Ambassador Grigor Hovhannissian’s Meetings in the Silicon Valley

24 June, 2017

On June 23-24, Ambassador of Armenia to the United States Grigor Hovhannissian traveled to the Silicon Valley and the Bay area, where he held a number of meetings with the leading IT companies. Ambassador discussed the future of cooperation between the industry leaders and the Republic of Armenia in strategic areas of technology, such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and cyber security.

During his meeting with the leadership of “Nvidia” corporation Ambassador Hovhannissian learned about their latest innovations, which mainly focus on artificial intelligence and self-driving cars.

The representatives of “Accenture Liquid Studio” briefed Ambassador Hovhannissian on the main aspects of their work with startups, as well as demonstrated some of their latest products.

Ambassador Hovhannissian also spoke at SYNOPSYS-AGBU round table that brought together the representatives of academia and Silicon Valley based companies, operating in Armenia. Ambassador Hovhannissian discussed the mechanisms of providing assistance to Armenian startups operating in the Silicon Valley, as well as the necessity to organize regular trainings by Armenian professionals of the Silicon Valley in Armenia.

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