About The Forum

The Armenia Engineering Week is a yearly event that showcases and celebrates the latest achievements of engineering in Armenia.

During the forum, engineers present on their latest projects in such industries as Automotive, Semiconductor Test, Wireless Communication, Biomedical Engineering, Consumer Electronics, Education Technologies and manufacturing.

The purpose of the forum is to promote the high-tech engineering and manufacturing in Armenia and to share their story with the wider community.

Forum Topics

The forum will cover the following industries:

Technical Program 2023

Converging Engineering, Science, and Art

IN PROGRESS

November 24

  Location: National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

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09:30 - 10:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 11:30 Opening and Welcome Speeches
  • Hakob Arshakyan, Vice President of the Armenian National Assembly
  • Robert Khachatryan, Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia
  • Andrew Golda, Acting Deputy Mission Director, USAID Armenia
  • Narine Tadevosyan, Senior Operations Officer, World Bank in Armenia
  • Bagrat Yengibaryan, Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation
  • Aram Salatian, Chairman of Engineering Association
11:30 - 13:00 Panel 1: Armenia, An Attractive Destination for High-Tech Investment
  • H.E. Nilakshi Saha Sinha, Ambassador of India to Armenia
  • Davit Dilanyan, Political and Economic/Trade Affairs Officer, Embassy of Sweden in Armenia
  • Tigran Arakelian, President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry France Armenia
  • Armen Ovanessoff, Principal Director at Accenture Research, United Kingdom
  • Moderator: Aram Salatian
    Chairman of Engineering Association
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Panel 2: Pioneering with Emerging Engineering Technologies in Armenia
  • Artak Ghazaryan, Chief of Party, USAID Economic Foundations for a Resilient Armenia Activity
  • Armen Baldryan, Chairman| UEICT, Director |Unicomp
  • Hrayr Hovsepyan, Senior Scientist, PMI Science
  • Aram Salatian, President, Engineering Association
  • Gegham Vardanyan, CEO, ATG
  • Moderator: Arsen Arustamyan
    Director of National Instruments Armenia
16:00 - 17:30 Panel 3: Engineering, Science, Art: What is the Algorithm?
  • Alexandr Khachunts, Chief of Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Institute of Physiology NAS RA
  • Davit Mosinyan, Associate Professor, Chair of Philosophy and History, YSU
  • Hrachya Vardanyan, Artist, Co-Founder, Galique
  • Lilit Margaryan, Operations Manager, Gituzh
  • Bella Harutyunyan, Gyumri Technology Center Manager at Enterprise Incubator Foundation
  • Moderator: Bagrat Yengibaryan
    Director of Enterprise Incubator Foundation
17:30 - 18:30 Master’s Degree and PhD Support Programs Award Ceremony
19:00 Reception at Tigran the Great Ballroom, Armenia Marriott Hotel

November 25

  Location: Engineering City, Yerevan

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09:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 18:00 Engineering Expo

Electronics | Semiconductor | Automotive | Aerospace | Manufacturing | Biotechnology | Engineering software

10:00 - 18:00 Engineering Youth Zone
  • Professional Orientation Sessions
  • Engineering City Education Programs and Student Projects Exhibition
  • Hands on Zone
12:00 – 17:00 Industry-Specific Closed-Door Sessions

Electronics | Semiconductor | Automotive | Aerospace | Software | Manufacturing | Education | Science

11:00 – 17:00 Engineering City Tours – Science and Technology Museum, Space Museum, Art Exhibition, Manufacturing
11:00 – 12:00 Panel 1: InnoTech4Ag: Unveiling the Future of Armenia’s Agriculture
  • Vardan Urutyan, Rector, Armenian National Agrarian University
  • Mihran Sahakyan, Private Sector, Innovative Agriculture
  • Areg Galstyan, Private Sector, Organic Agriculture
  • Alexander Hakhnazaryan, Private Sector, Innovative Agriculture
  • Moderator: Artak Ghazaryan,
    Chief of Party, USAID Economic Foundations for a Resilient Armenia
12:00 – 13:00 Panel 2: Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Engineering and Science
  • Shant Arakelyan, Senior Engineer, SEMES, South Korea
  • Christos Mademlis, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Constantinos Simserides, Associate Professor, University of Athens, Greece
  • Mikayel Aleksanyan, Head, Educational Laboratory of Department of Physic of Semiconductors and Microelectronics, YSU
  • Hovhannes Haroyan, Head, Telecommunication and Signal Processing Department, YSU
  • Armen Sargsyan, Lead Researcher, KaosKey
  • Moderator: Arpine Davtyan
    Project Manager of Enterprise Incubator Foundation
14:00 – 15:00 Workshop
  • Building Bridges in FLOPs: The Armenian National Supercomputing Center's Digital Ecosystem
  • Presenter: Dr. Hrachya Astsatryan
    Director of Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems
    of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
15:00 – 16:00 Workshop
  • Don’t get hacked in 2024: Protecting yourself online
  • Presenter: Aleksey Chalabyan
    Technical Expert at CyHub Armenia by EIF
    | Cybersecurity Incubator and R&D Lab

November 26

  Location: Vanadzor Technology Center, Vanadzor

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11:30 – 12:00 Arrival and Registration
12:00 – 13:30 Panel Discussions: Youth and innovation
  • Bagrat Yengibaryan, Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation
  • Aram Salatian, Chairman of Engineering Association
  • Mariam Davtyan, WAVE EIF Youth Initiative
  • Ophelia Sargsyan, Manager, External Innovation & Alliances, PMI Science
  • Moderator: Arsen Arustamyan
    Director of National Instruments Armenia
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 17:30 Workshops
  • 1. Engineering as a pillar of rehabilitation, Davit Arsenyan, QaylTech
  • 2. Sensory alchemy: a fusion of Engineering, Art and Science, Bella Harutyunyan, EIF/GTC
  • 3. Science shapes the future: From neural pathways to modeling imagination and the real world.
  • Virtual Laboratories: The Future of Physics Education or Beyond | Observation: Predictive Power in Physics Modeling | Chemistry for Healing: Drug Delivery Systems| Decoding Thoughts: The Neuroscience of Mind-Reading
  • 4. The role of modern Engineering, Shavarsh Voskanyan, EIF/ VTC
  • 5. Medical Engineering, Marina Davtyan, Armbioncs
  • 6. AUV practical works, Babken Abrahamyan, Yerevan Aerospace Engineering
  • 7. Mechatronics, Armen Avetyan, Roman Novosolyov
  • 8. Microsatellite, Mher Mehrabyan, Executive Director, Armenian AeroSpace Agency
18:00 Reception