CALENDAR OF UPCOMING & PREVIOUS EVENTS
Emma Arakelyan was featured in AGBU (Armenian General Benevolent Union) FOCUS 2019 Booklet with her “The Business Caring Formula” book.
AGBU FOCUS is a world class biennial event that brings together young Armenian professionals from across the globe for a weekend of culture, idea-exchange, nightlife, networking and celebration of a shared Armenian identity.
Since its inception at 2001, AGBU FOCUS has distinguished itself as a unique platform for interpersonal engagement, offering a venue for YPs to meet with likeminded peers and engage in meaningful dialogue through forums like Perspectives and the Conference.
FOCUS also serves as an opportunity to highlight the direct and positive impact of AGBU programs. Each year, the organizing committee selects an important program relating to one of the organization’s core pillars – education, culture, humanitarian relief, and socio-economic development -and launches a year-long global campaign to raise awareness and generate funds to support and enhance the initiative.
This year marks a much-anticipated AGBU FOCUS in South America. With participants travelling to Sao Paulo from destinations as far as Australia, Spain and South Korea – hundreds will have the chance to expand their networks and come away with a greater sense of unity and empowerment as global Armenian citizens.
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/
BAJ Accelerator Co-Founding Partners Emma Arakelyan and Armen Kherlopian, PhD will be speaking at the Startup Lithuania International startup competition Startup Fair Pitch Battle. It will take place in Lithuania on September 9th, 2020. Mrs. Emma Arakelyan will speak about “Protecting and Monetizing Your Innovation and Product” and Dr. Kherlopian will cover “Storytelling to Enable Growth and Resilience of Your Company” topics. Learn more about the event at this link
Armen Kherlopian, PhD Session Outline
Storytelling to Enable Growth and Resilience of Your Company
- The relationship between storytelling and being a rainmaker
- The structure of a good story
- Behaviors that entrepreneurs can internalize to increase the value of their company
- The importance of rapport
- Drills for attendees to boost acumen
- Case studies
Speaker Bio Dr. Armen Kherlopian is a world class data and strategy leader as demonstrated by repeatedly driving new venture growth and ecosystem impact. Moreover, his industry experience is cross-sector including Global Fortune 100 Companies, elite asset managers, startups as well as government organizations such as the FDA and NASA. He is a founding partner at the BAJ Accelerator hosted at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute as well as a Venture Judge in the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Community and a Science Mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab. At Genpact (NYSE: G, 100,000+ Staff) his contributions have included driving transformation in global drug safety to that of analytics insights in Formula E racing, for champion standing across three continents including the Paris, Santiago and New York ePrixs. At Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH, 25,000+ Staff) he was key in developing the advanced analytics book of business and received the firm’s highest accolade, the Booz Allen Innovation Award. As a thought leader, he co-authored the Field Guide to Data Science, the most successful publication in the firm’s 100+ year history, as well as co-founded the Data Science Bowl, which is the largest data challenge for social good. Armen is an awardee of the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, and is a U.S. delegate to the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings. He holds a BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on Algorithms from Columbia University, a PhD in Biophysics with a focus on Machine Learning from Cornell University, and completed a fellowship in High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Princeton University.
Emma Arakelyan Session Outline
Protecting and Monetizing Your Innovation and Product
- Innovation Trends and Exponential Technologies
- Innovation patentability requirements in the U.S.
- Protecting your innovation and product
- Monetizing your IP
Speaker Bio: Emma is a world-class management consulting executive, angel investor, author, speaker, entrepreneur, philanthropist, coach and professor. Emma brings more than 20 years of experience in leadership across business strategy, IT Architecture & Transformation, M&A, governance and compliance credentialed by global professional services and technology companies as a Partner at EY (Ernst & Young) and Managing Director at Accenture. Emma has first-hand experience in business transformation and technology solutions implementation for Fortune 500 companies. Emma is a founding Partner of the BAJ Accelerator which focuses on enabling startup growth. She is the CEO and Founder for Orion Worldwide Innovations offering IP Management & Acquisition solutions to the innovators and investors market globally. Emma operates her multimedia company Open Mind Productions and was an adjunct professor at New York University, and is a Featured Speaker at Columbia Business School and is a mentor at Singularity University. She published her book on leadership and how to navigate, succeed and make an impact in the world of international business: The Business Caring Formula: Building Your New Leadership Lifestyle. Emma is a strategic advisor to multiple startups, cultural organizations and educational programs. Recognized both as a seasoned business professional and accomplished speaker, she is often requested to judge startup competitions, present at private meetings and public events.
Read more about Startup Lithuania here
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 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.
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.