Women Go Tech

Empowering Talents to Discover Tech

„Women Go Tech“ – the first mentorship and counselling programme in Lithuania for women seeking careers in technology sector.

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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 2021, by helping them to:

– Find a job in TECH

– Get promoted in TECH

– Establish a TECH start-up

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 3 seasons:
– Out of 240 programme alumni, 126 have already reached their goals within TECH.

– More than 120 mentors and counsellors have shared their knowledge.

– We have organized and attended over 100 events in Lithuania and abroad, reaching more than 5000 people.

1. Pasirink srautą

Kurioje technologijų srityje nori siekti karjeros? Pagal savo tikslus pasirink vieną iš 10 programos srautų ir pildyk paraišką į ketvirtąjį sezoną iki spalio 6 d.

2. Rask mentorių

Patekus į antrąjį atrankos etapą, kviesime Tave nuorodyti, kokio profilio mentoriaus ar mentorės pagalba Tau būtų aktualiausia siekiant savo tikslo technologijų srityje.

3. Tapk bendruomenės dalimi

Programoje Tavęs lauks ne tik mentorystė, bet ir TECH entuziastų bendruomenė bei renginiai, kuriuose galėsi pagilinti savo žinias ir užmegzti vertingų naujų pažinčių.

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.

Justas Jurgaitis

Pastatų ūkio priežiūros vadovas

HELLA LITHUANIA

Karolina Žembė

Informacijos ir kibernetinio saugumo komandos vadovė

BANKERA

Mantas Aniulis

Testavimo skyriaus direktorius

NASDAQ

Jovita Vedrickienė

Turto valdymo verslo analitikos komandos vadove

DANSKE BANK

Jonas Lukošius

Lietuvos regiono vadovas

TRANSUNION BALTICS

Mantė Januškevičienė

Vykdančioji direktorė

METASITE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Aušra Juodgudytė

Enterprise Lean Six Sigma manager

LITTELFUSE

Karolis Grigas

Vyr. Programuotojas / Komandos vadovas

SPECTROCOIN

Rasa Šataitė

Projektų vadovė

TELESOFTAS

Vladislav Grablevskij

Head of ITS

TELIA LIETUVA

Udeme Udofia

Data Scientist

SYNO INTERNATIONAL

Monika Laukaitė

Lietuvos padalinio vadovė

WIX.COM

Donatas Dambrauskas

Lead Business Analyst

GENIUS SPORTS

Dalia Lašaitė-Kamantauskė

CEO

CGTRADER

Christoph Scherbeck

Supplier Quality Engineer

HELLA LITHUANIA

Indrė Chomentauskienė

COO, Business Area Manager

METASITE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Vytautas Ašeris

Turto ir investicijų valdymo padalinio Lietuvoje vadovas

DANSKE BANK

Renata Urbonė

IT inovacijų ekpertė, antreprenerė

LEANERIA, ESPERONUS

Vytautas Vaškevičius

CEO

SEKASOFT

Ona Juodkienė

Development Director

DANSKE BANK

Igor Gubaidulin

Head of UX and Design

NFQ TECHNOLOGIES

Daina Rutkauskienė

Analitinių kompetencijų grupės vadovė

GJENSIDIGE

Per Møller

Managing partner

70 VENTURES

Monika Kavaliauskė

CEO

CASZYME

Darius Chmieliauskas

UX dizaineris

SWEDBANK

Aušra Kropaitė

Projektų vadovė

DXC TECHNOLOGY

Mantas Skinderis

Projektų diegimo ir pokyčių valdymo vadovas

HELLA LITHUANIA

Vytenis Pakėnas

Founder / Manager

DONEDEAL TODAY

Tomas Skačkauskas

Programavimo vadovas

GO-ERP

Vaidas Plutulevičius

Business Area Manager

METASITE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Vaidas Lauzeckas

CEO

METASITE DATA INSIGHTS

Mantas Venslauskas

Data analytics projects lead

IGNITIS GRUPĖ IR VILNIUS CODING SCHOOL

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

Žydrė Palaimaitė

Product Owner

Project Manager

TELESOFTAS

Aurelija Urbonavičiūtė

Partnerė ir bendraįkūrėja

ANATOMY (SYNTHESIS CONSULTING)

Domantas Laurynas

Product Management

TRUSTPILOT

Gražina Deveikytė

Projektų vadovė

IDĖJŲ PUODAS

Mindaugas Dukauskas

Frontend programuotojas

TELESOFTAS

Jurgita Macijauskienė

Žmogiškųjų išteklių vadovė

HELLA LITHUANIA

Žilvinas Šiaulys

Web Developer

GENIUS SPORTS

Inga Radzevičienė

Veiklos vystymo direktorė

OVC CONSULTING

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

Erika Skersytė

Proceso vadovė

SWEDBANK

Egidijus Doviakovskis

Projektų direktorius

VICONUS

Ieva Riliškytė

Senior Continuous Improvement Project Manager

R1 RCM (INTERMEDIX LIETUVA)

Erika Dapkienė

Head of Enterprise Command Centre

DANSKE BANK GROUP IT

Andrius Rimkūnas

Verslo plėtros vadovas

MINIMOTO

Milda Dzidolikienė

Administracijos vadovė

DANSKE BANK GROUP IT

Paulius Ažaneckas

Projekto vadovas

AGROPRO

Dovilė Gedvilaitė

App Development Team Lead & Business Analyst

TELIA LIETUVA

Darius Padvelskis

Data Scientist

BALTIC AMADEUS

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

WIX

Elina Chodzkaitė-Barauskienė

Verslo Plėtros Vadovė

AUGA

Povilas Godliauskas

IT Career Coach

COACH.LT

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

Domas Markevičius

UX Designer, Design Systems

WIX

Renata Šumskaitė

Pokyčių vadovė

FinTech ir verslo konsultantė

Jonas Bačinskas

Country Manager LT/LV

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY

Erika Maslauskaitė

Verslo Plėtros Vadovė

INVENTI

Anna Balčiūnė

Senior Engineer

TELIA COMPANY

Paulius Nagys

Vadovas

ADEO WEB

Roberta Rudokienė

Startup Lithuania vadovė

VERSLI LIETUVA

Antanas Baltrušaitis

Valdymo apskaitos ir analizės skyriaus vadovas

GIRTEKA

Ieva Ronkaitytė

Projektų vadovė

WESTERN BALTIC ENGINEERING

Linas Daugirdas

Product Manager

WIX

Aistė Strockytė

Team Lead

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LITHUANIA

Radvilė Krušinskienė

IT Paslaugų teikimo vadovė

TRANSUNION BALTICS

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

Agnė Karkauskienė

Verslo informacijos analitikė

TRANSUNION BALTICS

Mantas Kapočius

Paslaugų padalinio vadovas

PRIVACY PARTNERS

Vida Jonušytė

Key Account Manager

VINTED

Giedrius Markevičius

Asociacijos prezidentas

INFOBALT

Ieva Mockienė

Software Test Engineer

UNITY TECHNOLOGIES

Darius Montvila

Direktorius

LIETUVOS ENERGIJOS TIEKIMAS

Jonė Vaitulevičiūtė

Partnerė

STARTUP WISE GUYS

Andrius Byčkovas

IT Delivery Centre Director

COGNIZANT

Elena Vengrienė

Direktorė

ALGORITMŲ SISTEMOS

Visvaldas Kasperavičius

Kokybės vadovas

HELLA LITHUANIA

Diana Gold

IT Delivery Manager

TELIA LIETUVA

Giedrius Kaleckas

Vyresnysis programuotojas

TRANSUNION BALTICS

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

Deividas Maciejauskas

Programuotojas

TV ŽAIDIMAI

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

Įkūrėja

BIOSTARTAS

Edvinas Bartkus

Senior Software Engineer

NEARFORM

Rimantas Žylius

Valdybos narys

NRD CYBER SECURITY

Jurga Girdzijauskaitė

Front-end programuotoja

OBERLO

Algis Gezevičius

Techninės priežiūros vadovas

HELLA LITHUANIA

Mindaugas Jonuškis

Direktorius

NOVAMETA

Paulius Briedis

Direktorius

ROBOTIKOS MOKYKLA

Audrius Ruseckas

Tinklo strategijos departamento direktorius

ESO

Aliona Viršutienė

Lyderystės konsultantė

AGILE COACH

Mindaugas Stasionis

Direktoriaus pavaduotojas

VILNIUS FACTORING COMPANY

Marija Velžė

Komandos vadovė

TRANSFERGO

Ieva Rasita Aleksandravičiūtė

Innovation & Transformation Officer

ERGO INSURANCE

Dovydas Vyštartas

UX Guild Master/ WIX.com produkto dizaineris

WIX

Lina Venskaitytė

Vykdomoji partnerė

NOVA MEDIA

Roland Gerhards

Vidinės gamyklos kokybės vadovas

HELLA LITHUANIA

Lina Strelkauskienė

Unix paslaugų valdymo padalinio vadovė

TELIA

Dainius Mežanskas

Director, Software Development

ORACLE

Juste Makauskienė

Workforce Planning Technology Lead

BARCLAYS

Vita Valeikaitė

Product Manager

TRUSTPILOT

Julija Rimšelė

Vadovė

Vilnius Coding School

Diana Drobyševskaja

Senior Manager

SAI GLOBAL

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

September

Launch of the applications

October

Selection process and interviews

November

Season #4 opening ceremony

November – May

Mentorship meetings and events

June

Closing conference “weGOtech”

Alumni stories

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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.