The Computer and Information Technologies Enterprises Association (АПКИТ) and Jurisdiction Armenia Foundation launched IT-SUMMIT 2019 in Yerevan.

As reported the news service of the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Armenia, according to Armenian News-NEWS.am, Armenia is hosting representatives of over 150 IT companies, including leaders, specialists and officials of state institutions.

In his welcoming remarks, Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies of the Republic of Armenia Hakob Arshakyan touched upon the state policy that Armenia is leading to enhance the high technologies sector in Armenia, attached importance to the process of establishing a ministry of high technology industry and emphasized that Armenia is developing a new policy on the high technologies sector with a new ecosystem and digitization agenda for development.

In his speech, Deputy Minister Gegham Vardanyan presented Armenia’s potential in the IT sector and the opportunities for development and highlighted the fact that there is a need for a coordinated approach in order to rapidly achieve progress in the sector.

According to Executive Director of the Association Nikolay Komleyev, Armenia is one of the countries that has managed to keep its IT specialists, which is an extremely major precondition for building cooperation.

The second IT-SUMMIT will provide the IT specialists of the two countries with the opportunity to become familiar with various types of projects during one event.