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.

Mantas Matulis
QA Automation Engineer
Railsbank

Gintautas Mežetis
Director
Ivpk

Evaldas Girskus
Co-Founder (COO)
Early Growth Startups

Valeras Narbutas
Lead Software Developer
Macaw International Lietuva

Raminta Žemaitė
QA tech lead
Informacinių technologijų organizacija

Rūta Mišutytė
Senior QA Engineer
Asos

Tomas Kasputis
Head of Operations
BAS (Nano Banking platform)

Kęstutis Mikelėnas
Solution Architect
CID Lietuva

Giedre Kirejeva
Head of Channel and Enterprise Sales Baltics
Day Q

Rūta Šalvytė-Tamošiūnienė
Senior manager
EY

Algimantas Jočys
Lead product designer
Trafi

Mantas Skara
Software Engineer, Quality
Unity Technologies

Dovilė Morkvėnaitė
Head of portfolio management division
Ignitis group

Irma Kaukienė
CEO
Ignitis group

Eglė Tamašauskienė
Team Lead
Cognizant

Jovita Šimulytė
IT support specialist
Cognizant

Antonas Ivanovas
User Support Team Lead
Cognizant

Jevgenij Rudak
Senior Manager - BI and Analytics
Cognizant

Nerijus Adomaitis
Service manager
Ignitis grupė

Yauhen Bichel
Senior Software Engineer
EIS Group

Ismael Capel Cuevas
IT BI & Data Unit Manager
Luminor Bank

Vaida Neverdauskaitė
Head of Business Intelligence
Transunion

Jonas Minelga
Chapter Lead
Danske Bank

Julija Patašnik
Director of Product Management
EIS Lietuva

Michael Hopwood
Senior Technical Writer
Wix

Agnius Žukas
Senior Software Engineer
Saldo Finance

Tomas Gadišauskas
Researcher
Freelancer

Dalia Jankeviciūtė
Strategic partner manager

Vytautas Narbutas
CEO
Tandemum

Martynas Pikšrys
Head of Production
Deeper

Rolandas Gricius
Engineering manager and Linux Product Owner
Nord Security

Skirmantė Ušurliakienė
Portfolio and Project Manager at SEB Baltic IT
SEB bankas

Sigita Kašėtaitė
Head of CAMO
Aviatic MRO

Neimantas Petkelis
IT Architect/Section manager
Litrail

Andrius Bartminas
CEO and co-founder
SUPER HOW?

Matīss Priedīts
Risk Data Management Team Lead
Luminor

Alexandra Jushkova
User Research/UX Design
Fortum Sweden

Kęstutis Gardžiulis
Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Etronika

Sandra Virbukaitė
IT Project Manager
TeleSoftas

Artūras Lazejevas
CTO
Whatagraph

Dovilė Kurpytė
Lecturer
Vilnius Tech

Miglė Milierė
Product Manager
Genus AI

Virgita Abaravičiūtė
Vice President, Global Customer Operations
Adform Lithuania

Daiva Kaštelionė
Project manager
TietoEvry

Paulė Strakšaitė
Senior Professional Service Delivery Coordinator
DXC Technology

Sabina Nekrevičienė
Senior Professional Service Delivery Coordinator
DXC Technology Baltic

Julija Varneckienė
Director of Operations
CapitalBox (Ferratum group)

Mindaugas Girdvainis
Head of Development Division @ IT Services Center
Vilnius University

Vaida Stonė
Senior Business Analyst
Baltic Amadeus

Julija Vysockytė-Bilevičienė
Product Manager
NordSec

Baran Ozkan
Director of Product
Transfergo

Diana Bivainė
Freelance Web Developer
Freelancing

Jaunius Pinelis
Software Developer
Aml-Analytics

Danil Michailovas
Agile Coach
Agile Coach

Laura Duksaitė Iškauskienė
Managing director
Master Class Lietuva

Igne Degutytė
Front-end engineer
UAB Convious

Simona Lydekaitytė
Product Manager
UAB Baltnetos komunikacijos

Eglė Vaiciukynaitė
Digital researcher, Manager of Erasmus+ project, (Neuro) marketing freelancer
Research, teaching, freelancer

Vitalija Oponavičiūtė
Lead analyst, transition to chief product owner
Baltic Amber Solutions

Mindaugas Maraulas
Head of business unit
Blue Bridge

Augustas Štaras
Co-Founder
Motion Finance

Rita Bajarūnė
Team Coach
HyWork

Vaidas Mileikis
Development manager
UAB Ruptela

Aušrinė Latvytė
Head of Strategic Partnerships
DrDoctor

Rūta Žukaitytė
Project Manager
Nokia

Louise Salih
Senior UX researcher
Vivino

Giedrius Zaronskis
Group CIO
EPSO-G, UAB

Jurgita Levandavičiūte
Head of Support
Ruptela, UAB

Kristina Packevičiūtė
Senior Project Manager
SoHo Dragon (current client Mizuho Bank NYC)

Dalia Švirmickienė
Head of IT Development for Baltics
ERGO

Rūta Jonuševičiūtė
IT Project Manager
Bang & Olufsen

Rolandas Lepardinas
CTIO
Manufacturing innovation valley

Justina Vaitkienė
Senior developer
Ignitis group

Gil Tayar
Senior Software Architect
Roundforest

Aistė Stikliūtė
Staff QA
Trafi

Aidas Stončius
Solution Architect
Freelancer

Raimonda Žilinskaitė
IT project manager
DRD / IKEA

Roberta Poderytė
Product Owner
Oddschecker Global Media

Skaistė Ramanauskaitė
QA, junior developer
Freelance

Paulius Labanauskis
Technical Team Lead
Railsbank Technology

Laimonas Lileika
Senior Director of Program Management
Toptal

Donatas Grinkas
Head of Operations
Pixevia

Deivydas Daugėla
Head of IT Service Desk
COWI Lithuania

Alius Petraška
Application Architect
IBM iX

Šarūnas Leonas
Product owner and Team manager
UAB Visma Lietuva

Andrius Veinšreideris
System Support Team Lead
TransUnion

Tomas Šeputis
Head of IT Service Desk & Workplace Technology
Telia LT, AB

Elvinas Didika
Head of service desk
Danske bank

Giedrius Kriščiukaitis
Head of Software development
Ignitis

Rimantas Žukaitas
System Architect
EIS

Donatas Vlasovas
OPEI Specialist
Hella Lithuania

Maurice de Beijer
Lead developer/trainer
Self employed

Jacopo Romei
Strategical Consultant
Freelance

Lina Zubytė
Head of Quality
Doodle

Darius Grinvaldas
Head of Model Risk & Validation department
Luminor Group

Jevgenij Kiseliov
Chief Product Officer
Axioma Metering

Šarūnas Matulevičius
Head of Product
CoinGate

Ignas Vosylius
CEO
Axioma Metering, UAB

Karolis Tumalavičius
Manager of IT Operations / Shift supervisor
AmerisourceBergen

Gabrielė Šalnaitė
Sr. Manager, Risk Data Analytics
Western Union

Vitalij Kacanovskij
Scrum Master and QA mentor
Freelance

Mario Bañares Colastra
Product Manager
Wix

Daumantas Matulis
Head of Engineering Unit
Axioma Metering, UAB

Aistė Stanionytė
QA Director
Genius Sports

Aistė Sutkuvienė
Junior Supplier Quality assurance specialist
HELLA Lithuania

Julija Sabonienė
Supplier Quality assurance specialist
HELLA Lithuania

Edvinas Baublys
Team Lead Senior Software Developer
Nortal

Domas Ivanauskas
Technical Product Owner
Railsbank

Paul Valiulis
Digital transformation manager
TeraSky Baltic

Ligita Jakučionytė
Founder
Ačiū, kad pasakei

Jelena Iljina
IT Project Manager
link protect GmbH

Dariuš Butkevičius
Machine Learning Team Lead
Unify Square

Benas Bakevičius
QA engineer
Simplex Payment services

Mindaugas Gudeliūnas
Senior Frontend Developer
Nord Security

Mindaugas Urbonas
Head of production
UAB Eldes

Modestas Mitkus
Founder, UX Designer
Notsimilar

Dovilė Juozapavičiūtė
Product manager
Freelance

Reda Pietarienė
CEO
UAB "Iterato"

Vaiva Žiobakaitė
UX Product Designer
Revel Systems

Julė Jankauskaitė
Senior Product Manager
Oberlo

Justas Poderys
Specialist Systems Engineer
Terma A/S

Tomaš Cydik
Senior QA Developer
GN Hearing

Dainius Kniukšta
Sr. Manager, Digital platforms and products
A.P. Moller-Maersk

Donatas Račys
Senior Devops Engineer
European Central bank

Donatas Vainilaitis
Head of UX and Product design
Lofty.studio

Lukas Černiauskas
Engineering Lead
Tia Technology A/S

Andrius Didžiulis
Head of Analytics
Barbora

Vytautas Ramonaitis
CEO
Ekspera LT

Evaldas Kalinauskas
Senior Product Designer
Freelance

Janis Vepris
Senior Back-end Engineer
Shopify

Rūta Vitaitė
Project Manager assistant
HENT AS

Ayman Arandi
Director and founder
Penki Pojuciai, Lt. Iris Solutions, Ps

Katrė Zienkaitė
Senior Product Designer
Shopify

Greta Petrošiūtė
Head of Risk Insights
Luminor

Sigita Jurkynaitė
Director of CyberSOC
NRD Cyber Security

Tomas Petras Rupšys
VP Engineering & Country Manager
Zedge Inc

Rita Paškevičiūtė
Department manager
SEB

Dmitrij Berlinskij
User Experience Designer
Samesystem

Erika Maslauskaitė
Chief Commercial Officer
Nikulipe

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

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

Sandra Adomavičienė
QA Specialist
Metasite

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 / BA Chapter Lead
Danske bank

Karolina Griciune
Head of Behavioural Modelling
Danske bank

Ina Semionova
Product Designer
Vinted

Rišardas Bedulskis
CEO
EU and EaP Business and Goverment integration

Karolina Žembė
Informacijos ir kibernetinio saugumo komandos vadovė
SpectroFinance

Aušra Juodgudytė
Enterprise Lean Six Sigma manager
LITTELFUSE

Karolis Grigas
Developer
Qoorio

Kotryna Laptevaitė
QA Specialist
Bankera

Udeme Udofia
Data Scientist
Telesoftas

Rasa Jonkutė
UX Designer
Trustpilot

Indrė Chomentauskienė
Chief Operating Officer
Metasite

Vytautas Ašeris
Department manager
Danske bank

Renata Urbonė
Coowner, manager
LEANERIA, ESPERONUS

Vytautas Vaškevičius
CEO
Sekasoft

Ona Juodkienė
Senior Vice President, IT Lead for Risk tribe
Danske bank

Darius Chmieliauskas
UX designer
Swedbank

Vytenis Pakėnas
CEO
Lucid Agreements

Jurgita Aliukonienė
Business Analyst
Tieto Lithuania

Mantas Venslauskas
Data analytics projects lead
Eso

Tadas Bružikas
Data Science Team Lead
Vinted

Emilija Valantiejūtė
UX Researcher
Tesonet

Domantas Laurynas
Senior Product Manager
Trustpilot

Gražina Deveikytė
Product manager
UAB Idėjų puodas

Maija Aniskovic
Head of Data Analytics
Ignitis Grupė

Jonas Laimis Vasiljevas
Product Consultant
Equal Experts

Laura Ambrutienė
Produkto vadovė
DAY Q ANALYTICS

Justina Sirenko
Head of priority customers sales department
Baltnetos komunikacijos

Ieva Riliškytė
Process and Analytics Specialist
Freelancer at SmartBO.lt

Aurelija Židickytė
Departamento direktorė
Eso

Kamilė Sinkevičiūtė
Head of Operations / Strategist
Evolvery

Aurelija Pavinkšnytė
Project manager/Scrum master
Vaultspeed

Marius Jurgelėnas
Front-end Developer
Argyle

Agnė Balkevičiūtė Lajienė
Director for strategic initiatives
1clickfactory

Arūnas Penkaitis
CEO
FLEET SYSTEM COMPETENCE CENTER

Renata Šumskaitė
Facilitator - Consultant
Freelancer

Jonas Bačinskas
Regional Manageer
Software Development Academia

Erika Maslauskaitė
Chief Commercial Officer
Nikulipe

Ieva Ronkaitytė
Project Manager
Western Baltic Engineering

Gediminas Pekšys
Co-Founder & CEO
OXIPIT

Reda Štarė
Investment manager
Motion

Arnas Bastys
QA Engineer
HomeDoc Technologies Baltic (Oxygen)

Jurga Globienė
Domain Architect
SWEDBANK

Mantas Kapočius
Partner, Services director
PRIVACY PARTNERS

Giedrius Markevičius
vice-president
Infobalt

Elena Vengrienė
CEO
Software development

Edvinas Mandravickas
Software Engineer
Unity Technologies

Natalija Jonušienė
CEO
DOCLOGIX

Lina Šiumetė
Operations & IT Director for Baltic countries
Intrum

Justina Klyvienė
Cofounder
Future Leadership

Agnė Vaitkevičienė
Executive Director
Lithuanian biotechnology association

Oskaras Anosovas
UX Director
Genius Sports

Mindaugas Stasionis
Deputy CEO
PayRay Bank

Marija Velžė
Team Lead
TransferGo

Lina Strelkauskienė
Head of Unix & Linux unit
Telia Lietuva

Vilma Škarnulytė
Direktorė, kibernetinio saugumo ekspertė
Emplos
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

Jarūnė Preikšaitė
Head Of Marketing at OTC products
Women Go Tech Chairwoman

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

Ūla Pociūtė
Programme Director
Women Go Tech

Vaiva Mockutė
Communications Manager
Women Go Tech