AI in the spotlight of Digital Week 2026 in Latvia

On March 17, the opening event of Digital Week 2026 will take place organized by the Latvian Information and Communication Technology Association (LIKTA) in cooperation with the partners of the Latvian Digital Skills Partnership.

We invite everyone interested to follow the live broadcast to jointly open Digital Week 2026, which will take place from March 16 to 20 and this year will be held in Latvia for the 17th time! Events throughout the week will focus on the development of digital skills, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and the role of technology in education and entrepreneurship.

• Raimonds Čudars, Minister of Smart Administration and Regional Development
• Signe Bāliņa, President of the Latvian Information and Communication Technology Association
• Jānis Paiders, State Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Science
• Ģirts Ozols, Chairman of the Board of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre
• Jānis Ziediņš, Deputy Director for Digital Development of the Centre for Cultural Information Systems

Register for the event!

The Digital Week 2026 is organised by LIKTA in cooperation with the Latvian Digital Skills Partnership organisations and general partners – the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC), the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development (VARAM), the Ministry of Education and Science (IZM) and the Culture Information Systems Centre (KISC). The Digital Week is part of the European ALL Digital Weeks.

9.55-12.00 First MI Day in Latvia

• Skills - the real currency in the AI ​​era", Agita Kalviņa, Director of the School of Public Administration
• "AI in public administration", Gatis Ozols, Deputy State Secretary for Digital Transformation at VARAM
• "A unified catalogue of AI, digital solutions and applications", Latvian IT Cluster/European Digital Innovation Centre representative
• "User experience in implementing AI in public administration. Conclusions of think tanks about ourselves", PhD. Mārtiņš Daugulis, social anthropologist
• "Between regulator and innovator: AI regulatory sandbox as a form of cooperation", Guna Puce, Director of the Latvian Artificial Intelligence Centre
• "MI Latvija.gov.lv: personalized and understandable public service experience", Egita Rudzīte, Acting Deputy Director of the State Digital Development Agency for e-Government

13.00 – 16.00 MI workshops

• AI Regulatory Sandbox
• AI in public administration: how to build AI agents and what information is safe to use AI
• Implementation of AI guidelines in public administrations
• Google AI connectivity with the public sector
• Create your own mobile app without programming

Register for the event!

The first AI Day in Latvia is organised by the State Digital Development Agency, the School of Public Administration and Riga TechGirls in cooperation with LIKTA and the regional partners of Digital Week in Cēsis, Jelgava, Daugavpils and Liepāja.

Participation in the first AI Day in Latvia conference and workshops is free of charge thanks to funding from the European Union Recovery Fund.

Artificial Intelligence Day agenda.

Anyone interested will be able to follow the live broadcast LIKTA Facebook.

More information on the Digital Week 2026 events can be found on the homepage of the Latvian Digital Skills Partnership, as well as through the hashtags #eprasmes25 and #ADWeeks2025.

The event is supported by the European Commission's Digital Europe programme by European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA) project 101195051 Champions for the Digital Decade (C4DD).