On February 24, AmCham hosted an online discussion in the Thought Leaders Series for Corporate Contributing members focusing on leadership lessons ensuring business continuity. Leaders from across various industries: Reinis Rubenis of Swedbank, Dace Silava-Tomsone of COBALT, Rima Valentukeviciene of IBM Baltics and Rauls Velins of Roche  shared best practices for navigating through the current crisis. The conversation was moderated by Ieva Racenaja, Director of Riga Graduate School of Law and AmCham Vice President.

Over 70 members joined the online meeting with the Mayor of Riga who presented his vision on reshaping the capital into a better governed, greener, more sustainable and connected city offering the best quality of life. Mayor Stakis outlined his priorities: identifying corruption risks, ensuring good governance, improving traffic and housing infrastructure.

Our latest webinar in Connect with AmCham series organized in cooperation with our member Sorainen focused on the tax update for 2021 including such issues as share options, recent amendments concerning the personal income tax and social insurance contributions as well as changes related to VAT on e-commerce. Topics were covered by three experts from Sorainen: Janis Taukacs, Partner, Dace Everte, Senior Associate and Aina Oksenuka, Associate.

On the 18th of February, our sister organization AmCham Estonia together with the EU Commission Representation in Estonia invited AmCham Latvia members to join an interactive forum with the top policy-makers and business experts, who addressed the topics of Responsible AI from many different angles.