CALENDAR OF UPCOMING & PREVIOUS EVENTS

Digitain organized a hackathon event in Yerevan, Armenia where Emma Arakelyan was a speaker on the panel. The M1TQ program, organized in the framework of Digitain’s DigiTown project<https://www.1lurer.am/en/2021/02/11/%E2%80%9CDigitown%E2%80%9D-International-Center-for-Innovative-Technologies-to-be-built-with-5-000-jobs/412168>, aims to crowdsource innovative technological solutions and empower the Armenian startup ecosystem. This year, the program was organized in cooperation with Garage48<https://garage48.org/> and was composed of 2 parts: the hackathon and acceleration. The M1TQ hackathon<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA6IjgudXE8&t=840s> kicked off in Yerevan on 20-22 of May with a whopping 187 participants and 50 ideas pitched. The hackathon was followed by the 12-week acceleration program led by Garage48 experts and professionals. As a result, seven startup teams finalized their ideas and made MVPs.

Seda Gasparyan, CEO of Prestige Media Group, interviewed Emma Arakelyan, CEO of Orion Wordlwide Innovations and Venture Partner and LP of Covenant Venture Capital in Yerevan, Armenia in November 2023 and the artile was published in the “Prestige” magazine in January 2024. The conversation covered Emma’s professional journey as a management consulting executive, innovation and economic growth specialist and as the key player in for advancing Armenian startup ecosystem. Read the article here: (link to be provided)