Course Instructors

Łukasz Świerczyński

Employment: Senior manager and lead consultant for organization transformation projects. Experienced and successful leader, mentor for several dozen people teams composed of system and business analysts, domain experts, senior IT architects.

Professional experience: Lead consultant for transformation programs with budget up to 1,5 billion EUR. Worked for Sybase, Oracle, Tibco, EY, PwC supporting customers world-wide. Trainer and lecturer since 2010.

Didzis Elferts

Occupation: R program enthusiast for more than 15 years, with experience teaching R to both university students and professionals in various organizations.

Professional experience: Data analysis and visualization, including participation in various scientific projects.

Inese Zariņa

Occupation: Artificial intelligence (AI) innovation expert specializing in customer service technology. Her expertise includes the implementation of the latest machine learning technologies to promote business development. The team led by Inese Zarina introduced the first customer service chatbot in Latvian.

Ilze Rassa

Occupation: Communication architect, consultant, and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in communications, presentation skills, personal branding, and digital leadership.

Work experience: Ilze has led training sessions for companies, state and international organizations, teaching both individuals and groups. Experience in developing, managing and implementing communication strategies for the President of Latvia, NATO, Statoil Latvia, Rail Baltica and the banking sector. Organized NATO summits, the US President's visit to Latvia, and the Rail Baltica Global Forum.

Recipient of the Cross of Recognition and LASAP "Golden Button" award, member of the Baltic PR Awards jury.

Irina Stojane

Occupation: IT business analyst since 2016.

Professional experience: Performing system analysis in various industries: finance (card and payment systems, investment accounting systems), i-gaming (financial integration of games with game operators) and travel (Online Travel Agency systems).

Irina follows the development of the business analyst profession around the world with interest, promotes business analysis and helps analysts prepare for international certification exams.

Vitālijs Verhovičs

Occupation: Programmer.

Work experience: More than 3 years of experience working with databases.

Teaching approach: Able to explain complex topics in simple terms, more focused on a practical rather than theoretical approach to teaching.