CALENDAR OF UPCOMING & PREVIOUS EVENTS

Dec
17
Tue
Speaker and Implementing Partner at Neruzh Program – December 17-21, 2019 @ UWC International School
Dec 17 @ 8:00 am – Dec 21 @ 5:00 pm
Speaker and Implementing Partner at Neruzh Program - December 17-21, 2019 @ UWC International School

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/

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.

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?
Sep
9
Wed
Emma Arakelyan & Dr. Armen Kherlopian Speaking at Startup Lithuania International Competition on September 9, 2020 @ Virtual - Digital conferencing platform
Sep 9 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am

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 

Startup Lithuania
Nov
25
Wed
Keynote Speaker at Supply Chain Lab sponsored by Lumis Partners on November 25, 2020 @ Virtual - Digital conferencing platform
Nov 25 @ 8:00 am – 9:30 am
Keynote Speaker at Supply Chain Lab sponsored by Lumis Partners on November 25, 2020 @ Virtual - Digital conferencing platform

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.

Jun
22
Wed
Speaker, moderator & Organizer of Orion Summit 2022, Yerevan Armenia June 22, 2022 @ Matenadaran
Jun 22 all-day

Orion Worldwide Innovations organized a summit in Matenadaran, Yerevan, Armenia on June 22, 2022.

Oct
21
Fri
Speaker and Mentor at Neruzh 2022, Dilijan, Armenia on October 21-25, 2022 @ Financial Center in Dilijan
Oct 21 – Oct 25 all-day

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.

Nov
8
Tue
Speaker, moderator & organizer of Alternative Investments Conference in Yerevan, Armenia November 8-9, 202 @ Congress Hotel
Nov 8 – Nov 9 all-day

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