Agenda

Time	Topic	Speaker (Click on name for more information)
9:30	Registration and Networking
10:15	Conference Opening (ARM)	Lilit Karapetyan (Host), Davit Baghdasaryan (CEO and Co-Founder at Krisp), Mkhitar Hayrapetyan (Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia), Hayk Yesayan (CEO, Team Telecom Armenia), Sergey Usnunts (Founder, Skill.am)
10:30	The AI Revolution: Why Armenia Must Act Now (ARM)	Artavazd Minasyan (Co-founder and President at Krisp, Co-founder and CEO at 10Web)
10:50	Picsart AI Research and its Application in the Product (ARM)	Shant Navasardyan (Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Team Lead at Picsart)
11:10	Harnessing AI for the Future of Knowledge Management (ARM)	Khachik Badeyan (Portfolio Lead, System and Knowledge Management at PMI Science)
11:30	Product Panel: Building Products with AI (ENG)	Moderator: Asti Piliposyan (Director, Product & Growth at Krisp) Speakers: Dmitrii Konyrev (Machine Learning Team Lead at SuperAnnotate), Alex Odin (AI Expert at ManyChat), Vasily Pisarev (Head of Product and Analytics at Team Telecom Armenia), Vlad Savinov (Team Lead, ML R&D team at Yandex.Infrastructure)
12:10	Driving Business Growth in era of AI (ARM)	Vahagn Sarksyan (VP, Marketing at Krisp)
12:30	Break and networking
13:10	Panel Discussion: AI in Finance (ARM)	Moderator: Garegin Gevorgyan (Director, Financial Stability Directorate at Central Bank of Armenia) Speakers: Davit Hovhannisyan (Chief Information Technology Officer at Ameriabank CJSC), Eduard Safaryan (Deputy CEO at Freedom Broker Armenia), Karen Zakaryan (CEO at “FINARM” Financial Market Members Association), Artyom Ghazaryan (CEO at TelCell)
13:50	AI in Fintech: The case of Acba Bank (ARM)	Mher Movsisyan (AI/ML Engineer at Acba Bank OJSC)
14:10	Automating Design and Content Creation with UC Copilot (ARM)	Gevorg Balyan (Co-founder and CEO at Ucraft, Co-founder at Hoory)
14:40	Using AI Clones to Predict and Model Customer Behavior (ARM)	Narek Mamikonyan (CTO at Prelaunch)
15:00	AI Powered Automation: Scaling Operations without Humans (ARM)	Narek Torosyan (COO at 10Web)
15:20	Voice Technologies for Armenian Language and their Applications (ARM)	Karen Avetisyan (Machine Learning Team Lead at Center of Advanced Software Technologies (CAST))
15:40	Coffee Break
16:00	Panel Discussion: AI in Government (ARM)	Moderator: Artavazd Minasyan (Co-founder and President at Krisp, Co-founder and CEO at 10Web) Speakers: Nerses Yeritsyan (Director, Information Systems Agency of Armenia), Ruben Simonyan (Deputy Minister, Ministry of High-Tech Industry), Sevak Mikayelyan (Deputy Minister of Economy)
16:40	Navigating the EU AI Act: Regulations and Global Impact on AI and Tech Development (ARM)	Adelaida Baghdasaryan (Chair of the Master of Laws Program at AUA, Legal Counsel, Senior Manager at Picsart)
17:00	AI-Driven Learning: The Future of Education (ENG)	Tom Auger (Senior Software Engineer at TUMO Center for Creative Technologies)
17:20	Panel Discussion. AI in Higher Education: Insights from Leading University Programs (ARM)	Moderator: Tatevik Hovhannisyan (Senior Program Manager at Krisp) Speakers: Arman A. Darbinyan (Director of the Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics at RAU), Kristina Sargsyan (Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at UFAR), Suren Edilyan (Head of Data Science program at NPUA), Karen Keryan (Head of Applied Statistics and Data Science Master program at YSU)
17:50	Closing Remarks

Time	Workshops	Speaker (Click on name for more information)
13:10	Foreign Accent Conversion (ARM)	Stepan Sargsyan (Architect, Tech Lead at Krisp)
14:10	Enhancing On-Device ASR with Fine-Tuned LLMs (ARM)	Vazgen Mikayelyan (Architect, Tech Lead at Krisp)

Artavazd Minasyan

Co-founder and President at Krisp, Co-founder and CEO at 10Web

The AI Revolution: Why Armenia Must Act Now

AI is reshaping industries and economies faster than any previous technology, creating unprecedented opportunities for countries that adopt it and leaving behind those that don’t. Nations like the US and China are leading this revolution, while Armenia risks falling behind despite its tech potential.
This keynote will explore why AI is crucial for Armenia’s future and what steps the country must take to harness its power. The message is clear: Armenia needs to act now, or risk missing out on the transformative benefits of AI. It’s time for government, industry, and education to unite and ensure Armenia thrives in the AI-driven world.

Shant Navasardyan

Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Team Lead at Picsart

Picsart AI Research and its Application in the Product

Scientific innovations always shape the future of the industry. Here, we present several research breakthroughs from Picsart AI team and show how inhouse scientific contributions can become a basis of a successful product.

Khachik Badeyan

Portfolio Lead, System and Knowledge Management at PMI Science

Harnessing AI for the Future of Knowledge Management

The speech will cover what knowledge management is, as well as what new prospects and problems AI brings to the table.

Gevorg Balyan

Co-founder and CEO at Ucraft, Co-founder at Hoory

AI in Web Development and eCommerce: Automating Design and Content Creation

The speech explores the evolution of traditional web design and eCommerce creation, highlighting the challenges of manual processes. It examines how AI automates design and content creation, offering faster, more personalized, and scalable solutions for businesses, revolutionizing the digital landscape.

Tom Auger

Senior Software Engineer at TUMO Center for Creative Technologies

AI-Driven Learning: The Future of Education

Do you want to learn new skills faster and be more productive? Or teach more engaging, higher quality classes? This talk will introduce the latest AI tools for education that you can start using today, and explore what teaching and learning will look like in the near future.

Narek Torosyan

COO at 10Web

AI Powered Automation: Scaling Operations without Humans

We’ll cover how 10Web uses AI to automate key processes in people operations, customer care, and documentation. This presentation highlights practical applications of AI-powered automation, showcasing its ability to streamline workflows and scale operations efficiently without human involvement.

Mher Movsisyan

AI/ML Engineer at Acba Bank OJSC

AI in Fintech: the case of Acba Bank

With new achievements in AI and machine learning, it has become easier to implement changes that greatly increase the efficiency of systems in fintech. In this talk, we will dive into how Acba Bank solves problems using AI and machine learning, discussing the challenges we faced along the way.

Karen Avetisyan

Machine Learning Team Lead at Center of Advanced Software Technologies (CAST)

Voice technologies for Armenian language and their applications

The presentation will be about the state-of-the-art Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech technologies for the Armenian language, the use cases of these tools, their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the future development and their integration into bigger systems.

Vahagn Sarksyan

VP, Marketing at Krisp

Driving Business Growth in era of AI

Learn how to grow and protect your business in the AI era. This session will discuss how AI has transformed business management and growth strategies, and provide insights on adapting, staying competitive, and building a resilient business in an ever-evolving landscape.

Adelaida Baghdasaryan

Chair of the Master of Laws Program at AUA, Legal Counsel, Senior Manager at Picsart

Navigating the EU AI Act: Regulations and Global Impact on AI and Tech Development

The presentation will cover the main principles and foundations of the EU AI Act, give an overview on the AI systems classification by risk, and the impact on AI research and industry, including AI companies in Armenia.

Narek Mamikonyan

CTO at Prelaunch

Using AI Clones to Predict and Model Customer Behavior

This presentation demonstrates how to combine different data sources to create AI clones that autonomously perform tasks, reducing costs by eliminating the need for additional spending on manual efforts and also predict real users behavoir in future.

Vazgen Mikayelyan

Architect, Tech Lead at Krisp

Enhancing On-Device ASR with Fine-Tuned LLMs

In this workshop, he will dive into the development of on-device multilingual automatic speech recognition, improving its accuracy with fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) and extracting key points and actionable insights from transcripts to enhance workflow efficiency.

Stepan Sargsyan

Architect, Tech Lead at Krisp

Foreign Accent Conversion

This workshop explores the machine learning (ML) challenge of foreign accent conversion (FAC), a special speech processing problem, within the context of real-time applications. We provide a concise introduction to core ML concepts, highlighting its role in speech processing. A brief overview of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques for audio manipulation is also included.
We then delve into established FAC approaches, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, particularly regarding their suitability for real-time scenarios. This analysis highlights the critical limitations of high parameter counts and extensive algorithmic lookahead that impede practical implementation.
We propose a novel FAC solution specifically designed to address these limitations,
enabling real-time operation. Our approach prioritizes efficient parameter usage and restricted algorithmic lookahead, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments.
Finally, we establish objective evaluation metrics for FAC tasks and present the performance results achieved by our model.