Martin is speaking at conferences about startups, future of transport and education topics, also inspiring students and young entrepreneurs for planning their life goals, career and doing good.
Possible keynote topics
- Bolt - growth story of Estonian unicorn, expansion in Europe & Africa
- My personal journey as entrepreneur - success, failures and learnings
- Country of Unicorns - Estonian ecosystem that supports amazing growth
- kood/Jõhvi - solving the lack of talent via platform based studies, school without teachers
Example of recent events
- TNW, Amsterdam 2021
- Arctic15, Helsinki 2020
- Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2020
- Login Conference 2020, Vilnius
- TechChill 2020, Riga
- UN Internet Governance Forum 2019, Berlin
- JCI World Congress 2019, Tallinn
- EU Digital Transport Days 2019, Helsinki
- VivaTech 2019, Paris
- Latitude 59, Tallinn
- Startup Europe Summit 2019, Cluj-Napoka
- World Knowledge Forum 2018, Seoul
- TechChill 2018, Riga [Video, 20min]
- Economist: Digital Openness in Europe 2017, Tallinn
- Startup Day 2017, Tartu
Speaker Biography
Martin Villig is the co-founder of Bolt, super-app with 75 million passengers in 45 countries in Europe and Africa.Martin has been an entrepreneur for 20 years, and started and sold his first startup in 1999. He has previously held management positions at Skype, Fortumo and NASDAQ Tallinn Stock Exchange.
He is a leading figure in the Estonian startup community, having co-founded Estonian Founders Society and Garage48 Foundation, which organizes hackathons across Europe. In 2018, Martin co-founded a €1M Education Foundation to kick-start new education initiatives in Estonia. In 2020 Martin co-founded Kood Jõhvi, a new generation platform based school for 200 students.
Martin finished Estonian Business School. He is father of 2 great kids and likes traveling with his family. Martin also likes hiking, various sports and doing good for the world.
Connect & Follow Martin: martinvillig.com
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