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Sten Saluveer is the Director of the Tallinn Digital Summit, an invitation-only format for political, technology, business and public sector leaders, hosted by the Prime Minister of Estonia, and the Head of Cannes Next innovation track & Strategic Advisor at the world's most prominent entertainment industry platform, the Marché du Film of the iconic Festival de Cannes.

Sten's interdisciplinary work involves content/media, technology and policy domains including Artificial Intelligence, innovation and technological resilience, digital policy, as well as Asia-Europe dimensions. Sten is a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo and holds a Master's Degree with Honors from the same school in Information, Society and Technology in Asia. He has previous academic backgrounds in Classical Music, Electronic Media and Communication Theory, Creative Industries Management, Asian Studies, and Digital Entrepreneurship.

From 2024, he is the Director/Head of studies of the pioneering MiniMBA program in Artificial Intelligence at the National Film School of Denmark and curates its acclaimed Picture This conference. He frequently lectures and teaches domestically & internationally, including in Estonia, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and Taiwan most recently. Sten is also an Advisory Board member for the Future Media Hubs, an innovation network of 40+ top European media corporations.

Sten's strategic work has seen him pioneering a co-production memorandum with the governments of South Korea and Estonia, and genre film co-productions between South Korea, Japan, and Europe. He created the pioneering media technology & startup innovation hub Storytek in North Eastern Europe, co-developed the future strategy whitepaper of the European Film and Media and Technology sector for Vice President Ansip of the European Commission, set in motion a large-scope Horizon 2020-backed investment vehicle STADIEM to support B2B startup/scaleup to corporate pilots with 6 exits in 36 months, and created and managed multi-million innovation projects between creativity and technology. He is one of the instigators of CresCine - a 36-month, Horizon Europe-funded program set to increase the competitiveness of content industries in small European markets.

As a Strategist, he has developed several government-level frameworks, whitepapers, and strategies for organizations such as Startup Estonia, Estonian Government moonshot lab Accelerate Estonia, and Estonian Ministry of Culture. He collaborates frequently with the European Commission and hosts the annual Industry Innovation Forum Tallinn, in close collaboration with the Creative Europe Media program. At Cannes he hosts the rendezvous of Europe's most innovative companies in content and entertainment with the European Commissioner of the Single Market.

In 2020, he commissioned and curated an exceptional performance of Academy Award-winning composer, artist, performer, activist and electronic music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto for the Meet the Composers section of the Marché du Film/Festival de Cannes, and most recently curated the launch of a new Decentralized Pictures film fund in Cannes by Roman Coppola and his DCP Foundation. Sten also served as Executive Producer of MURALS, an immersive 3D experience on the impact of the invasion of Ukraine inspired and documented by the murals of Banksy created across Ukraine in the summer of 2023. The work won the Audience Award at BFI London Festival's Expanded section. He has currently produced, associate produced, and advised seven feature-length and award-winning productions and is a celebrated electronic music producer under the moniker Mildhans. His 12 special edition vinyl reedits of lost Japanese jazz funk pianist Mariko Katsuragi have become an collectors item available at specialist stores from Tokyos Disc Union & Tower Records to Rush Hour and beyond.

Sten has held keynotes and moderated fireside chats, masterclasses, and interviews at many of the world's top festivals and conferences, including with President Kaljulaid, Nicolas Winding Refn, Kim Jee-woon, Roman Coppola, The Royal Institution in London, DLD, Twin Global, The Estonia Prime Minister's Digital Summit, the EU Presidency Summit, the European Film Forum, SXSW, Cannes, Berlin, Busan, Taipei, Tokyo, Bucheon, Frankfurt, Tallinn, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Montreal, and Geneva. He speaks Estonian, English, Finnish, and Japanese, is an avid film lover and a volunteer medical first responder, while caring passionately for the future of artistic storytelling between creativity and technology and Scottish terriers.