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Executive Stage

11 OctoberExecutive Forum 12 OctoberIoT Conference

10:00

Registration

10:30

Opening

10:40

Smart spaces and video intelligence for the public sector

  • Tom Christensen, CTO EMEA, Hitachi Vantara

In this presentation you will learn how Hitachi bring IoT, AI and Analytics to urban, commercial and industrial areas to increase effectiveness and improve quality of live. When population shifts, and security threats are evolving, the need for innovative thinking increases. Optical sensors create enormous amounts of data, and used in combination with other data sources, they may give your insight for optimizing your business, and improving procedures and safety. For example, enhancing security in airports and other public areas within our towns and cities. Imagine if you can predict abnormal behavior and prevent major incidents from happening.

11:20

Building a data strategy for your organization

  • Sergiu Costin, Territory sales manager, South East Europe & Baltics, Commvault

The IT world is constantly changing, new types of applications are being developed, new infrastructure types come out. As a result, Data is growing not just in quantity but also in different varieties. For organisations, it is important to have a right strategy on how to manage and protect the Data in such complex environments.

11:50

The results of 13th Saeima elections and how those will influence Latvian IT business

  • Juris Kaža, Freelance journalist

12:10

Panel discussion: Top tendencies and development trends of the Latvian IT industry (LV)

  • Pjotrs Dorogovs, Head of the Information Center, Ministry of the Interior
  • Vita Narnicka, IT department director, State Revenue Service
  • Ingrīda Kariņa-Bērziņa, Partner, COBALT
  • Raimonds Arājs, CIO, Rīgas Ūdens
  • Rojs Dauburs, Consultant, LVRTC

13:00

Break & Exhibition

14:00

Red Teaming: Preparing organizations for the unexpected

  • Nikos Laleas, Senior Security Consultant, NCC Group
Besides exploiting vulnerabilities in technology, social engineering and physical compromise are also key elements of a successful attack, and usually the first point of entry. This presentation will discuss the concept of Red Teaming through real-world scenarios and war stories that demonstrate what hackers are capable of doing in order to achieve their objectives.

14:40

How your private cloud can compete against public cloud to better support your business initiatives?

  • Mikhel Meerits, Sr Pre-Sales Engineer, Nutanix

Thru reducing the complexity of legacy infrastructure with fragmented design and management overhead it is evidently possible with the right and cost-effective solutions. This will create an affordable, agile, resilient, easy-to-manage and scalable infrastructure resulting in innovations and a faster time to market for new services. By better utilizing, existing resources, the internal IT will also become much more competitive driving mainly new projects instead of managing legacy infrastructure compared to going to the public cloud.

15:20

How to turn your network into a strategic business asset with Extreme Analytics

  • Timo Lonka, Country Manager Finland & Baltics, Extreme Networks

ExtremeAnalytics is a network-based business intelligence solution that captures and analyzes context-based application traffic to deliver meaningful intelligence about applications, users, locations and devices – providing IT with the context to make faster and more effective decisions. Many times, as IT departments get ready to create new solutions, they need to choose between various platforms. They think they know the right answer and move ahead to create the solution only to find out they built for the wrong group. Other times, a company may use one device, such as Windows machines, but a specific group, such as engineering, may run mostly Linux machines. Only by having the right data and the ability to easily check can IT be certain to make the right decisions.

15:50

Public Cloud – Is there a solution to every problem?

  • Marcin Fryzik, Territory Manager for Baltics and Poland, Veeam
Many organizations consider cloud computing as the next step in the development of their IT environment. Although such a transformation provides many benefits, however, it raises some new challenges and threats. The presentation will show some important technical, business and legal issues regarding migration to the cloud.

16:20

Recent trends and real live examples of Blockchain use

  • Alexey Petrov, CIO, Bitfury

17:00

Closing & Evening program for EXE Forum VIP visitors

11:00

IoT, from technology to business and smart industry

  • Kushtrim Xhakli, CEO/Co-Founder, Connected Baltics

11:30

IoT security lifecycle

  • Kaspars Iesalnieks, IT Advisory Manager, KPMG Baltics

12:00

The Future Reality of Smart Building Automation

  • Glebs Kiselovs, Managing Director, ELKO EP Baltic

12:30

Break & Exhibition

13:10

Connected Cars

  • Matīss Zemītis, Product specialist, Volkswagen

13:40

The value of IoT as part of an organizations digital transformation

  • Sohvi Rajamaki, Country General Manager Baltics, ‎Schneider Electric

14:20

FlowAbility Smart Washroom

  • Jaakko Antikainen, Sales & Business Development Director, Lindström

14:50

Benefits of transforming business with IoT

  • Toms Rekšņa, Business Development Manager, SAF Tehnika

15:20

Break & Exhibition

15:45

Transforming industries with Microsoft IoT

  • Konrad Napieralski, Director Industry Solutions, Power & Utilities, Microsoft CEE

While for many IoT still seems as yet another tech buzzword, Microsoft and its partners are working hard on making IoT secure, open and connected platform a reality. In this session, you’ll be able to learn more about Microsoft’s IoT platform, ways to get started with IoT right now and how IoT is already transforming major industries.

16:30

Quantified Self Using IoT

  • Kaspars Vendelis, Co-Founder, Biohacking.lv

17:00

IoT in Smart Parking Systems

  • Rūdolfs Gedra, Export Manager, Parkdroid

17:30

Textile sensor technology: the journey from university lab to consumer

  • Oskars Priede, CEO, EHO Technologies

17:45

Sensors based solution for autonomous beekeeping

  • Viesturs Šeļmanovs-Plešs, CEO, Mazzy

Citadele Fintech Stage

11 OctoberFintech Conference 12 OctoberBlockchain Conference

10:15

RIGA COMM Opening Ceremony

  • Viesturs Tīle, General Director, BT 1
  • Andris Breške, Manager, RIGA COMM
  • Slavomir Mizak, Member of the Management Board, CTO, Citadele Bank
  • Kim Leandersson, Director, Cognizant Latvia

10:40

Banking for Today and the Future

  • Mārtiņš Bērziņš, Head of E-Business Division, Citadele Bank

11:40

Cybersecurity in the modern FinTech landscape

  • Michele D'Aliessi, Digital Industry Lead UK, EIT Digital

11:55

Discussion co-hosted by EIT Digital: Fraud in ID Verification – Humans vs Technology

  • Farid Singh, Lead Tech Mentor, Wise Guys Fintech accelerator (former VP at Telefonica)
  • Lucas Kwiatkowski, CEO, Fully-Verified
  • David Langellotti, Tech writer, content specialist, Blockpass

12:20

Break & Exhibition

13:00

Embracing the payments revolution: Instant payments

  • Deniss Fiļipovs, Head of Payment Systems Policy division, Latvijas Banka

13:20

Cash flow management on one page

  • Krišjānis Daugulis, CEO, FinanceFlow.eu

13:40

Staying friends with your CSO: PCI-DSS compliance with Docker

  • Andrejs Naidjonoks, Head Of Engineering, Product Development, Bilderlings Pay

14:10

Why FinTech is the Best Bacteria of the XXI Century

  • Andrius Bičeika, Head of Business Development, Revolut

14:40

Break & Exhibition

15:10

Banking Technology Vision 2018

  • Kristaps Banga, Innovation Lead, Accenture Latvia

15:30

Workshop: Financial services on the go / Remote Identification of Customers

During the event experts will introduce new regulation of remote identification of customers and new business opportunities. Of importance – the new regulatory framework is the most accessible, technology neutral and easy to use in the Baltic region.

Topics:

0 New regulation – new opportunities

0 Facilitating export of financial services

0 Easier way of delivering financial services beyond urban areas

15:30

Workshop opening remarks

  • Sanda Liepiņa, CEO, Finance Latvia Association

15:35

Remote Identification of Customers – New Opportunities provided by the Regulation

  • Mārtiņš Bērziņš, Head of E-Business Division, Citadele Bank

15:50

E-identity: New Tools and Future Outlook

  • Jānis Bokta, CEO, LVRTC

16:05

Workshop discussion moderated by Sanda Liepiņa, CEO of Finance Latvia Association

  • Sanda Liepiņa, CEO, Finance Latvia Association
  • Mārtiņš Bērziņš, Head of E-Business Division, Citadele Bank
  • Jānis Bokta, CEO, LVRTC
  • Lucas Kwiatkowski, CEO, Fully Verified
  • Laima Letiņa, Deputy Head of the Legal Department, The Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia
  • Jānis Skrastiņš, Chairman, Latvian Sworn Notaries Council
  • Sigita Kotlere, Head of Retail Client Servicing, BlueOrange Bank

17:00

Individual consultations/legal advices by Edgars Pastars

  • Edgars Pastars, Legal Counsel, Finance Latvia Association

10:30

Practical use cases of cryptocurrency integration

  • Daria Dubinina, Founder, Crassula

11:10

Tezos – a self-amending crypto-ledger

  • Pietro Abate, Senior Developer, Tezos

11:50

Bitcoin Scaling and Future of User Experience using Cryptocurrencies

  • Konstantins Vasilenko, Co-founder, Paybis.com, Cryptocash & Latvian Blockchain Association

12:20

Break & Exhibition

13:00

Objective truth about crypto mining and investments

  • Dmitry Litkin, CRO, European Crypto Mining Association
  • Igor Sakulin, CTO, European Crypto Mining Association

13:40

Fireside Chat with Justas Pikelis, the Co-Founder/President of Monetha

  • Justas Pikelis, Co-founder, Monetha
  • Sandris Muriņš, Interviewer

14:10

Discussion: How to market a blockchain project?

  • Slava Jefremov, CEO, CoinMedia
  • Helvijs Smoteks, CEO, Market Me Good

14:40

The key to unlimited opportunities – the ability to predict future price developments!

  • Agris Āboms, Account manager & Team leader of Latvian branch, Admiral Markets

15:10

Break & Exhibition

15:40

Fireside Chat with Liza Aizupiete, the CEO of Fintelum and the former CEO of Globitex

  • Liza Aizupiete, CEO, Fintelum
  • Sabira Aleksandra Skoblova, Interviewer

16:40

GDPR and how blockchain can help to be GDPR compliant

  • Kostiantyn Bigus, Managing partner, Emercoin

Digital Marketing Stage

11 October(LV / ENG) 12 October(LV / ENG)

10:40

Digitālā mārketinga risinājumi eksporta izaugsmei (LV)

  • Mārtiņš Kažemaks, CEO, Top Media
  • Gundars Grāpis, PPC Service Supervisor, Top Media

11:20

Discussion: GDPR mārketingā un pārdošanā – Dati kļūst par vērtību ikvienā uzņēmumā (LV)

  • Katrīne Pļaviņa, Senior Associate, Vilgerts
  • Edijs Tanons, Solutions Executive, Datakom
  • Jānis Karāns, CEO, Bregards

12:10

Becoming an experience business

  • Jamie Brighton, Strategic Marketing Manager, Adobe
  • Dana Icikzone, Solutions Consultant, Adobe

Delivering superior cross-channel customer experiences to increase customer engagement and retention is the aspiration of most brands today. While harnessing digital technologies is the key to achieving this, the process of transformation and reinvention involves more than just technology. In this session, we’ll cover Adobe’s perspectives on digital marketing trends and how the Adobe Experience Cloud is changing how brands find and communicate with customers. We’ll also hear how leading brands are addressing the challenges of their own digital transformation. And finally, we’ll see a glimpse into the future of Adobe Sensei, artificial intelligence, reimagining creative and marketing processes by bringing together Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Experience Cloud on the Adobe Cloud Platform.

12:50

Break & Exhibition

13:30

Pilna servisa digitālais mārketings maziem un vidējiem uzņēmumiem: 2000 uzņēmumu pieredze (LV)

  • Aigars Lazdāns, CEO, Latvijas Tālrunis
  • Jānis Lielmanis, Product Development Manager, Latvijas Tālrunis

14:10

Trāpīgs mārketings – augstāki ienākumi (LV)

  • Līga Strazdiņa, CEO, Triple20

14:40

Kā beidzot definēt sava mārketinga mērķi? (LV)

  • Jānis Birģelis, Head Of Production, Infinitum

15:10

Messaging apps and bots – how to automate communication with your customers and keep it personal?

  • Kārlis Skuja, CEO, Botwiser

People are now spending more time in messaging apps than in social media and this is a huge turning point. Chatbots are already starting to disrupt how companies interact with customers and how they find information. Messaging apps and virtual assistants are the future of communication, and chatbots will help to automate it and to provide access to many services more easily. To build just a chatbot – it’s easy. To build a great chatbot it’s not easy at all. I’ll share my experience about chatbot building and the challenges related to chatbot projects.

15:40

Break & Exhibition

16:20

GDPR is changing your marketing (and business)

  • Juha Sallinen, CEO & Founder, GDPR Tech

Does the GDPR mean end of the marketing and cold calls? Can I use customer data without consent or permission? Do I have to delete my lead list or customer data? Come and find out, how to follow EU GDPR in practice and be more efficient at the same time.

17:00

Programmatic Advertising

  • Tomas Riauka, Account Manager, Adform

17:30

How to empower digital for out of the box solutions: two case studies

  • Andrius Kontrimavičius, Partner, Digitouch!

Goodyear and LightHouse III advertising campaigns

10:40

Conversion, Engagement and Retention via Web Push Notifications – Newest and Best Performing Marketing Channel

  • Filip Łysikowski, Head of Marketing, MaxTraffic

– standing up to ad-blindness and ad-blockers with innovation
– optimization of incoming traffic – new ways of fighting bounce rate and instant conversion
– data-driven targeting in light of GDPR and privacy concerns
– complementing remarketing channels (social, email, web push) – differences and strengths
– how industries use and deliver through web push channel

11:10

Crafting digital strategy for solution sales in B2B markets

  • Rolands Ozoliņš, International Business Development Consultant, IBD Consulting

Rolands will talk about the main purpose of having the strategy and the elements of strategy planning process which are particularly relevant for international B2B markets. During the session you will learn what steps to take to desing the strategy, what is required for succesfull strategy implementation and what level of digital marketing activity is required to obtain leading market position within your industry.

11:50

Kā eksportspējīgiem lokāliem zīmoliem sasniegt globālus mērogus izmantojot Twitter, LinkedIn, Spotify un Snapchat (LV)

  • Arnis Ozols, Country Manager, Httpool Baltics

12:20

Break & Exhibition

13:00

10 kļūdas, pārvaldot Google un Facebook reklāmas kampaņas un veicot datu analīzi ar Google Analytics (LV)

  • Sergejs Volvenkins, Head of Digital Department, iMarketings.lv

14:00

Stratēģiska digitālās reklāmas plānošana

  • Kristiāns Patmalnieks, Senior Strategist, Infinitum

14:30

Ar 120 km/h ātrumu mūsdienīgā reklāmā

  • Irbe Zolneroviča

15:00

Break & Exhibition

15:40

How to outsmart your competition in influencer marketing

  • Aleksandrs Čakste, VP Europe and Partner, Massfluencer

16:20

Influenceru mārketings Latvijā: REALITĀTE (LV)

  • Artūrs Mednis, CEO, New Black
  • Deniss Ševeļovs, Influencer Relations Project Manager, Golin Riga
  • Maija Armaneva, Instagramer, Youtuber, Blogger

Future Stage

11 OctoberMachine Learning Conference 12 OctoberPractical 3D Conference

10:30

Introduction to the Conference

  • Aldis Ērglis, Moderator

10:40

Natural language processing & speech recognition and synthesis

  • Kaspars Kauliņš, International Business Development Director, Tilde

11:05

Neural machine translation

  • Kaspars Kauliņš, International Business Development Director, Tilde

11:30

Intelligent assistants for customer service

  • Inese Zariņa, Team Lead, Lattelecom

11:55

Emotion detection – emogramm

  • Irīna Šitova, Emergn

12:20

A pragmatic approach to implementing chatbots – RTU Leo showcase

  • Antons Mislevičs, Head of AI / Machine Learning, C.T.Co

12:45

Break & exhibition

13:20

Future of retail with AI Fashion advisor

  • Staņislavs Hiļčuks, ICT project development manager, Accenture

13:40

Reshaping government communication-based interaction with government services

  • Staņislavs Hiļčuks, ICT project development manager, Accenture

14:00

Modelling and predicting the workload of the judge’s

  • Antra Zālīte, Board Member, Visma Enterprise

14:20

Finding an improvement path

  • Muntis Rudzitis, Senior Machine Learning developer, Emergn

14:40

Predictive invoice to payment

  • Ariadna Kramkovska, Junior Machine Learning Developer, Emergn

15:00

How AI can help in processing documents

  • Andrey Bondarenko, Data Scientist, C.T.Co
  • Dilshat Uteshev, Data Scientist, C.T.Co

15:25

Digitalization of paper documents

  • Andars Igancs, CTO, andIT
  • Eduards Marhelis, R&D Engineer of Blockchain, AI and WEB, andIT

15:45

Object classification or detection in picture or video

  • Leons Mednis, Main Analytics Solution Expert, PEDAB Latvia

16:10

Sign language translator

  • Staņislavs Hiļčuks, ICT project development manager, Accenture

16:30

Forecasting sequences of events with Deep Learning

  • Antons Mislevičs, Head of AI / Machine Learning, C.T.Co

16:50

Analyze traffic movement and composition in an intersection

  • Juris Pūce, CEO, Kleintech

17:10

End-to-end customer care through machine learning

  • Markus Lippus, Co-founder, Mindtitan

17:35

Summary and next steps

  • Aldis Ērglis, Moderator

10:40

Education for Industry 4.0

  • Didzis Dejus, Baltic3D

11:10

Including 3D Modeling and 3D Printers in the Process of Education

  • Lāsma Gustovska, Teacher, Liepaja Rainis Secondary School No. 6

11:40

How 3D Printer will Revolutionize Manufacturing?

  • Jānis Jātnieks, Co-founder & CEO, Baltic3D

12:20

Low cost production 3D printing

  • Jānis Grīnhofs, Founder & CEO, FabControl

13:00

Break & Exhibition

13:40

3D printed assistive devices

  • Fricis Pirtnieks, R&D project engineer, Wide

14:20

3D in medical education and training

  • Sandis Kondrāts, CEO, Anatomy Next

15:00

CastPrint story: From an idea to a working solution in clinics

  • Sigvards Krongorns, Co-founder, CastPrint

15:40

CheeksUp story: 3D facial recognition technology in Childhood Speech therapy

  • Ilze Zaharāne, CEO, CheeksUp

ALSO Productivity Stage

11 OctoberH2020 Sem / Smart HR Conf 12 OctoberALSO / Productivity Conf (LV)

10:40

Horizon 2020 success stories and practical tips

ICT sector in Horizon 2020 – Andris Freimanis, Senior expert at National Contact point

Possibilities for Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence in Horizon 2020 –

TILDE Ltd. experience story of participation in VR/AI related calls in Horizon 2020 – Aivars Bērziņš, Project Director at Tilde

Estonian Academy of Security Science, member of project “TARGET 2020” experience story of participation in VR/AI related calls in Horizon 2020 – Marek Link, Vice Rector at Estonian Academy of Security Science

 

Info:

From 14:00 to 17:00 near stage Face-2-Face meetings. Find new business and research partners.

13:25

Smart HR Conference opening

13:30

Why culture matters? How to manage it?

  • Gita Meldere, Partner, Lumina Learning

13:50

Why next generation HR will be a gamer?

  • Juris Zalāns, CEO, Benefits Latvia

14:20

Increasing strategic role of HR in digital era

  • Ernests Sinkevičs, CFO, AGroup

14:50

Onboarding Employees: a Friend or Foe?

  • Ilona Kalniņa, Customer Success Manager, CakeHR

15:20

Break & Exhibition

15:50

Future of employee attendance and time management

  • Vladimir Jelov, Regional manager - Baltics, Begin.ee

16:20

What exactly is BPO – Business Process Outsourcing, and how it differs from any other resource outsourcing

  • Kaspars Ginters, Sales Manager Baltics, Zalaris

16:50

The three (and a half) most common HR mistakes: Tales from the trenches

  • Dennis Cuku, Owner, 100th Monkey Conscious Consulting

Organizational continuous improvement is now the price of admission in the increasingly competitive global marketplace and is especially relevant to Human Resources and Training functions. Functional departments are continuously burdened by swelling workloads and changing operational parameters. This presentation shares what best in class Canadian companies are doing to increase the effectiveness of their organizations. Focusing on doing the right things, in the best way and preparing high performing teams for an inevitable change.

10:30

ALSO loma Latvijas IT tirgū (LV)

  • Juris Ducens, Managing Director, ALSO Latvia

10:45

Mājas lietotāja ierīču attīstības tendences (LV)

  • Guntars Jākobsons, Wholesale department manager, ALSO Latvia

11:00

5 melnie caurumi GDPR ērā (LV)

  • Jānis Kārkliņš, Business Development Manager, ALSO Latvia

11:15

Patēriņa pakalpojumu piedāvājums no ALSO (LV)

  • Jānis Ennītis, Service Development Manager, ALSO Latvia

11:30

Reinventing future with HP

  • Jari Niemisto, Sales Director Finland & Baltic Countries, Hp Inc.
  • Mantas Gabrijolavicius, Category Manager for Baltics, Hp Inc.
  • Gatis Šķila, Hp Inc.

12:00

Break & Exhibition

12:50

Productivity Conference opening (LV)

13:00

Produktīva biznesa automatizācija (LV)

  • Artūrs Gedvillo, Independent ERP consultant, Gedvillo Consulting

13:40

Kā no grupas izveidot komandu (LV)

  • Kaspars Cveiģelis, Owner, Produktivs.lv

14:10

Adizes kā platforma garantētai pārmaiņu ieviešanai (LV)

  • Vladimirs Kuzmins, Partner, Adizes Latvia

14:50

Produktivitātes noslēpumi (LV)

  • Jānis Lāma, Agile Coach
  • Ivo Pekšēns, Agile Coach

15:30

Break & Exhibition

16:00

Produktīvs mazumtirdzniecības uzņēmums (LV)

  • Ingus Beks, Founder, IBSC

16:00

Kā strādā modernas noliktavas Latvijā un Eiropā (LV)

16:20

Biznesa inteliģence un tā iespējas/nozīme biznesā (LV)

  • Aldis Ērglis, Senior System Architect, Exigen Services Latvia

17:00

SIA Dižozols Plus pieredze procesu sakārtošanā / efektivitātes paaugstināšanā (LV)

  • Ilze Čerevko, Financial analyst, Dižozols Plus

Cognizant Future of Work Stage

11 October 12 October

10:30

21 Jobs of the Future

  • Greg Andruszczenko, Insight, Strategy and Design Director, Cognizant

Concern about a “jobless future” has never been greater. Seemingly every day, an academic, researcher or technology leader suggests that in a world of automation and artificial intelligence (AI), workers will increasingly be a surplus to what businesses need. For many people, the future of work looks like a bleak place, full of temporary jobs, minimum wage labor and a ruling technocracy safely hidden away in their gated communities.

11:00

5 Trends Shaping The Future of Work in Latvia

  • Zane Culkstena, Founder, ERDA & UpMatched

Demographic change, technological advances, new behaviours and globalisation are having a profound impact on Latvian labour market and on the future of work. On one hand we have a major lack of the labour force, on the other – it is clear that the adoption of automation and the next market correction is just around the corner. How to navigate these complex changes and which trends are here to stay is the topic of this presentation

11:30

Future of Work: Dealing with a chaos of change

  • Aurelija Urbonaviciute, Co-founder & CEO, Tipi

Clearly #FutureOfWork is a topic in many’s mind. Though discussed quite often, but not to enough depth. Aurelija will share not so obvious insights about what business can do today to get ready for the inevitable changes in the way we work.

12:00

The future-proof office

  • Olegs Nikitins, Workplace strategy consultant

The trends shaping the future of work are rapidly changing the office. During the last 10 years the office has gone through unprecedented transformation. First, we understood that longer hours do not necessarily mean more work done. Later, that employee well-being is directly linked to productivity. Finally, we understood that work doesn’t necessarily happen in front of a desk. With all this change out to change the business, what can we do to adapt its headquarters?

12:30

Panel Discussion: what can we do today to succeed in the future as individuals and organizations?

  • Moderated by Kim Leandersson, CEO, Cognizant Latvia

13:00

Rise of the Machines and its impact on the future labour market: A non-tech and purely economic perspective

  • Morten Hansen, Head of the Economics Department, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga

The rise of artificial Intelligence has created much hype: Millions of jobs will be destroyed as machines take over a large swathe of jobs, creating a need for some sort of Universal Basic Income to support those who will lose their jobs. But this is a very static view of the world. History is full of job destruction – and job creation as there is no special reason to think the rise of AI will change this.

13:30

10 things you will never hear teachers say. How to develop digital talents for the gig economy?

  • Monika Simaškaitė, Education manager and expert, CodeAcademy

Technology experts from around the world agree that in the nearest future people in everyday life will use more and more advanced technologies.  Innovation that transforms the world – the development of new technologies and adaptation is faster than ever in history. That requires rapid adjustment of society. What is the status quo of labour market, especially in ICT market? What myths are still holding back from faster development? What we should do differently in education?

14:30

Workshop: Building a Modern Data Analysis Platform

  • Valdis Saulespurens, Instructor, Riga CODING School

Data Science has become more accessible to non-scientists due to freely available toolsets. Attendees will get hands-on experience using Anaconda Python distribution. Topics covered. Data wrangling / cleaning Accessing Big Data / Cloud solutions Selecting / Applying Machine Learning models Exporting Results / Visualizations. Workshop language – Latvian. Workshop capacity – 20 participants with personal computers.

16:00

_First Steps to Building Your First Website_

  • Ilva Krave, Instructor, Riga CODING school

HTML, CSS, javascript. Prepare yourself for a quick journey into web development and learn about what it takes to build a website. Even if you do not intend to build one yourself, knowing the basics can come in handy. Lets talk about it, and, most importantly, get some hands-on experience in WEB development, therefore please take your computer with you. Capacity – 20 participants.

11:00

Future of Work Workshops

All workshops are meant for curious minds aged 9 to 90 with no prior experience in coding.

Participation time for one person to finish the task: ~30 min

10:30

Future-proofing organizations: Maple syrup, ice hockey and how Canada is adapting to change

  • Dennis Cuku, Owner, 100th Monkey Conscious Consulting

In a world of increasing change, how is a SME to survive … much less thrive. Best in class companies have been preparing for tomorrows VUCA business arena (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) for nearly a decade. This presentation draws on two of Canada most famous exports in a thought exercise designed to inspire attendees to not only accept change but to leverage it as a disruptor.

11:00 - 13:00

Celebrate Latvia’s 100th Birthday with Hour of Code

Solve logic quizzes and join the interactive journey through Latvia’s 100 years of history. While learning the basics of coding you will meet most prominent Latvian personalities, visit significant places and take part in the Song and Dance Festival! It’s a journey not to miss!

Language: Latvian

13:30

The Future of Work Is Creative

  • Elina Ingelande, Co-founder, LearnIT

There are no doubts anymore – technology is going to replace people at the workplace. And the first ones will be those jobs that require constant routine, robotic tasks and repetition. Nevertheless there are skills that separate humans from machines and are harder to automate. Imagination, creativity and emotions are at the top of them.

14:00 - 18:00

Invent your smart accessory

Combine handcrafts with the magic of coding and design your own interactive wearable! You will use small micro:bits microcomputer and write the code for step counter, interactive badge, personalized watch or invention of your own.

Language: Latvian, Russian and English

14:00 - 18:00

Create festive electronic greeting cards

Come and have fun designing your own blinking greeting card! You will learn to draw the electric circuit with conductive paint, add LED lights and make it glow. What a unique present for any occasion!

Language: Latvian, Russian and English

Other events

11 OCTOBER

14:00 – 17:00  H2020 Brokerage Event: Find new business and research partners. Information and registration here.

19:30   Networking reception with EIT Digital and Startup Wise Guys: This is an invitation-only event.

 

12 OCTOBER

10:00 – 18:00   ALSO University seminars:  Latest ICT products and services from ALSO Latvia

Speakers 2018

Citadele Fintech Stage

Mārtiņš Bērziņš

Head of E-Business Division Citadele Bank
Citadele Fintech Stage

Liza Aizupiete

Managing Director Fintelum
Executive Stage

Jaakko Antikainen

Sales & Business Development Director Lindström
Executive Stage

Sohvi Rajamäki

Country General Manager Baltics ‎Schneider Electric
Executive Stage

Konrad Napieralski

Director Industry Solutions, Power & Utilities Microsoft CEE
Executive Stage

Kaspars Iesalnieks

IT Advisory Manager KPMG Baltics
Citadele Fintech Stage

Sanda Liepiņa

CEO Finance Latvia Association
Executive Stage

Kushtrim Xhakli

CEO/Co-Founder Connected Baltics
Citadele Fintech Stage

Andrius Bičeika

Head of Business Development Revolut
Citadele Fintech Stage

Deniss Fiļipovs

Head of Payment Systems Policy division Latvijas Banka
Digital Marketing Stage

Filip Lysikowski

Head of Marketing MaxTraffic
Citadele Fintech Stage

Lucas Kwiatkowski

CEO Fully Verified
Citadele Fintech Stage

Kristaps Banga

Innovation Lead Accenture Latvia
Future Stage

Kaspars Kauliņš

International Business Development Director Tilde
Executive Stage

Oliver Goh

Founder Iamus
Cognizant Future of Work Stage

Morten Hansen

Head of the Economics Department Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
Executive Stage

Glebs Kiselovs

Managing Director ELKO EP Baltic
Future Stage

Markus Lippus

Co-founder Mindtitan
Future Stage

Leons Mednis

Main Analytics Solution Expert PEDAB Latvia
Citadele Fintech Stage

Edgars Pastars

Legal Counsel Finance Latvia Association
Citadele Fintech Stage

Sigita Kotlere

Head of Retail Client Servicing BlueOrange
ALSO Productivity Stage

Kaspars Cveiģelis

Owner Produktivs.lv
Citadele Fintech Stage

Laima Letiņa

Deputy Head of the Legal Department The Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia
Citadele Fintech Stage

Jānis Skrastiņš

Chairman Latvian Sworn Notaries Council
Digital Marketing Stage

Tomas Riauka

Senior Platform Solutions Specialist Adform
Future Stage

Sandis Kondrāts

CEO Anatomy Next
Cognizant Future of Work Stage

Monika Simaškaitė

Education manager and expert CodeAcademy
Executive Stage

Oskars Priede

CEO EHO Technologies
Executive Stage

Kaspars Vendelis

Co-Founder Biohacking.lv
ALSO Productivity Stage

Ilona Kalniņa

Customer Success Manager CakeHR
Digital Marketing Stage

Aleksandrs Čakste

VP Europe and Partner Massfluencer
ALSO Productivity Stage

Vladimir Jelov

Regional manager - Baltics Begin.ee
Executive Stage

Matīss Zemītis

Product specialist Volkswagen
Executive Stage

Viesturs Šeļmanovs-Plešs

CEO Mazzy
Citadele Fintech Stage

Krišjānis Daugulis

CEO FinanceFlow.eu
Citadele Fintech Stage

Agris Āboms

Account manager & Team leader of Latvian branch Admiral Markets
Citadele Fintech Stage

Andrew Naydyonock

Head Of Engineering, Product Development Bilderlings Pay
Executive Stage

Toms Rekšņa

Business Development Manager Aranet
ALSO Productivity Stage

Kaspars Ginters

Sales Manager Baltics Zalaris
ALSO Productivity Stage

Ilze Čerevko

Financial Analyst Dižozols Plus
Executive Stage

Alexey Petrov

CIO Bitfury
Digital Marketing Stage

Jamie Brighton

Strategic Marketing Manager Adobe
Executive Stage

Marcin Fryzik

Territory Manager for Baltics and Poland VEEAM
Digital Marketing Stage

Katrīne Pļaviņa

Senior Associate Vilgerts
Digital Marketing Stage

Rolands Ozoliņš

International Business Development Consultant IBD Consulting
Citadele Fintech Stage

Igor Sakulin

CTO European Crypto Mining Association
Executive Stage

Nikos Laleas

Senior Security Consultant NCC Group
Digital Marketing Stage

Aigars Lazdāns

CEO Latvijas Tālrunis
Citadele Fintech Stage

Dmitry Litkin

CRO European Crypto Mining Association
Digital Marketing Stage

Edijs Tanons

Solutions Executive Datakom
Digital Marketing Stage

Andrius Kontrimavičius

Partner Digitouch!
Executive Stage

Sergiu Costin

Territory sales manager, South East Europe & Baltics Commvault
Executive Stage

Timo Lonka

Country Manager Finland & Baltics Extreme Networks
Executive Stage

Tom Christensen

CTO EMEA Hitachi Vantara
Digital Marketing Stage

Dana Icikzone

Solutions Consultant Adobe
Executive Stage

Dmitrijs Šarafutdinovs

CEO Proact IT Latvia
Digital Marketing Stage

Juha Sallinen

CEO & Founder GDPR Tech
Digital Marketing Stage

Jānis Lielmanis

Product Development Manager Latvijas Tālrunis
ALSO Productivity Stage Future Stage

Aldis Erglis

Manager & Moderator Riga AI, Machine Learning and Bots
Digital Marketing Stage

Sergejs Volvenkins

Head of Digital Department iMarketing Group
Digital Marketing Stage

Gundars Grāpis

PPC Ads Specialist Top Media
Digital Marketing Stage

Līga Strazdiņa

Digital Marketing Strategist Triple20
Digital Marketing Stage

Jānis Birģelis

Google Analytics Specialist Infinitum 8
Digital Marketing Stage

Kristiāns Patmalnieks

Digital Marketing Strategist Infinitum 8
Digital Marketing Stage

Irbe Zolneroviča

Head of Digital Advertising Unit Infinitum 8