About

Doreen is the first woman to serve as one of the International Telecommunication Union top elected officials. Bogdan-Martin served from 2008 to 2018 as Chief of ITU’s Strategic Planning and Membership Department where she acted as an Advisor to the ITU Secretary-General, and was responsible for ITU’s corporate communications, external affairs, corporate strategy and membership – as well as managing the ITU-UNESCO Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

Bogdan-Martin is a member of the Board of Governors of the UN Staff College, an affiliate of the Harvard University Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, Chair of the United Nations Strategic Planning Group and a Member of the Governing Committee of the Swiss Network for International Studies.

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14:00 – Can Technology Give a Push for Equal Rights?

About

The President of Latvia Egils Levits is also a Latvian lawyer and political scientist.

Mr Levits is author of many scientific publications on the issues regarding state law, administrative law, human rights, and democracy. Mr Levits has provided many opinions on various legal and political and legal issues to the Latvian Parliament (Saeima), the Cabinet of Ministers, various ministries, the Constitutional Court, other courts, public authorities, the institutions of the European Union, and international institutions. He publishes regularly on development challenges in Latvia.

Mr Levits has been the Ambassador of Latvia to Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland, as well as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, and Member of the Parliament. Apart from the native Latvian language, he mastered four foreign languages – English, French, German, and Russian.

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16:30 –The State of the World: Do Technologies Challenge Humanity?

About

Linda is a bright new voice on global technology education policy. With her Hello Ruby books and philosophy, translated in 28 languages, she brings a Nordic playful perspective to the sometimes serious world of computer science. What else is there to technology education than “Learn to code”? Her work empowering both children and young women in computer science all around the world, has given her unique, globally appealing perspective on how to celebrate the power of technology, imagination and storytelling. 

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13:00 – Being Human in the Age of Machine Learning

Freedom Lounge

14:00 – Conversation & Book Signing with Linda Liukas

About

Carl Honoré is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and the voice of the global Slow Movement. After working with street children in Brazil, he covered South America and Europe for the Economist, Observer, Houston Chronicle, National Post and Time magazine. His books on the benefits of slowing down – In Praise of Slow, Under Pressure and The Slow Fix – have been published in 34 languages and landed on bestseller lists in many countries. His TED talk in praise of slowness has been viewed 3 million times. His latest book, Bolder: Making the Most of Our Longer Lives, explores attitudes to ageing. While writing his first book about Slow, Carl was given a speeding ticket.

#slowrevolution #lessismore #tempogiusto

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11:00 – The Right Speed of Living in the Digital Age

About

Mari-Liis has been working for two different industries which both have been under a change for at least decade.
She was a product development and marketing director in the biggest travel agency of Baltics – Estravel. Then, 8 years ago she was invited to work for Ekspress Grupp. For two years she was the CEO of Estonian biggest online portal Delfi. After that she merged two companies together which became Ekspress Meedia. It’s Delfi and the biggest media brands in Estonia – Eesti Ekspress, Maaleht, Eesti Päevaleht.

In 2017 she was invited to lead Ekspress Grupp which has also the biggest news outlets in Latvia and Lithuania. Ekspress Grupp has also expanded to digital outdoor media and other digital services which stand close to media.

She is a big believer in digitalisation in every aspect. As she believes that we are in the middle of the turbulent changes and times it’s more than exciting to work for media.

Delfi Media Lab

11:00 – Got Medication for Infoxication?

18:00 – Baltic Digital Media Landscape: Flat or Fat?

About

Max Beverton-Palmer is Head of Tech and Society at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He is part of a team generating radical, sensible, centre-ground tech policy to address some of the societal challenges faced around the world. He was previously Head of Digital Policy at Sky leading policy in the UK and EU on internet safety, online advertising and online regulation, as well as working with technology and product teams on ethical responsibility of design. He started his career at the UK communications regulator Ofcom working on broadcast regulation, net neutrality, broadband infrastructure and spectrum.

#techsociety #onlineharms #techpolicy

Delfi Media Lab

12:00 – Media Technology & Society

12:30 – Sustainable Technologies = Sustainable Life?

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15:00 – Impact for Good – Is it Myth or Reality in Business?

About

Currently Head of Communication at Nomadic Labs, Sajida previously worked as a Blockchain architect and Project lead at ConsenSys. Engineer with 5 years of experience including 3 years as a Research engineer at Orange Labs (Telecommunications) and in the Computer Science Lab of Grenoble (LIG), she is also the co-founder of multiple projects in the Blockchain Ecosystem: Le BlockFest (Blockchain festival and hackathon), the Kidner Project (social impact project in healthcare using blockchain and cryptography tools), La Chaintech (french blockchain association) and the eHealth & Blockchain Think Tank. Sajida is an International Public Speaker and was named one of Top 10 Women to Follow in Tech in 2019 (#FrenchTech), Top 40 Forbes Women in France 2019, Top 6 Women Blockchain Influencers (#FrenchTech) and nominated for the Women in IT Awards Ireland 2018 (finalist for “Future CIO of the year”).

#blockchain #privacy #socialimpact

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16:00 – Blockchain: Hype or Hope for Humanity?

About

His philosophy in piano building has been formed by the understanding that today’s pianos are essentially built by principles that were established more than 100 years ago and remain unchanged even today. His approach from the onset was to rethink the piano design, to find out whether totally different solutions may be at hand that were not existing in the 19th century.

In 1987 David presented his first invention, the Vertical Grand Piano M370. The massive sound of the M370 found an audience in modern musicians seeking new sonic possibilities. Renewed attention from the musical world enabled Klavins to build the next step forward in uncompromised sound, the M450i – Vertical Concert Grand measuring 4.5m in height, located in Berlin and Latvia.

Some of Klavins Piano clients are Nils Frahm, Chemical Brothers, Erased Tapes, Stephan Eicher, Matthieu Chedid etc.

Check out ThePianoGuy @soundcloud

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10:00 – The Grand Opening: Right Here, Right Now

Delfi Media Lab

13:30 – Creativity: Human vs. AI

About

For several years, Caroline has been working every day to support women entrepreneurs in tech. Since October 2016, she has been the Managing Director of Paris Pionnières. Caroline is an expert in digital strategy and was previously Deputy Head of the Digital Department of the City Hall of Paris. She also notably developed the label My Startup in Paris.

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14:00 – Can Technology Give a Push for Equal Rights?

About

Christoph Amend, born in 1974, is the Editor in Chief of ZEITmagazin and publisher of ZEIT‘s art magazine “Weltkunst.“ He is the co-host of ZEIT‘s podcast „Alles Gesagt“ and the author of the daily newsletter „Was für ein Tag.“

For his first book “Morgen tanzt die ganze Welt” (“Tomorrow The Whole World Will Dance”) he won the Hermann Hesse Junior book award. His new book „Wie geht‘s dir, Deutschland“ („How are you, Germany?“) was published by Rowohlt in 2019.

He also published “Die Grünen – Das Buch” (“The Green Party – The Book”) and the memoir “Ein Jahr – Ein Leben“ („One Year – One Life“) together with actress Iris Berben.

#theberlinstateofmind #zeitmagazinunlock #wiegehts

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16:30 – The State of the World: Do Technologies Challenge Humanity?

Delfi Media Lab

17:00 – Journalistic Excellence in Times of Infotainment and Social Media Junk

17:30 – Book signing with Christoph Amend: “Wie geht’s dir, Deutschland?”

About

Andrea Orsag is a co-founder and partner at MissionC, strategy advisory on a mission to accelerate the transition to Circular Economy on a global scale. Andrea is a consultant with 10+ years of experience combining Risk Management, Strategy and Change Management cross-industry, both for the commercial sector and not-for-profit organisations internationally.

She regularly acts as a moderator, facilitator and a speaker on topics related to Circular Economy and Sustainability #noplanetb

#circulareconomy #noplanetb #wearemissionc

Innovation Bazaar

11:00 – Green Tech Pitch Finals x Latvia’s State Forest x Climate KIC

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15:00 – Impact for Good – Is it Myth or Reality in Business?

About

Rokas Kondratas is a Co-Founder and CEO of YouTube Multi Channel Network “Videostars.lt”.
Network is managing more than 160+ YouTube channels in Lithuania. Top Lithuanian musicians, brands, celebrities and influencers works with “Videostars.lt” to monetize, protect and promote their video content. In 2019 summer “Videostars.lt” became a part of Lithuanias DELFI.LT group

Delfi Media Lab

14:00 – Reaching Digital Youngsters