Armenian innovators bring cutting-edge AI experience to DataFest Tbilisi 2025

DataFest Tbilisi, Eastern Europe and Central Asia’s largest annual event dedicated to data and technology, will be held on November 27–29 with a special emphasis on artificial intelligence.

“This year the festival will spotlight an exceptional group of speakers and innovators from Armenia”, Itel.am was told by the DataFest Tbilisi organizers.

Celebrating its 9th edition, DataFest Tbilisi 2025 is fully dedicated to the future of data and AI, bringing together global and regional leaders working at the forefront of technology, business, design, art, and society. With thousands of participants from all around the world, the festival has become a key platform for knowledge exchange and cross-border collaboration in the region. 

This year's program once again highlights that mission, with Armenia playing an important role in shaping the conversation.

This year, Armenian experts from renowned institutions - TUMO, Infocom, Wearify, and TradingView - will lead talks and workshops that showcase how Armenian innovators are shaping the global AI landscape.

Founding CEO of TUMO Center for Creative Technologies Marie Lou Papazian will present the latest innovations from TUMO's product engineering lab, including a new AI colearner platform that uses virtual peers instead of tutors in the self-learning process, as well as Generative AI workshops piloted in Yerevan, Mumbai, Beirut and Takasaki. 

AI Researcher & Founding Member of Wearify Nazeli Ter-Petrosyan will explore how emerging technologies open creative possibilities that were once unimaginable, transforming the relationship between artists and machines. She will guide participants through the computational foundations of super-resolution microscopy — a Nobel Prize-winning innovation that allows scientists to study life at the nanoscale. 

Data Journalist at Infocom Katya Mamyan will lead a hands-on workshop on AI-assisted web scraping, showing how generative AI can help write and run data scripts using Python, Requests, BeautifulSoup, and Pandas - no advanced coding required. Participants will work entirely in Google Colab and learn how AI supports data cleaning, categorization, and insight generation.

Product Designer at TradingView Gor Apitsaryan will explore how artificial intelligence is transforming UX workflows — from automated research to AI-powered ideation tools. His session will offer practical examples of emerging tools, evolving design workflows, and the importance of maintaining human-centered design principles in an AI-driven world.

On the festival’s third day, younger participants (ages 7–18) will join a special Kids & Teens program, where TUMO — supporter of DataFest Tbilisi — will lead the interactive workshop:
Young participants will create fictional AI protagonists, generate visuals and songs, design websites to showcase them, and configure AI agents to play a “telephone game” with each other — blending stories, characters, and creative elements into unexpected hybrid creations.