Dilijan 2025

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June 26, 2025

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Registration/Coffee
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9:30
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Welcome
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10:30
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Looking ahead: ASOF strategy
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11:30

Update on activities during 2025, potential priorities for 2026, new models of operations.

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Discussion Break
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12:00

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Strategy Discussion
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12:30

Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break

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Lunch
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14:30
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Academic City
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15:30

15-minute presentation by Sargis Hayotsyan, followed by panel discussion. 

Key questions: Governance challenges, risk assessment, infrastructure opportunities

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Discussion Break
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16:00

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Academic City Discussion
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17:00

Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break

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Break/Coffee
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18:00
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Science & technology
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19:00

Key questions: Advanced Research in Computational Sciences & Artificial Intelligence (ARCS.ai) initiative; Plans, opportunities in the life sciences, A.I.’s interdisciplinary role.

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Discussion Break
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19:30

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Science & technology Discussion
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20:00

Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break

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AI Factories: The Starter for Armenia’s Innovation Engine
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20:30
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Coffee
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10:00
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High-Tech Industry & Education
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11:00

Key questions: Education-industry pipeline, transnational collaborations, start-up ecosystem.

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11:30

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High-Tech Industry & Education Discussion
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12:30

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Lunch & Activities
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15:45

Group photo, 

Zhingyalov Hats making, 

Gata making, 

Music, 

Tours

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Seismic Security: ASOF-UDC collaboration
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16:30

Special presentation: Seismic safety task force

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ArCH and SIREH
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17:15

Special presentation: SIREH operations update

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Break/Coffee
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18:00
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Artsakh
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19:00

Key questions: Artsakh higher education, right of return

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Discussion Break
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19:30

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Artsakh Discussion
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Coffee
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Education Pipeline
11:00
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Key questions: Quality assurance, the role of the teacher, technology in education, new law on higher education and science

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Education Pipeline Discussion
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Announcement of new Board
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Results of Board member election announced.

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Guest
Armen Simonyan
Education

Director of "Academic City” Foundation

Lilit Simonyan

Michel Kulhanjian wife

Ruben Simonyan
Government

HTI Deputy Minister

Government

Zareh Sinanyan
Humanities

High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs of Armenia

Levon Tadevosyan
Education

Executive Director at Technological Education Foundation

Education, Ed-Tech, Technology

Armenia
Artem Tadevosyan
Business

Founder, GourmetLab

Andre Tahmassian

PhD Candidate, Lehigh University

Hamest Tamrazyan
Humanities

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Digital humanities, philology, digital epigraphy

Switzerland
Sipana Tchakerian
Humanities

Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris - UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée (team Monde Byzantin)

Archaeology, Art History

France
Henry Theriault
Social Sciences

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Worcester State University

Genocide Studies, Philosophy

USA
David Tonoyan
Business

Dot 818

Tatev Vardanyan

YerevNN

Gegham Vardanyan

Armenian Innovation Foundation

Nerses Yeritsyan
Social Sciences

Ex-Deputy Governor at the Central Bank of Armenia

Economics

Armenia
Armen Zakarian
Engineering

Vice Provost for Research, Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Michigan Dearborn

Data Analytics, Digital Manufacturing, Systems Engineering

USA
David Zalinyan
Business

SIREH, AMO Group

Vahan Zanoyan
Social Sciences

Writer, Traveler, Anti-Trafficking Advocate, Global Energy Expert

Energy, Political Science

Armenia
Azatui ‘Azi’ Karaoglanyan
Business

Executive Director of Armenia Fund

Lucy Abgaryan
Co-Founder and CEO of Grittegen Therapeutics and Proone Labs, Advisor & Mentor of Entrepreneur programs at UC San Diego
Sos Agaian
Distinguished Professor, Computer Science Department, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Felix Aharonian
Chief Scientist at Yerevan State University (YSU); Chair Professor at University of Science and Tecnology of China (USTC); Professor Emeritus at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Ekaterina Airapetian
Development Manager, FAST
David Akopyan
Senior Advisor Crisis, Fragility and Complexity
Artur Alaverdyan
Co-Founder, Member of Board, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology
Vardan Aleksanyan
Armenian Innovation Foundation
Armen Allahverdyan
A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory
Suren Aloyan
Founder and CEO, Dasaran & Koreez Educational Programs
Narek Amirkhanyan
Media, https://www.youtube.com/c/rearrange
Arevik Anapiosyan
United Nations, Partnerships and Development Finance Adviser; Founding Board Member, Harvard Alumni Club of Armenia
Zhanna Andreasyan
Minister of Science, Education, Culture, and Sports
Artak Apitonian
Ambassador; “Participatory Democracy” NGO (Founding Director); Yerevan State University (lecturer in Global Challenges and Sustainable Development)
Ani Aprahamian
Freimann Professor of Physics at Notre Dame, Professor of Chemistry
Hakob Arshakyan
Deputy speaker of the parliament of the Republic of Armenia
Andranik Arshakyan
Tigran Arzumanyan
European Commission National Contact Point
Arevik Ashkharoyan
Owner and Literary Agent at ARI Literary and Talent Agency, Founder and Director at ARI Literature Foundation
Stephan Astourian
Director, Turpanjian Center for Policy, American University of Armenia
Hrachya Astsatryan
Director, Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA (IIAP)
Nora Ayanian
Professor, Brown University
Laurens Ayvazian
Member, District of Columbia Bar Association, BoT Eurasia Partnership Foundation, BoD Depi Ver NGO; Consultant, DT-Global; Fight Life Armenia; Advisor, Informed Parents Armenia; Facilitator, Alpha Course
Anush Ayvazyan
Educational Programs Lead at Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Aleksandr Badalyan
Chair of Chamber of Architects of Armenia
Rafi Baghdjian
Advisor to the Centre for Scientific Innovation and Education Foundation
Maria Baghramian
ERA Chair and Director of Center for Ethics in Public Life (ETICA), AUA
Armen Baldryan
Armenian Innovation Foundation
Hasmig Baran
Lecturer at California State University Northridge, Armenian Studies Program
Diane Barber
Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco
Artak Beglaryan
Former State Minister and Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh, Chairman of the "Artsakh Union" NGO
Hrachoohi Boghosian
Founder and CEO of (CIPR) Center for Innovation Promotion and Research
Paul Boghossian
Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Dir. of the Inst. of Philosophy and GIAS
Valentina Calzolari Bouvier
Chair of Armenian Studies, University of Geneva
Gaianè Casnati
SIREH Scientific and Strategic Director, Europa Nostra Council member
Mark Chenian
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Levon Chookaszian
Director of the Chair of Art History and Theory at Yerevan State University
Garegin Chookaszian
co-founder and executive director of ITF, co-founder and the President of Information Technologies Education JSC
Tigran Dadayan
Naira Daluzyan
Dilijan Central School
Areg Danagoulian
Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tatevik Danielyan
Academic City Foundation
Asya Darbinyan
Executive Director, Chhange (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education) at Brookdale Community College
Diana Davidova
Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Science of Armenia
Armen Der Kiureghian
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Karen Eguiazarian
Professor, Tampere University, Finland, and CEO of Noiseless Imaging Ltd
David Essayan
Executive Vice President, ONCORD, Inc.
Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Fellow, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Vache Gabrielyan
Dean of the Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics American University of Armenia
Alen Gasparian Amirkhanian
Director, American University of Armenia Acopian Center for the Environment
Anna Gasparyan
Picsart
Arsen Gasparyan
Assistant Professor and Biodiversity Expert at the AUA Acopian Center for the Environment
Khachik Gevorgyan
President, ARMACAD
Vardan Gevorgyan
National Center For Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Innovation Advisor, Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America
Shamam Gevorgyan
Founding Director, "405 Educational Alliance" Development Foundation
Alina Gharabegian
AUA provost
Ruben Ghazaryan
Judge at the Tribunal of the Ordinariate for Catholic Armenians in Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe
Ara Ghazaryan
Scylla.ai
Talinn Grigor
Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
Avetik Grigoryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Bazoomq Space Research Laboratory
Karen Gyulbudaghyan
Lea Hakim
World Bank
Fr Hamazasp Kechichian
Mkhitarist Order
Emma Harutyunyan
Professor, NUACA; Chair of Theory and History of Architecture and Heritage
Sargis Hayotsyan
Chairman at Higher Education and Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia
Mkhitar Hayrapetyan
Minister of High-Tech Industry
Kim Hekimian
Associate Professor, Columbia University
Manuk Hergnyan
Managing Partner at Granatus Ventures, Managing Partner at Civitta AM
Ashot Hovanesian
CEO, Synergy International Systems
Mikayel Hovhanisyan
YSU Vice-rector for Development and Innovations/ Professor YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, Chair of Arabic Studies
Nina Hovnanian
CEO Hovnanian International, Founding Board Member Yerevan Biennial Arts Foundation, Founder and Creative Director Treasures of Armenia, Founding Director of the Former Armenian Tourism Development Agency
Shant Hovnanian
Hovnanian International
Vahan Huroyan
YerevaNN
Artur Ishkhanyan
Academician-Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
Mariam Jilavyan
Program coordinator and higher education expert at the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Adam Kablanian
High-Tech Executive, Entrepreneur, and Investor Founder of Alexandrea Winery
Nanar Kalantaryan
Researcher, Scientific Research Center of Historical and Cultural Heritage
Vazken Kalayjian
Co-Founder & Global Head of Design and Branding at Learning Learning Architects, LLC
Jacqueline Karaaslanian
Co-Founder and CEO of Learning Learning Architects LLC; Interim CEO of Fab Lab Armenia – Dilijan
Susanna Karakhanyan
Director for Policy and Regulation, Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge; Member of Accreditation Council, ANQA, Armenia
Eduard Karapetyan
ANSEF & Educational Program Director, Fund for Armenian Relief
Sargis Karapetyan
Union Of Advanced Technology Enterprises
Sossie Kasbarian
University of Stirling
Lucineh Kassarjian
CXO and Principal Advisor Non-profits - Sensyan, Strategic Advisory Board Member - reArmenia
Raffi Kassarjian
Sensyan, AUA, Impact Hub Yerevan, Repat Armenia, EVN Report
Hulé Kechichian
Armenian Heritage Scanning Project at TUMO
Karen Keryan
Adjunct Lecturer in Mathematics, American University of Armenia
Petros Keshishian
CEO, Risk Analytics Group, Inc.
Hrant Khachatrian
Director of YerevaNN; Data Scientist at IntelinAir
Knar Khachatryan
College of Business and Economics, American University of Armenia
Robert Khachatryan
Head of Quality Control at Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), the UAE
Serob Khachatryan
Yerevan State University
Narek Khachatryan
Serob Khachatryan
Mikayel Khanbekyan
Quantum Optics Lab, National Academy of Sciences
Haroutioun Khatchadourian
Independant researcher
Masis Komrokian
Senior Manager, Satellite Communications at Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Nerses Kopalyan
Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Michel Kulhandjian
Research Associate at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Rev Lebaredian
Vice President, Omniverse and Simulation Technology, Nvidia
Armenuhi Manjikyan
AVC
Jerry Manoukian
Emeritus Staff El Camino Hospital
Lucy Abgaryan
Co-Founder and CEO of Grittegen Therapeutics and Proone Labs, Advisor & Mentor of Entrepreneur programs at UC San Diego
Sos Agaian
Distinguished Professor, Computer Science Department, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Felix Aharonian
Chief Scientist at Yerevan State University (YSU); Chair Professor at University of Science and Tecnology of China (USTC); Professor Emeritus at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Ekaterina Airapetian
Development Manager, FAST
David Akopyan
Senior Advisor Crisis, Fragility and Complexity
Artur Alaverdyan
Co-Founder, Member of Board, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology
Vardan Aleksanyan
Armenian Innovation Foundation
Armen Allahverdyan
A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory
Suren Aloyan
Founder and CEO, Dasaran & Koreez Educational Programs
Narek Amirkhanyan
Media, https://www.youtube.com/c/rearrange
Arevik Anapiosyan
United Nations, Partnerships and Development Finance Adviser; Founding Board Member, Harvard Alumni Club of Armenia
Zhanna Andreasyan
Minister of Science, Education, Culture, and Sports
Artak Apitonian
Ambassador; “Participatory Democracy” NGO (Founding Director); Yerevan State University (lecturer in Global Challenges and Sustainable Development)
Ani Aprahamian
Freimann Professor of Physics at Notre Dame, Professor of Chemistry
Hakob Arshakyan
Deputy speaker of the parliament of the Republic of Armenia
Andranik Arshakyan
Tigran Arzumanyan
European Commission National Contact Point
Arevik Ashkharoyan
Owner and Literary Agent at ARI Literary and Talent Agency, Founder and Director at ARI Literature Foundation
Stephan Astourian
Director, Turpanjian Center for Policy, American University of Armenia
Hrachya Astsatryan
Director, Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA (IIAP)
Nora Ayanian
Professor, Brown University
Laurens Ayvazian
Member, District of Columbia Bar Association, BoT Eurasia Partnership Foundation, BoD Depi Ver NGO; Consultant, DT-Global; Fight Life Armenia; Advisor, Informed Parents Armenia; Facilitator, Alpha Course
Anush Ayvazyan
Educational Programs Lead at Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Aleksandr Badalyan
Chair of Chamber of Architects of Armenia
Rafi Baghdjian
Advisor to the Centre for Scientific Innovation and Education Foundation
Maria Baghramian
ERA Chair and Director of Center for Ethics in Public Life (ETICA), AUA
Armen Baldryan
Armenian Innovation Foundation
Hasmig Baran
Lecturer at California State University Northridge, Armenian Studies Program
Diane Barber
Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco
Artak Beglaryan
Former State Minister and Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh, Chairman of the "Artsakh Union" NGO
Hrachoohi Boghosian
Founder and CEO of (CIPR) Center for Innovation Promotion and Research
Paul Boghossian
Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Dir. of the Inst. of Philosophy and GIAS
Valentina Calzolari Bouvier
Chair of Armenian Studies, University of Geneva
Gaianè Casnati
SIREH Scientific and Strategic Director, Europa Nostra Council member
Mark Chenian
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Levon Chookaszian
Director of the Chair of Art History and Theory at Yerevan State University
Garegin Chookaszian
co-founder and executive director of ITF, co-founder and the President of Information Technologies Education JSC
Tigran Dadayan
Naira Daluzyan
Dilijan Central School
Areg Danagoulian
Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tatevik Danielyan
Academic City Foundation
Asya Darbinyan
Executive Director, Chhange (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education) at Brookdale Community College
Diana Davidova
Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Science of Armenia
Armen Der Kiureghian
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Karen Eguiazarian
Professor, Tampere University, Finland, and CEO of Noiseless Imaging Ltd
David Essayan
Executive Vice President, ONCORD, Inc.
Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Fellow, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Vache Gabrielyan
Dean of the Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics American University of Armenia
Alen Gasparian Amirkhanian
Director, American University of Armenia Acopian Center for the Environment
Anna Gasparyan
Picsart
Arsen Gasparyan
Assistant Professor and Biodiversity Expert at the AUA Acopian Center for the Environment
Khachik Gevorgyan
President, ARMACAD
Vardan Gevorgyan
National Center For Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Innovation Advisor, Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America
Shamam Gevorgyan
Founding Director, "405 Educational Alliance" Development Foundation
Alina Gharabegian
AUA provost
Ruben Ghazaryan
Judge at the Tribunal of the Ordinariate for Catholic Armenians in Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe
Ara Ghazaryan
Scylla.ai
Talinn Grigor
Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
Avetik Grigoryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Bazoomq Space Research Laboratory
Karen Gyulbudaghyan
Lea Hakim
World Bank
Fr Hamazasp Kechichian
Mkhitarist Order
Emma Harutyunyan
Professor, NUACA; Chair of Theory and History of Architecture and Heritage
Sargis Hayotsyan
Chairman at Higher Education and Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia
Mkhitar Hayrapetyan
Minister of High-Tech Industry
Kim Hekimian
Associate Professor, Columbia University
Manuk Hergnyan
Managing Partner at Granatus Ventures, Managing Partner at Civitta AM
Ashot Hovanesian
CEO, Synergy International Systems
Mikayel Hovhanisyan
YSU Vice-rector for Development and Innovations/ Professor YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, Chair of Arabic Studies
Nina Hovnanian
CEO Hovnanian International, Founding Board Member Yerevan Biennial Arts Foundation, Founder and Creative Director Treasures of Armenia, Founding Director of the Former Armenian Tourism Development Agency
Shant Hovnanian
Hovnanian International
Vahan Huroyan
YerevaNN
Artur Ishkhanyan
Academician-Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
Mariam Jilavyan
Program coordinator and higher education expert at the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Adam Kablanian
High-Tech Executive, Entrepreneur, and Investor Founder of Alexandrea Winery
Nanar Kalantaryan
Researcher, Scientific Research Center of Historical and Cultural Heritage
Vazken Kalayjian
Co-Founder & Global Head of Design and Branding at Learning Learning Architects, LLC
Jacqueline Karaaslanian
Co-Founder and CEO of Learning Learning Architects LLC; Interim CEO of Fab Lab Armenia – Dilijan
Susanna Karakhanyan
Director for Policy and Regulation, Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge; Member of Accreditation Council, ANQA, Armenia
Eduard Karapetyan
ANSEF & Educational Program Director, Fund for Armenian Relief
Sargis Karapetyan
Union Of Advanced Technology Enterprises
Sossie Kasbarian
University of Stirling
Lucineh Kassarjian
CXO and Principal Advisor Non-profits - Sensyan, Strategic Advisory Board Member - reArmenia
Raffi Kassarjian
Sensyan, AUA, Impact Hub Yerevan, Repat Armenia, EVN Report
Hulé Kechichian
Armenian Heritage Scanning Project at TUMO
Karen Keryan
Adjunct Lecturer in Mathematics, American University of Armenia
Petros Keshishian
CEO, Risk Analytics Group, Inc.
Hrant Khachatrian
Director of YerevaNN; Data Scientist at IntelinAir
Knar Khachatryan
College of Business and Economics, American University of Armenia
Robert Khachatryan
Head of Quality Control at Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), the UAE
Serob Khachatryan
Yerevan State University
Narek Khachatryan
Serob Khachatryan
Mikayel Khanbekyan
Quantum Optics Lab, National Academy of Sciences
Haroutioun Khatchadourian
Independant researcher
Masis Komrokian
Senior Manager, Satellite Communications at Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Nerses Kopalyan
Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Michel Kulhandjian
Research Associate at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Rev Lebaredian
Vice President, Omniverse and Simulation Technology, Nvidia
Armenuhi Manjikyan
AVC
Jerry Manoukian
Emeritus Staff El Camino Hospital

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