Mentoring is best described as an educational process when mentors share knowledge with the purpose of surfacing potential in their protégés.
Monika Valatkevičienė. Team Manager, Product Management Operations. Adform
I feel curiosity and passion not just for the product and customers, but also for the production process itself! I consider my strengths to be: the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, the ability to work under pressure, positive thinking and the ability to set priorities. Shortly, I’m a simple, open and caring person. For me – challenges are just a natural part of trying to get things done!
Irma Matonė. Data Engineer. Cognizant
My last ~5 years of career are focused to data engineering. I also love to solve performance issues caused by huge amount of data, so kind of DBA in my heart. I work with Microsoft stack mostly, but have understanding of other tools too. If you are keen to know more about the world of data, then I’m right person to talk to.
Emilija Lamanauskaitė. Data Engineer. Cognizant
Working as Data Engineer I am responsible for maintaining and developing analytics platform in Azure Databricks. I can help get started with programming skills needed for data related work as well as technologies that are commonly used in data engineering.
Lina Armonienė. Senior product manager. Adform
I grew as professional working both in startups and large IT companies in various positions. Last 6+ years I’m focusing on product development. For me product management is about bringing ideas to life that maximize value for customers, in collaboration with a number of people.
Ieva Ruškytė-Jasinskienė. Senior Business Analyst. EIS Group
A determined and analytical personality, hard-working, fast, and result-oriented team player, business and solution-oriented professional with the ability to prioritize work and a strong will to learn business beyond the numbers. I myself have changed my career path toward Tech, so I am more than willing to share my experience.
Eglė Dubauskė. Head of Quality Production. HELLA Lithuania
More than 6 years of experience as Quality for Production responsible in the Automotive Electronics industry as a solution oriented and seasoned professional. Demonstrating strong interpersonal and presentation, exquisite time management skills, ability to work on more than one project at a time, demonstrated by being among the top performers, while being engaged in other activities, such as dynamic, results-oriented problem solving, keeping customers requirements ensured, balancing the team work packages, quick reaction in urgent situations. Experienced in successful management of diverse groups of people, enjoy working as a team member as well as independently, strongly committed to team building and staff development. Excellent analytical skills with the ability to analyze situations accurately and effectively, capability to learn and apply new technologies.
Pijus Vaškevičius. Technical Team Lead. Telesoftas
A hands on technical team lead. Interested in working in remote/hybrid teams in agile environment and implementing pragmatic solutions. With experience of running autonomous development teams and implementing top to bottom solutions. Some things to know about Pijus: he finds it really weird to talk about himself in 3rd person.
Jonas Minelga. Chapter Lead. Danske Bank
I am a Chapter Lead with more than 10 years of experience and PhD in Informatics Engineering. During my career, I have done all kinds of development, from mobile apps to web applications and my passion – back-end. I love microservices architecture, messaging, and constantly search for new easier ways to solve complex problems. I value teamwork, love knowledge sharing, always seek improvement and now starting to dive into management world.
Tomas Šeputis. Head of IT Service Desk & Workplace Technology. TELIA LIETUVA
I have many years of experience, couching and seeing talents grow as manager of first line IT. I have changed my positions several times, so understand meaning and value of support during change. My key knowledge is how to operate an IT Service Desk and how to ensure customer business continuity from the first line.
Elvinas Didika. Head of service desk. Danske Bank
An IT professional with 5+ years of leadership experience in IT Operations within financial sector. I have started my career as IT Service Desk analyst and took on a number of Team management positions (within IT Service Desk as well as platform development). For the last 2 years I am heading Global Service Desk of 70+ people across 3 locations (Lithuania, Denmark and Finland) which is supporting 20.000 Danske Bank Group colleagues globally. During my tenure at Danske Bank, I have been responsible for launching new support channels for the users, including but not limited to Self-service portal and AI powered chat bot. I am constantly sharing my experience on AI, customer support, service desk operations in international conferences, e.g. ITSMF, ServiceNow Knowledge, Vestergaard; and I am really keen to share my knowledge with WGT mentees.
Giedrius Kriščiukaitis. Head of Software development. Ignitis group
Head Of Software Engineering at Ignitis Group. Experienced web developer. Engineering IT solutions and business value using Lean-Agile mindset. Strong project management skills, good communicator, speaker in conferences, colleague and people leader.
Rimantas Žukaitas. System Architect. EIS
I am system architect from EIS Group, working with Java stack for almost 20 years. My specialisation is business rule engine technologies, data validation and model driven software architectures. I can give a presentation on challenges and various aspects on data validation and how business rules can be leveraged to address that.
Donatas Vlasovas. Head of Operational Excellence & Industrial Engineering. HELLA LITHUANIA
I am a highly motivated professional working in automotive industry and specialising in lean manufacturing
and continuous improvement fields. I had my first encounter with “lean” concept while doing my internship
at Vauxhall Motors UK and was immediately facinated by the huge potential. Now, over 6 years have
passed and I can confirm that, indeed, potential is huge and there is a reason why more and more companies
try to follow “lean” principles and methodologies. During my carer I had a chance to work on various
improvement activities ranging from simple Kaizen workshops to more complex DMAIC projects. I feel that
the time has come for me to share my experience and inspire others.
Andrius Bartminas. CEO and co-founder. SUPER HOW?
Andrius is Chief Executive Officer as well as blockchain researcher at SUPER HOW. He is a passionate blockchain visionary and a prominent business development professional with a passion for new technologies and innovations. Andrius has a proven experience in the field of international business development and working in large-scale innovative projects such as building Lithuania’s archive for electronic documents, or digitisation project of Lithuanian documentary archives. Currently he is an active participant of governmental and institutional working groups setting the regulatory framework in Lithuania and European Union in blockchain and digital assets adoption process. Andrius also holds Blockchain Business Analyst Certificate and had done several research papers on Blockchain topic.
Alexandra Jushkova. User Research/UX Design. Fortum Sweden
For the past 4 years, I have been working in the UX/User Research field. Both as consultant in startups and established companies. At my current position, I am more working as a User Researcher. I work in a multi-cultural environment, this really opened my eyes to how each individual is unique. This brought more compassion and empathy towards my colleagues and also my self. Deeper connections, being heard, empathy, and seeing purpose in your work somethings that I see is more and more thrives on people.
Gintautas Mežetis. Director. Ivpk
Through accumulated knowledge and experience, Gintautas Mežetis aims to create added value to those business which are going through a digital transformation. Key to his success has been understanding the full processes of the business and then amending them in order to achieve positive results, whilst motivating and encouraging others along the way.
Kęstutis Gardžiulis. Founder & Chief Innovation Officer. Etronika
I have a huge experience in FinTech and business development. Extremely interested in technology and what the future holds. Strongly believe in interdisciplinary approach, power of collaboration and love to pursue the craziest ideas.
Dovilė Kurpytė-Lipnickė. Lecturer, CEO, Engineer. Vilnius Tech
Dovilė has finished Electronic engineering BSc, MSc, and Management and Business administration studies. Experience in various tech projects, a founder of two tech start-ups, experience 13+ years. If you are interested in engineering, programming, your own business from conceptual to detailed level – have a chat.
Virgita Abaravičiūtė. Vice President, Global Customer Operations. Adform Lithuania
Have eight years’ work experience in the ad tech industry. Leading the Service organization consisting of 90+ talents. Helped individuals and leaders to grow within the company by focusing on their strengths and passion. Passionate about the leadership topic.
Daiva Kaštelionė. Project manager. Zenitech
Professional project manager +10 years managed different scale and technologies projects, using Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies. In a world where everyone is hugely busy, a project manager’s job of bringing a team together to work as one is far from easy. You might not have the specific skills or knowledge of each project member, but what is excellent at is seeing the bigger picture of how the jigsaw fits together and moving the right pieces to the right place at the right time. I want to encourage Woman Go Tech participants to dive deeper into PM’s profession and ready to share my experience.
Julija Varneckienė. Director of Operations. CapitalBox (Multitude group)
A systematic approach and broad knowledge in systems give me a chance to be a great addition to any company and bridge business with IT. I stand for customer experience, process optimization, and operational efficiency. I am onboarded when companies buy systems but do not know how to make them valuable. I do know. My more than ten years of experience administrating, developing, fixing, maintaining, and being a product owner for different systems gives a valuable understanding of a journey.
Baran Ozkan. Co-founder & CEO. Flagright
Baran is an accomplished builder with a track record in Product Management and high-performance team building. Having worked across different geographies and cultures, successfully launched and scaled software products in fast-growth environments where fast-pace and continuous change were the norm.
Miks Miķelsons. Program manager. Adform Lithuania
Project management professional with a background in finance and adtech. 10+ years of experience in leading business expansion projects and strategic product development in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Šarūnas Leonas. Development and Product Director. Visma Tech
Experienced C-Level Executive with a long working history in the financial services industry. Strong IT professional skilled in Business Processes, Agile, Scrum, Analytical Skills, project management, product ownership and lot more. I am oriented into Customer service first: delivering easy and friendly customer end solutions & products, aiming for fully automatic solutions. Always seeking for a long-term and reliable solutions.
Sharing, precision and passion in daily work are main factors that I always try to fulfill when working with team members and customers. Also, following best learning practice and personal experience from Scandinavian markets, I try to promise things that I am sure I will deliver.