product marketer with extensive experience in technology, marketing, and strategic partnerships. He is the Co-Founder & CMO of Croissant, a the world’s leading digital coworking pass that is in over 20 cities with over 10,000+ customers worldwide. He is also an avid crypto investor and the Founder of Zaruti, a savings account for cryptocurrencies. Recently joined Starta Accelerator as Venture Partner.

Viktoryia Mikhnevich

Senior Associate, Corporate and M&A at Sorainen

Viktoryia is advising on acquisitions in Belarus’ evolving IT sector, providing legal support from the stage of attracting the investor till the exit. She has an extensive experience in cross-border transactions and creation of joint ventures in Belarus, mostly specializing in merger clearance of the transactions, legal due diligence of the targets, and advising on transactional matters, including elaboration of the deal structure and preparation of the underlying documentation.

Recognised in Corporate and M&A categories by the Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 (respected directories analysing the capabilities of law firms across the world).

Olga Barreto Goncalves

Chief Start-Up Instigator

8 years of international experience in dynamic working environment with diverse clientele from both corporate and development sector. Lived, studied and worked in 5 countries. Entrepreneurial impact-oriented mindset, developed sense of responsibility and high level of dedication.

Expertise: Start-ups, Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Businesses, CSR and Sustainable Operations, Corporate Finance, Financial Modelling and Analysis, Risk Evaluation and Management, Corporate Strategy,
Project Coordination and Management, Planning and Budgeting, Event Management