CALENDAR OF UPCOMING & PREVIOUS EVENTS

Jan
13
Mon
Speaking at MNN Sandra Jarmuth TV Show: Speak up! – January 13, 2020 @ Studio 2. Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Jan 13 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Speaking at MNN Sandra Jarmuth TV Show: Speak up! - January 13, 2020 @ Studio 2. Manhattan Neighborhood Network

About the Show
New York City local news TV show by the host, Sandra Jarmuth. The show is titled “Speak Up!,” it’s directed to “public service issues,” and it airs on Sundays at 8 am EST on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network channel. During the 30 minute episode will be about Armenia’s economic growth and recent events fostering technological and educational progress.

Channels to watch the show on Sunday, 8am EST: FiOS-33; RCN-82 and Spectrum-34 & 1995
Live streamed at the following link: https://www.mnn.org/live/1-community-channel

About Armenia session
Emma Arakelyan and Lana Akopyan (the session initiator) started New Year 2020 on January 13th at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (#MNN) TV station, at the show called “SpeakUp” hosted by Sandra Jarmuth.
Emma and Lana delivered a session about Armenia, its innovation and High-Tech Industry impact on Armenia’s and world’s economic and innovation growth historically and nowadays.

The TV show will broadcasted on Public TV Channel. The following programs were covered:
– What is Armenia?
– Why Armenia?
– Armenian Innovations
– Startup Revolution organized by the Armenian Bar Association
– Armenia As Regional Leader in high-tech, FS, IP protection and corporate Law,
– IP and Corporate Law recommendations report from Summit 2019
– Neruzh 2019, Dilijan
– Neruzh 2020
– Virtual Bridge
– From Thought To Product, San Francisco
– BAJ Accelerator #NYC Launch (Baltic-Armenian-Jacobs Technion Israeli-Cornell Tech Accelerator)

Feb
18
Tue
Emma Arakelyan as Podcast Guest Interviewed by Terry Tateossian from Amplified, February 18, 2020 @ Socialfix Media
Feb 18 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Emma Arakelyan as Podcast Guest Interviewed by Terry Tateossian from Amplified, February 18, 2020 @ Socialfix Media

Emma Arakelyan will be interviewed for a podcast episode by Terry Tateossian of Amplified Podcast series in New York City.
Emma will highlight her experiences and thought leadership about exponential technologies impact on digital revolution, coupled with Caring Leadership Formula on to how to drive that change.

Amplified Podcast invites experts, entrepreneurs, and general badasses in the tech space, who are pioneering change through the trials and triumphs of their experiences. Amplified special guests highlight trends you need to know in technology and entrepreneurship—the latest in AI, blockchain, machine learning, natural learning processing, IoT, robotics, holography, and more—by telling their stories on how they’re shaping the next phase of digital evolution. Join host Terry Tateossian as she asks the right questions and gathers the hottest insights.

Jul
18
Sat
Emma Arakelyan as Podcast Guest Interviewed by Samson Avetian with EVN Report @ EVN Report
Jul 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Emma Arakelyan as Podcast Guest Interviewed by Samson Avetian with EVN Report @ EVN Report

Emma Arakelyan will be interviewed for a podcast episode by Samson Avetian with EVN Report.
Emma will highlight her experiences and thought leadership about innovation and startup ecosystem. Emma will discuss the opportunities and systemic support being offered to startups by the BAJ Accelerator.

Emma will also cover the latest news about opening Orion Worldwide Innovations Armenia office in Yerevan. Emma will also touch one of the important topics of promoting female founders and preparing them for global presence and market access.

Aug
22
Sat
Speaking at WITSA Women Leaders in Technology Virtual Meeting on August 22, 2020 @ Virtual - Digital conferencing platform
Aug 22 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Speaking at WITSA Women Leaders in Technology Virtual Meeting on August 22, 2020 @ Virtual - Digital conferencing platform

Emma Arakelyan is invited to speak at the (virtual) inaugural “Women Leaders in Technology Forum” to be held Saturday, August 22nd from 9am-11am EDT. The purpose of the forum is intended to encourage and inspire women who are either presently working in, or are interested in employment within, the ICT industry.

Emma will join the panel to discuss “How STEM education supports the trend of global digitalization” at 9:45am-10:20am EDT.

Moderator: Ms. Nichole Chan, Former Minister of NCC Taiwan
Ms. Emma Arakelyan – CEO and Founder, Orion Worldwide Innovations, LLC; Formerly Partner at Ernst & Young and Managing Director at Accenture
Ms. Mary Lou Papazian – Chief Executive Officer at TUMO, Center for Creative Technologies
Ms. Carolina Rossini – Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Portulans Institute

The Moderator and the panelists will explore topics surrounding “Education” and “Policies impacting the ICT industry” that would inspire women to develop and adapt themselves in this changing world.

Sep
8
Tue
Emma Arakelyan Interviewed by Carolina A. Rossini of NRI on September 8th, 2020 @ Virtual - Digital conferencing platform
Sep 8 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Emma Arakelyan Interviewed by Carolina A. Rossini of NRI on September 8th, 2020 @ Virtual - Digital conferencing platform

Emma Arakelyan will be interviewed by Carolina Rossini of Network Readiness Index (NRI) on September 8th, 2020.

Carolina leads Portulans Institute, the publishing house for the Network Readiness Index (NRI). Over the last two decades, the NRI has established itself as one of the most comprehensive assessments of digital readiness, this year covering over 135 developing and developed economies and representing over 95 percent of global GDP. Many economies utilize the NRI to design their digital strategies, connecting Technology with People, Governance, and Impact.

For the 2020 NRI – launch planned for late October 2020 – NRI is working on content (written and multimedia) based on interviews with Ministers, C level executives, and thought leaders.  The interview with Mrs. Arakelyan will be one the interviews to enrich the discussion around the following topics:

  • Does every organization need to be digitally transformed to stay competitive/survive? Similarly, how COVID has affected the need for digital transformation
  • What leadership/culture is needed to ensure digital transformation does not exacerbate the global digital divide?
  • What is the role of reskilling, upskilling, lifelong learning in becoming a future-ready firm/government/society? How urgently should firm leaders across industries be reskilling themselves and their staff? How does a crisis – like COVID – impact the need for reskilling?
  • How can we make sure that digital transformation remains human-centric and ethical while also providing firms/governments/economies with a competitive advantage?
Jan
14
Thu
Speaking at EY Long Island PWN Event – January 14, 2021 @ EY Office in Long Island
Jan 14 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Speaking at EY Long Island PWN Event - January 14, 2021 @ EY Office in Long Island

Emma Arakelyan is invited to speak at EY Long Island’s Professional Women’s Network (PWN) Event on January 14, 2021.
The event is sponsored by EY Long Island PWN and all women from all service lines are invited.
Emma will cover key messages from her book “The Business Caring Formula” about building leadership lifestyle using seven key ingredients of the caring formula (visit www.emmaarakelyan.com for details).

The is Emma’s second speech at EY about leadership and building strong women leaders in the firm.