Director of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA), Ieva Jāgere:
“This conference demonstrates that Latvia is becoming an important meeting place for the deep-tech community in the Baltics and the Nordic region, bringing together talent, science, entrepreneurship, and global ambitions. This field requires patience, the ability to work in conditions of uncertainty, and often the capacity to develop ideas with very limited funding. Therefore, it is especially inspiring to see an increasing number of young entrepreneurs and researchers consciously choosing this path and creating technologies and solutions with global potential. It is courage, knowledge, and perseverance that shape the next generation of technology companies.”
Founder and CEO of the Swiss health technology innovation platform HealthSeed AG, Daren Wilson:
“Deep Tech Atelier is becoming one of Europe’s leading platforms where innovators in health technology, medical technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology come together. We are seeing an increasing number of top-tier talents from the Baltic states, Poland, and other European countries, and the conference’s importance within Europe’s health innovation ecosystem continues to grow rapidly.”
The importance of the conference for business development is also highlighted by Aleksandrs Parfinovičs, Co-founder and CEO of the Latvian company Naco Technologies:
“Deep Tech Atelier 2026 was a highly valuable event for us, both from a business development perspective and within the broader industry ecosystem. During the conference, we met with several potential investors and key industry partners from across the Baltic region. I would also like to highlight the high standard of the Startup Pitch Competition, which featured strong and technologically mature companies from various countries and sectors. It is a great honor for the Naco Technologies team to have been recognized as the winner of the Cross-sector category in such a competition.”
