Innovation driven growth - Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Silk Road

Rob McCargow

Director of Artificial Intelligence, PwC

Rob works with partners across academia, government, technology vendors, start-ups, and other key stakeholders, in order to drive innovation within PwC and develop new services for clients.

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Nikoloz Alavidze

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia

Mr. Nikoloz Alavidze is a Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia since May 2019. Directions under his responsibilities are Investment Policy, ICTs and R&I. Before joining, the Ministry Mr. Alavidze worked in different high level positions on the private sector, particularly in Banking (TBC Bank, BOG, Societe Generale) as well as in large RE & Hospitality Company Union Properties Ltd and Private Investment Fund - Vector Management Group on a high level positions. He also acted as an angel investor and was a Founder and Managing Partner of Social Impact project “Altihut 3014”.

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Nino Enukidze

Rector, Professor, Business and Technology University

More than 10 years of experience of working in education sector, developing strategy for forming the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Georgia, engaging stakeholders in innovations and technology agenda of the country. Since 2016, involved in the process of launching Silicon Valley Tbilisi, successfully implemented innovative projects in Georgia, involving academia, international partners, private sector, startups. Launched Global Startup Foundation to operate at Silicon Valley Tbilisi in collaboration with Israel’s Silicon Wadi

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Armen Abroyan

Deputy Minister of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia

Following his education with a master’s degree in Information Technologies Mr. Armen Abroyan served as a programmer working with a number of well-known companies both in Armenia and Ukraine. From 2000 to 2012 he worked for “ISMA”, “M-Possible”, “Synopsys Armenia”, GSC Game World and “Macadamian AR”.

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László György

Secretary of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation, Ministry for Innovation and Technology of Hungary

György László, PhD is Secretary of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation in the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, associate professor at John von Neumann University and assistant professor at ELTE University.

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Irakli Beridze

Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics United Nations, UNICRI

More than 20 years of experience in leading multilateral negotiations, developing stakeholder engagement programmes with governments, UN agencies, international organisations, think tanks, civil society, foundations, academia, private industry and other partners on an international level.

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Marko Marn

Senior Partner Solution Professional Data&AI, Microsoft CEE Multi Country

Mr. Marn is Director for Cloud and AI in CEE Multi-Country responsible for the area of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence in 24 countries including commercial and public sector. In the past he was transforming customer productivity processes through introduction of modern workplace solutions.

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