RISE Powered by Silicon Mountains 2026
📍 Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex | 🗓 June 3–4, 2026
RISE — which stands for Research, Innovation, Science, and Engineering — is Armenia’s new spring tech event, showcasing the products, solutions, and achievements of Armenian companies, research centers, and engineering teams. The event is organized under the slogan “We…
Global iGaming is becoming more expensive, more regulated, and more complex. Compliance requirements are tightening, advertising platforms are imposing stricter limitations, and traffic acquisition costs continue to rise. In this environment, the industry’s most valuable…
Armenia’s IT sector maintained a strong presence among the country’s top taxpayers in the first quarter of 2026, showing notable year-over-year growth in total contributions. Modex represents Q1 data for the 2025/2026 period.
General overview
78 IT companies were…
Entering a new market over calls and emails may sound simple on paper: find the right contacts, reach out, set up calls, discuss terms, and move forward.
In reality, this approach often stalls at the very start. Some contacts turn out to be irrelevant, others talk a good game but have little decision-making power, and some seem interested, yet discussions never progress. The problem isn’t the…
Firebird AI will soon announce the launch of the third phase of its AI data center project in Armenia, bringing the number of GPUs to 110,000 units.
This was announced by Firebird co-founder Alexander Yesayan at AI Conf Armenia 2026 in Yerevan.
Alexander Yesayan, during his…
NVIDIA Vice President Rev Lebaredian notes that Armenia will be among the top five countries in the world, surpassing even the leading European countries.
Speaking at the AI Conf Armenia 2026 in Yerevan, Lebaredian announced that 50,000 graphics processing units (GPUs)…
Gateway to VivaTech 2026
Gateway to VivaTech 2026 is the national-level pitch competition designed to select three most promising growth-stage startups from Armenia to participate in the pitch competition at VivaTech which is being organized by EU4Innovation East between startups from the three EaP countries; Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine. To realize the selection process, the project has defined…
Armenian AI researchers and engineers now have an opportunity to compete in one of the world’s most demanding open AI research challenges.
Eleveight AI, YerevaNN and Yerevan State University have launched Parameter Golf Armenia to support Armenia-based participants in…
Armenia’s main AI conference is returning on April 18, and this time it’s being held at Yerevan State University. The organizers are calling it AI Conf⁴ — not just because it’s the fourth edition, but as a nod to how fast the field itself is moving.
In partnership with C-Quadrat Ampega Social Fund and RECONOMY Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) has launched an Impact Acceleration Program aimed at early-stage tech startups tackling real social, environmental, and economic challenges in Armenia. The program is running in partnership with C-Quadrat Ampega Asset Management Armenia (CQAA) Social Fund, with support from the RECONOMY program —…
