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Technological weekend took place in Yerevan

14.07.2015

Technological weekend took place in Yerevan

Technological event, which took place on July 11-12 was a real technological feast for Armenian start-ups and teams, creative and innovative youth. All were gathered by the exciting presentations on IBM BlueMix cloud Hackathon, Slush 2015 Global Impact Accelerator competition and innovative solutions organized by Enterprise Incubator Foundation in the framework of IBM Innovative Solutions and Technologies Center. The event was sponsored by “Nikita Mobile”, “Rostelecom Armenia” and “Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine” Charitable Foundation. 

Vulpex and Simplex received a prize of 500 thousand drams, as these were 2 of 11 teams, which participated in IBM BlueMix cloud Hackathon and were recognized the best by the jury. Brainstorm team received  an incentive awards of two smartphones.

“It is gratifying, that in spite of their young age all the participants came up with interesting and innovative solutions and IBM BlueMix platform gave greater opportunities to develop ykand present their own ideas”, said Hayk Faramazyan, the head of Rostelecom Armenia. 

“It was an interesting contest, where the teams worked diligently and we could see a serious competition. In general, cloud platform based hackathon always makes the team think in a new direction and in parallel acquire new skills”, said Nairi Nairyan, a member of Simplex team. The team had developed a social music platform, where non-professional music lovers from anywhere in the world could be involved in the process of music creation.

The local competition of Slush 2015 Global Impact Accelerator for Armenian start-ups, where 11 teams participated, was organized for the first time in Armenia during the Weekend. Paqqy, Renderforest and Chally got a unique opportunity to participate in the Slush international competition to be held in Finland on November 11-12. During the event the Armenian start-ups will have an opportunity to meet with international leading investors, managers and develop their business.

Note, that Enterprise Incubator Foundation plans to make technological weekend an annual event.

IBM Innovation Solutions and Technologies Center (ISTC) is a joint program of IBM, USAID, RA Government and Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF), the primary goal of which is to provide innovative technological solutions and resources from IBM for the implementation of the appropriate trainings and scientific researches and business development. 

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