Dynatech becomes a Corporate member

Please welcome our new Corporate member, an information technology company DYNATECH to the Chamber. Founded in 2013, DYNATECH has been creating flexible, innovative and efficient IT solutions

AmCham in cooperation with the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Latvian American Chamber of Commerce held the 7th Seminar in Gateway to the USA program exploring the topics of Healthy living, Food and Technologies. Watch the video below!

Welcome volunteer organization Bezvests.lv

Bezvests.lv, the only volunteer organization providing missing persons search in Latvia territory since 2009, has joined the Chamber as a Non-Profit member. They have found 108 persons in 800 search operations.

With over 75 participants our 26th Annual General Meeting was a great success. Members met to review the past year’s activities and elect the Board of Directors, which now consists of: Zinta Jansons, Partner at Ellex Klavins; Roberts Melbardis, Country Manager, Operations Director of Encompass Digital Media; Pauls Miklasevics, Individual member and Ieva Racenaja, Director of Riga Graduate School of Law. We would like to thank our previous President Arnis Kakulis and Vice President Janis Meija for their service and wish them best of luck in their future endeavors!

AmCham members had a unique opportunity to meet FBI special agents for an exclusive seminar exlporing the topic of cyber security. The workshop was very insightful and practical from exploring challenges brought by insider threats to case studies about high-tech organized crime, e-mail compromise scams, money laundering and financial frauds. As a result of the workshop, Overseas Security Advisary Council will be launched in Latvia in order to provide a forum for effective communication between the U.S. Embassy and the private sector.

News from FICIL: New Board and Executive Director

FICIL elected a new Executive Board on March 19: Julia Sundberg, Fortum; Ints Krasts, SEB; Baiba Apine, PwC and Arnis Sauka, SSE Riga. 4 Board members will continue their work as part of the FICIL Executive Board - Maris Gruznins, Cemex; Gunta Jekabsone, Circle K Latvia; Ingrida Karina-Berzina, AmCham and Baiba Zuzena, All Media Latvia. In addition, FICIL introduced the New Executive Director - Mārtiņš Panke who will take on the role as of April 1.

AmCham members met to discuss the improvements required in the Healthcare system of Latvia, including promoting efficiency, transparency and digitalization. The next meeting is scheduled for April 26. Please contact the AmCham office if you would like to participate in this work group!

Anatomy Next won the Latvian-American Innovation Award 2019 for their virtual reality training system Trauma Simulator that allows medical students to practice and improve their performance in emergency situations. Functional structure of textile, containing metamaterial created by Dr.sc.ing. Inga Lasenko, was announced as a runner-up. The winner received 10,000 Euro and the runner-up 5,000 Euro and a custom made award. Honorable mentions were presented to mindful communication app Asya and Virutal OP Hub.

Ieva Jaunzeme, the new Head of State Revenue Service (SRS) shared her ambitious plans for the future strategic development of SRS that include digitalization and improvement of Latvia's tax system in order to tackle shadow economy.

Novartis joins membership

Novartis, a leading global medicines company, has joined the Chamber in February. Novartis uses innovative science and digital technologies to create transformative treatments in areas of great medical need. In their quest to find new medicines, they consistently rank among the world's top companies investing in research and development. We warmly welcome Novartis to AmCham!