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Augustas Alešiūnas is the founder and the CEO of ART21. He is a serial entrepreneur and a business angel in FoodTech and AgTech businesses. Also, he was the first one in Lithuania who managed to attract VC financing for the AgriFood Tech sector. Starting from 2008, investments in companies managed by him have grown to more than 10 million EUR. Augustas Alešiūnas’ company provides precise farming and grain management AgroSmart solutions for more than 85% of Baltic market. He actively invests into AgriFood Tech solutions based on Raman spectrometry, AI and blockchain technologies. Last year, ART21 represented Lithuania in the World Summit Awards in the category of Environment and Green Energy. Also, the company was included in the list of Lithuanian TOP startups by European technology news platform Sifted supported by the Financial Times.

Aistė Kubiliūtė, Head of the Marine Environmental Assessment Division of the Environmental Protection Agency, is an experienced expert in the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon environmental monitoring and assessment. She closely collaborates with colleagues and best scientific experts in the field of the sea, participates in the working groups of HELCOM and EC and constantly looks for the solutions to achieve good environmental status of the Sea. She believes that eutrophication and the effect of water „blooming“, chemical pollution and impact on biodiversity pose new challenges to achieving good environmental status of the Baltic Sea.

Giedrius Bagušinskas is the President at the Lithuanian Cluster Network, representative of Lithuanian Clusters in European Cluster Alliance, founder, board member and CEO at the Lithuanian Food Exporters Association (LitMEA). Also, Giedrius is a coordinator at SMART Food Cluster.

Grigoris has accumulated an extraordinary international expertise on leading cross-sectoral consortia and coordinating large-scale projects, promoting digital innovation in the AgriFood sector.

The value of the projects he designed and delivered over the past 17 years exceeds 100 million EUR.

He established and managed acceleration programs that in total supported 176 startups and SMEs with 15.3 million EUR in funding and business support services.

As part of the coordination team of flagship EU projects such as FRACTALS, KATANA, IoF2020 and SmartAgriHubs, he contributed in the development of the European network of DIHs.

Grigoris had an instrumental role in the rapid growth of the Serbian agtech and foodtech ecosystem in the last 7 years.