It felt like good old World Lithuanian Economic Forum of 2013 when an impressive number of outstanding global personalities eagerly and sincerely engaged in the development of high-value projects for Lithuania. Nowadays, they are not only sharing their expertise, they are actually participating in the implementation of innovative projects. This time we chose for action three directions: the revival of Lithuanian regions from the economic and social point of view, boost of high-value-added business ideas and creation of international projects for scientific research. This time we gave the floor to everyone in order to get most of all. And this time we made sure the projects are communicated as wide as possible as promises for implementation. Photos and Promises on-line.

The three workshops of the Forum resulted in a number of action plans and people connections with the potential to generate actual projects. As for the revival of Lithuanian regions, the participants agreed on the necessity to enable local communities by joint efforts of City Alumni, GLL and Association of Lithuanian Municipalities as well as by the creation of the online platform for the successful community ideas to be shared and multiplied. As for the progress in business innovation, global professionals came up with the idea to establish an international fund for Lithuanian start-ups to be funded and incubated for international markets. As for the program for international scientific exchange, the participants suggested the idea of private-public partnership for long-term science funding.  

Investments to Lithuania - Tadas Vizgirda

Tadas Vizgirda, born and raised in Los Angeles, USA, has built his life and career in Lithuania since the early 1990s. The platform of American Chamber of Commerce has allowed Tadas to build tight connections between Lithuania and the USA. In 2014, he convinced the management of “Revel Systems“ to choose Lithuania for their European subsidiary, this year one more of his projects “Harbortouch“  started its first operations outside the USA. Since the grand opening in May 2017, they have grown into the office of 64 talented and creative employees.

Global Experience for Lithuanian Business - Rūta Laukien

Rūta Laukien has lived in the USA since her studies. After her impressive career in investment banking on Wall Street and in Boston, she indulged in the project promoting Lithuanian artists and designers in the creative manner of a high-class restaurant  “Liquid Art House”. Last year Rūta joined the program of Investment Ambassadors run by “Invest Lithuania” and GLL, and has been exceptionally active connecting the Agency with top managers of international biotech companies and assuring access to exclusive investment conferences.

Global Connectors for Change - Marius Jurgilas

Still at Connecticut University in the USA, Marius Jurgilas in cooperation with other Lithuanian researchers in Economics initiated the eight-year-old tradition of Annual Conference of Researchers in Economics which grew into a strong network of Lithuanian scientists around the world. His international experience in national banks of UK and Norway brought him to the Board of the Bank of Lithuania where he initiated a number of reforms of the financial sector, brought on board international researchers for the formulation of decisions of strategic importance, established firm cooperation with Vilnius University.

Lthuanian Ideas Go Global - Founders of TransferGo

“TransferGo“ represents the modern business of FinTech sector. It was founded by four classmates of Lancaster University Daumantas Dvilinskas, Justinas Lasevičius, Arnas Lukoševičius and Edvinas Šeršniovas while searching for cheaper and faster alternatives to regular (slow and expensive) bank transfers. Start-up grew into a solid platform of international payments, and in five years attracted about 13 million USD in investments, the most recent of which came this year from Swedish Board of Risk Capital Funds. This year, D. Dvilinskas was included among Forbes Top 30 under 30 in Finance in Europe.