Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

A Series of Information Technology Events Start in Armenia

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • A Series of Information Technology Events Start in Armenia

    A SERIES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EVENTS START IN ARMENIA

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 1, NOYAN TAPAN. A series of events on the information
    technologies (IT) sector started with a summer school for children
    engaged in computer programming, which will be followed by an open
    programming competition of schoolchildren scheduled for the first half
    of August. Hovhannes Avoyan, Chairman of the Union of IT Enterprises,
    Karen Vardanian, the union's Executive Director and Bagrat Yengibarian,
    Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, stated this at a
    joint press conference on July 27. They said that these events will
    be continued in the second half of August by the programming school
    and competition, while the third All-Armenian open competition with
    the participation of young programmers aged 30 years and under will
    take place in early September. An internation conference on IT will
    be held in Yerevan on September 20 within the framework of the third
    Armenia-Diaspora Forum. The RA President's educational awards in the
    IT sector will be given on September 26, and the first semiconductor
    eqipment design competition among students will take place on September
    27. An international conference "The Development of IT in Countries
    without Outlet to Sea" will be held in Yerevan on October 3-6, and the
    gala-show of winners of the 3rd Eurasian contest of the World Summit
    on the Information Society will take place on October 5-7. The 2nd
    international DigiTec exhibition of information, telecommunication
    and high technologies is scheduled for October 6-8. The 2006 events
    dedicated to the IT sector will finish with a competition among
    Armenian higher educational institutions (on October 8) and the Open
    Source Programming Festival (on October 14). K.

    Vardanian attached special importance to holding DigiTec, noting the
    existence of all prerequisites for granting an international status
    to this exhibition, with 11 big foreign companies having submitted
    bids for participation in this event, including Mitsubishi-Electric,
    Microsoft, National Instruments, Festo, Synopsys, Virage Logic. He
    expressed a hope that the number of participants in Digitec will
    double compared with 37 ones last year. Last year Digitec became the
    largest IT exhibition in the South Caucasian region. In B.

    Yengibarian's words, the international conference on IT to be held
    in September will mainly be dedicated to development of wireless
    technologies. Such famous international companies as Sun Microsystems,
    Microsoft, Intel, Alcatel will take part in the conference.
Working...
X