🇱🇻 Tech Events in Latvia

📅 Date: 13th of May 2026
📍 Location: Riga Business School, Ķīpsalas str. 6, Riga, LV-1048

****This is an offline event with limited space. Please RSVP only if you will be able to attend in person.****

We’re thrilled to announce the 5th event of the relaunched ProductTank Riga community, bringing together product people for an evening of inspiration, learning, and networking in the heart of Riga.

Our Speaker:
Mike Norton
CEO and Founder @Wolven Industries

Join us at the amazing new venue - Riga Business School - as we continue growing this vibrant community dedicated to sharing knowledge and experiences in the world of product design, management and development.

The session is relevant for people and companies who want to be inspired by the story of Mike - an American founder with a military background, who has transitioned from self-taught scientist to deeptech product builder for the security ad defence sectors, and will talk about what changes when ideas are forced to survive real-world constraints and why he has decided to manufacture in Latvia.

Agenda

18:30 - Doors open, registration
19:00 - Intro by ProductTank organizers
19:05 - Word from our sponsors - RTU
19:10 - Mike Norton - From Self-Made Scientist to Product Builder
19:40 - Q&A with Mike
19:50 - Closing remarks by ProductTank
20:00 - Networking with refreshments
20:30 - Event ends

What is ProductTank?
ProductTank Riga is part of a largest global product management community present in over 200 cities worldwide, dedicated to fostering knowledge-sharing and collaboration in product development.
Whether you’re a seasoned product manager, product designer, an aspiring entrepreneur, or someone passionate about technology and innovation, this event is for you!

Registration details:
****This is an offline event with limited space. Please RSVP only if you will be able to attend in person.****

• Attendance is free, but registration is required on our Meetup page
• Don’t delay your registration and ensure you can participate on the date.
• The official program starts at 19:00, so please arrive a bit early for registration.
• A mandatory check-in process will take place at the entrance, so we recommend arriving a bit earlier.
• To keep up-to-date with our upcoming talks, follow our LinkedIn and Facebook pages.

By attending this event, you agree to give permission for any photos and videos taken during the event to be used for promotional purposes.

Let’s kick-start the next chapter of ProductTank Riga together!
If you have any suggestions, topics you’d like us to cover, or if you would like to become a speaker, or feel free to message us on LinkedIn or fill out this form.

Open Coffee Riga is a friendly informal networking event for entrepreneurs, professionals, locals, guests, people in the startup community, and students in Riga.

Open Coffee Riga is an “un-meeting” without a speaker or agenda. We are focused on attendees gaining value from other attendees. The rules, tools, structure and moderation aim to facilitate this goal.

You may find a mentor, investor, client, co founder, employer, vendor, inspiration or a friend.

What is the BIG idea behind Open Coffee? We want to help people create valuable & meaningful connections. Everyone is welcome to our meetings, and we especially love first-timers. We want to make sure that if somebody coming from an unsupportive background/country has the courage to join, they will notice that we are glad they came because we welcome them. If you feel shy, you can also just listen but we encourage you to talk.
We start at 19:00 sharp. Everybody gets up to 2 minutes to present:

1. Who they are and what they are doing
2. What they want
3. How they can help others

At 20:00 sharp we stop hosting and you can talk to people who are most interesting to you.

We are focused on business and social entrepreneurs, community builders, game-changers, earth-shakers and anyone else who is doing something interesting or wants to get involved in other people's projects. You can talk about any project/topic.

This event is based on the Open Coffee Krakow format, run by Richard Lucas and others in Krakow, Poland since 2012. The Open Coffee Riga is a revival of the Open Coffee Riga from 2011 (!) where it evolved into TechHub Riga & that evolved into StartupHouse Riga.

If you are interested in knowing more about the Open Coffee format, take a look at our video for potential leaders here. Open Coffee format events are organised world-wide in Krakow, Lisbon, Porto, Tokyo, Sydney & many more places.

Call for Position Papers
21st Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems
FedCSIS 2026 (IEEE #69809; indexing: DBLP, SCOPUS, Web of Science; www.fedcsis.org)

Riga, Latvia, August 23-26, 2026 (on-site/in person)
Strict submission deadline (for position papers): May 19, 2026, 23:59:59 AoE (no extensions)

Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested.
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The 21st Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS 2026) invites submissions of position papers. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages (minimum 4 pages) and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Position papers may be also submitted as demo papers and presented as demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version.
We invite two types of position papers:

• Emerging research papers, which present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem.
• Challenge papers propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of computer science and intelligence systems. The papers in this category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems and should be defining new promising research directions.
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  Topical areas and technical sessions:
  Main Track:
  * Topical Area 1: Advanced Artificial Intelligence Approaches
  * Topical Area 2: Intelligent Data Processing and Infrastructure
  * Topical Area 3: Security of AI and AI for Security
  * Topical Area 4: Intelligence Technologies for Business and Society
  * Topical Area 5: Intelligent Software, System, and Service Engineering

Thematic Sessions (listed in alphabetic order):
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* AgriAI - AI in Agriculture
* AI-HuSo - AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research
* AIWAVOM - AI for Inland Water, Atmospheric Environments, and Ocean Modelling
* APL - Advances in Programming Languages
* CANA - Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms
* CNLPS - Challenges for Natural Language Processing
* CO - Computational Optimization
* DSH - Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce
* EDUC-AI-TION - Education & AI systems
* IoT-ECAW - Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications
* ISM - Information Systems Management
* MDASD - Model Driven Approaches in System Development
* MMAP - Multimedia Applications and Processing
* NEMESIS - International Forum on Cyber Security, Privacy, and Trust
* SCA - Agentic AI in Smart Cities
* SLSAS - Self Learning and Self Adaptive Systems
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Industrial Track
The Industrial Track offers companies and professionals the opportunity to share real-world experiences, case studies, and practical applications of intelligent systems and AI-based solutions. We welcome presentations (or posters) that showcase successful implementations, challenges faced in industry, or open problems where academic collaboration could be valuable. For more details, consult the conference WWW site and/or contact conference organizers (see, below).

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  Keynote Speakers:

• Ginter, Filip, University of Turku, Finland and ELLIS Institute Finland, Espoo, Finland, Keynote title: The Challenges of Tracing Meaning at Scale across Multilingual Historical Texts

• Pechenizkiy, Mykola, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, Keynote title: To be announced

• Prodan, Radu, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Keynote title: To be announced

• Sabou, Marta, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria, Keynote title: To be announced

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  Professor Zdzislaw Pawlak Awards:
  * Best Paper Award (600 Euro): the best out of all papers accepted to the conference.
  * Young Researcher Award (400 Euro): the best out of papers whereby all authors are younger than 40 years.
  * Industry Cooperation Award (400 Euro): the best out of papers whereby there are at least two different authors, one working in academia and another one in industry.
  * International Cooperation Award (400 Euro): the best out of papers whereby there are at least two different authors working in institutions located in two different countries.

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  Position paper submission and publication

• Papers should be submitted by May, 19, 2026 (strict deadline, no extensions, submission will be done via EasyChair).

• Position papers will be published as a Volume of the Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems series, with an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. The papers will be submitted for indexing to DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar. The Annals-CSIS volume will NOT be placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. However, we will attempt to index them in Scopus.

• Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that are out of the conference scope of the selected event, or that contain any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program.

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  Important dates
  * Position paper submission: 19.05.2026
  * Author notification: 16.06.2026
  * Final paper submission, registration: 30.06.2026
  * Early registration discount: 20.07.2026
  * Conference date: 23-26.08.2026

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  Chair of FedCSIS 2026:
  Nikiforova, Oksana
  Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
  Honorary Chair of FedCSIS Conference Series:
  Maciaszek, Leszek A.
  Macquarie University, Australia
  Chairs of the FedCSIS Conference Series:
  Bolanowski, Marek
  Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland
  Ganzha, Maria
  Warsaw University of Technology and Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  Paprzycki, Marcin
  Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, and University of Technology and Arts in Warsaw, Poland
  Slezak, Dominik
  QUEDEX Software and University of Warsaw, Poland
  Industrial Track Chair
  Babris, Kristaps
  Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

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  Contact:
  secretariat@fedcsis.org

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  FedCSIS in social media
  - FedCSIS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/367888070292
  - FedCSIS on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5049184
  - FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS

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  FedCSIS is an annual international conference. It is organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Rzeszow University of Technology, University of Technology and Arts, Warsaw, Poland. The FedCSIS 2026 is organized in Riga by the Riga Technical University.
  FedCSIS 2026 is technically sponsored by a large number of IEEE units (including six Sections from Region 8) and other professional organizations (for the full list, see the conference site – right hand side).
  FedCSIS 2026 is organized under patronage of: Poland Chapter of INFORMS, Latvian Information and communications technology association (LIKTA), Natinal Society of Informatics in Economics (NtiE), International Rough Set Society (IRSS), Academic Forum, Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), Polish Neural Network Society (PNNS), European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), and Polish Artificial Intelligence Society (PSSI).
  Reports from past editions of FedCSIS can be found in the Archive section of the conference WWW site.

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  Statement concerning Generative AI:
  Recognizing the developing issue that affects all academic disciplines (including conference and publications), we would like to explicitly state that, in principle, papers that include unedited text generated from Generative AI (GenAI), including large language models, are prohibited.
  If the author(s) uses GenAIs to prepare technical aspects of the research (e.g., use of GenAI-generated program code in experiments or simulations), this fact must be clearly marked in the paper, along with an analysis of the impact of this approach on the research results.
  In addition, it is permissible to use GenAI models at the stage of editorial correction, as long as the changes made are minor and do not substantively affect the article.
  If, at any time after the conference, it will be discovered that an LLM was explicilty used (and not properly recognized) such contribution will be retracted from the post-conference publication.
  Overall, it should be emphasized that full responsibility for the content of the publication lies with the author(s). Therefore, any inappropriate, or unethical, use of GenAI models in the preparation of an article may result in its immediate rejection.

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Riga:

• Date: May 28, 2026
• Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (2 hours; max 12:30 PM)
• Location: Office complex Verde, conference room BITE; Roberta Hirša iela 1, Riga (2nd floor).
• Language: English.
• Lecturers: Simas Baranauskas, System Architect, The Infotrust
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