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SIIM SIKKUT

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Siim has 10+ years of leading digital policy-making and digital government works in the Republic of Estonia, among them the Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) role in 2017-2022.

Because of this, Siim is an incredibly sought-after expert speaker for international events and the author of the book “Digital Government Excellence: Lessons from Effective Digital Leaders”.

TALKS ABOUT

  • digital policy & strategy

  • leading transformation

  • governance & operating models

  • future of digital government

  • national AI strategy

  • public sector innovation

 

ÜLLAR JAAKSOO

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Üllar has 25+ years of experience in global business development and strategic management. He has a successful experience in managing and advising public institutions, and guru on digital society and digital innovation, also digital economy at-large.

Because of his C-Suite background in banking, media, smart cities, retail, data centers, telecom etc., Üllar is a visionary expert speaker in leadership circles.

TALKS ABOUT

  • digital economy

  • data centres

  • eID & data exchange

  • digital society foundations

  • innovation management

  • leadership

 

HELENA LEPP

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Helena has over 10 years of experience in digital government. In 2017-2021, she led the Digital Services Team at the Government CIO Office of Estonia, where she launched proactive and life-event service transformation programs.

Helena regularly gives workshops on user-centric service design and delivery, and she facilitates service transformation processes with clients around the world. She is also fluent in French.

TALKS ABOUT

  • proactive & live-event services

  • service standards

  • government customer experience

  • user-centric service design

  • service management

  • digital policy & strategy

 

KRISTO VAHER

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Kristo has worked for 5 years as a CTO for the government of Estonia, being responsible for architecture vision, technology strategy, development principles and leading the engineering community.

Additionally he has worked as a senior engineer, tech team lead, consultant and technology architect in the fields of banking, government and internet media, creating digital services for twenty years. He is most known for being an outside-the-box-thinking evangelist for API centric development and Domain Driven Design. He is a strong believer in de-centralized, non-monolithic microservice oriented architecture, which enables fast scaling and natural migration of technology.

TALKS ABOUT

  • solutions architecture

  • event-driven microservices

  • cloud native architecture

  • agile development

  • open source principles

  • technology strategy

  • interoperability

  • technology governance & leadership

  • domain-driven design

 

SIGRIT SIHT

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Sigrit worked 5 years in the Estonian public sector, including the 3+ years at Estonia’s GCIO Office as a Project Manager for #Bürokratt, the national virtual assistant programme, and a Data Policy Advisor (especially on open data). She led the agile development of the #Bürokratt services, and prepared the introduction of this AI tool for the general public.

Sigrit is enthusiastic about trends in AI and data, and shares her know-how frequently through workshops or articles. She has previously held keynote speeches, and participated and moderated panels on two continents. Sigrit is also fluent in German.

TALKS ABOUT

  • data governance

  • data policy & strategy

  • virtual assistants

  • artificial intelligence in government

  • open data

 

TAAVI LINNAMÄE

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Taavi has 20+ of experience in devising, executing and facilitating large-scale policy reforms in the public sector. He is an acknowledged professional in strategic management, strategic communication, government relations, digital transformation, digital skills development, marketing & brand development.

Because of his experience as a strategic advisor to the President of the Republic of Estonia in 2016-2021, Taavi is a prominent expert speaker for impactful and memorable speeches.

TALKS ABOUT

  • leadership development

  • government customer experience

  • stakeholder management

  • strategic communication

  • digital society foundations

  • brand development

 

AVE LAURINGSON

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Ave has 18+ years of experience in promoting ICT education and digital skills. Working at the Government CIO Office she led initiatives to boost digital skill among wider society, increase the number of ICT professionals as well as develop public sector digital competence framework and raise cybersecurity awareness.

Ave is an experienced panelist, delivering thought-provoking conversations, and wanted moderator, facilitating audience-centric discussions.

TALKS ABOUT

  • nation branding

  • digital competences

  • digital leadership

  • skill development