Priit Laaniste

Kadi Luht-Kallas

Kadi Luht-Kallas, PhD,  has been an advisor for emergency communication at the Estonian Ministry of the Interior since 2021, responsible for issues such as 112 (e.g. NG112, decision tree for call takers, accessibility), state helpline and public warning. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Tartu and has an extensive background as a lecturer and researcher in risk behaviour, fire risk analysis and prevention work. Since 2021, she has also been coordinating a multidisciplinary project team to integrate a multichannel warning platform in Estonia.

Tero Vauraste

Tero Vauraste has more than 30 years of experience from Arctic, maritime, aerospace, logistics and security sectors in various Senior Executive positions. He' has served within the Finnish Navy and Coast Guard. He is a member of the DG Defis Space Expert Group and a board member of EARSC, European Association of Remote Sensing Companies.

In addition to the maritime officer degree, he has an MsC in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management from Leicester University and he is working on his PhD in the Finnish Military University in the Space and maritime domains within security of supply. He is a member of the Finnish Ministry of Defence Scientific Committee working Group Arctic and Space.

Artūras Kedavičius

Arturas Kedavicius, educated as a lawyer in Vilnius University, has over 26 years’ experience in the Public safety sector. 16 years of it as a police officer, starting as a police street patrol and growing up through different positions to the head of the National police information centre. In 2003 started a new nation-wide organization – Lithuanian emergency response centre and spend 10 years building and nurturing it.   

After retirement in 2013 in a rank of colonel worked 5 years for USA company Intermedix as a Director International Client Operations, since January 2019 - Senior Sales Project Manager for Public safety, Defence & Intelligence and Heath sectors with Hnit-Baltic.

Alfredas Gudauskas

Alberto Meroni

Alberto Meroni has been in software development for more than 35 years, including over 25 years’ experience in the Remote Sensing domain. He has contributed to the management, design, development, and delivery of numerous projects for the exploitation of Satellite Remote Sensing data. Major customers include ESA, EUMETSAT, ENI, IT MOD and E-GEOS. From more than ten years he has assumed the role of Product Manager for the suite of software products to process SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data, contributing to the evolution of the product and its worldwide widespread. With the advent of Copernicus missions, he has contributed to the development of cloud-based technologies for exploiting SAR Sentinel-1 data. Recently has joined ESRI in the group of Imagery and Remote Sensing with the position of Business Development Manager with the aim to foster the use of information derived from Remote sensed data in the GIS community.  

Inese Reriha

Inese Reriha has a master's degree in computer science with additional expertise in IMINT, GEOINT, OSINT, and Remote sensing.

Inese has previous and ongoing work experience as a lecturer and guest lecturer, researcher in such education facilities as Ventspils University of Applied Sciences, Riga Technical University, and Latvian National Defense Academy. Retired Latvian Armed Forces officer. 

Since January 2021 – GIS Expert, Baltic Defense industry coordinator in Ltd. Envirotech.

Erki Kokkota

Erki Kokkota has over 20 years of experience with fieldwork, maps and GIS. A member in the Estonian Defense League since 2007. The rapid development of digital field devices helps to keep work and hobby modern. The main activities are data collection, navigation and map analysis, based on diferent tasks. Data integration with other GIS systems and explaining to the various users.