8:15 am - 9:00 am

Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Opening Insights from the IIA Armenia Board Chairman and President

Ara Chalabyan

IIA Armenia President

9:30 am - 9:45 am

Keynote Remarks from the Financial Regulator

Armen Nurbekyan

Deputy Governor, CBA

9:45 am - 9:55 am

Keynote Remarks: From Connectivity to Responsibility: Redefining Telecom in the Age of AI

Ralph Yirikian

General Director, Ucom

10:00 am - 10:20 am

Keynote Session: How AI is reshaping the Education

Aram Pakhchanian

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, Ayb

10:20 am - 10:40 am

Governance Session: Why Auditors Do Not Discover Fraud?

Abdulqader Obaid Ali

Chairman of the Board, IAA UAE

10:40 am - 10:55 am

Coffee break and Networking

10:55 am - 12:05 pm

Governance Session: Panel Discussion

Dr Ali Mohammed Almuwaijei

Vice-President, DEWA

Karen Babayan

Fin. Stability & Regulation Director, CBA

Varoujan Avedikian

Managing Partner, Andersen in Armenia

Irina Gevorgyan

Managing Partner, KPMG Armenia

Masis Vardanyan

Board Member, EFES Insurance

Elena Khachvankyan

Member of the Council, IDBank

12:05 pm - 12:10 pm

Signing Ceremony: Memorandum of Understanding

12:10 am - 1:20 pm

Lunch Break

1:20 pm - 2:00 pm

Concurrent Session 1.1: Elevating Audit Excellence: Unveiling the Path to the Quality Conformance

Naji Fayad

Governor, IIA Lebanon Chapter

Ara Chalabyan

IIA Armenia President

Serine Fljyan

Head of Internal Audit, Ameriabank

Abdullah Alrowais

Chairman of Audit Committee, SNB

Azat Gabrielyan

Chief Audit Executive, CBA

Arman Vatyan

PEMPAL Program Leader, World Bank

1:20 pm - 2:00 pm

Concurrent Session 1.2: What value does CFO see in internal audit?

Garegin Gevorgyan

CFO, Ardshinbank

Matej Drašček

Director of Finance, LON d.d. (Slovenia)

2:05 pm - 2:45 pm

Concurrent Session 2.1: The Laboratory for Auditing Culture

Sandro Boeri

Board Member, ECIIA

2:05 pm - 2:45 pm

Concurrent Session 2.2: Navigating Change: Key Legislative Developments of 2025

Meri Aslanyan-Amparjyan

Corp. Legal Service Head, Ameriabank

Lyuba Karapetyan

Senior Lawyer, Ameriabank

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Coffee break and Networking

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

AI Session: Keynote Presentation - AI & IA

Vijay Raghavendar

Director of Internal Audit, Uber

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm

AI Session: Business Transformation with AI

Gevorg Poghosyan

CEO, reArmenia

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm

AI Session: Interactive Discussion

4:40 pm - 10:00 pm

Gala Dinner at Voskevaz Winery

Bus takeoff at 4:40 pm

8:45 am - 9:15 am

Morning Coffee and Networking

9:15 am - 9:45 am

Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI: From Managing Risk to Leveraging Intelligence

Komitas Stepanyan

Tech & Cybersecurity Director, CBA

9:45 am - 10:15 am

Scaling AI in Armenia: Bringing AI into the Big Picture of Internal Audit

Olga Semyonova

Partner, Grant Thornton Armenia

10:15 am - 10:35 am

Coffee break and Networking

10:35 am - 11:10 am

Digital Assets: Panel Discussion - Regulatory Framework's Challenges

Levon Sahakyan

Board Member, CBA

Artyom Harutyunyan

CTO & Co-Founder, Blockstars

Armen Harutyunyan

Founder & CEO, Neuxon

11:10 am - 11:45 am

Digital Assets: Keynote Presentation - Proven Strategies for Detecting and Mitigating Fraud

Ais Dorzhinov

Co-Founder & CTO, Match Systems

11:45 am - 12:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Ara Chalabyan

IIA Armenia President

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Registration & Welcome Coffee

Opening Insights from the IIA Armenia Board Chairman and President

Keynote Remarks from the Financial Regulator

Keynote Remarks: From Connectivity to Responsibility: Redefining Telecom in the Age of AI

Keynote Session: How AI is reshaping the Education

Governance Session: Why Auditors Do Not Discover Fraud?

Coffee break and Networking

Governance Session: Panel Discussion

Signing Ceremony: Memorandum of Understanding

Lunch Break

Concurrent Session 1.1: Elevating Audit Excellence: Unveiling the Path to the Quality Conformance

Concurrent Session 1.2: What value does CFO see in internal audit?

Concurrent Session 2.1: The Laboratory for Auditing Culture

Concurrent Session 2.2: Navigating Change: Key Legislative Developments of 2025

Coffee break and Networking

AI Session: Keynote Presentation - AI & IA

AI Session: Business Transformation with AI

AI Session: Interactive Discussion

Gala Dinner at Voskevaz Winery

Morning Coffee and Networking

Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI: From Managing Risk to Leveraging Intelligence

Scaling AI in Armenia: Bringing AI into the Big Picture of Internal Audit

Coffee break and Networking

Digital Assets: Panel Discussion - Regulatory Framework's Challenges

Digital Assets: Keynote Presentation - Proven Strategies for Detecting and Mitigating Fraud

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