Resilience in the Age of Agentic AI: Baltic Spotlight
Agentic AI is rewriting how companies are built and how democracies hold together. Both topics, one Friday, ballroom full of insights:
Morning on Agentic AI for founders, investors, tech leaders and the AI-curious (9AM – 12PM)
Networking lunch (12PM - 1PM)
Afternoon Resilience Forum on information integrity in the age of agentic AI and using AI in education without weakening judgment (1PM – 5PM)
This West Coast Estonian Days 2026 Friday in San Francisco brings 150+ founders, investors, tech leaders, policymakers, educators, and civil-society voices from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and across North America into the Union Square Grand Hyatt for a single coordinated day.
Brought to you by our platinum sponsors: Kistler-Ritso Foundation, Vabamu, Stanford University Libraries.
$30 Early Bird tickets now available. Buy your ticket ASAP to get the Networking Lunch included (limited participants).
Baltic Startups in the Age of Agentic AI
9 AM – 12 PM · For founders, investors, and others interested in Agentic AI
Morning agenda
8:30 AM: Doors open
9:15 AM: Welcome Remarks by Organizer Andre Nakkurt
9:30 AM: Panel: Baltic Startups in the Age of Agentic AI
10:35 AM: Startup Pitches (Baltic / Ukrainian rooted startups)
11:15 AM: Networking Meet and Greet
Expert panelists walk through real Agentic Systems used by leading companies and share practical insights:
Kadri Tuisk - Wundamental.ai & Clanbeat, Founder
Eugene Malobrodsky - One Way Ventures, Managing Partner
Vlad Mysla - Emerging AI Solutions, Founder & AI Strategy Consultant
Andis Blukis - Provectus, Director AI Engineering & Staff Engineer
Ģirts Graudiņš (Moderator) - Board Member at Latvian Startup Association Startin.LV & Director at TestDevLab
What we'll cover
The move from assistant tools to agents completing long tasks in the background, and what that does to org design, VC playbooks, and the definition of a "successful company".
Human roles shifting from task execution to orchestrating agentic systems across parallel workstreams.
The Baltic and Ukrainian founder lens: resource-constrained markets that force faster adaptation and tighter learning loops.
Innovation House for Baltic Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley: an exploratory conversation on a transatlantic platform for capital, business diplomacy, and strategic visibility.
Sectors in focus: AI/ML, B2B SaaS, defense tech, fintech, consumer tech, cleantech.
12 PM: Networking Lunch
(Co-sponsored by Korp! Vironia USA)
Networking and ecosystem-building opportunity designed to encourage cross-community conversations.
Founders meet VCs, policymakers, educators, journalists, and diaspora leaders. Innovation House for Baltic entrepreneurs discussions continue informally over the table.
$30 Early Bird tickets currently include the Networking Lunch spot (limited participants).
Policy Forum: Cultivating Resilience in the Age of AI
If the morning is about how companies adapt to Agentic AI, the afternoon is about how democracies do. Same room, and the lens is pulled wider.
Estonia sits on the frontline of contemporary hybrid threats: a real-world laboratory for how democratic societies hold together under technological and geopolitical disruption. The Forum convenes experts from the Baltic region and Ukraine to examine interconnected questions.
Afternoon agenda
12:40 PM Doors open
1:00 PM Welcome remarks by Anne-Marie Riitsaar, Lead Volunteer Organizer of the Resilience Forum
1:05 PM Keynote "Redefining Education: Harnessing AI for Cognitive Growth" by Kristina Kallas, Estonian Minister of Education and Research
1:30 PM Presentation "Olga Kistler Ritso's Amazing Life Journey: Love of Freedom, Love of Country" by Sylvia Kistler Thompson and Andrew Thompson, Kistler-Ritso Foundation
2:00 PM Panel discussion "Information Integrity in the Age of Agentic AI"
Halyna Padalko, Disinformation Researcher, Fulbright Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dmitri Teperik - Director / Cognitive Security Expert, National Centre of Defence & Security Awareness (NCDSA)
Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts, Chief of the AI Lab, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) StratCom COE
Siim Kumpas (Moderator) - Leader of the Policy, Strategy & Partnerships Team; Info Integrity & Counter-FIMI Division, European External Action Service (EEAS)
3:15PM Coffee break
3:30 PM Panel discussion: "AI in Education: Preparing Societies for the Age of AI"
Kristina Kallas, Estonian Minister of Education and Research
Ivo Visak - CEO of AI Leap Foundation, Estonia
Kadri Tuisk - Founder of Clanbeat / Co-Founder of EdTech Estonia
Jayna Devani - Education for Countries Lead, OpenAI
Dan Effland (Moderator) - Senior Director of Innovation, Marshall Street at Summit Public Schools
5:00 PM Event ends
Why come and why stay for both halves
Founders, investors, operators: The morning sharpens your view on Agentic AI's impact on company-building, agentic ways of working and investing capital. The afternoon shows you the policy and societal weather you're building into, and puts you in the room with the people writing it.
Policymakers, educators, civil-society leaders: The afternoon is your core program. The morning grounds it in live founders, real capital flows, and the technologies you'll soon be shaping policy around.
Everyone: Friday is also the professional entry point into the full West Coast Estonian Days 2026 weekend: cultural and community programming runs through Sunday.
Who'll be in the room
A curated transatlantic mix: Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian startup founders, U.S. venture capitalists, angel investors, corporate innovators, technologists, policymakers, educators, journalists, and diaspora leaders.
Headline sponsors:
- Kistler-Ritso Foundation
- Vabamu
- Stanford University Libraries
Networking Lunch co-sponsor: Korp! Vironia