12.02.2014
Smart Contest and IBM Mentor Day
IBM, the Ministry of Economy of RA and Enterprise Incubator Foundation are organizing Smart Contest and IBM Mentor day in Armenia within the scopes of the IBM Center of Innovative Solutions and Technologies project. The contest aims to support entrepreneurial capacity building in Armenia as well as promoting innovation globally in various technology aspects.
Within the scopes of Smart Contest Armenia teams of students and startups should present their technology solutions in the form of ideas or prototypes.
Presented ideas should be commercially viable and should correspond to at least one of the three main criteria: Intelligent, Interconnected and Instrumented. The mentioned criteria mean that the technology solutions to be presented in the scopes of Smart Contest Armenia must suggest innovative approaches connecting people, systems and objects to use smart technologies for measuring, sensing and monitoring various aspects of existing global problems. Presented ideas should be based on technologies such as mobile, social, cloud, analytics and big data to create solutions in one of the following priority industries such as Smarter City, Transportation, Healthcare (including Pharmacy), Banking, Public and Social services.
Selected teams and startups will be provided mentorship and guidance from IBM’s top specialists, as well as an opportunity to win monetary prize as well as to participate in IBM Global Entrepreneur program as well as other events and mentor days worldwide.
Technology teams and startups registered in Armenia are eligible to participate in the program. For more details please refer to the full announcement .
For participation please submit the application form and the CVs of the team electronically to [email protected] with a copy sent to [email protected] . The deadline for application submission is March 10, 2014.
Contact info: Sona Kochkanyan, Enterprise Incubator Foundation, 123 Hovsep Emin street, 0051, Yerevan. Phone: +374 10 219728.
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Smart Contest and IBM Mentor Day 
