Friday, June 26 // 8:45 AM - 5 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

  • Eli Chen (Andrew Ng's AI Fund, Technology Partner)

  • Eugene Malobrodsky (One Way Ventures, Managing Partner

  • Vlad Mysla (Emerging AI Solutions, Founder & AI Strategy Consultant

  • Andis Blukis (Provectus, Director AI Engineering)

  • Kadri Tuisk (Wundamental.ai & Clanbeat, Founder)

• ​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 session

• 12:45 - Doors open

• 1:00 - Welcome remarks by Anne-Marie Riitsaar, Lead Volunteer Organizer for the Resilience Forum

• Keynote: “Redefining Education: Harnessing AI for Cognitive Growth” by Kristina Kallas - Estonian Minister of Education and Research

• 1:30 - Presentation: “Olga Kistler RItso’s Amazing Life Journey: Love of Freedom, Love of Country" by Sylvia Kistler Thompson and Andrew Thompson, Kistler-Ritso Foundation

  • The opening talks 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.

• 2:00 - Panel discussion: "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?

  • Halyna Padalko - Disinformation Researcher, Fulbright Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  • Dmitri Teperik - Director / Cognitive Security Expert, National Centre of Defence & Security Awareness (NCDSA)

  • Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts - Chief of the AI Lab, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) StratCom COE

  • Siim Kumpas (moderator) - Team Leader; Info Integrity & Counter-FIMI Division, European External Action Service (EEAS)

  3:15 - Coffee break

  3:30 - Panel discussion: "AI in Education: Preparing Societies for the Age of AI"

  How do we integrate AI into learning without weakening judgment? Estonia's emerging approach as a model that could scale across democracies.

  • 3:30 - Kristina Kallas - Estonian Minister of Education and Research

  • Ivo Visak - CEO of AI Leap Foundation, Estonia

  • Kadri Tuisk - Founder of Clanbeat / Co-Founder of EdTech Estonia

  • Jayna Devani - Education for Countries Lead, Open AI

  • Dan Effland (moderator) - Senior Director of Innovation, Marshall Street at Summit Public Schools

  5:00 - Doors close

​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.