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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.