YEREVAN. - In February 2017, 10-15 Armenian IT companies will meet with their potential partners in Britain.

Founding director of BSC, Samvel Gevorgyan, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am during DigiTech Expo 2016 technological exhibition held in Yerevan.

The business trip will take place in cooperation with the UK Embassy in Armenia and Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE). 

The Armenian companies have not yet tried to take orders from Britain. The local business is also mainly conservative there, preference being given to tested Indian companies. “But recently they have begun looking for alternatives in other countries. Therefore, Armenian companies can now draw attention,” Gevirgyan noted.

The meetings will be held with four groups of potential partners: British IT unions, state institutions supporting British IT sector and foreign trade ties, direct customers (companies, giving outsourcing orders) and IT consulting companies, which will help establishing partnership between Armenian companies and the British colleagues.

The process of getting familiarized with Britain is still ahead, but there will be no ‘discounts’ for the newcomers: It will be necessary to reach agreements or launch negotiations on the ground.  And because there are no trifles in the work with the British, the Armenian IT specialists will be provided assistance with regard to holding talks and developing business models according to the British standards.

“We will select the companies based on what projects they are implementing, what clients they are already working with and the kind of feedback they have. We want to attach greater importance to small companies, but we will put no restrictions for anyone,” Gevorgyan noted.

To disseminate the knowledge on the IT sphere in Armenia more widely, the Embassy brought to DigiTech journalists of British newspapers.