Theme of this year’s summit

The Baltic Blueprint: Collaborate Locally, Compete Globally

Baltic VCA Summit, 4th September

11:00 - 12:00 Arrivals

12:00 - 12:10 Opening

12:10 - 12:55 Investing Without Borders: The Baltic LP Collaboration Story

Ieva Jansone-Buka
Partner at IJ Birojs,
LVCA board member

Dainius Vilcinskas
CEO, Chairman of the Board ILTE

Sille Pettai
CEO SmartCap

Reinis Berzins
Chairman of the Management Board Altum

Dmitry Smirnov
Partner, Baltic Capital Markets Acceleration Fund

12:55 - 13:15 Latest Developments at EIF

Stefan Tzalov
Senior Head of Unit - Institutional Relationships in Nordics, Baltics & CEE

13:15 - 14:00 Practical Application of AI in Fund Management

Arta Abasina
COO, BADideas.fund

Agnese Kalnina
Managing Director, LVCA

Vanda Alwast
Investor,
Iron Wolf Capital

Kirsti Pent
Partner, Head of Banking & Finance Practice Group, TEGOS

14:00 - 15:00 LUNCH

15:00 - 15:20 Athlete Capital: Managing Wealth During and After the Career

Kristaps Petersons
Media Producer, host of “MedianReport“

Zanis Peiners
Former Latvian national team player, analyst of the Latvian basketball national team, and assistant to head coach Luca Banchi

15:20 - 16:05 The Baltic Launchpad: What it takes to scale a tech business beyond the borders?

Karlis Vikis
Senior Associate,
Livonia Partners

Rinalds Sluckis
CEO, Digmatix

Eero Tohver
CEO, Uptime

16:05 - 16:25 Behind the Largest Lithuanian Investment in Romania: The Story of Pehart Group and Invalda INVL Group

Vytautas Plunksnis
Head of Private Equity at INVL Asset Management

16:25 - 17:00 BREAK / NETWORKING

17:00 - 17:45 Exiting in a Challenging Environment

Deimantė Korsakaitė
Managing Partner at INVL Private Equity Fund II and INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund

Andrzej Pietrzak
Partner, Innova Capital

Rando Rannus
General Partner, Siena Secondary Fund

Rustam Kurmakaev
Principal, MidEuropa

17:45 - 18:30 How to promote the Baltics as a region to the international LP community?

Martins Mellens
Private Equity and Principal investing practice, McKinsey & Company

Ernests Bordans
Partner, Livonia Partners

Benedikt Hoefelmayr
Partner, Cepres

Margus Uudam
Founding Partner, Karma Ventures

Justinas Milašauskas
Investment manager, Willgrow

18:30 - 18:45 CLOSING

18:45 - 20:00 DINNER

20:00 Music / Drinks / Performance / Networking