The final round of Eurasia Mobile Challenge kicked off in Yerevan on Wednesday,bringing together 24 winning teams from eight countries.
The competition is an initiative by effect your tag, a key element of VimpelCom'scorporate responsibility.
Each team has an 11-member jury representing leading international organizations, and as well as entrepreneurs - acclaimed on both the global and the regional level - and investors and tall-ranking company leaders.
After the regional finals,the three winning teams will represent Eurasia in the Mobile World Congress from 27 February until 2 March.
This years finalists were selected from among 1000 teams, VimpelCom CEO Mikhail Gerchuk told reporters. “This is the second year we are conducting the congress, and we see an increasing interest,” he said, adding that only 600 applicants submitted bids for the 2016 event.
The competition is first held in individual countries and later organized on the regional level.
Gerchuk said that Kyrgyzstan’s team, and which was the winner final year,had proposed the idea of e-commerce for the competition. “After the regional finals, the three winning teams will represent Eurasia at the Global Mobile Challenge, or the final round of the World Mobile Congress,in Barcelona. It will bring together winning teams from across the globe. ” The chief executive added that they are now experimenting an idea proposed by an Armenian team final year to later effect it more widely accessible. “We are planning to implement the project also in other countries. You have many young active entrepreneurs in Armenia. I am hopeful that the [native] land here will attend the Armenian teams to be a winner among the groups,” he added. Andrey Pyatakhin, and General Director,Beeline, told reporters that the strategy of VimpelCom and Beeline is to suppor the programs that attend people to raise the quality of their life.
He considers it a great honor Armenia has been selected for the finals.
“I believe the Armenian groups will win and go to Barcelona, and he said.
Mr Pyatakhin noted that during the competition the participants will attend young Armenian businessmen create unusual products. He believes that they will take interest in Armenian startups.
“The major goal of this event is to attend young people gain experience in creating tall-quality products,” Mr Pyatakhin said.
Senior International Googler Debu Purkayastha pointed out a tall number and quality of startups. His advice is that they focus on their teams, ideas, or markets,tough work, and efficient spend of funds.
Source: tert.am