Keynote speech by Marko Mišmaš, Incoming Chair 2026, BEREC

Keynote speech - Erzsébet Fitori, Executive Director, Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU)

Keynote speech by Mohamed AlSharhan, Managing Director, World Governments Summit Organization

• Emerging AI use cases in areas like autonomous agents, tourism, logistics, healthcare, and public service automation — beyond the standard AI narratives.
• Next-gen AI architectures, exploring how cutting-edge models are built, deployed, and scaled.
• The connectivity backbone required to support AI-driven systems—real-time data exchange, edge computing, and intelligent network orchestration.
• The societal shifts that widespread AI autonomy could bring.

Marios Nicolaou, BD Director, p-NET

Nineta Polemi, Professor / CTO, UPRC / trustilio

Ali Hantal, Founder & CEO, XR Masters

Arturs Vasilevskis, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Tilde

Tiago C. Peixoto, Senior Digital Specialist , The World Bank Group

• The evolving landscape of drone warfare and defense, examining both the protection against drone attacks and the defense of drones themselves.
• Current threats, strategic innovations, and emerging technologies shaping drone security.
• Countermeasures from the domains including cyber, electronic warfare, and machine learning.

Bernhards Blumbergs, Lead cybersecurity expert, CERT.LV

Gorazd Mirkovski, Project Director, Dimetor

Kusti Salm, CEO, Frankenburg Technologies

Artis Pabriks, CEO, Association for Military Technology, Drones, and Robotics (MilTech)

• Digitalization as a driver of sustainable growth. How can digital tools boost efficiency and innovation while also advancing environmental and social goals?
• Competitiveness through responsibility. Why combining digital innovation with sustainability builds resilience, attracts talent, and earns customer and investor trust.
• How are public and private sector currently approaching digitalization and sustainability? Where we see the biggest challenges or gaps in adopting these practices effectively?
• What mechanisms — such as policy incentives, public–private collaboration, and procurement models — can effectively embed sustainability together with digitalization? If there are examples – how LVM integrate this in organization processes? How public sector and finance sector sees it?

Oskars Priede, Moderator, Me & Media

Māris Kuzmins, Board Member, AS "Latvijas valsts meži"

Rinalds Celmiņš, Director of the Digital Policy Department, Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development of Latvia (VARAM)

Artūrs Āķis, Sustainability Expert, Futurcene

• How can digital technologies serve as tools for diplomacy and international cooperation?
• Should Europe push for greater digital independence, or is collaboration with global tech giants as well as other regions of the world inevitable?
• How does the European Union balance their interests and workings with geopolitical pressures?
• How effective are digital sanctions as economic tools, and do they have unintended consequences?
• What are the technologies that our speakers are focusing at the moment, where should our attention and funding be pointed at?

Marjorie Paillon, Presenter, Speaker, Founder, I Love Productions

Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission

Baiba Braže, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia

• What are the technologies that our speakers are focusing at the moment in their organizations, where should our attention and funding be pointed at?
• In a world of rapid technological change, how can we ensure that digital transformation makes societies safer, not more vulnerable?
• Technology is often seen as a tool for growth, but increasingly it is also becoming a tool for competition and control. How do we navigate the line between global cooperation and strategic autonomy in critical tech sectors?

Marjorie Paillon, Presenter, Speaker, Founder, I Love Productions

Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Jean Charles Ellermann-Kingombe, Assistant Secretary General, Cyber and Digital Transformation Division | Special Coordinator for Hybrid Threats, NATO

Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Viktors Valainis, Minister of Economics, Republic of Latvia