The recent Meet AmCham event offered both education and networking opportunity for members. In addition to the presentation on how to get the most value out of membership, new members had a chance to make marketing pitches to those in attendance. There was a structured networking session that encouraged members to exchange business cards and propose ways how to cooperate with each other.

AmCham held its next Healthcare working group meeting to discuss next steps regarding implementing its vision on Latvian healthcare and certain pilot projects. The focus is on the project exploring implementation of an oncology data registry that would collect and analyse real-world data. The group is also looking at organizing a conference on healthcare data next year.

More than 40 participants joined a breakfast meeting with Jeremy Gilbert, Director of Strategic Initiatives at The Washington Post to learn more on the power of storytelling in news and other organizations as well as about Big Tech platforms like Arc Publishing and Zeus Prime.

Our Corporate Contributing members had an exclusive opportunity to meet President Levits to hear his vision on the future of Latvia. The President engaged in an open dialogue with members on necessary reforms in the court system, education, healthcare and tax system. The meeting was held in the Thought Leaders Series, a program aiming to exchange views on issues critical for members' businesses and on improving the overall business climate.

The Labor Force work group met on October 18 at Microsoft Latvia office to discuss further development of labor force issues: integration of international talents in Latvia, Outlook on labor issues and suggestions for the National Development Plan.