
Mikk Orglaan
Co-Founder & CEO
20+ years of building companies, hiring teams and leading sales. On stage: direct, grounded in real examples, rich with stories from many different cases.
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A chronological record of events where Sparkly.HR team members have taken the stage — newest on top, older below.
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Sparkly.HR's co-founders take the stage at inspiration days, team events, conferences and leadership gatherings. Topics: how to measure a human being, what is actually worth measuring, why it matters, and how it shows up day-to-day in a working environment.

Co-Founder & CEO
20+ years of building companies, hiring teams and leading sales. On stage: direct, grounded in real examples, rich with stories from many different cases.

Co-Founder & COO
People-first leader who has guided organisations through sensitive change and role redesigns. On stage: warm, practical and honest as a mirror.
↓ Real stages below — newest on top, older below.

Carpathian Startup Fest · Rzeszów, Poland
Sparkly's founder Mikk Orglaan takes the stage at Carpathian Startup Fest 2026 in Rzeszów (June 17–18) with a keynote on “Consciously Enriching Differences with HR” and a hands-on workshop on “How To Detect Good Sales People”.
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Deep Tech Investor Day · Maria 01, Helsinki
On June 3, 2026, Sparkly.HR is on the Deep Tech Investor Day (DTID) expo floor at Maria 01 in Helsinki — ready to show ~300 investors and ~100 startups what the best founder profile actually looks like, and how to stay clear of fake salespeople.
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Estonian Business School · Tallinn
On May 19, 2026 (Latitude59 week), BSV Ventures, Baltic Sandbox, Beamline Accelerator and Estonian Business School bring early-stage founders and academic talent into one room. Sparkly.HR's Mikk Orglaan hosts the Personality Quiz.
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TooEarly Ventures · Tallinn
TooEarly Ventures they call it — and Mikk Orglaan turned up late, head still in a live bug fix. The room heard him out anyway: how Sparkly.HR backs founders' gut-feeling with a real data layer for people decisions.
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SKInnovation · Innsbruck, Austria
Sparkly's co-founder Mikk Orglaan took the Visibility Pitch stage at SKInnovation 2026 — The Innovation & Startup Festival On Skis in Innsbruck (March 25–28, 2026): two minutes, no slides, pure signal.
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Recrur × Jutt.ai × Sparkly.HR joint seminar · Estonia
On December 4, 2025, Recrur hosted a joint seminar with Jutt.ai and Sparkly.HR. Sparkly's co-founder Mikk Orglaan joined the panel to share the story behind why we set out to build Sparkly in the first place.
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W3N.ee · Narva, Estonia
Sparkly.HR is an advanced HR software platform that assesses personality match for any organization and helps select candidates predictively—so future teams are efficient…
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TalTech · Tallinn, Estonia
In November 2025, Sparkly.HR co-founder Mikk Orglaan ran a workshop for TalTech master's students on how to actually understand, measure and apply people in a daily business environment — without reducing a human being to a number.
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Haaga-Helia University · Helsinki, Finland
Roméo Rinne and Kristian McCombs took the leap of faith and partnered up with Sparkly to offer students better understandnig what jobs to apply for. Did you know that 90%…
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Engaged Investments · National House, Prague
Sparkly.HR co-hosted the Angel Investor Workshop at Engaged Investments 2025 in Prague with BSV Ventures. Mikk Orglaan joined as co-speaker on team dynamics, presenting S…
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InvesteerimisFestival · Estonia
At this year’s InvesteerimisFestival, Mikk Orglaan will host a hands-on workshop titled “If You Knew Your Path to Financial Freedom – Would You Act Differently?” In this…
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Igniter Accelerator · TalTech Startup Garage, Tallinn
In 2025 Sparkly.HR and Igniter Accelerator (TalTech × Swedbank × Startup Garage) formalised a strategic partnership. Mikk Orglaan has walked alongside several Igniter cohorts as angel investor, mentor and the kind of accelerator participant who challenges founders to actually make sense of what they do — by sharing his own failures, scars and investor-side questions. In 2026 it only got more intense.
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