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LDS Country Workshop in Latvia

22 May, 2026
9:00 - 15:00 (EEST)
Rīga, Latvia

The European Language Data Space is bringing together experts from the Latvian Industry, Public Administration and Research to discuss the importance of language data for the development of Language Technologies and AI-based tools in Latvia.

 

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  • digital single market | artificial intelligence | large language model | natural language processing
  • Friday 22 May 2026, 09:00 – 15:00 (EEST)
  • Rīga, Latvia

Programme

22 May 2026, 09:00 – 09:30 (EEST)
Registration & Coffee
09:30 – 09:35 (EEST)
Intro & Agenda

Normunds Grūzītis, LUMII

09:35 – 09:45 (EEST)
Opening & National highlights

Gatis Ozols, VARAM

09:45 – 10:15 (EEST)
The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space

Annika Antikainen, EC (online)

10:15 – 10:30 (EEST)
The Alliance for Language Technologies

Edouard Geoffrois, ALT-EDIC (online)

10:30 – 11:00 (EEST)
European Language Data Space: Building the market for language data to power AI in Europe

Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde/LDS

11:00 – 11:30 (EEST)
Coffee & Networking
11:30 – 11:45 (EEST)
Regulatory sandbox as a driver of AI innovation

Guna Puce, MIC

11:45 – 12:45 (EEST)
Language data and technology in Latvia and for Latvian – panel

Intro & moderator: Normunds Grūzītis, LUMII

Guna Puce, MIC

Jānis Ziediņš, KISC

Inguna Skadiņa, CLARIN-LV

Gatis Romanovskis, Animas

Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde/LDS

12:45 – 13:30 (EEST)
Lunch & networking
13:30 – 13:45 (EEST)
TildeOpen: From data collection to a multilingual European LLM

Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Tilde

13:45 – 14:45 (EEST)
Language data production, management, market development – panel

Intro & moderator: Kaspars Kauliņš, Tilde

Eduards Skvireckis, LNB

Filips Lastovskis, Delfi

Ivars Svilāns, LETA

Jānis Krakops, VARAM

Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Tilde/MILA

14:45 – 15:00 (EEST)
Conclusion

Normunds Grūzītis, LUMII & Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde/LDS

15:00 – 15:30 (EEST)

Coffee & Networking

Practical information

When
Friday 22 May 2026, 09:00 – 15:00 (EEST)
Where
VARAM
Peldu iela 25, Rīga, Latvia
Languages
Latvian, English
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