Latvian Investment and Development Agency, Helve and Latvian Exporters Association “The Red Jackets” invites exporting enterprises and other interested parties to participate in the Export Forum “Born Global 2022”. The main objective of the forum is to identify the key challenges that currently hinder faster development of exports, promote closer co-operation among Latvian exporters, as well as government and public institutions, and other influential stakeholders to address the most pressing current industry obstacles.
Export forum will take place on April 20 in “Grand Poet Hotel”, Riga. Forum will also be streamed live on Facebook and TVNET. All discussions will be held in Latvian language, except for the last discussion on Infrastructure.
To participate in the forum, please register through the link: https://ej.uz/exportforum
To connect to the forum remotely, live stream will be ensured through TVNET and forum Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1S1U4UEYG
At the end of the forum, the Born Global Sustainability Hackathon will be presented to the enterprises, which aims to address the current sustainability challenges of exporting and other enterprises. Exporting companies with a sustainability challenge will be invited to submit their most pressing sustainability challenges. To learn more, please visit Born Global webpage: https://www.bornglobalhack.eu/
Programme
10:00-10:10 Forum opening
KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS:
Līva Stūrmane, Managing Director of the Latvian Exporters Association "The Red Jackets"
Krišjānis Kariņš, Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia
Jānis Vitenbergs, Minister for Economics of the Republic of Latvia
10:10-10:30 Presentation by Mārtiņš Tiknuss, Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Exporters Association "The Red Jackets"
10:30-11:30 Discussion #1 “Business environment” | Moderated by Mārtiņš Tiknuss, Chairman of the Board at the Latvian Exporters Association “The Red Jackets”
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Kaspars Rožkalns, Director of the Latvian Investment and Development Agency
Toms Auškāps, Board Member at Balticovo
Daiga Kiopa, Member of the Board at Lursoft
Andžejs Stenclavs, Founder and director of Kinetics Nail Systems
Ingmārs Pūķis, Member of the Board at LMT
11:30-12:30 Discussion #2 “Human Capital” | Moderated by Pārsla Baško, Partner at ERDA
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Jānis Palkavnieks, Draugiem Group Spokesman
Agrita Kiopa, Vice-Rector for Science at RSU
Anita Muižniece, Minister for Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia
Jānis Hermanis, Finances and taxes expert at LDDK
Aleksandrs Hiļevojs, Chief Development Officer at Kronus
12:30-13:30 Discussion #3 “Access to Finance” | Moderated by Mārtiņš Āboliņš, Economist at Citadele bank
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Kārlis Vilerts, Head of Research Department at Latvijas Banka
Juris Grišins, Manager at Capitalia
Reinis Bērziņš, Chairman of the Management Board at ALTUM
Ivans Dokicans, Chairperson of the Board at Mogotel Development Holding
Raimonds Lapiņš, Deputy State Secretary on Economic Issues
13:30 - 14:00 Coffee and networking
14:00-15:00 Discussion #4 “Innovation” | Moderated by Līva Pērkone, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Helve
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Ilmārs Osmanis, Chairman of the Board at LightSpace Labs
Heino Lapiņš, Sales Director at HKSCAN Latvia
Laura Očagova, Deputy Director in charge of investment at LIAA
Normunds Bergs, CEO of SAF Tehnika
Lotte Tisenkopfa-Iltnere, Founder and co-owner of Madara
15:00-16:00 Discussion #5 “Infrastructure” (in English) | Moderated by Jānis Ošlejs, Founder and owner of Primekss
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Andris Bite, Co-Owner and Board Member at Karavela
Viktors Grūtups, Owner of Rāmkalni Nordeco
Žygimantas Surintas, Board Member and CEO of Smartlynx Airlines
Ilze Lore, Head of Entrepreneurship Competitiveness Department at Ministry of Economics
16:00-16:30 Līva Pērkone presents sustainability hackathon “Born Global”