GOVTECH WEEK_
GovTech Week_ online conference is five days of exploration of the widths and depths of the GovTech topic. From the latest trends in public sector innovation, to startups working with government to solve global challenges and technological innovation geared towards green and equitable future – GovTech Week_ will gather global policy and technology experts, startup founders and investors to discuss the most pressing GovTech questions. Join us in this five-day GovTech adventure!
_07 SEPT
DELIVERING THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL
08 SEPT_
RETHINKING PUBLIC SERVICES
EXPLORING TECH IN POLICY-MAKING
_09 SEPT
EMBRACING DIGITAL DEMOCRACY
10 SEPT_
_11 SEPT
INTERNATIONAL GOVTECH DAY
_AGENDA
DELIVERING THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL | 07 SEPT
10:15
Who Will Solve Our Climate Crisis: Startups or Policymakers?
Panel discussion with Agnė Buraitytė, Adviser for Climate, Environment and Digitalisation at the Nordic Council of Ministers
Arnoldas Pranckevičius, Head of the European Commission's Representation in Lithuania
Rytis Kėvelaitis, Vice-minister at the Ministry of Energy
Ignas Survila, CIO at Kilo Health and sustainable mobility expert
Simonas Stankus, CEO of Inbalance grid
Vasarė Krikštopaitytė, Sustainability Expert (moderator)
10:00
Opening Speech
Opening speech by Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries
11:10
Creating Minimum Viable Planet
Fireside chat with Sandra Sarav, Head of Sustainability at Bolt
Žygimantas Zabieta, Innovation expert, Co-Founder of Impact Meetups (moderator)
11:45
Building Climate Startups
Panel discussion with Arvydas Plėta, Partner at Katalista Ventures
Tomas Kemtys, Partner at Contrarian Ventures
Cristobal Alonso, Global CEO & General Partner at Startup Wise Guys (moderator)
RETHINKING PUBLIC SERVICES | 08 SEPT
12:55
Rethinking Public Sector: Lithuania's Perspective
Keynote by Arūnė Matelytė, Manager of GovTech Lab at Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology
9:30
Government-as-a-Service: What Can Governments Learn From Startups?
Keynote by Liudas Kanapienis, CEO at Ondato
9:55
Taxes in the Age of Fintech: Exploring the Case Studies
Presentation of Case studies and panel discussion
Fintech and automated payroll tax collection: Salary payment (Estonia)
Fintech and freelancing: Entrepreneur account (Estonia)
VAT and Blockchain: VAT DLT concept (Luxembourg)
The end of the shadow economy: online invoices and online cash registers (Hungary)
Global leaders in e-invoicing: cloud-based invoice automation (Finland)
The Declaration Wizard: a new way to declare income (Lithuania)
Šarūnė Smalakytė, Head of Rockit (moderator)
11:30
Public Services for the 21st Century
Fireside chat with Ben Macpherson, Minister for Public Finance and Migration at the Scottish Government
Elijus Čivilis, Former Vice-minister at the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Lithuania (moderator)
12.05
Seamless Government: How to Deliver Public Services Proactively?
Panel discussion with Bartosz Bliuj-Stodulski, CEO of Laboratorium EE
Frank Leyman, Manager International Relations at BOSA
Colin Cook, Digital Director at the Scottish Government
Kristo Vaher, CTO of Estonia
Audronė Sadauskaitė, Researcher at Visionary Analytics (moderator)
EXPLORING TECH IN POLICY-MAKING | 09 SEPT
10:45
Exploring the Use of Behavioural Science and Neurotech to Understand Human Behaviour and Solve Social Challenges
Fireside chat with Dalia Bagdziunaite, Behavioural Science and Consumer Neuroscience Expert
Arūnė Matelytė, Manager of GovTech Lab Lithuania at MITA (moderator)
9:30
How Does the City Beat? Understanding the City Through Data
Keynote by Natalia Grau, Marketing Manager at Citibeats
10:00
Exploring the Use of Data for Urban Planning
Panel discussion with Saulė Petraitytė, Co-founder of GovTech Lab
Nikol Kirova, Urban planner at IaaC
Jacopo Hirschstein, Architect and Programmer, Co-Founder at Tekja
Alex Berke, Researcher at the MIT Media Lab in the City Science Group
Donatas Baltrušaitis, Founder at Bauland (moderator)
11:15
Data-Driven Decision Making: Balancing Between Evidence Based Policy and Surveillance State
Panel discussion with Eline Chivot, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Data Innovation
Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Human Rights Activist, Lawyer and President of the Panoptykon Foundation
Ramojus Reimeris, Head Of Unit at STRATA (moderator)
EMBRACING DIGITAL DEMOCRACY | 10 SEPT
10:05
Civic Expression in Digital Age: Does Digital Empower or Silence?
Panel discussion with Maksimas Milta, Head of Communication and Development Unit, European Humanities University
Edvinas Senda, Co-organizer of Fridays for Future
Roman Osadchuk, Research Assistant at Digital Forensic Research Lab
Marija Gevorkjan, Activist
Donatas Puslys, Head of Media programme at Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis (moderator)
9:30
Digital Citizen, Digital Government or Digital Democracy?
Keynote by Robert Bjarnason, President at Citizens Foundation Iceland
11:15
Enabling Civic Engagement From Vilnius to New York
Fireside chat with Darius Gaidys, Ambassador-at-Large for Digital Affairs at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
Skaidra Puodziunas, Senior Engagement Advisor at Ontario Digital Services (moderator)
11:45
Can Digital Citizens Save Democracy?
Panel discussion with Mauricio Mejia, Policy Analyst at OECD
Rimvydas Baltaduonis, Coordinator of the Civic Initiative "LTiVote"
Pablo Aragón, Researcher at Eurecat and board member of Decidim
Patrick Berckmans, Director Digital Democracy, Citizen Interactions & Web Accessibility at Belgian Federal State
Ieva Dunčikaitė, Project Leader at Transparency International Lithuania (moderator)
INTERNATIONAL GOVTECH DAY | 11 SEPT
12:00
Five Years of Govtech: How Has the Community Changed?
Keynote by Daniel Korski, CEO and Co-Founder of Public
12:15
How to Set up a Govtech Programme?
Panel discussion with Justyna Orłowska, Director of GovTech Polska
Mark Elliott, Programme Director at CivTech Scotland
Andrew Niere, Public Sector Innovation Manager at Department of Premier and Cabinet of Victoria, Australia
Arūnė Matelytė, Manager of GovTech Lab Lithuania (moderator)
13:15
Why Were Startups Critical to Our Response to COVID-19?
Panel discussion with Annalee C. Babb, Special Envoy and Special Advisor at Government of Barbados
Alan Costello, Venture Investment Leader at NDRC
Elijus Čivilis, Former Vice-minister at the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation of Lithuania
Kert Pütsepp, Co-Founder of MASC
Mikk Vainik, Head of Accelerate Estonia (moderator)
14:15
Showroom: Getting Business Back on Track
Presentations from Startups about their solutions to help businesses get back on track during or after the crisis
Pard.app (Lithuania)
Bankera (Lithuania)
Zelos (Estonia)
Scottish Tech Army (Scotland)
Vistalworks (Scotland)
Jon Hazell, Strategic Account Management at Innovate UK (moderator)
14:50
Showroom: Community in the Face of Crisis
Presentations from Startups about their solutions to help community to deal with the crisis
Act On Crisis (Lithuania)
VAAB (Estonia)
Voxsio (Scotland)
Maneki (Lithuania)
#FakeHunter (Poland)
Barbara Mills, Challenge Sponsor Lead at CivTech Scotland (moderator)
15:50
Showroom: Ensuring Physical Safety
Presentations from Startups about their solutions to ensure physical safety in the time of social distancing
Wales Ambulance Cleaning SBRI (Wales)
UVIRESO (Lithuania)
ProteGO Safe (Poland)
CovidGenomics (Poland)
MASC (Estonia)
Reactec (Scotland)
Carol Sinclair, Associate Director at Public Health Scotland (moderator)