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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.