The upcoming Kolba Café event will host Vahagn Poghosyan, an entrepreneur and a visionary whose  work goes far beyond his great successes in IT and entrepreneurship.  He promises to challenge our perception of systems, statehood, hierarchy and human power. Following a presentation on The Power of Decentralization, we will open the floor for a discussion.

 

During the event together we will discuss pros and cons of decentralization and impressive examples of its application in a range of different areas – from technology to management to daily routines.  Will try to answer questions like: how are power, people and functions distributed around us? What responses do we have to the problems of centralized power? How can we implement them?

Vahagn Poghosyan is the Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Instigate Design CJSC (2005). After creating Instigate, Armenia’s premier IT Company, Vahagn became a serial entrepreneur creating multiple startups such as ProximusDA, Amtokay, Instigate Mobile and his most recent, Instigate Robotics. Instigate Robotics targets the development of educational and industrial robots, as well as providing solutions for industrial automation. Products offered by Instigate Robotics include 3D printers, CNC machines, multi-rotor copters and SW solutions for control systems.

Vahagn is one of the conceptual authors of Nairi IT Consortium that is engaged in implementing school and university projects targeting improvement in the IT sector in Armenia. Before repatriating and starting his own business in Armenia in 2004 Vahagn worked in Silicon Valley. He is an advisor to a number of promising IT initiatives and a UITE board member. Vahagn holds a PhD of Computer Science from Yerevan State University. He is the author of several patents in IT engineering.

The event will run in English.

Photos from the event are available at Kolba Lab’s facebook page.