Tuesday, October 1 2019 12:58

ArmInfo. WCIT 2019 Organizing Committee announced the names of speakers at the opening ceremony of the 23rd World Congress of Information Technologies 2019,  which will be held in Yerevan.

According to the press service of the forum, at the opening of WCIT  2019, on October 7, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan  will make an opening speech, Yvon Chiu, chairman of the World  Alliance of Information Technologies and Services (WITSA) and  Alexander Yesayan, chairman of the organizing committee of WCIT 2019,  president of the Union of Advanced Technology Companies (UATE).

This year, the World IT Forum <WCIT 2019> is dedicated to the topic  <The Power of Decentralization.  Prospects and Risks>. The conference  will discuss in detail how information and communication technologies  positively and negatively transform our lives, what impact they have  on profit and wealth, reliability and security, democracy and  humanity.

More than 2500 participants from 70 countries are expected to attend  the Congress. For more information on WCIT 2019 and the agenda, visit  www.wcit2019.org.

The Armenian government declared IT a strategic direction of economic  development. The country's legislation creates favorable conditions  for foreign direct investment in the IT sector. Consistent efforts  are being made to promote high-tech innovation, the development of  ecosystems and startups. About 45 percent of IT product exports go to  the USA and Canada, 25 percent to Europe, 11 percent to Asia. In  Armenia, there are about 900 ICT companies, including the world  famous Picsart, Renderforest, Softconstruct, Joomag.

WCIT 2019 will be held in Yerevan on October 6-9, 2019. The Congress  is held by Armenia with the assistance and under the high patronage  of the Government of the Republic of Armenia. The World Congress on  Information Technology (WCIT) was established by the World Alliance  for Information Technology and Services (WITSA). Its main  organizational body is the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises  (UATE).