Speakers & Mentors
Priit Salumaa
Mooncascade | Garage48 | MobileMonday
Priit is a mobile enthusiast and a software engineer with 12 years of experience in the industry. He co-founded Mooncascade a mobile oriented software-house, & start-up community initiatives Garage48 & MobileMonday Estonia.
Special skills: rapid prototyping, team management, mobile apps
Ragnar Sass Pipedrive | Garage48
Ragnar is an experienced start-up rockstar; he is co-founder and president of Pipedrive and co-founder of Garage48. He has advised many start-ups on how to attract investors and new clients.
Special skills: Marketing, team building, fundraising
Toomas Römer | Zeroturnaround
Toomas is Co-founder and Director of Engineering at Zeroturnaround. The company creates tools to make developers' life easy, it has offices in Estonia, USA, and Czech Republic.
Seppo Sneck | SmartCap
Seppo Ari Sneck is CEO of SmartCap - a Venture Capital Fund; he has 20+ year experience in senior management positions in global companies, he has led several successful businesses and served on the boards of 23 companies.
Benjamin J. Gilbert | Microsoft
Benjamin is a software developer living in Seattle, WA, he runs The Garage, Microsoft’s Grassroots Innovation Program . He has worked for Cisco, ExactTarget & Microsoft, also the co-creator of SeizeTheDay and Zero for iPhone. 
Tõnu Runnel Edicy | Fraktal
Tõnu is CEO and co-founder of Edicy a simple tool to create web-sites in minutes and co-founder of Fraktal - a design & software bureau based in Estonia. He has more than 10 years experience in design and web products.
Special skills: graphic design , start-up management, business law
Elise Sass Microsoft | Startup Wise Guys
Elise is Start-up Lead at Microsoft in Central-Eastern Europe. She comes from the startup world herself as founder of Startup Wise Guys accelerator, organizer of Garage48 in Africa and been part of several startups herself. Elise started her startup career as a community manager in an international social network.
Special skills: pitch drilling, business development, community management
Jaana Metsamaa | Fortumo
Jaana is VP of Engineering at Fortumo - a global mobile payments solutions provider from Estonia now operating in 79 countries and with offices in Estonia, USA, China and India.
Uldis Leiterts Infogr.am
Uldis is CEO and Co-founder of the world’s simplest application for making infographic. He has a background in journalism, design & development. Infogr.am has won uncountable tech awards including 5 nominations at The Europas awards 2013.
Martin Rand | Vitalfields
Martin is CEO of Vitalfields - a startup that took off in Garage48 hackathon and has raised 750k Eur investment up to date. Vitalfields provides software tools for smarter farming.
Jaan Kruusma 7Blaze
Jaan is a lifelong student and the CEO and co-founder of 7Blaze - True Social Experience. Connecting businesses with real people is his mission.
Special Skills: Social media marketing, SEO
Ivo Mägi Plumbr | University of Tartu
Ivo is currently responsible for marketing activities in Plumbr. He was also a board member in Zeroturnaround and has a small angel investment portfolio, which also includes Transferwise and Zeroturnaround.
Special skills :development tools, marketing, product ownership
Krists Avots Garage48 | Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
Krists is running operations of Garage48: the extreme start-up schooling event series. Also he is lecturer and entrepreneurship course manager aka "the evil cop" at SSE Riga, the top business school in the region.
Special skills: Pitch drilling, business model development
Kristaps Grinbergs Qminder
Co-founder and kick ass developer at Qminder - the easiest queue management solution. Started more than two years ago in Tartu Garage48 hackathon. Right now have clients all around the globe. Passionate about mobile applications which can make our life more convenient . Geek with more than 9 years experience with half way to PhD in Computer Science.
Maret Kruve | ERR & Garage48
Having a background in IT and lot's of experience with hackathons, she can share tips and tricks how to make things happen fast or at least fake it, until making it is possible.
Student Startup Camp, 3-9 February 2014, Tartu, Estonia, ssc@garage48.org
The Student Startup Camp is supported by the European Social Funds project "Development of IT Masters Curricula at University of Tartu in cooperation with Estonian IT-companies"
