On 14–15 May, Riga will host the eighth version of Deep Tech Atelier 2026 — the most important science- and technology-driven convention in Northern Europe. Over the years, the convention has develop into an necessary platform for attracting funding, commercialising innovation, and fostering the event of latest excessive value-added corporations in Latvia and throughout the area.
Organised by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA), the occasion will deliver collectively greater than 2,000 scientists, know-how entrepreneurs, startups, traders, and policymakers to strengthen the deep tech ecosystem and improve Latvia’s competitiveness in world markets.
Science-based applied sciences are amongst Latvia’s strategically necessary drivers of financial progress, highlighting the nation’s potential to develop into a major deep tech hub in Northern Europe. Such occasions contribute to the creation of latest corporations, the attraction of funding, and the event of excessive value-added exports — all important for Latvia’s long-term financial progress.
Ieva Jāgere, Director General of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA), states:
“Deep Tech Atelier is a platform that connects science with business and helps ideas grow into export-capable companies. LIAA’s goal is to strengthen Latvia’s competitiveness by attracting investment and fostering an innovation-driven business environment.”
This 12 months’s convention will deal with synthetic intelligence, knowledge applied sciences, defence and well being improvements, in addition to their sensible industrial purposes. Particular consideration may also be given to Latvia’s innovation potential in areas similar to robotics, house applied sciences, and safe digital programs.
A Platform for Investment and Collaboration
Over the course of two days, greater than 100 business consultants will take the stage throughout three convention tracks — Deep Tech, Deep Frontier, and Growth Stage. The programme will tackle each strategic questions associated to know-how growth and regulation, in addition to sensible examples of innovation implementation.
The convention programme will embrace:
– a Startup Pitch Competition,
– conferences between traders and corporations,
– an EXPO space that includes know-how demonstrations,
– networking and partnership-building occasions.
This 12 months, the startup competitors attracted 77 groups from Latvia, the United Kingdom, France, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, Hungary, Germany, and Sweden. Ten finalists will current their concepts to a world viewers of traders and business representatives, competing for funding alternatives and strategic partnerships.
Latvia’s Innovation Ecosystem and LIAA Support
LIAA implements Latvia’s nationwide coverage for funding attraction, innovation, and export promotion, strengthening the nation’s competitiveness in worldwide markets.
Latvia continues to develop a focused assist setting for startups and know-how corporations, together with:
– the Startup Support Law,
– a startup visa programme,
– assist mechanisms for attracting extremely certified specialists,
– innovation and analysis programmes,
– testing alternatives by means of a regulatory sandbox framework.
Latvia can be actively growing its synthetic intelligence and knowledge know-how ecosystem, selling the accountable and safe adoption of innovation in enterprise.
About the Conference
Organised by LIAA, Deep Tech Atelier 2026 goals to speed up the transformation of science-based improvements into export-capable merchandise and corporations, promote overseas funding attraction, and strengthen collaboration between analysis establishments, companies, and the general public sector.
Last 12 months, the convention attracted greater than 2,000 individuals from 62 international locations, demonstrating its rising significance throughout the worldwide innovation and funding ecosystem.
Deep Tech Atelier is carried out throughout the framework of the European Regional Development Fund co-financed initiatives “Support for Improving the Technology Transfer System” and “Innovative Entrepreneurship Development for SMEs”, in addition to with co-financing from the European Union Recovery Fund (NextGenerationEU).
More details about the convention: https://deeptechatelier.com/
About the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA)
LIAA promotes the competitiveness of Latvian corporations, export progress, and funding attraction, whereas additionally growing the tourism sector and implementing Latvia’s nationwide branding technique. The company acts as a strategic accomplice for enterprise growth — from thought to worldwide markets. Through an in depth community of worldwide consultant places of work and regional enterprise centres throughout Latvia, LIAA helps firm progress and positions Latvia as a secure, revolutionary, and open economic system throughout the world market.
