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Thousands of IT specialists – programmers, engineers, bloggers, online journalists and social network activists will have the chance to participate in BarCamp Yerevan 2012 unofficial conference on May 11-12.

This is the fifth year that BarCamp Yerevan, which usually conveys specific agility and creative spirit to the Armenian IT domain, is held in Yerevan.

This year again the participants of the unofficial conference to be held in the building of Paramaz Avedisian of the American University of Armenia will have the chance to get new knowledge and skills by taking part in special master classes by guest speakers, have presentations and share their experience, discuss internet technologies, applied programming problems, innovative engineering solutions and latest developments of the social media in the region and all over the world.

This year David Garcia Quintas, Software engineer in the ads data platform team at Google, is invited to have a presentation at the BarCamp Yerevan 2013. Anahi Ayala Iacucci, Senior Innovation Advisor at Internews Network, as well as Philipp Kats, Special projects editor at the infographics studio of RIA Novosti, Mikhail Dunaev, Programming unit manager at infographics studio in RIA Novosti
will specially visit Yerevan to attend BarCamp 2013 as a guest speaker. They will have lectures and master classes for the participants.

For the second consecutive year, Orange Armenia is the general partner of BarCamp Yerevan. Sponsors and supporters of the event are Alternative Resources in Media (ARM) project and Internews Armenia with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Russian RIA Novosti agency and SFL company.

“As internet services provider and the leader of mobile internet in Armenia, we feel also our responsibility for boosting improvement of the web environment in the country. We are greatly interested in this project that we support for the second time financially, and of course by providing Orange internet on the venue. We are convinced that the exclusive atmosphere that will be created during BarCamp will make a favorable platform for exchanging thoughts and experience. We believe that this event, among other suchlike events, is greatly important for the formation of an information society and promotion of creative mind in the country,” noted Francis Gelibter, Orange Armenia CEO.

To participate in the (un)conference you may register in BarCamp Yerevan site www.barcamp.am. You can also find BarCamp Yerevan in Facebook https://www.facebook.com/barcampevn, Twitter @barcampam and make posts via #barcampevn12 hashtag.

BarCamp is an event format that ensures open discussions and free exchange of thoughts in an informal atmosphere and which is widely applied all over the world. BarCamp participants themselves prepare and present reports and initiate discussions. BarCamp agenda is made by participants only after opening of the event, when the participants write down the schedule of their reports according to subjects and hour on the whiteboard.