MARTYNAS KAIRYS

I started in uniform. Six years at the Royal Danish Naval Academy and a commission as a naval officer, while finishing an economics degree in Lithuania at the same time. That mix of discipline and curiosity has carried everything since.

More than twenty years across logistics in Shanghai, investment banking at Finasta and Nordea, my own startups in London, and eight years at Shift4, where I went from building a developer marketplace in New York to Head of AI and helped grow the Vilnius office from 40 people to over 800. Most recently I was General Manager of Zedge Lithuania.

I believe in karma projects: giving back without expecting anything in return. FinansaiPaprastai.lt teaches financial literacy in plain Lithuanian, free and independent of any bank. Dovanokime.lt passed donated clothing to more than 10,000 people during the recession years. And there is always a community bookshelf or two.

I am all in on AI. It is my full-time work: I build AI products, my own and for businesses, and I consult companies that want AI to show up in their results, not just in a strategy deck. That takes three shapes. I build the solution. I run a hands-on workshop where people bring their real work. Or I get a whole workforce using AI safely and well, every day. I led AI inside global companies before this, so I know how it goes in a large organisation, not only in a demo. I work daily across Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grok and Gemini, so the advice is never tied to one vendor. Keynotes and the Lab below are where I show the work. Freshly back from MIT Professional Education's program on AI and business strategy.