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Ana Kočegarova-Maj is a cultural producer working in the field of contemporary arts and creative industries.

From 2013 to 2017, she worked as the coordinator in Kaunas Biennial and the international residencies project “Networked Encounters”. At the same time, she has produced multiple projects in the fields of art and online creative industries, including but not limited to, online contemporary art platform Art-Cart.eu and oral history platform Atmintiesvietos.lt.

From 2015 to 2017, she worked as the coordinator of Kaunas bid for the European Capital of Culture 2022. After Kaunas was granted the title of the European Capital of Culture in 2017, she became the CEO of the organization. Ana is Head of Programme at Kaunas 2022 – the organisation, responsible for the delivery of the Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 programme. Since 2017, Kaunas 2022 is organising regular international artistic, as well as capacity building programmes and events, including the European Capital of Culture Forum which takes place every May and brings together active members of the European culture sector to discuss the impacts of culture.