BAICA runs free events for people working in commerce across the Baltics — retailers, brand teams, developers and students. Every event is practical, vendor-neutral and open to anyone. No sales pitches, no paid tickets.
Page updated: 11 August 2026
Dates below are indicative until confirmed. Exact dates, venues and registration links are published here and sent to newsletter subscribers first. All online events are free and recorded.
A hands-on working session for small and mid-sized commerce businesses. We go through our four Knowledge Hub guides live — vendor evaluation, customer data, the EU AI Act checklist and the first 90 days of adoption. You leave with a readiness checklist filled in for your own business, not a slide deck.
Our second in-person meetup moves outside Latvia, because BAICA is a Baltic association and not a Riga one. Same format as the first: practitioner-led sessions and small-group work, with a commerce business walking through what they tried, what it cost and what actually happened. City, date and venue are announced here once confirmed.
Career-oriented introductions to AI in commerce, run with universities and student groups in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, plus routes into volunteering on BAICA's research and events work. We are in active outreach to set these up.
Upcoming dates are confirmed a few weeks ahead. Leave your details, say in the message which format interests you, and we will send the date and registration link before it goes public. Free, and you can withdraw at any time.
What we have already run, with the agenda as it was delivered. Slides and notes from past sessions are shared with attendees and, where the speakers agree, published in the Knowledge Hub.
A working day for senior leadership on turning broad AI ambitions into one defined, buildable use case. Participants brought a real business problem and left with a use case, the data and process requirements behind it, and an implementation sequence. Hosted with scandiweb, whose team has implemented AI in digital commerce for large international retailers and publishers.
| Segment | What the room worked through |
|---|---|
| Framing | Where AI is genuinely load-bearing in a commerce business today, and where it is still a demo |
| Mapping | Each participant mapped their own candidate use cases across commerce, internal workflows, customer service, data analysis and decision-making |
| Selection | Narrowing to one use case per organisation, chosen on measurability rather than ambition |
| Requirements | The data and process prerequisites that use case actually needs before anything is built |
| Roadmap | An implementation sequence and the next concrete step, including what a 1–2 day proof of concept would cover |
Every participant left with a defined use case, an implementation roadmap, its data and process requirements, and a next step — with the option of a proof of concept inside one to two days. Read the recap.
Our first in-person meetup, bringing together people already putting AI to work in Baltic commerce: a working session on applied AI, a group problem-solving activity, and time to compare notes with peers facing the same decisions. Open to anyone, with no technical background required, and run in English.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 10:00–10:30 | Arrivals, coffee, introductions and networking |
| 10:30–12:00 | The PATH framework and applied AI in commerce — how AI is being deployed in production today |
| 12:00–13:00 | Break: snacks and drinks on the terrace |
| 13:00–14:30 | Group activity: small groups work through a real problem or goal from their own business, then rejoin the room to share findings |
| 14:30–15:00 | Wrap-up: next steps and how a lightweight 1–2 day proof of concept works |
Announced on 15 July 2026 — read the announcement.
New events, dates and registration links go to newsletter subscribers first — then to this page. Roughly monthly. Event announcements, new guides and research updates. Nothing else.
Every BAICA event is free, vendor-neutral and open to anyone working in or around Baltic commerce. No membership required.
