Moldova Digital Summit 2024 • June 6th

Business

Empowering businesses, from SMEs to large enterprises, to thrive in the digital age. Moldova Digital Summit 2024 will explore emerging trends, AI adoption, e-commerce, digital supply chains, fostering tech startups, and the role of government in creating enabling policies.

Skills

Building a future-ready workforce for Moldova's digital economy. Going beyond technical skills to include change management, adaptability, and a culture of lifelong learning within the public and private sectors.

Infrastructure

Modern, secure, and resilient infrastructure is the foundation for a truly digital Moldova. Moldova Digital Summit 2024 will explore connectivity for all (reducing the urban-rural divide), data governance, enabling conditions for innovation, and cybersecurity as a national priority.

Government

A 100% digital tomorrow features a government serving citizens efficiently and transparently. Digital identity for all, citizen-centric services, open data, combating corruption through tech, and ensuring trust in digital platforms are key in achieving this goal.

Thursday, June 6

08:30 - 09:00

Welcoming of guests & registration

EXPO Tour

09:00 - 09:30

Official Opening

Welcoming remarks

Maia Sandu

The president of the Republic of Moldova

Dorin Recean

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova

Maia Sandu

The president of the Republic of Moldova

09:30 - 10:00

Panel

Strategic alliances and the role of international support networks in building digital economies

Government

Dumitru Alaiba 🇲🇩

Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote

Launching EVO - the One Stop Shop App for all Moldova’s Digital Public Services - a vision for a 100% Digital state

Government

Dumitru Alaiba 🇲🇩

Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

10:30 - 11:00

Keynote

Wins and failures as Estonian government CIO

Skills

Roberto Viola 🇪🇺

Director General of DG CONNECT

11:00 - 11:40

Panel

Accelerating Digital Transformation through research and innovation - fostering an integrated digital economy

Government

Andrew Wrobe 🇪🇺

Founding Partner and Leader of the Tech Emerging Europe Advocates community

Dumitru Alaiba 🇲🇩

Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

Bogdan Gruia-Ivan 🇷🇴

Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitization

Mykhailo Fedorov 🇺🇦

Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology

Tiit Riisalo 🇪🇪

Minister of Economic Affairs
and Information Technology of Estonia

11:45 - 12:15

Memorandum of Understanding Signing

Business

Sanna Marin 🇫🇮

Former Finnish prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party; Strategic Counsellor Tony Blair Institute

12:15 - 13:00

Keynote

The Future of Connectivity: 5G, IoT, and Closing the Digital Divide

Infrastructure

🤝 Daniela Gasparikova

UNDP Resident Representative

Mihai Lupașcu 🇲🇩

Director Agency for Cyber Security

🇪🇪 Hannes Astok

Executive Director e-Governance Academy
alternatively, we have Ene Visnev and Elsa Neeme as options

💼 Oliver Vaarnou

CEO, Cybernetica

🤝 Gayan Peiris

Head of Technology and Data, UNDP Chief Digital Office

🇲🇩 Andrei Prisăcar

Director, Agency for eGovernance Moldova

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & Expo area exploration

12:15 - 13:00

Keynote

The Business Ecosystem of the Future

Business

🤝 Daniela Gasparikova

UNDP Resident Representative

Mihai Lupașcu 🇲🇩

Director Agency for Cyber Security

🇪🇪 Hannes Astok

Executive Director e-Governance Academy
alternatively, we have Ene Visnev and Elsa Neeme as options

💼 Oliver Vaarnou

CEO, Cybernetica

🤝 Gayan Peiris

Head of Technology and Data, UNDP Chief Digital Office

🇲🇩 Andrei Prisăcar

Director, Agency for eGovernance Moldova

14:30 - 15:10

Presentation

Digital Europe Programme - opportunities for Moldova and the need for Cross-border Collaboration

Government

🇲🇩 Plinschi Cătălina

Secretary of State on Digitalization, Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization

🇪🇺Max Kintisch

Chief Financial Officer & Memberships | Digital Public Goods Alliance

🇲🇩 Dinu Turcanu

Technical University of Moldova

15:10 - 15:50

Panel

The Digital Skills Gap: Bridging the Divide Between Market Needs and Education for a prosperous future

Skills

🇲🇩 Dan Perciun

Minister of Education and Research

🇲🇩 Ana Chirița

Strategic Projects Director, ATIC

🇲🇩Vitalii Petrosean

Founder, Langly

15:50 - 16:20

Keynote

AI in Payments - the next chapter of merchant possibilities

Business

🇲🇩 Plinschi Cătălina

Secretary of State on Digitalization, Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization

🇪🇺Max Kintisch

Chief Financial Officer & Memberships | Digital Public Goods Alliance

🇲🇩 Dinu Turcanu

Technical University of Moldova

16:20 - 16:50

Keynote

Guest Speaker

Infrastructure

🇲🇩 Plinschi Cătălina

Secretary of State on Digitalization, Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization

🇪🇺Max Kintisch

Chief Financial Officer & Memberships | Digital Public Goods Alliance

🇲🇩 Dinu Turcanu

Technical University of Moldova

16:50 - 17:20

Panel

Governments & Businesses collaborate in building robust infrastructure

Infrastructure

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Xenia Muntean

Co-founder, CEO, Plabanle

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Cristi Jora

BinarCode/Growe

17:20 - 18:00

Keynote

Fighting Disinformation and Critical Thinking New Age of Information

Skills

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Xenia Muntean

Co-founder, CEO, Plabanle

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Cristi Jora

BinarCode/Growe

18:00 - 18:40

Panel

Building the next unicorn - a diaspora story

Business

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Xenia Muntean

Co-founder, CEO, Plabanle

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Cristi Jora

BinarCode/Growe

18:40 - 19:00

Day 1 Closing Remarks

Highlights for day 2

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Xenia Muntean

Co-founder, CEO, Plabanle

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Cristi Jora

BinarCode/Growe

19:00 - 20:00

Networking

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Xenia Muntean

Co-founder, CEO, Plabanle

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Cristi Jora

BinarCode/Growe

Friday, June 7

08:30 - 09:30

Welcoming of guests

Expo tour & registration

09:30 - 10:00

Day 2 Opening

Welcoming remarks

🇲🇩Marina Bzovii

Director ATIC

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote

Developing an Innovation Mindset - AI & Blockchain to power the future

Business

🇷🇴 Sabin Dima

Founder & CEO Humans.ai

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote

Become a Storyteller to Advance your StartUp

Business

🇬🇧Mike Butcher

Editor-At-Large, TechCrunch

11:10 - 11:50

Pannel

The future of work - distributed organizations and remote talent building

Business

Andrew Wrobe 🇪🇺

Founding Partner and Leader of the Tech Emerging Europe Advocates community

💼Andi Stan

VP of Strategy, Index

Bogdan Gruia-Ivan 🇷🇴

Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitization

Mykhailo Fedorov 🇺🇦

Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology

Tiit Riisalo 🇪🇪

Minister of Economic Affairs
and Information Technology of Estonia

11:50 - 12:20

Keynote

MIA Instant Payments - Revolutionizing the way businesses get paid

Government

🇲🇩Vadim Jeleascov

Head of Fintech Dept, National Bank of Moldova

12:20 - 13:00

Keynote

Guest speaker

Government

🇲🇩Vadim Jeleascov

Head of Fintech Dept, National Bank of Moldova

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & Expo area exploration

14:00 - 14:30

Keynote

The Invisible Revolution: How Intelligent Infrastructure Will Reshape Our World

Infrastructure

🤝 Daniela Gasparikova

UNDP Resident Representative

14:30 - 15:00

Panel

Performing in a crisis: Leadership and Skills for Turbulent times

Skills

🇺🇸 Paul Leonardi

Author / Speaker
Consultant /
UC Santa Barbara Professor

15:00 - 15:40

Keynote

Guest speaker

Business

🇩🇰 Stoyan Yankov

Author | Corporate Trainer | Productivity, Performance & Workplace Culture

🇺🇦 Katria Tomko

Lead Analyst, The Global Disinformation Index

🤝 Anton Waschuk

Director of Innovation, Education and Entrepreneurship at Western NIS Enterprise Fund

15:40 - 16:10

Panel

Preparing for the Worst: Incident Response and the Importance of Drills

Government

🇲🇩 Plinschi Cătălina

Secretary of State on Digitalization, Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization

🇪🇺Max Kintisch

Chief Financial Officer & Memberships | Digital Public Goods Alliance

🇲🇩 Dinu Turcanu

Technical University of Moldova

16:10 - 16:50

Panel

The impact of engaging Civil Society Organizations in advancing digital transformation

Government

🤝Victor Guzun

IPRE

🤝 Olga Tumuruc

IPRE

🤝 Constantin Rusu

World Bank

🇲🇩Plinschi Cătălina

Secretary of State on Digitalization, Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization

16:50 - 17:20

Keynote

Guest Speaker

Business

🇺🇸/ 🇲🇩 Mariana Dahan

Founder of World Identity Network | UIDC Chair

17:20 - 18:00

Keynote

The Identity of Tomorrow - Shaping an Inclusive, Borderless Digital Identity

Government

🇲🇩 Dumitru Alaiba

Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

🇲🇩 Marina Bzovii

Director ATIC

🇺🇸/ 🇲🇩 Mariana Dahan

Founder of World Identity Network | UIDC Chair

🇺🇸Paul Leonardi

Author / Speaker
Consultant /
UC Santa Barbara Professor

18:00 - 18:40

Day 2 Closing

Roundup Panel

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Xenia Muntean

Co-founder, CEO, Plabanle

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Cristi Jora

BinarCode/Growe

18:40 - 19:30

Networking

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Xenia Muntean

Co-founder, CEO, Plabanle

🇲🇩/ 🇷🇴 Cristi Jora

BinarCode/Growe

19:30 - 21:00

Closing Concert

Saturday, June 8

08:30 - 18:00

Tekwill Expo Day - the third day of the summit dedicated to technology enthusiasts and products created by young people.

Government officials, educational experts, beneficiaries of educational projects, as well as all those curious about the development of innovative products are expected at the event.

Drones, robots, thematic exhibitions, educational programs, interactive game workshops, and more will be the focal points for event participants.

Dorin Recean

Prime Minister of Republic of Moldova

Dumitru Alaiba

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

Taavi
Kotka

Founder @Proud Engineers, KOOS; first CIO for the Government of Estonia

Mariana
Dahan

CEO @WIN Foundation

Steve
Jarrett

Chief Data and AI Officer @Orange

David
Pontoppidan

Value Advisor Expert, Cloud ERP Value Advisory @SAP EMEA

Andrew
Wrobel

Founding Partner @Emerging Europe

Laura
Kask

CEO
@Proud Engineers

Jeff
Bryan

Mission Director
@USAID Moldova

Bogdan
putinica

Country Manager, Romania and Moldova @Microsoft

Christopher
Burns

Chief Digital Development Officer @USAID

Daniela
Gasparikova

Resident Representative to the Republic of Moldova @UNDP

Andrea
Liebman

Head Digital Hub
@Swedish Psychological Defence Agency

Gayan
Peiris

Advisor, Data, Technology and AI @United Nations Development Programme

Xenia
Muntean

CEO & Co-Founder
@Planable

Adrian
Georgescu

Director, Enterprise Commercial & Public Sector, Romania & Moldova @Microsoft

Doina
Nistor

Chief of Party
@Future Technology Activity

Tony
Wheeler

Director @ImaginexVentures

Sabin
Dima

Founder & CEO @Humans.ai

Catalina
Plinschi

Secretary of State on Digitalization @Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization of Moldova

Inguna
Dobraja

Country Manager for Moldova
@The World Bank

Stoyan
Yankov

Author, Performance Coach, Professional Speaker @PERFORM

Aiva
Staņēviča

Board member
@Riga TechGirls

vadim
Jeleascov

Head of Fintech @National Bank of Moldova

Anton
Waschuk

Director of Innovation, Education and Entrepreneurship @Westerns NIS Enterprise Fund

Michael Buckland

Head of Digital Identity Technologies Department @Cybernetica AS

Stella
Jemna

Country Representative for Moldova @Western NIS Enterprise Fund

Mihai
Lupașcu

Director @National Cybersecurity Agency of Moldova

Alexandru
Gozun

Resident Director @PwC Moldova |President @AmCham Moldova

Eugene Tsyrklevich

CEO

@Parkopedia

Olga
Tumuruc

Associated Expert on Digitalization @IPRE

Stéphane
B. Hoffmann

Senior Associate

@Possible

Anton
Perkin

CEO

@Fusion

Mihai
Stipanov

Founder

@Dreamups / Mozaic

Andrei
Prisacar

Director @eGovernance Agency of Republic of Moldova

More speakers coming soon ...

Stay Tuned!

Olga Tumuruc

Associated expert on digitalization @IPRE

Marina Bzovii

Executive Director @ATIC

Ana
Chirita

Strategic Projects Director @ATIC

Dinu
Turcanu

Vice-Rector for Informatization, Partnerships, Institutional Image and Communication @Technical University of Moldova (TUM)

Victor
Guzun

Digitalization Policies @IPRE, Former Ambassador of Moldova to @Estonia

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MOLDOVA DIGITALSUMMIT 2024

06/08JUNE

Business

Skills

Infrastructure

Government

Agenda

MOLDOVA DIGITALSUMMIT 2024

06/08JUNE

Thursday, June 6

Welcoming of guests & registrationEXPO Tour

Official Opening Welcoming remarks

Maia Sandu

The president of the Republic of Moldova

Dorin Recean

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova

Maia Sandu

The president of the Republic of Moldova

PanelStrategic alliances and the role of international support networks in building digital economies

Dumitru Alaiba 🇲🇩

Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

KeynoteLaunching EVO - the One Stop Shop App for all Moldova’s Digital Public Services - a vision for a 100% Digital state

Dumitru Alaiba 🇲🇩

Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

KeynoteWins and failures as Estonian government CIO

Roberto Viola 🇪🇺

Director General of DG CONNECT

PanelAccelerating Digital Transformation through research and innovation - fostering an integrated digital economy

Andrew Wrobe 🇪🇺

Founding Partner and Leader of the Tech Emerging Europe Advocates community

Dumitru Alaiba 🇲🇩

Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization

Bogdan Gruia-Ivan 🇷🇴

Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitization

Mykhailo Fedorov 🇺🇦

Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology

Tiit Riisalo 🇪🇪

Minister of Economic Affairsand Information Technology of Estonia

Memorandum of Understanding Signing

Sanna Marin 🇫🇮

Former Finnish prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party; Strategic Counsellor Tony Blair Institute

Keynote The Future of Connectivity: 5G, IoT, and Closing the Digital Divide

🤝 Daniela Gasparikova

UNDP Resident Representative

Mihai Lupașcu 🇲🇩

Director Agency for Cyber Security

🇪🇪 Hannes Astok

Executive Director e-Governance Academyalternatively, we have Ene Visnev and Elsa Neeme as options

💼 Oliver Vaarnou

CEO, Cybernetica

🤝 Gayan Peiris

Head of Technology and Data, UNDP Chief Digital Office

🇲🇩 Andrei Prisăcar

Director, Agency for eGovernance Moldova

Lunch & Expo area exploration

Keynote The Business Ecosystem of the Future

🤝 Daniela Gasparikova

UNDP Resident Representative

Mihai Lupașcu 🇲🇩

Director Agency for Cyber Security

🇪🇪 Hannes Astok

Executive Director e-Governance Academyalternatively, we have Ene Visnev and Elsa Neeme as options

💼 Oliver Vaarnou

CEO, Cybernetica

🤝 Gayan Peiris

Head of Technology and Data, UNDP Chief Digital Office

🇲🇩 Andrei Prisăcar

Director, Agency for eGovernance Moldova

PresentationDigital Europe Programme - opportunities for Moldova and the need for Cross-border Collaboration

🇲🇩 Plinschi Cătălina

Secretary of State on Digitalization, Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization

🇪🇺Max Kintisch

Chief Financial Officer & Memberships | Digital Public Goods Alliance

🇲🇩 Dinu Turcanu

MOLDOVA DIGITAL
SUMMIT 2024

06/08
JUNE

MOLDOVA DIGITAL
SUMMIT 2024

06/08
JUNE

Welcoming of guests & registration

EXPO Tour

Official Opening

Welcoming remarks

Panel

Strategic alliances and the role of international support networks in building digital economies

Keynote

Launching EVO - the One Stop Shop App for all Moldova’s Digital Public Services - a vision for a 100% Digital state

Keynote

Wins and failures as Estonian government CIO

Panel

Accelerating Digital Transformation through research and innovation - fostering an integrated digital economy

Minister of Economic Affairs
and Information Technology of Estonia

Keynote

The Future of Connectivity: 5G, IoT, and Closing the Digital Divide

Executive Director e-Governance Academy
alternatively, we have Ene Visnev and Elsa Neeme as options

Keynote

The Business Ecosystem of the Future

Executive Director e-Governance Academy
alternatively, we have Ene Visnev and Elsa Neeme as options

Presentation

Digital Europe Programme - opportunities for Moldova and the need for Cross-border Collaboration

Panel

The Digital Skills Gap: Bridging the Divide Between Market Needs and Education for a prosperous future

Keynote

AI in Payments - the next chapter of merchant possibilities

Keynote

Guest Speaker

Panel

Governments & Businesses collaborate in building robust infrastructure

Keynote

Fighting Disinformation and Critical Thinking New Age of Information

Panel

Building the next unicorn - a diaspora story

Day 1 Closing Remarks

Highlights for day 2

Welcoming of guests

Expo tour & registration

Day 2 Opening

Welcoming remarks

Keynote

Developing an Innovation Mindset - AI & Blockchain to power the future

Keynote

Become a Storyteller to Advance your StartUp

Pannel

The future of work - distributed organizations and remote talent building

Minister of Economic Affairs
and Information Technology of Estonia