Researchers of the BA School of Business and Finance, assistant professors Janis Hermanis, Kristaps Lesinskis, and Professor Inese Mavlutova have been working on the project “Knowledge Alliance of Business idea Assessment: Digital Approach” (KABADA) since November 2019. The aim of the project was to develop a new, innovative tool (based on artificial intelligence) that would automatically support business start-ups in assessing their business idea and business plan, as well as provide recommendations for further actions.

The results, which will be based on research, in close cooperation between higher education institutions and industry, as well as on knowledge transfer at the international level, will be freely available to anyone interested in getting their business idea evaluated and recommended. They will also be used in entrepreneurship education to develop relevant study courses.

Towards the end of the project, the project team is organizing two events on January 19th and 27th:

1. Free webinar “Have a taste of KABADA: create your free business plan now”
   

Everyone is invited to the free webinar “Have a taste of KABADA: create your free business plan now”, which will take place online on January 19th, 16:00-17:25 (CET) on the Zoom platform.

Webinar program:

16.00 – Opening speech by Valentin De Vico (Communications Manager, Skillman Team)

16.05 – Jānis Hermanis: “What is the KABADA tool?” (Assistant Professor, BA School of Business and Finance, Project Manager)

16.15 – Kristaps Lešinskis: “KABADA tool demo: how the tool actually works” (Assistant Professor, BA School of Business and Finance)

16.35 – “Have a taste of KABADA: let’s create your business plan!”

17.15 – Comments, Q&A session

17.25 – Closing remarks

Register: here!

More information: https://kabada.eu/webinar-invitation-create-your-free-business-plan-now-with-kabada/

2. Project “Knowledge Alliance of Business idea Assessment: Digital Approach” (KABADA) final conference “Start off your business on the right foot”

Students, academic staff, cooperation partners, and business enthusiasts! We invite you to attend the final conference of the project “Knowledge Alliance of Business idea Assessment: Digital Approach” (KABADA) “Start off your business on the right foot”, which will take place on January 26th 2023 at the BA School of Business and Finance.

The conference will be held in three parts:

• In the first part, the project researchers will present and talk about the implementation process of the KABADA digital tool, their experience in using the tool and recommendations on how to use the KABADA tool more effectively when developing your business plan.
• The second part will be a series of parallel workshops to discuss the use of the KABADA tool in higher, secondary and vocational education and in business counselling for adults. The panellists will be Dulce Matos, Eva Abramuszkinová Pavlíková, Rem Grinstein, Giovanni Crisonà and Janis Hermanis. Moderators – Kristaps Lesinskis, Inga Uvarova and Juris Riekstins.
• The third part will be introduced by a speech from the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science. After the keynote speeches, two roundtable discussions will take place – “Challenges and benefits of project implementation” and “KABADA principles applied to the future of education – Skillman Alliance Summit”.

Full program*:

*small changes possible

Register here: https://kabada.eu/kabada-conference/

More about KABADA: https://kabada.eu/