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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?
Emma Arakelyan joined as speaker and mentor at Neruzh 2022 on October 21-25, 2022. It is the diaspora tech startups third program titled Neruzh 2022, a 5-day event. More than 30 startups from around the world are invited to Armenia to participate. They learn about the advantages of doing business in Armenia, receive exclusive and individual mentoring, claim up to USD 30.000 grant in order to expand their business initiatives, training, workshops, master classes, mentoring, exchange of experience, quality networking, grants, acceleration Neruzh BootCamp – A joyful and startup-oriented 5-day event full of learning, networking & inspiration. MasterClasses – Expert-led sessions covering the latest trends in tech and global markets; Networking – Expanding your network, accessing relevant and influential people with the right knowledge, experience, connections; Funding and Acceleration – which will allow to receive a grant up to $30,000 and acceleration tailored to the startups’ needs Neruzh 2022 aims at promoting repatriation of Armenian entrepreneurial minds established in Diaspora. The organizers of event are RA Ministry of High-Tech Industry and “My Step” Foundation.