Despite her young age, TalTech alumna Marie-Mädli Kivimäe has built an impressive engineering career in the international automotive industry. Her willingness to keep stepping outside her comfort zone has helped her move forward.
States are making increasingly deliberate use of cyberspace to put pressure on others, gather information and achieve their foreign and security policy objectives. According to Estonia’s Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy Helen Popp, technological capability has become an important part of states’ economic, military and political power.
Cameras monitoring rivers record hours of footage, and finding fish in those recordings can be time-consuming. Artificial intelligence developed through a partnership between TalTech and German company I AM HYDRO is helping to speed up the task. Next, the researchers want to better understand why fish prefer some waterways and avoid others.
Keeping the electricity system in balance does not always mean generating more power – sometimes it is enough to reduce or increase consumption at the right moment. This was the idea behind Fusebox, founded more than a decade ago by TalTech alumnus Tarvo Õng. The company’s software is now used in almost ten countries, and Õng believes the next step should be to give businesses and ordinary people more control over their own energy use.
Technology in Estonia’s road construction sector has advanced rapidly over the past decade, but TalTech road and traffic expert Ain Kendra says unstable funding, rigid procurement and limited research and development funding are holding the sector back.
TalTech alumnus and DeltaE Inseneribüroo owner Marti Arak has turned energy efficiency into a successful business. He says that technical solutions alone are not enough to achieve energy savings: skilled engineers, practical experience and the ability to see the bigger picture are also essential.
Greenwashing has been reined in. On 27 September 2026, new EU consumer protection requirements on environmental claims came into force, primarily to reduce greenwashing and protect consumers from misleading environmental claims.
AI agents deployed without sufficient thought can create serious cybersecurity risks and make accountability even more complicated.
An AI agent can be a company’s most diligent employee. The trouble starts when it is given more permissions than judgement.
Estonia’s e-health system is an international model, but its next leap forward requires higher-quality health data, greater involvement of doctors and evidence of the real benefits of digital solutions, say three European health informatics experts.