On November 3, AmCham Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania held an exclusive online session addressing the U.S. Midterm Elections with returning guest presenter and White House Correspondent, Jon Decker. The event was moderated by Andreas Kaju, Co-founder and Managing Partner of META Advisory. Members of Pan-Baltic AmChams had an opportunity to hear Mr.Decker’s insights and forecasts on the outcomes of the Midterm elections and 2024 Elections.

On November 2, AmCham held the second event in the series dedicated to Value-Based Procurement with an aim to raise awareness of value-based procurement in Latvian hospitals. The event series is based on the VBHC White Paper AmCham released earlier this year. The event featured lectures by Hans Bax, Partner of European Alliance for Value in Health representing MedTech Europe, Karsten Kirkegaard from Southern Denmark's Strategic Procurement Department, Rodolphe Eurin, CEO of Geneva Hospital La Tour, and experts from several hospitals.

Our October luncheon with Sandis Jansons, CEO of Sadales tikls was devoted to the green electricity generation topic and options for businesses in Latvia. Mr. Jansons emphasized that the pace of development of microgeneration in Latvia is currently significantly higher than in Estonia. Currently, more than 10 000 micro-generators with a total electricity generation capacity of 81 MW have already been connected to the distribution system.

On October 20, around 30 members and guests joined our webinar in Connect with AmCham series this time devoted to the Latvian post-election scene to explore the implications of the 14th Saeima election. Experts who participated in the live discussion were Vladlens Kovaļevs of VA Government Rud Pedersen Group, Tomass Pildegovičs, Foreign policy expert and Anna Udre, Journalist, Media Analyst and Communications Specialist.

The Riga Business School team, represented by Justin Bancroft and Denis Gorshkov won the title of the Best Chili in Riga 2022 for La Cocina Colorado chili. The Riga Graduate School of Law team (Kriss Elerts and Alise Podniece) received the most votes from attendees and won the People's Choice Award for their Chili can Law.