TechChill Podcast

Speaker: 🔸Ucha Vekua, Founder & Creator at Startup Adventures International The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out mo...

Speaker: 🔸Ilze Švarcbaha, Co-Founder at Every Good Idea The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more: 📍Riga https://www.t...

Speaker: 🔸Monika Diāna Cālīte, Founder at Mindwisecoach & Break the Loop The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more:...

Speaker: 🔸Jānis Kreilis, CEO & Cofounder at Hyperjob The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more: 📍Riga https://www....

Speaker: 🔸Roman Lobas, Venture Partnerships Manager at Deel The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more: 📍Riga https://w...

Speaker: 🔸Kotryna Kurt, Founder & CEO at Linkedist The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more: 📍Riga https://www.te...

Speaker: 🔸Rasmus Merirand, CEO & Co-Founder at DoBu The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more: 📍Riga https://www.t...

During the fireside chat, we will explore a variety of topics related to Web3 and how big brands can leverage it. This will include a discussion of the steps brands can take to enter the Web3 space, the changing approach of brands towards consumers in the context of Web3, and the potential for industries such as transportation, government, health, and real estate to benefit from Web3 technology. I...

Speaker: 🔸Nima Tisdall, CEO at Blue Lobster / Nordic Makers The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more: 📍Riga https://w...

Media are a valuable partner in your startup's growth, but navigating the ins and outs of media relations is far from obvious. In this panel, we'll discuss the best practices to work with media to get your story out there, so that you can skip the learning curve. Speakers: 🔸Farah Kabir, Co-Founder at Hanx 🔸Cate Lawrence, Senior writer at Tech.eu 🔸Thomas Macaulay, Senior Reporter at The...

Startups live in ongoing turbulence and uncertainty. Surviving crisis after crisis is part of the entrepreneur's journey. But the war in Ukraine also created a human crisis well beyond what any of us expected. Suddenly at Startup Wise Guys we found ourselves calling our 46 Ukrainian portfolio companies and asking them if they were alive. Bogdan was right before living the startup dream. Having...

What I learned after delivering 161 NAFO trucks to Ukraine soldiers. Speaker: 🔸Ragnar Saas, Co-founder & CEO at Salto X The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to s...

Speaker: 🔸Reinis Pozņaks, Founder at Agendum The keynote was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories and insights. Find out more: 📍Riga https://www.techchill.co...

The session will dive into the impact of MiCA regulation on market events and participants as well as what we can learn from FTX fall and how to be prepared for new game rules. Marine & Karolis will discuss if and in what way will we see the symbiosis of traditional and crypto finance, CyberSec risks in crypto business and customer protection and its impact on financial stability and the banki...

Exploring recent development of large language models. What it means for knowledge workers and are there risks for wider society? Speaker: 🔸Ēvalds Urtāns, CEO at asya.ai Moderator: 🔸Ernests Štāls, CEO & Co-founder at Starwatcher.io The fireside chat was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups,...

In his speech, Martin Gauss will address airBaltic's journey towards tokenization, which has led to successful implementation of NFTs into their customer loyalty program. This achievement has positioned airBaltic as the world's first airline to utilize web3-based solutions in attracting new passengers. This is not a story of a suddenly born miracle, but a continuous and purposeful developm...

While some claim there are challenges to the widespread adoption of blockchain technology, such as energy consumption and scalability issues, there is no doubt that it has the potential to change the world in various ways. Decentralization, transparency, security, trust and efficiency are all among the promises that blockchain technology offers to deliver. How to navigate the hype vs value? How to...

In the race to create global technology leaders, Europe needs to spawn solutions to address the funding gap and better connect different start-up ecosystems. This is why in the recent years Europe has boosted investments allowing its start-ups to expand their opportunities by acting as key job creators and talent enablers, providing an answer to the equity-funding gap. Speaker: 🔸Stéphane Ouaki, H...

Compelling, authentic and emotionally resonant stories are the basis of pretty much everything we believe in. Buying is based on emotions and stories evoke emotions. We remember great stories. They are an incredible tool of persuasion, a real superpower! Stories help others see your point and join in with you to reach your goals both as individuals and teams, in business and personal life. Speaker...

When it comes to building startup ecosystems, many factors come into play. In this session, we will explore several factors that are important to consider when building ecosystems such as cultural elements, building trust, governmental involvement, key metrics to effectively measure progress and the impact of success stories. Speakers: 🔸Anna Andersone, CEO at Riga TechGirls 🔸Nina Erkkilä, Projec...

In this keynote, we'll explore the challenges and opportunities that AI presents for startups, as well as the role that providers could play in enabling AI innovation. We'll discuss the cost of running AI at scale, the need for new hardware, and the pressure on startups to prove their capabilities. This is an exciting time to be a part of the AI revolution, and startups are playing a vital...

The future is generative and AI will dramatically change creative production as we know it. While automation and generative design technology will save a lot of time for branding teams, who will be able to spend less time on tedious tasks such as creating repetitive logo spacings, patterns, do’s and don’ts examples and instead, teams can focus their efforts on landing a bigger impact. Are AI techn...

Building your first MVP, sales strategy, pitch or even talking to first customers - every founder is experiencing all these things & most of them make decisions based on ‘rational’ data, which leads to cognitive biases & failing. Let’s talk about hidden cognitive biases which affects founder’s wellbeing, company revenue, customer behaviour & even fundraising Speaker: 🔸Marina Petrakova...

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, it is playing an increasingly important role in cybersecurity. This panel discussion will delve into the synergies between AI and cybersecurity, the risks associated with their integration, and the opportunities for businesses and organizations. Speakers: 🔸Ēvalds Urtāns, CEO at asya.ai 🔸Pēteris Paikens, Senior researcher & Docent at Unive...

Speakers: 🔸Kaisa Luht, Global Reward Lead at Salto X 🔸Ragnar Saas, Co-founder & CEO at Salto X The fireside chat was a part of TechChill 2023 the leading Baltic tech and startup event, held on April 26-28, 2023. The event brought together aspiring startups, international investors, innovative corporations, tech enthusiasts, and inspirational minds from around the world to share their stories...