On 15 May 2025, the largest science-intensive industry event in the Baltics – the Deep Tech Atelier 2025 conference – took place in Riga. The event brought together scientists from leading research organisations, technology development experts, entrepreneurs, investors, as well as representatives from public administration and public organisations. The aim of the conference was to establish new collaborations and promote entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive industries.
The event was opened by the President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs, the Minister of Economics Viktors Valainis and the Director of LIAA Ieva Jāgere.
The President of Latvia’s speech can be heard here – https://www.president.lv/lv/jaunums/valsts-prezidenta-edgara-rinkevica-uzruna-deep-tech-atelier-2025-konferences-atklasana
EDI researcher Kristaps Greitāns and research assistant Vladislavs Medvedevs participated in the Deep Tech Atelier 2025 conference, presenting two technologies.
Kristaps Greitāns represented the EDI self-driving car. The EDI self-driving car (Autonomous Mobility) is an advanced autonomous vehicle platform based on the KIA Soul electric car and integrates the Autoware open source software suite to enable its use in real urban and suburban environments.
Kristaps Greitāns represented EDI Self-Driving Car – Autonomous Mobility solution. The EDI Self-Driving Car is a state-of-the-art autonomous vehicle platform based on the KIA Soul electric, integrating the Autoware open-source software stack for real-world urban and suburban deployment. It represents EDI’s cutting-edge capabilities in safe, intelligent, and efficient autonomous mobility. In this solution is integrated also comprehensive support for perception, behavior prediction, route planning, and vehicle control as well as Advanced Sensor Suite Equipped with LiDAR, cameras, GPS, IMU, and radar for robust 360° situational awareness. The wole system is running based on algorithms developed by scientists – object detection, Traffic sign classification, Traffic light classification.
Vladislavs Medvedevs explained to visitors Body-coupled communication (BCC) technology. It is a novel communication technology that uses the human body as a signal transmission medium. BCC has the potential to deliver more secure and energy-efficient communication for body area networks, as signal leakage and losses are smaller compared with conventional wireless technologies. The current demonstration system consists of two NVIDIA Jetsons driving software-defined radios, with one device acting as the receiver and the other as the transmitter. Each device has a separate power source to avoid a common ground. For demonstration purposes, a music file is transmitted on repeat.
More information about the conference – https://deeptechatelier.com/