Resilience in the Age of AI: Baltic Spotlight
Festival Pass holders must register on Luma for free entry (select option 'I have a Festival Pass'). Individual tickets also available on Luma.
Friday, June 26 // 8:45 AM - 4:30 PM
Morning: Baltic Startups in the Age of Agentic AI
9 AM – 12 PM · For founders, investors, and operators
A tech-heavy half-day on the agentic shift and what it means for the people building and backing companies right now.
What we'll cover
The move from assistant tools to agents completing long tasks in the background, and what that does to org design, VC playbooks, and the definition of a "successful company".
Human roles shifting from task execution to orchestrating agentic systems across parallel workstreams.
The Baltic and Ukrainian founder lens: resource-constrained markets that force faster adaptation and tighter learning loops.
Innovation House for Baltic Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley: an exploratory conversation on a transatlantic platform for capital, business diplomacy, and strategic visibility.
Sectors in focus: AI/ML, B2B SaaS, defense tech, fintech, consumer tech, cleantech.
Morning agenda
8:45 AM: Doors open
9:20 AM: Keynote
9:45 AM: Panel: Baltic Startups in the Age of Agentic AI
10:30 AM: Startup Pitches
11:15 AM: Networking
12 PM: Networking Lunch
(Co-sponsored by Korp! Vironia USA)
Networking and ecosystem-building opportunity designed to encourage cross-community conversations.
Founders meet VCs, policymakers, educators, journalists, and diaspora leaders. Innovation House for Baltic entrepreneurs discussions continue informally over the table.
$30 Early Bird tickets currently include the Networking Lunch spot for FREE (limited participants).
Afternoon: Resilience Forum
1 PM – 5 PM · Information Integrity in the Age of AI and AI usage in ed-tech.
If the morning is about how companies adapt to Agentic AI, the afternoon is about how democracies do. Same room, and the lens is pulled wider.
Estonia and the broader Baltic region sit on the geopolitical frontline of contemporary hybrid threats: a real-world laboratory for how democratic societies hold together under technological and geopolitical disruption. The Forum convenes experts to examine interconnected questions.
Afternoon sessions
Keynote: The opening keynote will present a broader vision for Estonia’s future as a digitally advanced and globally connected democratic society within the New Nordics framework, spanning Stanford partnerships, diaspora engagement, innovation, and the next phase of Vabamu’s development.
Panel I: Information Integrity in the Age of Agentic AI. Can mandatory, age-appropriate information analysis in schools build resilience more effectively than reactive counter-disinformation tools?
Panel II: AI in Education. How do we integrate AI into learning without weakening judgment? Estonia's emerging approach as a model that could scale across democracies.
Why come and why stay for both halves
Founders, investors, operators: The morning sharpens your view on Agentic AI's impact on company-building, agentic ways of working and capital. The afternoon shows you the policy and societal weather you're building into, and puts you in the room with the people writing it.
Policymakers, educators, civil-society leaders: The afternoon is your core program. The morning grounds it in live founders, real capital flows, and the technologies you'll soon be shaping policy around.
Everyone: Friday is also the professional entry point into the full West Coast Estonian Days 2026 weekend: cultural and community programming runs through Sunday.
Who'll be in the room
A curated transatlantic mix: Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian startup founders, U.S. venture capitalists, angel investors, corporate innovators, technologists, policymakers, educators, journalists, and diaspora leaders.
Headline Sponsor
The Kistler-Ritso Foundation