Dear clients and cooperation partners,

 Civitta and SORAINEN are proud to invite the Lithuanian startup community to the inaugural launch event of Silicon Vikings Vilnius. This new initiative will facilitate the discussion on startups in Silicon Valley by running a series of events involving speakers from Silicon Valley plus local and foreign entrepreneurs with experience from Silicon Valley and anyone interested.

Agenda:

17:30 – 18:00	Registration
18:00 – 18:10	Opening speech by Richard Horning, Chairman of Silicon Vikings
18:10 – 18:15	Congratulatory speech by J. Alexander Hamilton, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the United States in Lithuania
18:15 – 18:35	Panel discussion: The Future of Silicon Vikings Vilnius Panel participants: J. Alexander Hamilton, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the United States in Lithuania Jeff Burton, Co-founder of Electronic Arts Dovydas Varkuleviius, Director of the Entrepreneurship department at Enterprise Lithuania Laimonas Skibarka, Co-Managing Partner of SORAINEN Danielius Stasiulis, Head of Startup Division at Civitta Moderator:  Richard Horning, Chairman of Silicon Vikings
18:35 – 18:50	Building a global startup in Silicon Valley: the story of Electronic Arts Jeff Burton, Co-founder of Electronic Arts
18:50 – 19:05	Venture Capital perspective on unique opportunities in Lithuania Ilja Laurs, Founder & Chairman of Nextury Ventures
19:05 – 19:40	Panel discussion: Lithuanian startups in Silicon Valley Panel participants: Jeff Burton, Co-founder of Electronic Arts Ilja Laurs, Founder & Chairman of Nextury Ventures Daumantas Dvilinskas, CEO & Co-Founder at TransferGo Tomas Pagirys, Co-founder of Aciety Moderator: Danielius Stasiulis, Head of Startup Division at Civitta
19:40 – 21:00	Networking over drinks

The Silicon Vikings network was started 17 years ago and currently unites over 20 000 entrepreneurs from the Nordics, the Baltics and Silicon Valley.

The Silicon Vikings Vilnius launch event will take place on Thursday 5 March at 18:00 at the Contemporary Art Centre Reading Room, Vokieciu 2, Vilnius.

More information about the event and registration is available here. If you have any questions please contact indre.telksnyte@sorainen.com.

The event is free of charge.

The working language of the event will be English.

The event is driven by: