Carl-Johan Hultenheim
Chief Operating Officer at Atea ASA
Carl-Johan Hultenheim joined Atea in 2003 and has been part of the company's journey for more than 20 years now. He led Atea Sweden as Managing Director from 2011 to 2020 before taking on his current role as Chief Operating Officer of Atea Group.
Before joining Atea, Carl-Johan held sales and marketing leadership roles at Reachin Technologies, Autodesk NW Europe, Intermezzo and Ferator AB. Over the course of his career, he has combined a strong commercial mindset with a passion for developing businesses, teams and customer relationships.
Carl-Johan holds an Engineering degree from Växjö University, complemented by studies in economics and business administration at Lund University and Stockholm University.
Jarosalv sadovski
Delivery Center Head for Latvia and Lithuania at Cognizant
Jaroslav brings more than 20 years of engineering and leadership experience, with deep expertise in international project management and software engineering. Throughout his career, he has led large-scale technology initiatives, delivered complex solutions for global organizations, and built strong collaboration between clients, business stakeholders, and engineering teams.
As organizations seek to turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes, Jaroslav brings a practical perspective on what it takes to move beyond experimentation and drive real adoption. In his role at Cognizant, he helps connect clients with multidisciplinary teams that design and deliver AI-enabled solutions to complex business challenges, ensuring technology investments translate into tangible value and lasting impact.
Sandra Babylon
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Cembra
Sandra Babylon is Chief Technology Officer at Cembra, Switzerland's leading consumer finance providers. She brings more than 25 years of international leadership experience across technology, shared services, and large-scale business transformation. In leading Cembra's technology function, she is driving automation, process excellence, and AI-enabled transformation to deliver measurable business outcomes. In addition, she has been responsible for the company's Shared Services Hub in Riga.
Mariano Andrade Gonzalez
Director of Johnson Matthey Global Business Services
With extensive leadership experience spanning Global Business Services, HR, Finance, Procurement, and enterprise transformation, Mariano Andrade Gonzalez brings a practical perspective on what it takes to build future-ready organizations. Having led large-scale transformation initiatives, he believes the greatest challenge is not implementing technology, but enabling people to embrace and lead change.
Johnson Matthey is a
global leader in sustainable technologies combining advanced science and
engineering to support the transition to cleaner energy and more sustainable
manufacturing.
Vladimiro Ferreira
Head of Automation CoE at SEG Automotive
With 30 years of professional experience from software development to SAP consulting, 10 of them on Digitalization, Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence, Vladimiro currently heads the Automation CoE at SEG Automotive's GBS in Portugal, focusing on Digitalization and AI Initiatives.
SEG Automotive combines more than a century of expertise in electrical machines with a mindset of constant reinvention, applying its engineering know-how across automotive electrification, eBikes, light electric mobility, drones and robotics.
Oleh Chaharyn
Director at PwC's Lviv Service Delivery Center
Oleh leads large-scale operations and multidisciplinary teams, with a focus on organizational growth, leadership, business resilience, and transformation in a rapidly evolving environment.
Alongside his corporate role, Oleh serves as a lecturer at the Ukrainian
Catholic University (UCU) Business School, where he actively contributes to the
development of future business leaders. Drawing on his experience leading teams
through periods of significant disruption, he brings a practical perspective on
resilience, adaptability, and sustainable growth.
chad diddens
Senior Vice President at Strategic Staffing Solutions
With over 20 years in staffing and workforce solutions, Chad leads S3's Global Sales Team, driving talent strategy and long-standing customer partnerships across industries and geographies. Since joining S3 in 2007, he has helped organizations build, scale, and transform their workforce strategies to support critical business functions, from technology and operations to finance and customer service.
Chad's global responsibilities include supporting S3's business across the Baltic region, including Latvia, giving him deep expertise in navigating international workforce strategy, from country-specific labor requirements and hiring practices to compliance and contractual considerations.
Oscar reitsma
Global Head of Operations at Transparent Solutions
Oscar has spent the past 15 years mastering the intersection of data and process in the procure-to-pay (P2P) world, joining Transparent in 2009 to grow the company’s presence across the DACH region and Eastern Europe. Today, he leads the client-facing teams driving Transparent’s P2P services forward.
His core belief: real P2P success isn’t just about the right technology, it’s about recognising that people play an equally important role. Oscar regularly shares this perspective on international stages, including the Hackett P2P Conference, SSON Shared Services Week, and the Deloitte Shared Services Conference.
Antonina Kurets
Head of Human Capital at PwC’s Lviv Service Delivery Center
Antonina leads Human Capital transformation initiatives across PwC Central and Eastern Europe. She specializes in organizational transformation, workforce strategy, talent management, rewards, and operating model design, partnering with business leaders to build scalable and future-ready organizations.
Antonina is also a guest lecturer and conference speaker, with a strong interest in the intersection of business strategy, people transformation, and the evolving world of work. Her experience spans complex cross-border transformation programs, helping organizations navigate growth, change, and workforce-related challenges in dynamic environments.
Kata Fredheim
Vice President Strategy and Partnerships at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
Dr Kata Fredheim is
Executive Vice President for Partnerships and Strategy and Associate Professor
at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. A social anthropologist by
training, she works across business, education and policy, with a
particular focus on partnerships and institution building, organisational
change, talent, migration and leadership.
LIGA PAULINA
Lawyer, AI Literacy Specialist, Business Consultant
Līga Paulina is a senior legal and organizational leader with 18+ years of experience across legal, regulatory, governance, and executive management roles, including Director of Legal Operation and Administrative Director & Board Member of Dynatech SIA, Dyninno Group's Global Business Services center.
Her background includes
building legal operations frameworks and legal tech solutions across multiple
jurisdictions, and advising executive leadership on regulatory and structural
risk during periods of rapid organizational growth. She is also an experienced
trainer and facilitator, and most recently works as a business consultant on
change management, helping organizations navigate structural and cultural
shifts and build adaptive teams in times of uncertainty. She brings a
practical, ethics-driven perspective on how legal and governance functions can
move AI adoption beyond experimentation helping organizations implement AI
responsibly, manage regulatory risk, and translate technology investment into
measurable, accountable business outcomes.