Latitude59 2022

Kersti Kaljulaid served as the President of the Republic of Estonia from 2016-2021. During her time in office, she made her presence felt in both her homeland and the international arena.

Previously she had been serving as a Member of the European Court of Auditors, advising Prime Minister Mart Laar and holding diferent top level positions in energy, investment banking and telecom sector. Genetic engineer and economist by education, she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center and the Council Chair of the University of Tartu from 2012 to 2016.

In summer 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed President Kaljulaid to the position of Global Advocate for the ‘Every Woman Every Child’ strategy on the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents around the world for the next two years. She was also the first Estonian to be featured in the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

Kersti Kaljulaid has become a sought-after speaker at high-level forums on digital, security and foreign-policy topics and more broadly for analysing and interpreting societal and economic change.President Kaljulaid is a vocal advocate of human rights, rule of law, freedom of speech and democracy. One of the principles in the in office of president has been the one she set out upon her inauguration: “I am never silent when our security is in question, when our freedoms are at stake or when those weaker than us are treated unjustly.

Ethan Pierse

Director of The CryptoAssets Institute

A sought-after MC and moderator as well as a prolific keynote speaker, Ethan currently educates and inspires audiences on the Web3 Economy (NFTs, DAOs, Social Tokens, the Decentralized Creator Economy) and the larger Tokenized Securities discussion in the Blockchain Economy. His French Tech News and upcoming European Tech-focused media interview Europe’s leading tech entrepreneurs and investors to tell the important stories of Europe’s innovation ecosystems.

Ethan is the host of The Web3 Economy News, French Tech News, and Startup Stories with Scaleway podcasts and media. He is the Founder of Borderless Ventures, Creator of the $ETHAN social token on Rally.io, and Director of The CryptoAssets Institute.

David Goldberg

Global CEO of Founders Pledge

David is the co-founder and Global CEO of Founders Pledge. He moved into the non-profit sector from an eclectic commercial background. Having run the gauntlet of finance, start-up, and academia, he started Founders Pledge to make it absurdly easy for entrepreneurs to do good in their work and lives. Following high school, David joined Mortgage Capital Associates, one of the largest privately held mortgage banks in the U.S., where he launched the secondary marketing department. After that, he worked as a mortgage and investment banker at CS Financial in Beverly Hills. David also founded and ran a boutique real estate firm in Germany and was the general manager of Urban Motion. David is a graduate of UCLA and the University of Cambridge.

Triin Hertmann

Co-founder and COO of Grünfin

Triin Hertmann is the co-founder and COO of Grünfin. She has more than 20 years of experience in technology and fintech. Her early career in private equity and corporate finance led her to join Skype’s finance team in 2005 to help build the company’s finance and planning processes. As the second employee at (Transfer)Wise in 2011, she helped set up the startup’s payment operations and finance processes, and later was in charge of the company’s global offices and people operations. She’s an active angel investor, with a keen focus on impact start-ups and female founders.

Lubomila Jordanova

CEO & Founder, Plan A

Lubomila Jordanova is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a Berlin-based company developing an end-to-end platform that uses machine learning and science to enable businesses to manage and improve their carbon and ESG performance. She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of over 1300 startups which are connected to over 500 advisors from VC, media and business. Prior to Plan A, she worked in investment banking, venture capital and fintech in Asia and Europe. She is a BMW Responsible Leader, Marshall Fund Fellow for 2021, 100 Top Women in Germany 2020 (Focus Magazin), Top 50 Women in Tech in Germany 2021 (Handelsblatt), and Obama Leader Europe 2022.

Devika Thapar

Co-founder at Wilbe.com

Devika Thapar is Co-founder at Wilbe.com, the Home for Scientist Leaders, where they educate, support and invest in scientist founders. In less than two years they have built an end-end platform to support a growing community of entrepreneurial researchers from University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Max Planck Society and more. Devika has been commercializing frontier technology for the past decade, formerly as head of new product development at IBM Watson in New York, where she spent five years commercialising AI solutions for large enterprises across USA and Europe and prior to that at Yale’s Tech Transfer Office operationalizing a program of spinout evaluation. She began her career in strategy management consulting with Accenture India.

Kaarel Kotkas

Founder & CEO at Veriff

Kaarel is the strategic thinker and visionary behind Veriff. He keeps Veriff’s team one step ahead of fraud and competition in the dynamic world of online identification. With plenty of energy and enthusiasm, he encourages the Veriff team to stand for honesty in the digital world. In March 2020, Kaarel was named the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Estonia. Also, Nordic Business Report named Kaarel one of the 25 most influential young entrepreneurs in Northern Europe in 2018.