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"Raise your hand if you think AI could become Lithuania's next competitive advantage" 🙋‍♂️

That was one of the questions posed during our latest community event, which brought together leaders from Lithuania's Tech and General Business Services ecosystems.

The response? Almost every hand in the room went up.

Not necessarily because Lithuania will build the biggest artificial intelligence models or data centres. But because it has the potential to become one of the fastest countries to adopt and reorganise around this new technology.

How so? We have short feedback loops between industry and academia, business-forward regulations, and what one of the event speakers, Vinted’s CEO, Thomas Plantenga, highlighted as perhaps the most important ingredient - humble, pragmatic people who are willing and eager to work hard 💪

Much work for educators, policymakers, and business leaders still lies ahead, but we are certainly not starting from scratch. 89% of Lithuania’s GBS centres provide AI-related training to employees, and 41% plan to introduce additional AI capabilities in the near future, as shown in our latest sector overview 👉 https://investlithuania.com/gbs-and-ict-sector-overview-2026/

🥁 We have a winner!

Astrolight will represent Lithuania at the Startup World Cup Grand Finale in Silicon Valley, the world's largest startup competition.

The company, based in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, is redefining satellite networks with cutting-edge laser communication terminals for space and defence. Technology so advanced that only around ten countries in the world have managed to develop it.

This kind of ambition runs deep in Lithuania. In fact, half of this year’s 10 regional finalists are deep tech businesses.

Overall, Lithuania is home to 275 deep tech startups valued at a combined €2B, with enterprise value growing over 3x in the last five years.

Not too shabby for a country of 2.8 million people. All of whom will be rooting for your success in California, ! 💛💚❤️

✌️ Two days to go!

Each year, our FDI experts conduct an in-depth analysis of Lithuania's Global Business Services & ICT landscape. The 2026 edition arrives this Wednesday and explores some of the ecosystem's most pressing questions, including:

Which foreign country has the most centres in Lithuania?
What are their most common functions?
And what are the sector's biggest growth drivers?

Before we reveal the answers, we invite you to see how your own knowledge of Lithuania's GBS & ICT ecosystem stacks up 👇

One of the world's leading travel search engines is expanding in Lithuania for the third time! ✈️

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings, launched its first Lithuanian office in Kaunas in 2018. Five years later, it opened another in Vilnius. Today, the company counts over 100 employees across both cities - a number set to grow even further, as KAYAK announces plans to scale up the local engineering and product teams.

And the new hires will have plenty to work on. Some will support the rapid growth of KAYAK for Business, the company's corporate travel platform, while others will focus on AI innovation. 🤖

The latter is an area the Lithuanian teams know well. Local engineers have already played a central role in some of KAYAK's most ambitious recent launches, including Ask AI, an industry-first tool that lets travellers plan trips through a live chat while results update in real time.

More on what's driving the company’s continued investment in Lithuania here 👉 https://investlithuania.com/news/kayak-expands-its-talent-base-in-lithuania-to-support-ai-innovation-and-corporate-travel-planning/