Alina Nilsson — co-founder of the international tech conference EMERGE with the focus on Eastern Europe, as well as the founding partner at events & communications agency SOLYANKA. Alina has been working with startups for over 7 years. The first startup in the field of fintech Alina founded in 2013, after which she began to run startup events in Vilnius, London, Berlin and Moscow. Having moved to London, Alina worked in a number of startup accelerators, such as MassChallenge, hardware accelerator Central Research Laboratory, running marketing campaigns and designing accelerator programmes. Alina graduated with a Master's degree in Innovation and Strategic Design from Cranfield University (UK). Now lives in Sweden.