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LDS Country Workshop in Latvia

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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

  1. 22 May 2026, 09:00 - 09:30 (EEST)
    Registration & Coffee
  2. 09:30 - 09:35 (EEST)
    Intro & Agenda

    Normunds Grūzītis, LUMII

  3. 09:35 - 09:45 (EEST)
    Opening & National highlights

    Gatis Ozols, VARAM

  4. 09:45 - 10:15 (EEST)
    The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space

    Annika Antikainen, EC (online)

  5. 10:15 - 10:30 (EEST)
    The Alliance for Language Technologies

    Edouard Geoffrois, ALT-EDIC (online)

  6. 10:30 - 11:00 (EEST)
    European Language Data Space: Building the market for language data to power AI in Europe

    Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde/LDS

  7. 11:00 - 11:30 (EEST)
    Coffee & Networking
  8. 11:30 - 11:45 (EEST)
    Regulatory sandbox as a driver of AI innovation

    Guna Puce, MIC

  9. 11:45 - 12:45 (EEST)
    Language data and technology in Latvia and for Latvian – panel

    Intro & moderator: Normunds Grūzītis, LUMII

    Jānis Ziediņš, KISC

    Gatis Ozols, VARAM

    Guna Puce, MIC

    Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde/LDS

  10. 12:45 - 13:30 (EEST)
    Lunch & networking
  11. 13:30 - 13:45 (EEST)
    TildeOpen: From data collection to a multilingual European LLM

    Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Tilde

  12. 13:45 - 14:45 (EEST)
    Language data production, management, market development – panel

    Intro & moderator: Kaspars Kauliņš, Tilde

    Eduards Skvireckis, LNB

    Filips Lastovskis, Delfi

    Inguna Skadiņa, CLARIN-LV

    Artūrs Vasiļevskis, Tilde

  13. 14:45 - 15:00 (EEST)
    Conclusion

    Normunds Grūzītis, LUMII & Gatis Ozols, VARAM & Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde/LDS

  15. 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

Description

Latvia Country Workshop
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