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

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

From 2015 to 2017, she was coordinating the process of Kaunas bidding 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 organisation. Since 2018, Ana was Head of International Relations programme and was curating the capacity building platform The Tempo Academy of Culture at Kaunas 2022 – the organisation, responsible for the delivery of the Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022 programme. Soon she took the position of the Head of Programme at Kaunas 2022.

Since 2017, Kaunas 2022 was organising regular international artistic, as well as capacity building programmes and events, including the European Capital of Culture Forum, bringing together active members of the European culture sector to discuss the significance and impacts of culture.