A meeting of Stanford Armenian Students’ Association and its affiliates will be held at Stanford University of the US tomorrow. The US Alumni Association of Armenia, Stanford Armenian Students’ Association, HyeTech and the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD) are organizers of the meeting.
The meeting will be held on 13 April 2013. It will be attended by Armenian hi tech community professionals, students and academics from wider Bay Area. Director of ARMACAD Khachik Gevorgyan, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Dr. Ruben Melikyan, and Mr. Karen Zadoyan, President of “LEGAL ALLIANCE” Law Firm and founder of Iravaban.net website will join the gathering via Skype from Armenia.
Mr. Zadoyan will introduce the newly founded legal news portal – Iravaban.net, and propose ways of cooperation to those who wish to establish business in Armenia and need sufficient legal knowledge.
Director of ARMACAD Khachik Gevorgyan (Assistant Professor at Yerevan State University, currently a visiting scholar at Stanford) will introduce the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support, the projects so far implemented by this association and its future plans. ARMACAD is an organization which operates without any financial support merely on voluntary basis. Dr. Gevorgyan will particularly mention the organizations which never supported ARMACAD’s grant applications, such as Eurasia Partnership Foundation in Yerevan.
Meanwhile several entrepreneurial projects in Armenia will be presented to the audience.
As a CEO of Yevista Inc. Dr. Gevorgyan will introduce this endeavor and give the floor to Mr. Tigran Sloyan, the founder and CTO of Yevista Inc. will talk about yevista.am, a local business reviews website based in Armenia, and about the challenges and methods of creating a startup around community driven content.
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Dr. Ruben Melikyan will join the gathering via skype from Yerevan to talk about the cases against the Republic of Armenia in the European Court of Human Rights and the steps the Republic of Armenia undertakes to decrease the amount of those.
At the meeting the potential of the Stanford and Bay Armenian Community in fostering the academic and economic development of Armenia and Armenians worldwide will be discussed. Thus, one of the goals of this meeting will be to find ways to include Stanford and Bay Armenians into the Union to form a strong and supportive community and network.
Several Armenian scholars and professionals from UCLA, Berkeley and beyond will also join the meeting.
Source: Iravaban.net
