On April 28, AmChams in Latvia and Bulgaria in partnership with Digital Poland and Google hosted a Three Seas Initiative (3SI) Digital Conference in advance of the upcoming 3SI Summit in Riga. Experts outlined several important issues such as the significance and urgency of the digital transformation, the necessity to establish a coordinating institution of the 3SI as well as the opportunity to build strategic partnerships to integrate the Central and Eastern European region in the global market. To revisit the conference!

On April 20, we enjoyed the first speaker luncheon of 2022 with Kaspars Rozkalns, Director of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia who spoke on sustainable innovations, investment results of 2021 and the U.S. investments in Latvia.  He also touched upon the recent events including Spotlight Latvia and Trade Mission to San Francisco and Los Angeles, launch of the LIAA representative office in Boston and Toronto and upcoming 3SI Business Forum. Fredis Bikovs, new Managing Director of Riga Investment and Tourism Agency joined the Q&A session to take members' questions.

On April 6, members had a unique opportunity to enjoy the AmCham Spring Social. The program included the introduction of new members: Anita Gaile Consulting, Belconsult, IQVIA, Kyndryl Latvia, Orients Audit & Finance, Superia and TV3 Group Latvia. Special appreciation was expressed to Corporate Contributing members. The evening was filled with networking, delicious food and wine.

On April 4, Healthcare work group members discussed three ongoing healthcare projects: Secondary data framework, Value based healthcare approach and sustainable healthcare funding. In addition, members touched upon the recent  meeting with a group of experts from the EU Technical support project “Improving cancer care coordination and screening in Latvia and Slovakia".

On April 3, the Latvian American Chamber of Commerce and Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) organized a special LIAA representative office opening event in Boston. Reinis Nikolajs Sīpols will be heading the new office. The office was opened by Janis Vitenbergs, Minister of Economy and Kaspars Rozkalns, LIAA Director. On April 5, LIAA opened another representative office in North America, based in Toronto, Canada.