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AI Conf 2026
18 april, 2026
AI Conf 2026
18 april, 2026
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AI Conf 2026: 4th Edition of Armenia's Premier Conference

AI Conf 2026 marks the fourth edition of Armenia's leading conference in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The event is organized through the collaboration of Yerevan State University (YSU), Krisp, the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE), and the YerevaNN Scientific Educational Foundation.

The mission of AI Conf 2026 is to foster the engagement of students and early-career researchers in GPU-based computing. The conference aims to showcase the exceptional resources and technological opportunities available today both in Armenia and on international platforms, thereby laying the groundwork for the next generation of researchers.

The conference will feature distinguished keynote speakers recognized as leaders in the global AI community:

  • Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of NVIDIA

  • Armen Aghajanyan – Founder of Perceptron (ex-Meta AI)

Representatives from YSU, RA Ministry of High-Tech Industry, RA MoESCS Higher Education and Science Committee, and companies including Krisp, Firebird, Nvidia, Getin, Async, Metric, CAST, Eleveight AI, Picsart, ServiceTitan AUA, Tumo, reArmenia, ACA, CSIE/NPUA will deliver speeches.

Participation

Prior registration is required to attend the conference. Participation is free, but places are limited. We encourage early registration via the following link: register now.

Sponsors

The organization of the event is supported by our partners: Krisp, Firebird, PMI Science Armenia, Eleveight AI, and Formula VC.

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09:00 – 09:50
YSU Grand Hall Lobby
Registration and coffee
10:00 – 10:30
YSU Grand Hall
Opening Remarks
10:00 – 10:10
Hovhannes Hovhannisyan,
Rector of YSU
10:10 – 10:15
Sargis Karapetyan,
CEO of UATE
10:15 – 10:30
AI Infrastructure of YSU
Rafayel Barkhudaryan,
Vice-rector for Scientific Affairs of YSU
10:30 – 11:20
Rev Lebaredian, Vice President, Omniverse and Simulation Technology, NVIDIA
AI Agents and the Economy of Tokens
11:20 – 11:40
Alexander Yesayan,
Firebird in Emerging Markets ,
Co-Founder of Firebird.ai
11:40 – 11:55
From Molecules to Robots: Training AI for the Physical World
Hrant Khachatrian,
Founder of YerevaNN, Head of ML group at YSU
11:55 – 12:40
GPU-intensive Research in Armenia
Panel Session

Panelists: 

  • Hayk Zakaryan, Head of Computational Materials Science Laboratory, YSU
  • Astghik Hakobyan, Leading Researcher, Center for Scientific Innovation and Education (CSIE) / National Polytechnic University of Armenia
  • Mushegh Rafayelyan, Head of the Center for Optics and Photonics and PhotonicsAI Lab, YSU
  • Varduhi Yeghiazaryan, Associate Professor, American University of Armenia
  • Sevak Sargsyan, Head of Center for Advanced Software Technologies (CAST)

Moderator: Erik Arakelyan, NVIDIA

12:40 – 13:00
Talk
12:40 – 13:00
How LLMs Are Redefining Speech Recognition
Vazgen Mikayelyan,
Head of Research, Conversational Intelligence,
Krisp
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:40
Armen Aghajanyan, CEO of Perceptron AI
The Armenian AI Doctrine
14:45 – 15:20
Government Programs in AI
Panel Session

Panelists: 

  • Gevorg Mantashyan, First Deputy Minister of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia
  • Sargis Hayotsyan, Chairman of the Higher Education and Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia

Moderator: Artavazd Minasyan, Co-founder of Krisp

15:25 – 16:20
Talks
15:25 – 15:40
Pushing GPUs beyond limits to Eleveight AI
Arman Aleksanian,
CEO and Co-founder,
Eleveight AI
15:45 – 16:00
The Physical AI Bridge: Deploying VLA Models from Omniverse and Isaac Sim to ROS 2 Edge Systems
Gor Vardanyan,
Founder and CEO,
Getin
16:05-16:20
Beyond GPUs: Voice AI at Scale
Gevorg Minasyan,
Lead AI/ML Research Scientist,
Async
16:25 – 16:50
Fireside Chat

Guest: Vahe Kuzoyan, President and Co-founder of ServiceTitan

Moderators: Gor Simonyan and Samvel Karapetyan, Students at the YSU Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics 

16:55 – 17:50
Talks
16:55 – 17:10
New Compute, New Reality
Nikita Orlov,
Staff ML Scientist/Team Lead,
Picsart
17:15 – 17:30
The state of Armenian AI
Hrant Davtyan,
Founder and CEO,
Metric
17:35 – 17:50
Working Towards Reasoning and Robustness
Erik Arakelyan,
Senior Researcher,
NVIDIA
17:55 – 18:45
CS Education after Coding Agents
Panel Session

Panelists:

  • Karen Keryan, Co-head of ASDS Master Program, YSU
  • Nune Hovhannisyan, Head of Educational Programs, UATE
  • Pegor Papazian, Chief Development Officer, Tumo
  • Veronika Aghajanyan, Lead of Higher Education and Research Advancement, FAST Foundation 
  • Arshak Ulubabyan, Head of Education Programs, reArmenia Academy
  • Narek Aslikyan, Founder & CEO of Armenian Code Academy (ACA)

Moderator: Hrant Khachatrian, YSU / YerevaNN

18:45 – 19:00
Closing Remarks
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