Luukas Ilves is co-founder of the Agentic State initiative, AI advisor to the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and to the Government Office of Estonia, and non-resident fellow at the International Center for Defence Studies.
From 2022-24, Luukas was Government CIO and Undersecretary for Digital Transformation of Estonia. He previously held various roles with the Government of Estonia and European Commission, has worked for the cryptography deeptech Guardtime and as deputy director and senior fellow at the Lisbon Council (a Brussels-based thinktank).
Luukas is a recipient of the Estonian Order of the White Star and President Zelensky’s Ukraine Peace Prize. He is a graduate of Stanford and Quantic Universities.
Ukraine has already built a strong digital foundation in public services. The next stage is broader adoption of artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics not only in government, but also in business.
This requires adapting legislation to new technologies, defining the boundaries of their use and the rules governing liability and security, and aligning Ukrainian regulation with European regulation.
What changes are needed so that new technologies accelerate development rather than regulation becoming a barrier? We will discuss this at KIEF 2026 during the panel discussion "Ukraine's Digital Acceleration: Challenges, Obstacles, Opportunities".