Alumni Discussion Club Event with Rihards Garancs: Digital Transformation - what it means for the companies & how to make it successful

Digital Transformation (DT) is disrupting business landscape. How to ensure that your company thrives under this disruption? How to predict impending disruption and how business can change its strategies amidst DT?

This changing environment also impacts how companies work internally, on the surface it promises vast potential and improvements, yet there are significant challenges that are usually left unaddressed which lead to project failure. What actions and strategies should company take to ensure success?

Rihards Garancs is the Director of Artificial Intelligence & Data Analysis Course at SSE Riga (also a graduate of the Class of 2012). His area of expertise includes database development, data visualization, data and financial reporting automation, efficiency improvement. Rihards runs a consulting company that develops Business Intelligence solutions. His focus is to help companies advance in business analytics using the latest digital tools. Rihards has worked for the clients in the Food & Beverage, Telecommunications & Digital, Media and Manufacturing industry. He complements his knowledge by attaining a double degree MBA in HEC Paris and National University of Singapore and Data Science certification in Paris.