16 October, Vanadzor Technology Center (VTC)
How you transform your business as tech, consumer, habits industry dynamic change, Find out from those leading the charge.
Meet entrepreneurs, engineers and mates from tech industry. You may make a great connection
1Speakers from different companies and areas located in Armenia ready to share their ideas
3New connections are always a good idea. Just show yourself and learn about other people
2Devfests are always full of fun! We do everything to make this day unforgettable
4GET EXPERIENCE
How you transform your business as technology, consumer, habits industry dynamic s change? Find out from those leading the charge.
DevFests are community-led, developer events hosted by GDG chapters around the globe focused on community building and learning about Google’s technologies. Each DevFest is inspired by and uniquely tailored to the needs of the developer community and region that hosts it
Transfer from Yerevan
Bus transfer of participants from Yerevan to Vanadzor at 08:30
Transfer point: Yerevan City Supermarket near Mergelyan park
Arrival point: Vanadzor Technology Center
Bus returns from Vanadzor at 17:00
Registration
Registration will be available during the event
Keynote/Opening
Opening of the event.
Greetings from Seda Movsisyan, GDG Yerevan community organizer, and from Anna Hovhannisyan, Vanadzor Technology Center
Albert Poghosyan
Speaker: Albert Poghosyan, BuildUP
Albert is a startupper, trainer, dreamer, and community guy. Passionate about creating the future of VR/AR Travel at @360stories. Building @BootcampBuildup!
Hayk Avdalyan
Speaker: Hayk Avdalyan, EPAM Armenia
Software Engineering Team Lead at EPAM Armenia with 11+ years of experience
Vrezh Oganisyan
Speaker: Vrezh Oganisyan
Vrezh is a Software Engineer (CTO), Lecturer (Advanced Frontend, Tech for non-Tech courses), speaker (Barcamp 2021, Tech Week 2021) and writer (oganisyan.com) who is interested in education and management. See more info on his blog — oganisyan.com
Arshak Avagyan
Speaker: Arshak Avagyan, Preezma
Arshak is a Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience. For the last 9 years he has been involved mostly in Mobile Development, Especially Android and Cross-Platform.
Coffee break
We'll have short networking and coffee break
Lusine Harutyunyan
Speaker: Lucy Harutyunyan, Picsart
I am a People&Culture Specialist with a huge focus on corporate culture. Exploring and analyzing people are my passion and my aim is to help people to find the right companies and on the other side support companies to build, scale a human-centric business and brand.
Astghik Petrosyan
Moderator: Astghik Petrosyan (Meettal, co-founder & tech-recruiter)
Speakers/Panelists: Albert Poghosyan (Bootcamp BuildUp), Edgar Marukyan (Renderforest, CTO), Barkev Iskikian (Talkdesk Armenia, General Manager), Rouben Meschian (Arminova, CEO), Vardan Hovhannisyan (Teams.am)
We will discuss how to drive success in the everyday tech team and company management. Diving into specifics how an engineer can become a strong leader. We have just the perfect panelists to tackle this important topic. You could be tinkering about starting your startup, becoming a team lead, or engineering manager: this panel will help answer some of the questions in your head.
Lilit Tadevosyan
Speaker: Lilit Tadevosyan, Adobe
Lilit is a frontend-oriented software engineer. She started her career as an ActionScript developer but then switched to JavaScript. Right now, she is really passionate about Microfrontend Architecture and Site Reliability Engineering.
Rouben Meschian
Speaker: Rouben Meschian, Arminova
Cypress is an end-to-end testing framework for web test automation. It enables front-end developers and test automation engineers to write automated web tests in JavaScript, the main language used for developing websites.
Armen Martirosyan
Speaker: Armen Martirosyan, EPAM Armenia
Was born in Armenia a long time ago. Graduated from Yerevan State University (Informatics and Applied Mathematics) and then have been working in many tech companies, like Lycos, CBOSS, Cubic, VMWare and EPAM. Co-founded two startups, Slope Technologies and BeatMaze. Can't imagine my life without Aikido and its philosophy. The same is true for Mathematics. Easily dealing with my children and consider it as my highest achievement.
Coffee break
Seda Movsisyan
Moderator: Seda Movsisyan, EPAM Armenia, Organizer at GDG Yerevan community
Speakers/Panelists: Vrezh Oganisyan (Armenian Code Academy), Yeghishe Safaryan (VTC), Hayk Aslanyan (RAU), Vardan Grigoryan (Picsart Academy Director), Hovhannes Ispirian (Head of 42 Yerevan)
Anna Hovhannisyan
Speaker: Anna Hovhannisyan, AgriThon start-up composition team leader
Anna Hovhannisyan has a Master's degree in Agriculture and Marketing and has been working in the field for more than 10 years. Currently, she is working at the ICARE Foundation as a project manager and also leading the AgriThon Innovative agricultural startup competition.
Closing & group photo
Closing of the DevFest Armenia 2021, group photo and some more networking
Transfer from Yerevan
Bus transfer of participants from Vanadzor to Yerevan at 17:00
Transfer point: Vanadzor Technology Center
Arrival point: «Yerevan City» Supermarket near Mergelyan park
Bus returns from Vanadzor at 17:00
CTO, Armenian Code Academy
IT education in Armenia - panelist
Software Engineer (CTO), Lecturer (Advanced Frontend, Tech for non-Tech courses), speaker (Barcamp 2021, Tech Week 2021) and writer (oganisyan.com) who is unterested in education and management. See more information on my blog — oganisyan.com
General Manager, Talkdesk
From engineer to strong leader - panelist
Barkev Iskikian is an Engineering Director at Talkdesk. He has worked at both US & international large-scale enterprise companies and early & late stage startups; Leading full life-cycle development of hardware & software solutions, ranging from embedded systems & Internet of Things solutions to large-scale Systems of Systems (SoS).
People & Culture Specialist, PicsArt
Choose a company not a title, top skills in demand
This session will help participants to choose the right companies where they can fulfill their potential and build long-term relations. Company mission, values, CSR play a huge role in our performance and these factors should be taken into consideration before entering each company.
Nowadays owning a strong technical skillset is not the guarantee we will succeed in our career, so during the talk, I will cover a couple of soft skills which are the most demanded.
Researcher and lecturer, RAU
Panelist - IT education in Armenia: challenges and possibilities
Hayk is a researcher at the System programming laboratory and lecturer at Russian-Armenian University. He defended his Ph.D. in 2019 at Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS. My research interests include software security, computer programs analysis, and bug detection. His academic and experience include a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Yerevan State University followed by a Ph.D. at Russian-Armenian University.
Head of 42 Yerevan
Panelist - IT education in Armenia: challenges and possibilities
Hovhannes is leading 42 Yerevan programming school since 2021 February. Before that, he has founded ITisArmenia for bringing more talents to the IT industry in Armenia. Prior to that he lived in Moscow and worked for management consulting companies for 7 years.
CEO, Arminova
Speaker & Panelist
Rouben has worked closely with a number of companies and has a passion for delivering products that solve problems in the enterprise. He has a background in distributed systems and has spent most of his career building scalable web applications.
Sen. Computer Scientist, Adobe
Why Site Reliability Engineering is the Next Big Thing
In this session we would like to discuss what SRE is and how it can help Engineers and Organizations to change the work, focus and deliver their best value. These practices have been originally developed and put into use by Google to streamline their engineering process and ensure customers are getting what they expect.
Co-founder, meettal
Moderator of the panel: From engineer to strong leader
We will discuss how to drive success in the everyday tech team and company management. Diving into specifics how an engineer can become a strong leader. We have just the perfect panelists to tackle this important topic.
You could be tinkering about starting your startup, becoming a team lead or engineering manager: this panel will help answer some of the questions in your head.
CTO, Renderforest
Panelist - From engineer to strong leader
Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information services industry. Skilled in Web technologies both in front end and back end. Strong information technology professional.
Senior Android Developer, Preezma
Speaker: Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) for Kotlin/Android Developers
Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) is a Cross-Platform Mobile framework, which uses Kotlin as the main programming Language. Is it the future of Mobile Development, or just an ordinary Cross-Platform framework?
Arshak is a Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience. For the last 9 years, he's been involved mostly in Mobile Development, Especially Android and Cross-Platform.
Startup composition team lead
Agrithons - a platform bringing together diverse specialists, including but not limited to agriculture specialists, female rural entrepreneurs, software developers, engineers, and other relevant partners (with a focus on women-owned companies and women-led technical teams) together to pursue productivity and other demand-driven solutions in agriculture. “Agrithons” will help participants improve their understanding of innovative solutions, promote networking and collaboration, and generate ideas for new product and service solutions for women agripreneurs.
Anna Hovhannisyan has a Master's degree in Agriculture and Marketing and has been working in the field for more than 10 years. Currently, she is working at the ICARE Foundation as a project manager and also leading the AgriThon Innovative agricultural startup competition.
