Julia Arlt

2018 will mark a turning point, finally the established real estate players have to make a commitment and invest in technology. Global venture capital investments in Property Technology have reached roughly $12.6 billion in 2017– triple of $4.2 in 2016. Real estate is moving from being a product to a service industry, therefore the real estate industry has to rethink the business models.

Julia is a Global Digital Real Estate Leader at PwC. Her areas of expertise include deals strategy, digital real estate consulting, new product development and startup collaboration.

She co-founded the Austrian PropTech Initiative with top notch startup founders and co-founded the pan-european FUTURE: PropTech event platform.

Julia is a start up mentor at MetaProp NYC, the leading PropTech accelerator with 80+ investments, as well PropTech Ambassador at MIPIM and part of the advisory board of the Real Estate Innovation Network at ExpoReal. She lectures at universities and is frequent speaker at international conferences.

Dr. Marc Gille

Founder and CEO at THING TECHNOLOGIES

Marc Gille is founder of THING TECHNOLOGIES and father of the Thing-it product. Thing-it is a Cloud Platform connecting People, Devices and Softwaresystems in business processes for the Digital Transformation of office buildings, condominiums, city quarters and more – purely via configuration and no coding. Marc was SVP Product Management, SunGard/FIS until 2016, where he was in charge of the company’s integration and business process management technology and strategy. He founded the BPM company CARNOT in 2000, ran it as CEO and sold it to SunGard/FIS in 2006 where the CARNOT Process Engine became Infinity Process Platform which runs at many banks and other financial institutions via SunGard/FIS products. He also made the code base of CARNOT/Infinity Process Platform one of the largest open source BPMSs in the market via Eclipse Stardust Project. Marc Gille has a background in IT and physics and holds a Dr.-Ing. in Information Science from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Dan Gildoni

Placense CEO

Placense: Our cloud-based data analytics solution provides real-time metrics about the group of people in a certain location, such as customer visits, visit durations, visit frequencies, customer journey paths, composition of gender/ ages/ income levels/ modes of transport, and other related demographic characteristics.
How it works exactly: We harness the power of sensor data by integrating our technology in installed apps on people’s phones. Our on-device machine learning algorithms decide when to collect, analyze and send fully aggregated & encrypted data points to our servers, which is just one of many measures in avoiding both privacy risk and excessive battery drainage. The data points are then turned into unique audience insights.

Kristi Hakkaja

CEO and founder of Moderan

Kristi Hakkaja, CEO and founder of Moderan Solutions has worked with real estate companies and B2B software for years, with deep insights into the pains and benefits of both sides.

Moderan is an online software for real estate lease agreements management and asset reporting. We bring the benefits of automated reporting and lease management to every company that manages real estate, they have more time for tenants and customers.

Bartosz Dobrowolski

PropTech Poland Founder, Member at RICS Advisory board

Member of RICS Advisory Board and Founder of Proptech Poland – a network of professionals who are digitally transforming the property industry in Poland through innovation. Bartosz is an Industry 4.0 believer, public speaker and proptech evangelist with over 15 years experience in IT, product design, vision development and business process optimisation. Helping real estate partners to build their competitive edge with the use of innovative technologies. As a product expert, experience designer, technical consultant, mentor and trainer Bartosz collaborated with the leading global corporations, organisations and startups from all major industries.

Dr. Vilius Benetis

NRD Cyber Security

Dr. Benetis works for European cybersecurity company NRD Cyber Security where he is leading the company efforts to Secure Digital Environments. The scope of his work includes designing CSIRTs/SOCs for nations, early warning systems and forensics labs, incident response, development of national methodologies for identification and monitoring of critical infrastructure, national situation awareness in cyberspace. He also contributes to ISACA’s existing and to be released publications on cyber security, trains CSX Fundamentals Workshops and speaks at European and African conferences. Dr. Benetis mainly focuses on projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and East Europe. Vilius has graduated from Kaunas University of Technology, as well as from Danish Technical University in BSc in Computer Science, MSc and PhD in Teletraffic Engineering. He additionally serves as Cybersecurity Industry Professor at KTU.

Neda Nordin

Founder of NORD INNO

Neda runs innovation management consultancy NORD INNO in Sweden. She helps startups and corporations reimagine their future by combining customer centric approaches with exponential technologies and innovation governance.
Neda is a leading startup mentor at Techstars Startup Weekend Stockholm, Katapult Accelerator in Oslo, Startup Fair in Vilnius and many other hackathons and startup events since 2014. She is a member of the Nordic PropTech Initiative and has a special interest in this area due to the client base.
Previously, she held positions at EC and UN helping communities, businesses and governments collaborate in daring to test new approaches for positive impact. Neda has double masters in innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability.

Tomas Kebla

Investment Manager at Contrarian Ventures. AcceleratorOne mentor

Leadership role at Sprout (leading B2B SaaS solution in SEA region). Former PE investment advisor at a Baltic fund. Graduate of Warwick Business School.

Martynas Babilas

Partner and head of Tenant representation, Newsec

Martynas Babilas is Partner and head of Tenant representation at Newsec, thus an active consultant to office space occupiers across Baltic States for their strategic and tactical occupancy decisions. Among many multinational and domestic companies Martynas is also supporting Regus with their intensive growth in Lithuania with 4 new locations secured including Spaces in Vilnius, and more in the radar.

Martynas is Proptech Baltic contributor and activist with an openness to share real estate industry practices with tech entrepreneurs. Newsec is part of Proptech Baltic Sandbox project by offering an access to companies diverse service lines as well as managed property portfolio of more 300k sq.m.

Andris K. Berzins

Managing partner, Change Ventures

Prominent leader in Baltic startup ecosystem and co-founder of TechHub Riga. Seedcamp mentor. US & UK-based leadership roles at AeroScout ($240M exit) and Bookatable ($110M exit). Former Bain & Company strategist and investment advisor at Creandum. MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Domas Dargis

General Manager, EIKA

Dargis is a General Manager of EIKA since 2014. Before he has been heading the company’s development department for six years and was responsible for the development of residential and commercial projects from concept development, formulation of the project tasks, sources of financing, and project management to the formation and implementation of the sales and leasing strategy.

By joining the EIKA team, Domas worked at one of the largest real estate consulting and broker companies in the world, Cushman&Wakefield in London for three years. He acquired international experience in the development and management of shopping centres and in real estate fund management in this company. Domas finished Business Management studies at King‘s College London University in UK.

Arturas Bulota

Cofounder at Talent Garden Kaunas, Speaker at everything untold

Donatas Dromantas

Head of Sales and Partner, AltSpace

AltSpace is one of the fastest growing creative industries co-working hub in Lithuania with 2 locations in 6 months and more in the radar. AltSpace as a new player in co-working spaces industry manages 2000 sq.m and additional 2000 sq.m in the process.

Before joining the AltSpace team, Donatas worked in the biggest real estate companies in Lithuania. He gained vast experience in real estate project development covering construction, project management, marketing and sales.

Donatas brought over 6 solid years in business planning and management to Altspace. Donatas is ambitious and enthusiastic professional experienced in strategic systems, organizing and overseeing projects. Knowledgeable in organisational models, team building, product development.

Algirdas Pukis

Board Chairman and CEO at AB AGATHUM, co-working spaces in Kaunas

Lukas Lukoševičius

Co-founder and CEO TableAir

Lukas is a co-founder and CEO of TableAir – a company that was co-founded in 2014 and is focusing on a smart office space product development. TableAir develops an IoT sensor and cloud based technology that helps people utilize their work environment in a smart and connected way. With TableAir, users enjoy office furniture they already know and love, while discovering new undiscovered capabilities. Making work environment a responsive and adaptive to users is the main goal of TableAir.