Emma Arakelyan is invited to be speaker and implementing partner onbehalf of the Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, the Ministry of High Tech Industry to Neruzh Diaspora Startup Program to be held in Dilijan, Armenia, December 17-21, 2019.
The Neruzh program aims to create an opportunity for Diaspora Armenian entrepreneurs to bring their startups to Armenia and to enhance the Armenian startup ecosystem. This interactive program also aims to advance the entrepreneurs’ businesses in Armenia by enriching their knowledge base, expanding networks, and providing access to funding.
The program will walk more than 50 entrepreneurs and startupers through the entrepreneurial journey with sessions from idea validation to investment pitching and expert talks/panels about the Armenian startup ecosystem and global exposure.
For more details visit: http://neruzh.am/en/home-3/
Emma Arakelyan is invited as keynote speaker to present at the Supply Chain Labs Fellowship program “US Market Immersion” structured sessions for SCL Cohort 2020. The event was sponsored by Lumis Partners.
The program will be consisting of startup companies selected by jury representation (>20 jury members) from organizations like ABB, AbinBev, Yournest, KaeCapital etc.
Emma will be covering topics about how a startup can establish a presence in the US market, what are the US Investors looks for in an early-stage startup company, about BAJ Accelerator, upcoming BAJ Accelerator January 2021 program and how it helps startups to enter the US market.
Emma Arakelyan is invited to speak at the Horasis Extraordinary Meeting “Meeting on the USA, 18 March 2021. Rebuilding Trust”.
Under the theme Rebuilding Trust, 1000 of the most senior members of the Horasis Visions Community (including several heads of governments and key ministers) are interacting with the new US administration to shape America’s and the world’s agenda. Some of the meeting co-chairs include:
• Hank McKinnell, Chairman, Moody’s, USA
• Michelle Nunn, President and Chief Executive Officer, CARE, USA
• Hans Vestberg, Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Communications, USA
• Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCL Technologies, India
• David de Rothschild, Founder, Voice for Nature, United Kingdom.
Emma will join as a panelist “The Corporate View of the Next Black Swan Event” session to discuss how despite the severity of the COVID-induced crisis on commerce and business the US and other governments seem sanguine about guarding against the next unknown. The difficulty is predicting what it may be. How can businesses develop a fail-safe Plan-B? It might seem clear we would have to engage in global cooperation – but is there any indication this might happen?
Panelists:
• Emma Arakelyan, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Orion Worldwide Innovations, USA
• Jarvous Chen, Managing Director, Sinda Corporation UK, United Kingdom
• Dariusz Gibasiewicz, Chief Executive Officer, SATIS, Poland
• Venkat Matoory, Institutional Advisor, USA
• Sebastian Wernicke, Chief Data Scientist, One Logic, Germany
Chaired by
• Henry Shterenberg, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Global Transformation Platform, Ukraine
Orion Worldwide Innovations organized a summit in Matenadaran, Yerevan, Armenia on June 22, 2022.
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.
Orion Worldwide Innovations and BDO Armenia organized two day event in Yerevan, Armenia on November 8-9, 2023 at the Congress Hotel. Read more about the event here: https://orionwi.com/blog/view?blog=the-international-conference-alternative-investments-in-armenia-will-take-place-in-yerevan
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.
Emma was a speaker at FinWave event to cover Inside Fintech Investment Decisions. Emma covered insights about VCs still heavily targeting Fintech in their investment thesis despite lower revenue growth and valuation multiples. Emma Arakelyan led a discussion on which aspects are attracting capital today, key areas of due diligence, and how investment decisions are made for Fintech startups. Emma Arakelyan is the Co-Founder of New York based BAJ Accelerator, Venture Partner at Covenant Venture Capital, and CEO & Founder of Orion Worldwide Innovations, LLC. Emma’s broad leadership experience, across business strategy, M&A, governance and compliance, includes roles in management consulting (E&Y Accenture), adjunct professor at New York University, Featured Speaker at Columbia Business School and mentor at the Singularity University.
Orion Worldwide Innovations organized a summit in New York City, USA at The Horizon Building and Harvard Club on June 19-22, 2023. The slogal of the summit was “Investments Position Armenia”. It was a one of a kind international event bringing together world-class professionals and organizations representing different countries from the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and various industries, such as Science and Technology, Financial Services, Legal, and Professional Services. Orion Summit has become a powerful opportunity for Armenian and non-Armenian startups globally to build content, customer and capital. The key objective of Orion Summit 2023 is to create reliable alternative investment opportunities for startup ecosystem through establishing Private Equity Firms, Corporate VCs, and Family Offices in Armenia and with international partners. Learn more about the results of the summit in this article: https://orionwi.com/blog/view?blog=orion-summit-2023-was-successfully-held-in-new-york-city
Emma Arakelyan joined Seaside Startup Summit 2023 as a speaker and mentor. This was her forth time joining this startup competition and learning event. Learn more here: https://www.seasidestartupsummit.com/upcoming-events/sevan-2021