Armen Orujyan, the Founding CEO of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) and Ara Tadevosyan, the Director of Mediamax, talked about the 7-year history of FAST and the different realities of 2017 and 2024.
Topics of the interview
00:31 - Intro
00:50 – FAST’s vision from 2017 to 2041
03:00 – Scenarios considered in 2017
07:55 – The necessary investments to appear in the group of AI leaders
13:30 – The importance of culture change
15:20 – The principle of talking less and listening more
18:05 – FAST was born “thanks” to the April war
22:55 – You learn more from defeat than from victory
25:00 – FAST is not a magic wand
33:00 – Endpoint must be defined
34:45 – The dynamics of Diaspora sentiments and the absence of systemic approach
43:00 – Comparing painkiller and antibiotic in 2017 and today
46:00 – After 10 years, 5 thousand professionals will come to the market
Armen Orujyan, the Founding CEO of the Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) and Ara Tadevosyan, the Director of Mediamax, talked about the 7-year history of FAST and the different realities of 2017 and 2024.
Topics of the interview
00:31 - Intro
00:50 – FAST’s vision from 2017 to 2041
03:00 – Scenarios considered in 2017
07:55 – The necessary investments to appear in the group of AI leaders
13:30 – The importance of culture change
15:20 – The principle of talking less and listening more
18:05 – FAST was born “thanks” to the April war
22:55 – You learn more from defeat than from victory
25:00 – FAST is not a magic wand
33:00 – Endpoint must be defined
34:45 – The dynamics of Diaspora sentiments and the absence of systemic approach
43:00 – Comparing painkiller and antibiotic in 2017 and today
46:00 – After 10 years, 5 thousand professionals will come to the market
