YEREVAN — On July 27-28, the organization FemInno held the biggest female innovation conference in Armenia and in the region for the third time. More than 50 speakers gathered under one roof during two days of talks and workshops and discussed the hottest topic of the technological world: Artificial intelligence and its impact on all spheres of life.
FemInno 2024 was opened with a speech by the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Zhanna Andreasyan, addressed to the conference participants and guests who arrived from more than 10 countries: the US, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Netherlands, Georgia, etc. Andreasyan reaffirmed the importance of educational initiatives in the fields of STEM in Armenia. In her speech, she pointed out the positive impact of governmental standards in the field of public education in this direction.
During the opening of the conference, the new collaboration with the WCIT conference was also announced. The founder of FemInno, Seda Papoyan, and the executive director of WCIT 2024, Hayk Karapetyan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
Among the guest speakers of the FemInno conference was Ida Tin representing Germany, who is the creator of the term femtech in 2016. Her Clue mobile app is the number one women’s health app in the world with over 15 million users in 180 countries.
Among the speakers were Sabrina Palme, the founder of Palqee from Great Britain, artificial intelligence researcher Eugenia Stamboliev from Austria, Armen Orujyan, the head of the Armenian FAST Foundation, under whose leadership the “AI Generation” program is implemented in public schools, one of the directors of world-famous Armenian startup Picsart – Madlene Minassian, Danish Nermeen Ghoniem, who is a member of the board of the Danish National Center for Artificial Intelligence, and many others.
Zarik Boghossian, one of the speakers of the conference, an American-Armenian, who is the founder of several successful technology businesses and also an investor in many Armenian startups, shared his story leading to success and conveyed great inspiration to the hall.
