Talks
Invite me to speak at your event: taivo@pungas.ee.
I've been speaking since 2013, mostly at technical and technology-related events in Estonia and around Europe. My typical topics:
- my work in building AI and automating human activity at Pactum, Veriff, Starship and elsewhere;
- the stories of my startups;
- the future, present, and past of AI;
- building technology teams and products.
For a short bio see About; details on LinkedIn.
I've presented 101 sessions since 2013, roughly 93 hours on stage across 8 countries.
Selected talks
A few pieces that give the best sense of what you'd get.
- Beyond Prototypes: Shipping Trustworthy AI — keynote talk, Nordic Testing Days conference, Tallinn 2025 · video · slides
- AI in Your Org: What to Automate, What to Keep Human — panel, Latitude59, Tallinn 2026 · video
- Future of e-Estonia: a young engineer’s view — talk, Digital Agenda for Estonia 2021+, Tallinn 2019 · video · slides
Recent (2025–2026)
- Pactum's agents, external and internal (with CEO Kaspar Korjus) — fireside, Estonian Founder Society meetup, Tallinn 2026
- Introduction of Pactum to London Business School MBA students — fireside, Pactum AI, Tallinn 2026
- AI in Your Org: What to Automate, What to Keep Human — panel, Latitude59, Tallinn 2026 · video
- Internal AI usage at Pactum — talk, KPMG Estonia strategy days, Tallinn 2026
- Fireside chat with the CTO of Pactum AI — fireside, Vibe Code Atelier, Tallinn 2026
- AI implementation knowledge sharing — workshop, Palo Alto Club, Tallinn 2026
- If AI Can Do Most of the Work - What Makes Humans Valuable? — panel, Nex Conference, Tallinn 2026
- Leading Engineering in 2026 [CTO panel] — panel, Karma VC, Tallinn 2026
- The Founder’s Story Tallinn — panel, Google Founder Stories, Tallinn 2025
- Lightyear investment festival — panel, Lightyear, Budapest 2025
- What can you really do with AI? — fireside, TECHnically a conference, Tallinn 2025
- Impact of AI on what is valuable in the future — talk, International conference on science instruction, Tallinn 2025
- Panel on AI [in Procurement] — panel, Aalto EMBA student study trip, Tallinn 2025
- AI ranch podcast — podcast, AI ranch podcast, Tallinn 2025 · video
- My startup attempts — talk, Hüppelaud, Kuressaare 2025 · slides
- Impact of AI on the education and economy of Estonia in the next decade — panel, Estonia's Friends International Meeting, Tallinn 2025
- Beyond Prototypes — talk, Scoro, Tallinn 2025
- Beyond Prototypes: Shipping Trustworthy AI — keynote talk, Nordic Testing Days conference, Tallinn 2025 · video · slides
- Beyond Prototypes: Solving Complex Problems With Software — workshop, Digit conference, Tartu 2025 · slides
- AGI panel — panel, EstoniaAI meetup, Tallinn 2025
Earlier (2013–2024)
Full list — all 101 sessions, most recent first
| Title | Format | Date | Venue | Location | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pactum's agents, external and internal (with CEO Kaspar Korjus) | fireside | 18.06.2026 | Estonian Founder Society meetup | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Introduction of Pactum to London Business School MBA students | fireside | 16.06.2026 | Pactum AI | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| AI in Your Org: What to Automate, What to Keep Human | panel | 21.05.2026 | Latitude59 | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| Internal AI usage at Pactum | talk | 20.05.2026 | KPMG Estonia strategy days | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Fireside chat with the CTO of Pactum AI | fireside | 18.05.2026 | Vibe Code Atelier | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| AI implementation knowledge sharing | workshop | 27.03.2026 | Palo Alto Club | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| If AI Can Do Most of the Work - What Makes Humans Valuable? | panel | 12.03.2026 | Nex Conference | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Leading Engineering in 2026 [CTO panel] | panel | 10.03.2026 | Karma VC | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| The Founder’s Story Tallinn | panel | 08.10.2025 | Google Founder Stories | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Lightyear investment festival | panel | 25.09.2025 | Lightyear | Budapest, Hungary | |
| What can you really do with AI? | fireside | 13.09.2025 | TECHnically a conference | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Impact of AI on what is valuable in the future | talk | 12.09.2025 | International conference on science instruction | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Panel on AI [in Procurement] | panel | 05.09.2025 | Aalto EMBA student study trip | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| AI ranch podcast | podcast | 26.08.2025 | AI ranch podcast | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| My startup attempts | talk | 08.08.2025 | Hüppelaud | Kuressaare, Estonia | slides |
| Impact of AI on the education and economy of Estonia in the next decade | panel | 04.07.2025 | Estonia's Friends International Meeting | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Beyond Prototypes | talk | 06.06.2025 | Scoro | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Beyond Prototypes: Shipping Trustworthy AI | keynote talk | 15.05.2025 | Nordic Testing Days conference | Tallinn, Estonia | video · slides |
| Beyond Prototypes: Solving Complex Problems With Software | workshop | 09.05.2025 | Digit conference | Tartu, Estonia | slides |
| AGI panel | panel | 29.04.2025 | EstoniaAI meetup | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Speeding up LLM responses | talk | 16.08.2023 | Practical GenAI meetup | Berlin, Germany | slides |
| Man vs Machine | panel | 08.06.2023 | Telia | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| From mind to machine: Exploring the cutting-edge of Generative AI and its possibilities for the future | panel | 29.05.2023 | Latitude 59 | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| Context and current state of AI | talk | 10.05.2023 | Estonian Business School | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Kas tehisintellekt võib maailma üle võtta | TV interview | 31.03.2023 | TV3 show "Stuudio" | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| Chain-of-thought: from zero to Agents | talk | 28.03.2023 | LLM meetup | Tallinn, Estonia | slides |
| Recruitment at NFTPort | podcast | 03.03.2023 | TalentHub podcast | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| What will be the impact of AI on education in 10 years? | panel | 17.02.2023 | IT-education conference by Minisry of Education | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| Hands-on integrating NFTPort with Unity | talk | 30.10.2022 | IPFS camp | Lisbon, Portugal | video · slides |
| Why and what to build with NFTs | talk | 10.08.2022 | Hüppelaud | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Vehicle Fraudsters podcast | podcast | 26.07.2022 | Vehicle Fraudsters podcast | online, - | video |
| Let's Talk About Founder Taboos | talk | 07.04.2022 | Berlin Startup School | online, - | |
| NFTPort: How to Bring your NFT Game to Market in Hours | virtual workshop | 04.03.2022 | ETHGlobal BuildQuest hackathon | online, - | video |
| NFTPort: How to Bring your NFT Application to Market in Hours | virtual workshop | 04.02.2022 | ETHGlobal Road to Web3 hackathon | online, - | video |
| Nazari Goudin podcast (topic: AI) | podcast | 11.01.2022 | Goudin podcast | online, - | video |
| Datasets for Software 2.0 | podcast | 26.09.2021 | DataCast podcast | online, - | video |
| The Best Approach to Data | fireside | 03.03.2021 | Growth School | online, Facebook | video |
| Datasets: the source code of Software 2.0 | talk | 19.11.2020 | ICS Data Science Seminar | Tartu, Estonia | video · slides |
| Kas andmed juhivad meid või meie andmeid? | panel | 14.08.2020 | Arvamusfestival | Paide, Estonia | video |
| How To Build Your AI Startup | fireside | 02.06.2020 | Superangel webinar | online, Facebook | video |
| Machine Learning at Veriff | talk | 30.01.2020 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Tallinn, Estonia | slides |
| AI safety basics | workshop | 13.12.2019 | Effective Altruism meetup | Tallinn, Estonia | slides |
| Machine Learning at Veriff: what is possible in a year? | talk | 12.12.2019 | Eesti Energia IT summit | Tallinn, Estonia | slides |
| How math is useful in my life and work | talk/workshop | 09.12.2019 | MAT-INF tudengiselts | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Machine Learning at Veriff: what is possible in a year? | talk | 15.11.2019 | Codetecon | Krakow, Poland | slides |
| Student question-driven fireside chat | fireside | 14.11.2019 | Introduction to CS course at Institute of Computer Science | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Machine Learning at Veriff: what is possible in a year? | talk | 07.11.2019 | devclub.lv meetup at Mintos | Riga, Latvia | video · slides |
| Future of e-Estonia: a young engineer’s view | talk | 16.09.2019 | Digital Agenda for Estonia 2021+ | Tallinn, Estonia | video · slides |
| Data science | panel | 27.08.2019 | Digital Methods in Humanities and Social Sciences | Tartu, Estonia | |
| What is Data Science | panel | 09.08.2019 | Arvamusfestival | Paide, Estonia | |
| Entrepreneurs in Computer Vision / Machine Learning | panel | 06.07.2019 | Eastern European Computer Vision Conference | Odessa, Ukraine | |
| The hard thing about building AI products | panel | 27.06.2019 | Pirate Summit | Cologne, Germany | |
| Machine learning and my career path | speech | 28.04.2019 | Baltic Informatics Olympiad opening ceremony | Tartu, Estonia | |
| AI safety | panel | 18.04.2019 | MAT-INF tudengiselts | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Veriff, trust online, and human-machine collaboration | talk | 09.04.2019 | MELT innovation forum | Tallinn, Estonia | slides |
| The two loops of building algorithmic products | talk | 03.04.2019 | Zen of Data teams meetup | Tallinn, Estonia | video · slides |
| Automation principles at Veriff | talk | 07.03.2019 | North Star AI conference | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| The importance of math | talk | 15.11.2018 | Introduction to CS course at Institute of Computer Science | Tartu, Estonia | video · slides |
| Machine learning | talk | 10.10.2018 | Estonian AI working group | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| My career path from middle school to now - to 10th graders | talk | 02.10.2018 | Tallinna Reaalkool | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Machine learning and applications in banking | talk | 19.09.2018 | Swedbank | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Tips for university: an all-emoji talk | talk | 15.09.2018 | STEM freshmen's conference | Tartu, Estonia | slides |
| Machine learning | workshop | 21.05.2018 | DataMob | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Machine learning | talk | 10.05.2018 | DataMob | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| MAT-INF tudengiselts history, my university life, etc | talk | 20.04.2018 | MAT-INF tudengiselts | Tartu, Estonia | slides |
| Machine learning | talk | 18.04.2018 | DataMob | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Parallel track moderator (with 5 hours' notice) | moderator | 08.03.2018 | North Star AI conference | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Computers, the future, and careers - to highschoolers | talk | 11.01.2018 | Õpi Tartus | Tallinn, Estonia | video · slides |
| Anyone can be a hero | moderator | 08.12.2017 | sTARTUp Day 2017 | Tartu, Estonia | |
| AI and its impacts | fireside | 28.11.2017 | Taltech economics student body | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| Machine learning and data science | talk | 23.11.2017 | Introduction to CS course at Institute of Computer Science | Tartu, Estonia | video |
| Minimalism | talk | 10.10.2017 | Swedbank | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Machine learning | talk | 18.05.2017 | Swedbank | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Effective altruism | panel | 20.04.2017 | Effective altruism meetup | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Machine learning (30min notice) | talk | 01.04.2017 | 24-hour post-truth hackathon | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Machine learning | talk | 24.03.2017 | Estonian Physics days | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Difference between school life and real life | talk | 26.01.2017 | Hugo Treffneri Gümnaasium | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Photodition - photo expedition app | pitch | 21.11.2016 | ETH Entrepreneur Club pitch contest finals | Zürich, Switzerland | |
| Making data useful | workshop | 27.10.2016 | Analyst Conference | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Elderly life in 2050 | panel | 12.08.2016 | Arvamusfestival | Paide, Estonia | |
| Practical machine learning | workshop | 17.06.2016 | Helmes | Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Data science for everyone | talk | 29.03.2016 | ML meetup Estonia | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| Why data science? | TED talk | 14.11.2015 | TEDxYouthTallinn | Tallinn, Estonia | video |
| Making choices in life and at university | talk | 10.09.2015 | Introduction to CS course at Institute of Computer Science | Tartu, Estonia | video |
| Valedictorian speech | speech | 26.06.2015 | Graduation ceremony of Faculty of Math & CS | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Participating in student project contests | talk | 29.04.2015 | Tartu Microsoft User Group | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Mindfulness and dreaming | workshop | 21.04.2015 | MAT-INF tudengiselts | Tartu, Estonia | |
| General life tips | talk | 02.10.2014 | Introduction to CS course at Institute of Computer Science | Tartu, Estonia | video |
| Being more effective | talk + workshop | 14.06.2014 | Estonian Physics Union Summer School | Elva, Estonia | |
| Heuristics and biases | talk | 20.05.2014 | Domus Dorpatensis Thinking Festival | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Being more effective | talk | 22.04.2014 | Tartu Microsoft User Group | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Being more effective | talk | 13.04.2014 | National round of Estonian Physics Olympiad | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Interesting school for talented students | moderator | 19.03.2014 | The Gifted and Talented Development Centre’s event for Estonian medalists of international olympiads | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Learnings from a CFAR workshop | 19.03.2014 | The Gifted and Talented Development Centre’s event for Estonian medalists of international olympiads | Tartu, Estonia | ||
| Preparing the Estonian team for EUSO ’14 (essential mathematics) | workshop | 06.03.2014 | Tartu, Estonia | ||
| Preparing the Estonian team for IJSO ’13 (experimental methods) | workshop | 04.10.2013 | Tartu, Estonia | ||
| Preparing the Estonian team for IJSO ’13 (essential mathematics) | workshop | 21.08.2013 | Tartu, Estonia | ||
| How and why to study mathematics | talk | 12.03.2013 | Tartu Kutsehariduskeskus | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Studies and career opportunities in computer science and physics | talk | 12.03.2013 | Tartu Tamme Gümnaasium | Tartu, Estonia | |
| Preparing the Estonian team for EUSO ’13 (experimental methods in physics) | workshop | 28.02.2013 | Tartu, Estonia | ||
| Preparing the Estonian team for EUSO ’13 (plotting and interpreting graphs) | workshop | 14.02.2013 | Tartu, Estonia |
Headshots
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