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
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.
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
Heidi Kakko | EstBAN
Heidi is a professional of early stage investments and developing startups. She has been developing the Estonian venture capital market and startups since 2008 and her investment portfolio consisted of 18 innovative Estonian companies. For over 15 years, Heidi has been actively participating in financing and acquiring companies - for more than 10 years she worked on corporate advisory and finance at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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.
Helen Kokk | YourDesignWorks
UX / UI designer with 10+ years experience. Passionate about entrepreneurship.
Special skills: Branding and identiy, UI/UX and graphic design, illustrations.
Siim Pruulmann | Mooncascade
UI/UX guru, committed to creating user interactions that help technology feel natural.
Special skills: Web development, UI/UX design
Indrek Ulst |
Mooncascade | Garage48 | MobileMonday
Indrek is an experienced UI development, passionate of elegant designs and making users smile.
Special skills: UI/UX design and development
Maret Kruve |
Testilio
Maret is an experienced Web designer and UI developer, fond of beautiful details. In her spare time, she loves to inspire people to pursue their ideas at Garage48 hackathons.
Special skills: UI/UX design and development
Jaanus Sakkis |
Aplefly games | Garage48
Jaanus is an accomplished creative director, designer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and owner of Aplefly Games, one of the largest game studios in Estonia and founding member of IGDA (International Game Development Association) Estonian branch and Estonian App NGO.
Jüri Kaljundi | Weekdone | Garage48 | Sportlyzer
Jüri is a serial startup entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Weekdone and Sportlyzer, among others, and co-founder of Garage48. He is a frequent speaker at startup events.
Priit Haamer | Edicy | defol.io
Priit is a developer-at-heart turned entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Edicy and defol.io and currently software craftsman at Voog.
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
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.
Martin Grüner | Aplefly games
Entrepreneur, hacker, game enthusiast, traveler and http://martingryner.com/occasional blogger, Martin is co-founder at Aplefly Games and passionate of creativity and elegant design.
Student Startup Camp, 2-8 February 2015, 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"
