Tbilisi will host Italian Innovation and Research Day 2024
Luigi Nicolais, the President of the Italian technological innovation foundation COTEC, and Antonio Giacomini, the Chief Executive Officer of Innovaway, an Italian leading IT service provider for digital transformation, will also participate in the event remotely. Photo via Italian Embassy
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Italian Innovation and Research Day, dedicated to the anniversary of the birth of the Italian scientist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini, will be marked in Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi on Monday, with representatives of various institutions, academic and entrepreneurial circles to attend the event.
The event, organised by the Italian Embassy in Georgia and the Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency and aimed at further enhancing the ties between the two countries in the fields of technology and innovations, will be opened by the Italian Ambassador Massimiliano D'Antuono, the Deputy Economy Minister Irakli Nadareishvili and Avtandil Kasradze, the Chair of GITA.
Luigi Nicolais, the President of the Italian technological innovation foundation COTEC, and Antonio Giacomini, the Chief Executive Officer of Innovaway, an Italian leading IT service provider for digital transformation, will also participate in the event remotely, the Italian Embassy said.
Tiziano Camporesi, the representative of the scientific research centre European Organisation for Nuclear Research and physics researcher and the honorary professor of Boston University, as well as Irina Tsagareishvili, the Director of Georgian tech startup Axel - Georgian Business Angel Network, will deliver presentations for the guests.
Winners of STEM Study Visits to Italy, the competition jointly organised by COTEC and GITA, will be awarded at the event.
The Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency on Friday hosted the annual celebration of Italian Innovation and Research Day at one of its tech venues in Tbilisi.
Avtandil Kasradze, the Chair of Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency, held meetings in Japan to brief the Japanese partners about the development of Georgian innovation and technology “ecosystem” and to internationalise the country’s startups in the Japanese market, the Agency said on Saturday.
The Georgian Agency for Innovation and Technology on Monday presented a new project to enable citizens to acquire the “most-in-demand IT skills” and find employment in “high-paying positions” in the industry.
Vakhtang Tsintsadze, the Georgian Deputy Economy Minister, on Monday told the Georgian IT Innovations Event, aimed at discussing the importance of information and communication technologies in the socio-economic development of the wider region, that the country’s Government was supporting development of innovation and knowledge-based economy.