CONFERENCE ON ARMENIA’S OPPORTUNITIES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SECTOR HELD IN FRANCE
Noyan Tapan
Apr 04 2007
ICI-LE-MULINO, APRIL 4, NOYAN TAPAN. An international conference
dedicated to Armenia’s opportunities in the IT sector took place in
the French city of Ici-Le-Mulino on March 30 with the participation
of experts and officials from Armenia, France, the US, Belgium and
various international organizations.
The Armenian delegation was headed by the RA Deputy Minister of Trade
and Economic Development Tigran Davtian, who made the main report on
the Armenian government’s policy in the IT sector.
Pierre Gyurjian, Deputy Director of McKinsey (Belgium), one of the
initiators of the Armenia 2020 Project, and Bagrat Yengibarian,
Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, made speeches on
the current opportunities and development prospects of the Armenian
IT sector.
In his speech Deputy Director of Microsoft Corporation Vahe Torosian
appreciated the inpressive progress registerted in the Armenian IT
sector in recent years, underlining the importance of consistent
steps taken by the Armenian government, including the agreement
signed between Microsoft Corporation and the Armenian government
in early February 2007. Yervand Zorian, Deputy Chairman of the US
company Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
and Scientific Director of Virage Logic, spoke about the interest in
operating in the Armenian IT sector that foreign companies have shown.
According to a press release submitted to NT by the RA MFA Press and
Information Department, heads and representatives of nearly 50 French
companies attended the conference. The conference was organized within
the framework of Year of Armenia in France with joint efforts of the
Ici-Le-Mulino mayor’s office, the Armenian embassy in France and the
RA Ministry of Trade and Economic Development, and with the assistance
of the French-Armenian association G2iA, Items International (France)
and the OSCE Yerevan Office.