Accenture Latvia offers various collaboration opportunities for educational institutions and their innovation labs.

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COOPERATION
MENU FOR UNIVERSITIES
AND RESEARCHERS

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ACCENTURE EDUCATION
PARTNERSHIPS is our
knowledge we would like to
share with students or people
who are interested in re –
skilling. The project combines
everything we have already
done and are continue doing
to improve education in Latvia
in schools, technical schools
and universities.
PROJECT VISION:
To make Latvian IT
education world
class!
TARGET GROUPS:
IT, STEM, non - IT
students, educational
institutions &
professors & lecturers
LONG TERM TARGETS:
Prepare students for the
business environment;
Streamline cooperation with
the educational institutions,
jointly pursue new
technologies, ideas and
theories.
Zanda Arnava
Accenture HR Lead
“It is very important for us to have a good cooperation not only with
the Latvian IT universities but with the academic environment as a
whole, so the cooperation between both parties is appreciated. The
IT industry is increasingly converging with other areas, so IT is no
longer just a story of IT but the digital wave - artificial intelligence,
the Internet of Things, automation solutions and blockchain solutions
are included in all sectors of the economy.
Accenture sees it to be a great opportunity for everyone from STEM
and other areas like financial sphere to enter the IT industry.
Technology awareness and digital skills are not only useful but are
needed in any profession, regardless of whether a person is working
in the financial or agricultural sector. It is also essential to ensure
that students have an insight into the business environment – in
structural companies that respect legislative requirements, good
practice standards, closed contracts, etc., in order to build a sense
of knowledge what should be a conscious Employer.”
EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS CONTACTS:
ZANDA ARNAVA, Project Owner
zanda.arnava@accenture.com
KARINA INNUS, Project Lead
karina.innus@accenture.com
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EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS MENU LIST:
Cooperation with lecturers:
Knowledge sharing with university
lecturers
Cooperation with students:
Introduction lecture about IT
professions
PreBootcam
p
Support for other
events
Study
content
Specialized
courses
Guest
lectures
Themes for bachelor qualification, and master thesis
works
Cooperation
projects
ZIBIT– master & bachelor works competition
support
Joined conferences &
seminars
Excursions to
Accenture
Programmer’s
Day
Invitation to Accenture Mad science events
Bootcamps: Summer & Winter
Internship: up to 5 months
Mentoring program: senior students support for 1st year students
Full study course (A., B or C)
Specialized seminars
Supervision of bachelor and master thesis works
Researches, innovation projects & incubators
Activities/support for summer camps
Participation in Career Day
Pupil excursions to Accenture
Educational events & competitions support
Other
events
Participation in jury for bachelor and master thesis evaluation commission
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GUEST LECTURES:
• Introduction to IT Professions
• PMO At Accenture Latvia
• Data Lake
• TestAutomation Basics for Websites
• Business Analysis at Accenture Latvia
• Accenture Technology Vision
• Industry Business Use Case Story
• Business Requirements Documentation
• SAP Data&Analytics
• Project, Program and Portfolio Management in Accenture
• Change Enablement
• Agile Methodology. Scrum vs Kanban
• What is DevOps?
•Business Process Management and Customize in SAP System. Typesof
Projects
• Design Thinking
• Introduction of SAP,Oracle ERP
• AI at Accenture
• Big Data and RPA
• UX for Business
• IT Security Hackathon
• The Power of Cloud Platforms
• Data Visualization Methods
• Big data technologies (on-prem & cloud, e.g. AWS)
• Data science & machine learning & predictive
analytics
• Datavisualization
• Business Intelligence & Qlick Sense
• Chat-bots & Conversational AI
• Robotic process automation
• Processmining
• Business process management (BPM)
• First steps with Power BI
• What is change management?
• Discover test conditions even in worst requirements
• Low Code, how hard can it be?
• Continuous delivery in action
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READY TO SHARE MATERIALS:
CLOUD ENGINEERING ON AWS, AZURE AND
GCP STARTING FROM 2ND COURSE STUDENTS
• Fundamentals of Cloud and XaaS
• Introduction to DevOps practices
• Engineering in Amazon Web Services
• Engineering in Microsoft Azure
• Engineering in Google Cloud Platform
• First steps with cloud agnostic Terraform
• Includes practical labs working with clouds
DEVOPS&CLOUD ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS
COURSE FOR IT STUDENTS.
After completion of the course students will:
• Understand principles and benefits of DevOps
• Understand Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery and have a
view when to apply these practices
• Implement a Continuous Delivery pipeline capable of continuously releasing
code into the environments that they have created
• Use and understand Software Configuration Management tools for version
and revision control
• Use public Cloud infrastructure
• Know how to create enterprise grade tooling environment in the Cloud
• Build environments in the cloud using industrial techniques 5

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IOS MOBILITY COURSE FOR 3RD YEAR STUDENTS
During the course, students will develop:
A simple task that calculates traffic light according to the
given parameters, Swift’s justification and UI object
acquisition;
“DevOps & Cloud engineering now is the standard in any small or
big software development projects. However, the chances to
learn it is very limited or expensive. Select the “Introduction to
DevOps & Cloud” course at your university to be smarter than
many other engineers after a couple of exciting months!”
Uldis Karlovs – Karlovskis
DevOps ST Lead
Develop mapping programs where students themselves will
have to create their own server side with the Google FireBase
and integrate them into the app;
Create a course project, where they can create a mobile app
by developing groups;
Own Cloud Client app using the OneDrive API;
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TEST AUTOMATION COURSE FOR 3RD YEAR AND MASTER’S
DEGREE FOR IT STUDENTS.
• Testing tasks in software development;
• Value of automation in software testing;
• Automated testing tools and their application particularities;
• Benefits and limitations of commercial and open source code
testing tools;
• Test automation techniques and principles of creation test
automation system;
• Principles of back-end system test automation;
• Front-end system test automation techniques. Functional testing
automation for web and mobile applications;
• Test automation system integration with development of
supporting systems;
“Modern testing cannot be imagined without automation. Testers
need to automate largest piece of needed tests to let programs test
other programs.
Within this course students will learn how to establish test
frameworks in the a proper way and create their first automated
tests.”
Jurijs Grigorjevs
Testing CG Lead
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Course covers topics such as:
• What is IT security;
• Most popular security testing tools;
• Passive information gathering;
• Active information gathering;
• Vulnerability scanning;
• Public exploits. Their customization;
• Privilege escalation;
• Web application attacks;
• Password attacks;
• Social engineering;
Lecture format: Real-time demos are given by a lecturer
and can be followed by students and discussed as we
go.
SECURITY TESTING COURSE FOR FINAL
YEAR COMPUTING SCIENCE STUDENTS:
IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE FOR
MASTER’S DEGREE STUDENTS:
Course content:
• Introduction to project management (concept of the project; human
factor in project management; project management phases and
processes);
• Project mission, tasks and objectives;
• Project planning;
• Project plan and its development;
• Quality management of the project;
• Monitoring and closing the project;
• Human Resource Management in Project Management;
• Project management tools;
• Project Management Methodology;
• Project Management Certification;
IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT – FOR 2ND YEAR BUSINESS,
FINANCE STUDENTS:
• IT Project management in digital age;
• Client requirements gathering, analysis, idea generation using Design
thinking methodology;
• Contemporary project management methodologies, processes and roles in
Agile/Waterfall/ Scrum, Canban;
• Modern technologies for project development;
• Analysis, modeling and improvement of business processes;
• Comparison of the development of finished products / new solutions;
• Insights for customizable products – Oracle ERP Cloud primera, CRM, SAP
(ERP);
• New Technologies – Big Data/Data ScienceArtificial Intelligence, RPA;
• Practical task – Implementation of IT solutions – development of the offer and
presentation;

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“We developed the course to include the most current trends
in business and development. A great accent was devoted to
Agile principles, design thinking techniques, where students
in a short time are learning to find the best possible business
solutions for end-user needs. The practical work enables
students to try IT system architect’s role and make sure that
their solution is best not only from the content but also from
a cost perspective.”
Andrejs Ivanovs
Oracle CG Lead
DATAVISUALIZATION METHODS FOR THE
LAST YEAR BACHELOR’S STUDENTS:
• Introduction to Data vizualization;
• Basics of visualization;
• Visualization of spatial, geospatial and multifactor data;
• Visualization of time-determined data;
• Visualization techniques for data trees, graphs, networks
and unstructured data;
• Data Visualization Design;
ACCENTURE IT SECURITY HACKATHON:
Is a full day event, where students will explore the basics of
security testing. The target audience is computer students
without specific knowledge of a narrower field. The training
is very practical, as each has a computer with tasks – 3
virtual machines to be hacked. Each machine needs to find
answers to a number of questions, such as password, user
name, document.

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ACCENTURE BACHELOR THESIS
TOPICS OFFERED FOR UNIVERSITIES
DATA&AI
• Adversarial machine learning
• AI mushroom edibility checksystem
• Snowflake data warehouse
• AutoML (Automated machine learning)
• Big data visualization tools
• OpenAPI/Swagger
• NoSQL practical usage
• Standardized process’ automation
• Intelligent Automation market in Latvia
• Creating an intelligent agent for
humanlike interactions
• Success factors for Robotics Process
Automation application in small and medium
sized enterprises
C&A
•SAP HANA Database Architecture
problems
•SAP business strategy - how the IT businesses
change to the constant growth
•SAP Customer Experience strategy 2025 -
what technologies are trendy now
•SAP Embrace: Cloudification Through
Hyperscalers
•Challenges for adoption of cloud
computing in Latvia
•Enterprise Data Warehouse moves away
from the past. Rapid changes and the near
future.
QE
•Test data management approaches for
project development lifecycles and
maintenance
C&A
•Automated deployment of scalable cloud
application

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ACCENTURE BACHELOR THESIS TOPICS
OFFERED FOR UNIVERSITIES
IES
• WebAssembly usage in image processing
• Archiving and encrypting software
creation
• Developing a Chatbot for MS Teams platform
for improving feedback in a team
DESIGN
• Design System Creation and maintenance for
Digital Products (Web or Mobile)
• Website UI designing involving Machine
Learning that utilizes defined Design System
• Web–site “%Name%” accessibility analysis and
re-design for accessibility.
INTERACTIVE
•Machine Learning mobile app for iOS using
CoreML
•Machine Learning mobile app for Android
•LowCode Development Platform analysis
and comparison
•Design System Creation and maintenance
forDigital Products (Web or Mobile)
•Adobe Enterprise Manager solution
implementation for Small E-Commerce
application
PMO
•PMO (Project Management Office) presence,
objectives and tasks in key Latvian companies

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ACCENTURE MASTER THESIS TOPICS
OFFERED FOR UNIVERSITIES
DATA&AI
• Cloud and serverless solution for big data
• Data democratization
• AI for Finance
• Practical usage of process mining
•The impact of European Commission
Strategies for Data and AI
• Automation of Research
MSBA
•Augmented analytics solutions in data
visualization tools
•Artificial Neural Networks in Web content
Personalization
•Artificial Neural Networks in E-Learning
Personalization
•Impact of Productivity Tools on New and
Senior Developer in C#
•Viability of C# programming language for
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Positives and Negatives in comparison with
Python and other Industry standard tools
BA
•Analysis of remote customer experience (CX)
in financial services as input for defining
software requirements

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ACCENTURE MASTER THESIS TOPICS
OFFERED FOR UNIVERSITIES
C&A
• Automated deployment of HA (highly
available) cloud application
SAP
• In-memory database benchmark workload
model development
QE
• Predictive modelling of production data to
support non-functional system testing
strategy creation
IT SECURITY
•The impact of Big Data and the Internet of
Things on privacy and dataprotection
(benefits, challenges and recommendations
how
to move forward towards compliance with
European data protection law)
•Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms for
Automated Security/Vulnerability Assessment
Finding Analysis (a.k.a. False-Positive Analysis)
•Optimal Security Architecture for Post-Breach
Attack Mitigation
IES
•WebAssembly usage in image processing
•Archiving and encrypting software creation
•Continuous Delivery for AI development

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"Co-innovation with other innovation ecosystem players plays a key role
in pursuing innovation. Companies need to work together not only with
technology startups, but also with academia and researchers to create
new products and processes and discover new opportunities together.
Latvian universities have been very important education partners to
Accenture, as ensuring high quality education and training has always
been in the company's genes. We acknowledge that interdisciplinary
student and research teams based here in Latvia holds a large potential
in creating world-class innovations, therefore we are open to collaborate
and provide academia with the insights into business trends, as well as
guide and assist them with our expertise throughout the innovation
development process,so that we can co-create unique technologies
together."
Kristaps Banga
Accenture Innovation Lead in Latvia
AS PART OF OUR OPEN INNOVATION INITIATIVE, WE ALSO COLLABORATE WITH INTERDISCIPLINARY
STUDENT AND SCIENTIST TEAMS TO RESEARCH AND PROTOTYPE NEWEST TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS.
CO-INNOVATION WITH UNIVERSITIES
AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES
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CO-INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS CONTACTS:
KRISTAPS BANGA,Innovation Lead
openinnovationlatvia@accenture.com
ZANE KALNINA, Open Innovation Project Lead
openinnovationlatvia@accenture.com

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STUDENT or
SCIENTIST
TEAMS
INDUSTRIAL
PhD
CONTRACT
RESEARCH
Interdisciplinary student and/or
scientist teams that work on solving
industry problem cases and develop
conceptual solutions or prototypes
together with Accenture industry
experts
Funding a PhD candidate to dedicate
their 3-4 year research to attempt to
solve a particular problem set by
Accenture
Contracting a team of scientists to
conduct a specific research project in a
joint team with Accenture specialists
and experts
CASE
STUDY
IN-DEPTH
RESEARCH
THESIS
TOPIC
3 - 6 months
3 - 9 months
6 - … months
3 - 4 years
Possibility to suggest thesis topics to
Bachelor and Masters degree
programmers’ students
RESEARCH
TOPIC
in alignment with
CO-INNOVATION WITH UNIVERSITIES AND
RESEARCH INSTITUTES PROCESS
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDENT AND RESEARCH TEAMS BASED
HERE IN LATVIA HOLDS A LARGE POTENTIAL IN CREATING
WORLD-CLASS INNOVATIONS, THEREFORE WE OFFER DIFFERENT
COOPERATION FORMS TO CO-CREATE AND TEST INNOVATIVE
TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES TOGETHER.

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ACCENTURE
UNIVERSITY OR
RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
DELIVERABLES
• All research findings and data available
to Accenture Latvia for unlimited use
• Research publication in academic journal
or research whitepaper available online
• In all publications reference to Accenture
Latvia as associated business consultant
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CO-INNOVATION WITH UNIVERSITIES
AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES
RESPONSIBILITIES
IN RETURN, WE EXPECT TO RECEIVE HIGH-
LEVEL RESEARCH ORGANISATION &
QUALITY ASSURANCE FROM OUR PARTNER
ORGANISATION, AS WELL AS UNLIMITED
ACCESS TO RESEARCH RESULTS AND
REFERENCE TO ACCENTURE LATVIA AS
ASSOCIATED BUSINESS CONUSLTANT.

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INDUSTRY CHALLENGES AND REACH TOP STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY RANKINGS
INCREASE THE
SPEED OF
COMMERCIALIZATION
OBTAIN MARKET
SPECIALIST
FEEDBACK ON EARLY
STAGE IDEAS
ALIGN WITH THE
LATEST
INDUSTRY TRENDS
GET ACCESS TO
REAL LIFE TESTBEDS
IMPROVE THE
EMPLOYABILITY OF
YOUR GRADUATES
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WHAT’S IN IT
FOR UNIVERSITIES?

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THANK YOU!
EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS CONTACTS:
ZANDA ARNAVA,
Project Owner
zanda.arnava@accenture.com
KARINA INNUS,
Project Lead
karina.innus@accenture.com
CO-INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS CONTACTS:
KRISTAPS BANGA,
Innovation Lead
openinnovationlatvia@accenture.com
ZANE KALNINA,
Open Innovation Project Lead
openinnovationlatvia@accenture.com