12:20 | 07.10.16 | News | exclusive 18680

HIVE Yerevan event to unite Silicon Valley stars

The HIVE Seed Fund will hold Silicon Valley UNLEASHED: Inside Tech’s Greatest Minds event on October 15 in Yerevan, which will be attended by famous tech representatives from Silicon Valley. The event will unite leaders from all corners of the world in Armenia to raise awareness about the tech talent in the Armenian community.

HIVE informed Itel.am that among the Speakers will be Engineering Director of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center Raffi Krikorian and his colleagues Chris Valasek, Security Lead and Robbie Sedgewick, Software Engineering Manager. Other Speakers include, Previous Director of Engineering at Twitter, David Loftesness, Google Representative Paul Asoyan, and HIVE Seed Fund founder Nina Achadjian.

The event will be attended by Ronald Weissman, Band of Angels, one of the oldest seed investment organizations in Silicon Valley.

Representatives of iissuu, Skyliner, Stripe, MobCrush and EventGeek will also deliver speeches and interactive panels at the event.

The topics for discussion at the event will include:

−    Inside Uber: Behind the Scenes with the Advanced Technologies Center
−    How to get into Y-Combinator? EventGeek’s Y-Combinator Experience
−    Building Scaleable Products
−    What does it take to raise money in Silicon Valley?

You can register here for admission. Sales are limited.