WCIT 2019 to bring Google, Amazon and Facebook CEOs to Armenia

ARMENPRESS - The leaderships of Google, Amazon and Facebook will attend the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) scheduled to take place in Armenia from 6 to 9 October, Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan said in Almaty, Kazakhstan (where he is taking part in the conference conducted in the run-up to the Eurasian Inter-governmental Council).

“I want to invite all those interested to take part in this major event: the World Congress on IT will take place in Yerevan from 6 to 9 October. The executives of Google, Amazon, Facebook and other companies will attend the Congress. That will be an interesting platform for our regular meeting”, he said in his speech at the event entitled “Digital Agenda in the Globalization Era: Eurasian Innovative Ecosystem”, Sputnik Kazakhstan reported.

As part of the project, it is planned  to build an Engineering Town in Yerevan until February 2020.

The World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) is the largest and the most reputable international event among worldwide IT leaders.

It brings together high-level officials from different countries, heads of multinational organizations, universities and scientific research centers, non-governmental organizations' representatives and many more.

The event includes discussions of legal, political and economic trends affecting IT business processes, presentations of innovative solutions, B2B meetings, etc.