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YEREVAN, JUNE 28, ARMENPRESS. The annual ArmTech conference, which this year was held in the Silicon Valley titled “Armenia – IT Forum”, opens new prospects of cooperation with American companies.
Deputy Minister of Economy Emil Tarasyan told ARMENPRESS they visited Nvidia, IBM, Intel, Synopsis, Reddit, during which several agreements were made.
Nvidia might use the services of Armenian engineers
Nvidia, the leading video card producer, performs serious developments in image recognition, which will be implemented in automatic parking of vehicles. They have an agreement with AUDI. We are interested in ensuring engineering work in Armenia as well, in joint processing with Armenian specialist, simultaneously to form a similar lab in Armenia. We are planning their visit to Armenia, a meeting with the administration and discussion of projects. There was interest towards Armenia, they were aware, and we presented the level of development of the IT sector and the opportunities. Now we need to carry out concrete intensive works with them.
Opportunities of expanding IBM in Armenia
We were presented the IBM Watson system in IBM, which is a revolution from the point of view of making analyzes in economy’s different branches. For example, the system selects the best treatment in medicinal sphere and suggest the best solution of the issue. These are analytical programs, which can be used in all sectors. They expressed willingness to visit, have meetings and have concrete discussions on how to expand IBM in Armenia.
In addition, they expressed willingness to host two scientist-engineers for 1 year for a training. IBM is ready to cover the expenses of 1 specialist.
Reddit can publicize Armenian tourism proposals
We were presented on the achievements and activities of Reddit when we visited their office. Co-founder Alexis Ohanian was suggested to make his personal visits official. We said we are ready to make processing along with Reddit in Armenia, by using our potential. We had a meeting with the young programmers of the company, through a Q&A, we hope we were able to convince them to visit Armenia. Armenia is famous not only for its nature, sightseeing, but also for serious engineering potential, which can interest them in the context of cooperating or just befriending. In addition, there was a suggestion to present our achievements, tourism proposals and all interesting tourism spots via the Reddit system.
About the meeting of Armenian startups and investors
Startups were also taking part in the forum, who had pretty interesting and productive meetings with investors. It prompted them to figure which direction to choose precisely, to attract investments. I planned a meeting with newly formed organizations in order to understand their issues and what is needed for development. It is desirable to understand what was discovered within the framework of the acceleration program in the Silicon Valley, what is needed to change to have development.
“Armenia – IT Forum” was held June 10-11 in Silicon Valley, in the Synopsys Mountain View Campus.