Since 2014 Joonas has been in the journey of building MeetingPackage.com to be the Globally used marketplace for booking and managing off-site meetings & events. Joonas has grown the team to more than 35 people and got many well known advisors and investors to join his journey of disrupting the meetings & events industry. Within MeetingPackage.com you can find over 250 000 meeting rooms in over 90 countries.   

René is an executive senior consultant in developing integrated experience-based communication concepts with 360 stakeholder value. He works from a co-creative methodology, believing in involving people and aiming for maximizing value for most stakeholders will accomplish meeting ambitious goals. 

Juris Kabakovs is a co-founder, visionary and evangelist of the business technology platform BiSMART. He has developed and managed companies in a wide range of industries including transport, export, manufacturing, media and other segments. Before developing the BiSMART platform, he led and developed the business magazine Kapitals. Juris is convinced that knowing and implementing business technologies in any sector and business process is an opportunity to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of any company.

Olli Kantanen is the Ambassador of Finland to Latvia since 2014. He has a wide experience of policies regarding transition economies, including serving as Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and working in various Departments with Development Policies, External Economic Relations as well as with European/ EU Affairs. He has also served in Finnish Embassies in Tallinn and Berlin.

Heli Koivuniemi is the Editor-in-Chief at Evento Magazine. A constant contributor to the event and incentive travel scene, Heli has the power to bring the best travel destinations in Northern Europe to the forefront of their business schedule.

Vlad has devoted his life to to tourism, being specialist of this sphere since year 1992. He has graduated Stockholm School of Economics in Riga with a master's degree in business management. Two times he got the award of The Man of the Year in Tourism in last 10 years. Vlad is CEO and founder of Baltic Travel Group which is one of the leading travel companies in the Baltic States. Also Vlad is Vice-president of Association of Latvian Travel Agents and Operators (ALTA) and Chairman of the board of Latvia Convention Bureau.

With extensive experience in the field Dr.oec. Ēriks Lingebērziņš has observed several trends in the field. Incentive travel mostly has been associated with metropolitan areas. In Baltic states incentive travel has become more and more actual on a regional level. Infrastructure development plans and business facilitating projects are supporting this direction, thus making Baltics as an attractive destination for making business.

Inguna Rubene is part of the horeca.lv network, which is working within the Latvian market to develop the industry as a whole. Horeca.lv works as a platform combining HoReCa industry professionals and wider audiences, as well as informing public about current market trends. Horeca.lv helps create ties with foreign markets having a large database and experience in such projects.

Aigars is working in Travel & Meetings industry since 2001, started as Commercial director at VIA Hansa Travel company and worked on entire Baltic Sea Region. From 2006 moved to Latvia Tours Con-ex Group in a position of Change Management & Development Director and from the end of 2010 joined Riga Tourism Development Bureau in position of MEET RIGA - official Riga City Convention bureau development manager and also Director since 2014.

Miikka started his career in sponsorship and event marketing as a regional manager for Finlandia Vodka. Since 2001 Miikka has been running his own company Malja, which is one of the biggest and most in-demand agencies in Finland. Malja specializes in Northern Europe projects, that involve incentive travel.