On October 4, at the «Yerevan Expo» Center of the Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute the international exhibition DigiTec Expo 2013 has launched. The President of RA Serzh Sargsyan, the Ambassador Extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Unites States of America to the Republic of Armenia John Heffern, the Minister of Economy of RA Vahram Avanesyan has participated at the opening ceremony. The executive director of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises Karen Vardanyan, Opening remarks were denoted by the Executive Director of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises Karen Vardanyan, the President of «Rostelecom» OJSC Sergey Kalugin, the Director of the Armenian representativeness of «Questrade International Inc.» Artashes Harutyunyan.  

The exhibition will last 3 days-from 4th of October till 6th of October at the  «Yerevan Expo» Center of the Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute (Mergelyan).

Over 120 local and international companies from Canada, Singapore, Russia and USA take part at the exhibition.  This year the exhibition is represented in greater content and new format.  At the first floor the engineering sector represents over 30 companies, such as “10x Engineering”, “Ani-Test”, “Bitlis-Men”, «Innovative Solutions», «Integrator», Museum of Science and Technique, «Mush-Technologies», «Nairi-Tech», «National Instruments», «Olymp Engineering», «Pegasus Logic», «Project Integration» and so on.

The software and internet solutions, telecommunication, educational sector, system integrators and equipment suppliers are represented on the second floor. Among them you can find «GNC Alpha», «Satis», «Instigate Mobile», «Instigate», «Orange Armenia», «LanAr Service», «Mentor Graphics Development Services», «Microsoft», «Monitis GFA» and others. 

On the third floor we represent new start-up companies, career fair participants, «DigiLife» presentation halls and macthmaking area for business discussions. 

During the exhibition the following events will be held:

• DigiLife seminars – During the 3 days of the exhibition within the frames of DigiLife seminars the can attend about 30 presentations and workshops, such as ‘’The current problems of cybersecurity in companies”, "Rational commerce of the future - vision of IBM", Meet the new Office365, « Modern Datacenters”, ‘’What is Agile Development, its history and why to adopt it” and so on. 

• Technological Career Fair- who like to work in technological sphere will have an opportunity to meet the employers, get acquainted with available positions as well as represent themselves. 

• ArmRobotics - will be represented Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

• Open Game Contest – will be represented the games announced during the “Open Game” Championship Of Developers Of Computer And Mobile Games.

The ArmTech congress will take place in parallel with DigiTec this year, also supported by the EDMC Project in an effort to contribute to the sustainable development of the IT sector in Armenia and the establishment of business relations, while spurring investments into the sector.

It is noteworthy that this year the sponsors of DigiTec are companies operating abroad, as well as international organizations. The platinum sponsor of the Expo is GNC-ALFA with its Rostelecom brand, the general sponsor of the event is Questrade International Inc. software delopment company.  Expo is also sponsored by Russian company named «Satis» which is developing satellite technologies. 

DigiTec Expo is a traditional technological exhibition. It is highly anticipated and we can state that its a holiday for technological Armenians. With the help of DigiTec people see the prospect of their future and they connect it with their own country. From the strategic point of view, this is the most important function of DigiTec, - mentioned the UITE Executive Director Karen Vardanyan.   

“Armenia has a number of start-up IT companies that offer both interesting and innovative technological ideas and solutions. This year, they will once again be represented at the exhibition with a united front and supported by the EDMC project to present their products and network with potential partners, clients, and investors,” noted EDMC Chief of Party Bruno Cornelio. “As DigiTec significantly contributes to the establishment and strengthening of business ties, EDMC will also offer a targeted business-to-business (B2B) area for meetings, where participating companies will be able to engage in deeper discussions with their partners.”

It is expected that during 9th annual DigiTec Expo the number of visitors  will increase up to 25 000 instead of 24 000 which visited last year.  

"DigiTec Expo 2013" is organized by the Union of Information Technology Enterprises, the sporter is  the USAID-funded Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness (EDMC) Project, the platinum sponsor is GNC-ALFA CJSC with its "Rostelecom" brand, the official sponsor  is "Questrade International Inc." and the  sponsor is "Satis" company. DigiTec Expo is held under the high patronage of the Prime-minister of RA.  

 

 

Platinum sponsor        Official sponsor     Sponsor

DigiTec Expo’s information partners are: itechnology.am, telecom.arka.am, panorama.am, panarmenian.net, ittrend.am, mwnews.am, erit.am, tesadasht.am information websites; Aravot, Irates de Facto, Hayots Ashkharh, 168 Hours, Delovoy Express, Respublika Armenia, Info Market newspapers  and "Publishing House Navigator". 

 

 

Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE)

UITE is IT Association of Armenia founded in 2000. The vision of UITE is to ensure that there is an internationally competitive ICT/High-Tech industry in Armenia. UITE implements a variety of projects which mainly tends toward the development and growth of IT sector in Armenia. Among all the projects UITE organizes annual DigiTec Expo, ICT Leaders Meeting, DigiTec Business Forum, Armrobotics, “Open Game” Championship, “DigiCamp”. 

 

About USAID Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness (EDMC) Project

 

The USAID-funded Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness (EDMC) project seeks to improve Armenia’s business environment and support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This five-year project aims to increase employment and incomes in Armenia by promoting growth in targeted value chains that have strong export potential: Information Technologies, Biopharmaceuticals, Food Processing, and Tourism.

 

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E-mail: press@uite.org

Web: www.uite.org, www.digitec.am 

 

 

 

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