Elvīra Zaltāne is a prominent figure in Baltic technology sector, known for her significant contributions to promoting women's involvement in tech and serves as COO at Riga TechGirls. She has been named in Forbes Latvia 30 under 30 list 2020.
She founded startup Legally, which evolved from a LegalTech startup into a successful legal services provider specializing in personal data protection with large brand clients Samsung, Renault, Printify and others.
She also led a successful COVID-19 response project developing 3D-printed medical face masks, which received significant interest from NATO and then merged with company that still produce these masks.
Lately she has been working with AI products in deepopininon.ai with large clients such as IKEA and VOLVO. And currently running her new startup Affire.ai which helps to monitor Software As Service subscriptions for companies using AI.
What were the common struggles with GDPR compliance in your experience with companies?
Does GDPR already slows down the innovation in AI?
What other countries have adapted similar regulations?
Explain listeners what will AI Act bring to the table?
How this will affect innovation in AI?
Is EU too restrictive for companies to compete globally? Is there offramp of abolishing GDPR, EU AI Act or the regulation trend will continue?
Will AI replace judges? Why?
Will AI replace lawyers? Why?
What was the most fun legal case you have worked on?
Context: I have been folowing great reasearcher Yannic Kilcher from ETH Zurich here in EU, and recently he has been working and talking about AI in legal tech with his new startup https://www.deepjudge.ai/. They have already raised over 10m EUR in funding which is very significant for Europe.
What are some great use cases you have already seen using AI in legal tech?
Will the EU's AI Act kill European startups while US and Chinese companies eat their lunch?
How many girls and how you operate are in Riga TechGirls?
Do you know how to program?
Have you tried no-code tools?
Is it at all necessary to learn programming in the age of AI?
How do you see the future of AI in Latvia?
What is Affire.ai and how does it work?
What is Managed Service Provider (MSP), who needs it?
From data that you have in your product:
Which is the most expensive SAAS subscription that companies often use and do not realize how much they spend on it?
Which has been the most useless SAAS subscription that you have seen?
Which SAAS subscription has been the most surprising to you?
Who are your first clients and how it is different of working in USA and Europe?
How exactly AI is used in Affire.ai?