Empowering Talents to Discover Tech
„Women Go Tech“ – the first mentorship and tech content sessions programme in Lithuania dedicated to helping women start and accelerate their careers in IT and engineering sectors.
About us
“Women Go Tech” was launched by Association INFOBALT and World Economic Forum initiative Global Shapers Vilnius in 2016.
Our goal is to empower women to seek for professional careers within tech sector and to strengthen gender equality in the labour market as well as women leadership.
We envision to create 500 success stories of women in tech by the end of 2021, by helping them to:
– Find a job in TECH
– Get promoted in TECH
The programme is supported by key TECH enterprises located in Lithuania as well as Lithuania TECH start-ups and has also gained international recognition across various global events.
Throughout the 4 seasons:
– Out of 420 programme alumni, 236 have already reached their goals within TECH.
– More than 200 mentors and experts have shared their knowledge.
– We have organized and attended over 100 events in Lithuania and abroad, reaching more than 5000 people.
Choose your tech track
There are 10 different tech tracks in the fifth season of Women Go Tech. Choose a career that you want to pursue and get help from your mentor and our community!
Mentors and experts
„Women Go Tech“ mentors and experts come from various tech backgrounds. Diversified by their fields of expertise, they are all united by the common vision and willingness to share their knowledge in order to help others successfully step into tech.

Visvaldas Kasperavičius
Head of Quality
HELLA LITHUANIA

Aliona Viršutienė
Director of Engineering
VINTED

Jurgita Nikliauzaitė
Manufacturing Engineer
HELLA Lithuania

Laimonas Birštonas
Project Manager Operations
HELLA Lithuania

Justas Jurgaitis
Head of Facility management
HELLA LITHUANIA

Ieva Gražulevičiūtė
Backend developer
VINTED

Tadas Bružikas
Marketing Data Science Team Lead
VINTED

Mantas Skinderis
Head of Launch and Change Management
HELLA LITHUANIA

Vaida Nevardauskaitė
Head of Business Intelligence
TRANSUNION

Donatas Kimutis
Team Lead
VINTED

Mantas Kentra
Senior Software Engineer
METASITE

Darius Rekašius
Head of IS development
AXIOMA METERING

Dominyka Ragauskaite
Senior Product Manager
VINTED

Igor Savin
Team Lead
VINTED

Mantvydas Vaičius
Head of Commerce (Brass Meters)
AXIOMA METERING

Maxim Zakletskiy
Head of Operations
HELLA Lithuania

Tomas Eglinskas
Software Engineer
WIX

Adas Bradauskas
Product Manager
WIX

Giedrius Jaloveckas
Senior Product Designer
WIX

Miglė Paškauskė
QA Guild Lead
WIX

Mario Banares
Product Manager
WIX

Liudas Gulbinas
Head of Collaboration Technology
DANSKE BANK

Aistė Miškūnienė
Director of Engineering
VINTED

Deividas Strioga
Android developer
VINTED

Mindaugas Raudys
Production Manager
AXIOMA METERING

Ernesta Maciuitiene
Payments Product Manager
VINTED

Imantas Aviltis
Head of RnD QA group
AXIOMA METERING

Tomas Konovalovas
Head of Product Delivery
TRANSUNION

Indrė Graudinaitė
Team Leader-Decisioning Services
TRANSUNION

Gintaras Misiūnas
Delivery Lead
GENIUS SPORTS

Dalia Miklaševičiūtė
League Products Support and Implementation Manager
GENIUS SPORTS

Danguolė Jankauskienė
Team manager
TELIA LIETUVA

Tautginas Gelžinis
Head of Technical Department
AXIOMA METERING

Donatas Jankantas
Head of Network Engineering and Automation
DANSKE BANK

Živilė Vajegaitė
Lead Data Scientist / Team Manager
DANSKE BANK

Karolina Griciune
Head of Behavioural Modelling
DANSKE BANK

Viktorija Zubrickienė
Head of Internal Factory
HELLA Lithuania

Ina Semionova
Product Designer
VINTED

Aušra Juodgudytė
Enterprise Lean Six Sigma manager
LITTELFUSE

Dalia Lašaitė-Kamantauskė
CEO
CGTRADER

Rasa Jonkutė
UX Designer
TRUSTPILOT

Indrė Chomentauskienė
Chief Operating Officer
METASITE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Vytautas Ašeris
Department manager
DANSKE BANK

Renata Urbonė
IT inovacijų ekpertė, antreprenerė
LEANERIA, ESPERONUS

Vytautas Vaškevičius
CEO
SEKASOFT

Ona Juodkienė
Development Director, Head of IT Operations
DANSKE BANK

Igor Gubaidulin
Head of UX and Design
NFQ TECHNOLOGIES

Daina Rutkauskienė
Analitinių kompetencijų grupės vadovė
GJENSIDIGE

Monika Kavaliauskė
CEO
CASZYME

Darius Chmieliauskas
UX dizaineris
SWEDBANK

Aušra Kropaitė
Projektų vadovė
DXC TECHNOLOGY

Vytenis Pakėnas
Founder / Manager
DONEDEAL TODAY

Jurgita Aliukonienė
Business Analyst
TIETO LIETUVA

Tomas Skačkauskas
Programavimo vadovas
GO-ERP

Tadas Bružikas
Data Scientist
VINTED

Vaida Vaižmužytė
Paslaugų teikimo vadovė/projektų vadovė
BALTNETOS KOMUNIKACIJOS

Ramūnas Stanišauskas
Head of Quality and LEAN
GIRTEKA LOGISTICS

Emilija Valantiejūtė
UX Researcher

Olegas Pridiuk
Developer Relations

Aurelija Urbonavičiūtė
Partnerė ir bendraįkūrėja
ANATOMY (SYNTHESIS CONSULTING)

Domantas Laurynas
Product Management
TRUSTPILOT

Gražina Deveikytė
Projektų vadovė
IDĖJŲ PUODAS

Jurgita Macijauskienė
Žmogiškųjų išteklių vadovė
HELLA LITHUANIA

Mantas Marčiulaitis
Steigėjas, vadovas
IMDIGITAL

Maija Aniskovic
HEAD OF PEOPLE DATA
IGNITIS GRUPĖ

Laimonas Jonas Vasiljevas
Product Owner / Manager
MASTERCARD

Milda Karoblytė
Senior UX designer
MEDIAPARK

Janos Pasztor
Back-end engineering
DEVOPS ENGINEER

Laura Ambrutienė
Produkto vadovė
DAY Q ANALYTICS

Monika Katkutė-Gelžinė
Vadovė
TEACHERS LEAD TECH / BIT&BYTE

Ramūnas Keizikas
Grupės Direktorius
ADFORM

Justina Sirenko
IT project manager / Sales Professional
BALTNETOS KOMUNIKACIJOS

Evelina Rimkienė
Pardavimų Vadovė
TECHNOPOLIS UMA LIETUVA

Egidijus Doviakovskis
Projektų direktorius
VICONUS

Ieva Riliškytė
Senior Continuous Improvement Project Manager
R1 RCM (INTERMEDIX LIETUVA)

Andrius Rimkūnas
Verslo plėtros vadovas
MINIMOTO

Paulius Ažaneckas
Projekto vadovas
AURORA

Aurelija Židickytė
Departamento direktorė
ESO

Tomas Martinkėnas
Chief Information Security Officer
LUMINOR

Kamilė Sinkevičiūtė
SEO strategė / Inbound komandos vadovė
EVOLVERY

Aurelija Pavinkšnytė
Scrum Master / Project manager
CENTRIC IT SOLUTIONS LITHUANIA

Marius Jurgelėnas
Front-end Developer
Argyle

Elina Chodzkaitė-Barauskienė
Verslo Plėtros Vadovė
AUGA

Agnė Balkevičiūtė Lajienė
Direktorė strateginėms iniciatyvoms
1CLICKFACTORY

Diana Daugerd
Vyr. duomenų analitikė
EXACASTER

Aleksandr Kazanskij
Senior Software Developer Specialist
NASDAQ

Ornela Ramašauskaitė
Steigėja
INSTITUTE OF TRENDS

Arūnas Penkaitis
Direktorius
FLEET SYSTEM COMPETENCE CENTER

Aušra Gustainienė
PMO Ofiso vadovė
MCKESSON EUROPE

Renata Šumskaitė
Pokyčių vadovė
FinTech ir verslo konsultantė

Jonas Bačinskas
Country Manager LT/LV
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY

Erika Maslauskaitė
Chief Commercial Officer
Nikulipe

Gediminas Pekšys
Co-Founder & CEO
OXIPIT

Reda Štarė
Vadovė ir bendraįkūrėja
PLATECULTURE

Arnas Bastys
Team Lead/QA Engineer
TRANSFERGO

Jurga Globienė
IT sprendimų architektė
SWEDBANK

Tomas Beniušis
Informacijos vadovas (CIO)
BALTIC AMBER SOLUTIONS

Mantas Kapočius
Partner, Services director
PRIVACY PARTNERS

Giedrius Markevičius
Asociacijos prezidentas
INFOBALT

Jonė Vaitulevičiūtė
Partnerė
STARTUP WISE GUYS

Andrius Byčkovas
IT Delivery Centre Director
COGNIZANT

Elena Vengrienė
Direktorė
ALGORITMŲ SISTEMOS

Vilma Mačiūnaitė-Uckevičienė
IT paslaugų vadovė
OUTOKUMPU

Edvinas Mandravickas
Programinės įrangos inžinierius
UNITY TECHNOLOGIES

Alvydė Palaimaitė
CEO
Lietuvos Marketingo Asociacija

Jovita Nenortaitė
Projektų grupės vadovė
DXC TECHNOLOGY

Giedrius Valuckas
Direktorius
PROGRESYVŪS VERSLO SPRENDIMAI

Natalija Jonušienė
CEO
DOCLOGIX

Milena Medineckienė
Strateginės partnerystės prodekanė
VGTU

Laura Stumbraitė
QA Engineer
SHOPIFY

Rimantas Misevičius
Vyr. technologijų vystymo inžinierius
LITTELFUSE

Lina Šiumetė
Verslo Operacijų Vadovė Baltijos šalims
INTRUM BALTICS

Justina Klyvienė
Vadovaujanti partnerė
FUTURE LEADERSHIP

Agnė Vaitkevičienė
Direktorė
FROCETH

Rimantas Žylius
Valdybos narys
NRD CYBER SECURITY

Jurga Girdzijauskaitė
Front-end programuotoja
OBERLO

Oskaras Anosovas
UX Director
GENIUS SPORTS

Mindaugas Jonuškis
Direktorius
NOVAMETA

Paulius Briedis
Direktorius
ROBOTIKOS MOKYKLA

Audrius Ruseckas
Tinklo strategijos departamento direktorius
ESO

Mindaugas Stasionis
Direktoriaus pavaduotojas
VILNIUS FACTORING COMPANY

Marija Velžė
Team Lead
TRANSFERGO

Lina Strelkauskienė
Head of Unix & Linux
TELIA LIETUVA

Dainius Mežanskas
Director, Software Development
ORACLE

Vita Valeikaitė
Product Manager
TRUSTPILOT

Julija Rimšelė
Vadovė
Vilnius Coding School

Diana Drobyševskaja
Senior Manager
SAI GLOBAL

Vilma Škarnulytė
Akcininkė ir brando ambasadorė
KARJEROS GENAS
Why?
Persistent talent gap in tech industry requires multi-faceted initiatives globally to bring about change. “Women Go Tech” aims to empower more talents to discover tech by addressing the gender equality issue in this sector, where today women remain significantly underrepresented:
– In the EU, women constitute 17% of ICT specialists
– Only 14.8% of European start-ups are founded by females
– ICT is considered as an option for career only by 0.7% of female Lithuanian high-school students
Our approach
Through one-on-one mentoring sessions with industry experts, programme mentees are able to get guidance on clarifying their career paths and discover their professional potential. They also attend content sessions where they get familiar with the routines of working in tech. Actively involving our mentees to the community building activities, we aim to foster the cross-learning and experience sharing across the like-minded women. Learning from their like-minded peers, our community members gain additional motivation and support needed to strenghten their sense of belonging in the tech environment and to accelerate their progress towards their individual goals.
Timeline

December
Launch of the applications

December – January
Selection process and interviews

February
Season #5 opening ceremony

February – July
Mentorship meetings and events

August
Closing conference “weGOtech”
Alumni stories

I would like to encourage people who are interested in engineering but lack the courage to make changes in their career – from my own experience, I can tell that having the right motivation one can achieve a significant breaktrough even in short periods of time. Myself, I have started studying mechanical engineering without any prior knowledge of this area, since I decided to shift my career after 10 years of managing a business. The experience and tips by the mentor I met during “Women Go Tech” programme helped me clarify my career goals and I have already landed a job in an engineering company.
Eglė Mikalauskienė
III season Alumni | Mechanical Engineering Student

I had some basic knowledge about programme testing before joining “Women Go Tech”. However, my progress was rather slow and I wasn’t sure how to accelerate and improve my knowledge. Right away after the first meeting with my mentor, we have started to solve this problem – frequent sessions, continuous learning, conferences, seminars… The whole package of events and experiences, which helped to expand my TECH knowledge to a great extent. Receiving valuable guidance from my mentor, I have now became a competent tester, able to evaluate problems from different angles.
Laura Kasiulytė
III Season Alumni / Freelance Tester

I am sure that my mentor’s tips and guidance to the right direction was a key factor helping me to land in a new position as a tester. Thanks to “Women Go Tech”, I had a chance to visit many different TECH companies, which increased my motivation to become a professional in this field, so that I could be in the same level with its experts and speak with them in thei language.
My advice – find out what you TRULY WANT, develop an action plan accordingly and implement it step by step, without having any doubt that “you might not succeed”. You will.
Frančeska Dobrovolskytė
III season Alumni | Junior Tester at SEB Lithuania

“Women Go Tech” is not only one of the best programmes I’ve ever participated but it is also a mesmerising community, which empowers you to start seeking for your goals. It is a huge motivation boost when you need it the most and a priceless experience. During this programme, I’ve started implementing my tech idea, I met many brave women and with the help of my great mentor acquired my dream position.
Beatričė Farias
II season Alumni / Android developer at Treatwell

The most amazing thing at WGT is not only the opportunity to find a mentor but also the fact that they are matched to YOUR profile and current goals, considering your expectations, personality and career plans, even if they are sometimes quite extraordinary 🙂
Mantė Makauskaitė
II season Alumni / Co-Founder at Afri | Ko, ICT4D, Development Cooperation, e-Government Consultant

Starting at WGT, I was only looking for the right ways on how to step into IT. After 5 months, I was already programming on my own without any fears to start this new career as a developer. Once it was only a dream and today I already work at IBM.
Indrė Nemuraitė
II season Alumni / Junior Application Developer at IBM

“Women Go Tech” is the great place to find your true strengths, expand your knowledge and get inspiration from highly talented people. I am so proud and happy to be part of this community!
Guostė Klimienė
II season Alumni / AML development specialist at Luminor

WGT does not only give access to mentorship with field experts but also to community, where you can find like-minded peers, looking for their path in tech industry. It provides professional guidance, support, and gives you a chance to build lasting friendships.
Inga Langaitė
II season Alumni / Product Owner at Scale3c

I joined “Women Go Tech” to get guidance on shifting my career from biotechnologies to IT. This superb programme was full of new discoveries – an opportunity to learn from the tech specialists, get to know other mentees and their ambitious stories, see the leading Lithuanian IT companies from the inside. A few months after this programme I started in a new position as an IT project manager! I am very grateful for all these opportunities and support from “Women Go Tech” community.
Jurgita Špakovskaja
II season Alumni / IT Project Manager at EnterNet, UAB
Our board

Žydrūnė Vitaitė
Head of Sales at Eldes
Co-founder of Women Go Tech

Paulius Vertelka
Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager at Google
Co-founder of Women Go Tech

Jarūnė Preikšaitė
Head Of Marketing at Whatagraph
Women Go Tech Board Member

Jolanta Jurgaitytė
HR lead at MessageBird
Women Go Tech Board Member
Our staff

Emilija Pečiulytė
Communications Manager
Women Go Tech

Živilė Uščinė
Community Manager
Women Go Tech

Evelina Klibaitė
Events Manager
Women Go Tech