RIGA COMM 2025 Women in Tech Conference
2025-10-10
Riga, Latvia
as the organisers put it
Baltic Business Technology Fair and Conference on 8-9 October 2026 in Riga, Latvia. In two days more than 12 events gather together 2700+ business professionals
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Anna Andersone, CEO of Riga TechGirls | Anna Andersone | 13m |
Opening remarks set Riga TechGirls as an NGO running three concrete tracks: career transitions — 2,000 women supported, startup/foundress support — a couple… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Tiiu Ehastu, Head of product, Inbank | Tiiu Ehastu | 08m |
Five-year arc from business analyst to leading a consolidated product-led company unit, describing the org move that required rewriting roles (business/IT… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Hanna Katargina, Deputy CISO at Luminor Bank | Hanna Katargina | 12m |
Career narrative shows a path from a small Belarus city near Chernobyl to deputy CISO at a bank, starting with five donated computers in 1998 and a first paid… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Aliona Sosunova-Piurko, Director of Engineering, Vinted | Aliona Sosunova-Piurko | 16m |
Company launches Vinted in Latvia launched Vinted in Latvia two days ago and the engineering org reports that one leader without an engineering diploma now… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Dra. Msc. Tatiana Buelvas, Founder, AuthentiKU | Tatiana Buelvas | 20m |
Argues that a hierarchy of knowledge steers which professions pay and who gets included, cites Europe figures: women 50% of population but ~20% in ICT… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Katrina Kukuma, Data Analyst at Riga City Council | Katrina Kukuma | 11m |
Career path begins with free online courses during 2020 and a string of rejections before landing a role in RIA digital agency, now 2.5 years into municipal… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Dace Bulte, Cybersecurity Analyst, CERT | Dace Bulte | 17m |
Career change at 50 plus moves from nine years in capital markets into hands‑on cyber work using specific courses and certificates and joining CERT.LV in… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Ilze Rosicka, Automation Specialist at Nutrameg | Ilze Rosicka | 10m |
Career pivot from 15 years in marketing to bot-building explains learning to code from zero via a Riga Girls program, quitting a CMO role and studying eight… | ||
| Panel: Rethinking Skills and Work in the Age of AI | Zane Culkstena, Marta Ancane, Parla Basko, Laura Krastina | 45m |
Latvia’s AI adoption doubles (roughly 4.5% to 8.8%) but stays below EU average; Printful/Printify reports organization-wide AI use and function-level targets… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Monta Vilumsone, Founder, CEO at Companon | Monta Vilumsone | 09m |
Founder builds a voice AI called Companon that started as an elder-facing memory companion, pivots after incubator and hackathon feedback to a personal… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Karin Kuusk, Founder at MOTIVEER.eu | Karin Kuusk | 07m |
Company builds MOTIVEER.eu, a search engine that matches companies to trainers, coaches and consultants and survives at least three pivots before landing on a… | ||
| “RIGA COMM 2025” Women in Tech Conference / Agnese Jaunosane, Co-founder at Ajelix | Agnese Jaunosane | 10m |
Builds Ajelix from two founders with Zero budget into 280K users by launching before ChatGPT, shipping an initial suite of ten AI spreadsheet tools (an Excel… | ||
| Panel: Funding for Startups | Lauma Sile, Egita Polanska, Marija Plotniece, Aija Perta | 44m |
Outlast Fund and two peers each offer 21 million per fund for early-stage Baltic/Nordic startups, while Horizon Europe offers equity-free grants but requires… | ||
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