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Upcoming Meetup: The New Rules of Product: Building with AI and Designing for Agents on August 13 🌺 Product People is gathering again at Yandex Hall. We will have an evening focused on how AI is radically transforming product management workflows and shifting user behavior. ✨ Agenda: 18:30 — Guests' arrival 19:00 — Vardan Dabaghyan: Product Management Transformation in the AI Era 19:30 — Narek Tamoyan: When AI Agents Become Your Users - Lessons from Stripe 20:00 - 21:00 — Networking Come for the hard skills, stay for the networking. This is the perfect environment to discuss your business challenges and find new partners. Registration is required. Secure your spot here 📌

AI in HR: Innovation Meets Responsibility 🚀 Last Thursday we gathered at Yandex Hall for an insightful HR Meetup focused on the future of AI in people management! Huge thanks to our incredible speakers for sharing their expertise and real-world experience: 👉 Rita broke down how HR professionals can embrace AI safely—balancing innovation with security, privacy, and data protection. She shared practical frameworks for integrating organization-managed AI tools without losing human judgment and trust. 👉 Anahit showcased how AI is transforming recruitment at Yango Group, driving a 115% boost in recruiter productivity and cutting down Time to Offer. From multi-language interview summarizers to AI-driven funnel analytics, she proved that navigating regulated corporate environments for AI adoption pays off. Check out the photo recap here 📌 Huge thanks to everyone who came out! We can’t wait to welcome you to our upcoming events ⭐️

We are inviting you to the new Yandex Armenia Startup Breakfast on August 5, where we will discuss how to launch your startup 💬 What is needed to go from an idea to a startup in the IT field? What resources are needed for this, how to test a hypothesis, and who to contact for advice? This time at Startup Breakfast, we will discuss exactly this with the company's experts: what steps need to be taken to get a working product, and how Yandex Armenia Startup Accelerator can be the beginning of this journey. Register using the link, as seats are limited! 🌸

Join the AI agent security intensive 📌 Deploying an autonomous AI agent to production is only half the work. The real challenge starts when you need to protect your system from prompt injection, data leaks, and unwanted behavior. ✨ The AI Agents Security Week online intensive, powered by Yandex School of Data Analysis (YSDA) will take place from July 27 to 31, 2026. Together with Yandex experts, you'll explore how to build AI agent security into your architecture. What you'll cover: • Real vulnerabilities, from MCP server compromise to risks in RAG and inter-agent trust • Mistakes in AI systems, with examples from DeepSeek, Microsoft Bing, and Amazon • DevSecOps for AI, from threat modeling to integrating security practices into the development lifecycle This intensive is designed for ML developers, AI engineers, Dev(Sec)Ops specialists, tech leads, and anyone who wants to build reliable agentic systems. Get practical insights from industry experts and dive into AI security. Register ⬅️ Y. Izdeu men Jarnama LLP does not provide formal education services as part of this program Sponsored content This material is provided for informational purposes only. We do not encourage or condone any illegal or unethical activity. All techniques and scenarios described are intended solely to help explain security mechanisms and raise awareness.

Who will be your mentor during the Yandex Armenia Startup Accelerator? ⭐️ Your mentor is one of our company's leading experts, someone who develops our services in Armenia and other countries. 📌 This is not a one-time consultation. Over the course of three months, your mentor will be by your team's side: analyzing hypotheses, helping refine the product, and sharing the experience behind our company's products. Each of our mentors has already gone through the journey from idea to scale. Now they're ready to help you go through it too. Get to know the program's mentors in the cards. Registration is open. Make sure to submit your application via the link by July 30 ⬅️

Calling you to Back to Back — a new backend conference from engineers for engineers ✨ Latency grows, bottlenecks pop up where you don't expect, and a year-old architectural decision is echoing today. Familiar situation? Just about this — Back to Back. Back to the practical backend and its real challenges: failure of sustainability, scaling and architectural solutions. The Architecture & Performance track will be held in Yerevan and will focus on performance, architectural approaches, and real-world production challenges. It will feature presentations by international practicing engineers. 🔴 Bruce Momjan, Vice President and Postgres Evangelist, will present "The Amazing World of WAL." 🔴 Mons Anderson, Solution Architect at Exness, will discuss "From 2⁶⁴ and Beyond: Modern Approaches to Distributed ID Algorithms." Additionally, there will be live discussions with experts who build backends on a daily basis. 📍 We will meet offline on August 1 in Yerevan. An online broadcast will also be available. It is important to remember that the event will be held in English. Register using the link, as the number of seats is limited!

We invite you to a new Dev-Breakfast on July 18 ☕️ It's been a year since we switched to new development tools. Have we started delivering features faster, reviewing and reviewing incidents, or have we just changed the processes? 🔍 Over a cup of coffee, we will honestly discuss how to objectively evaluate development performance: which metrics really reflect the result, how to correctly compare "before" and "after" and not slip into control for the sake of the measurements themselves. No reports or presentations, just business—related conversation and useful networking. 👉 Register using the link, places are limited!

HR Meetup with Armenian Code Academy is already on July 17th! ⏰ AI is already changing the way HR and recruitment teams work. But when it comes to people, data, and regulated corporate environments, using AI requires more than speed. It requires responsibility, security, and the right mindset. We’re bringing HR professionals together to discuss how AI can be used in HR and recruitment safely, thoughtfully, and effectively. Our speakers: 🎤 Rita Marinosyan (HR Lead at Hexens) — The Security Mindset for HR. Careful with people. Careful with data. Now apply that to AI. 🎤 Anahit Antonyan (Head of Executive Search and International Recruitment at Yango Group) — Recruiting with AI in a Regulated Corporate World Agenda: 18:30–19:00 — Registration & Welcome 19:00 — Rita’s speech and Q&A 19:30 — Anahit’s speech and Q&A 20:00–21:00 — Networking & discussions Join us for an evening of practical insights, real-world case studies, and meaningful conversations about the future of AI in HR. 📅 July 17 📍 Moskovyan 35, Yandex Hall Register ▶️ https://luma.com/fxt946n1

How AI Agents are Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity? 👀 The recent session at Yandex Hall on June 25 tackled one of the most critical and complex topics in tech today: the clash between artificial intelligence and defense systems. 🔴 Vaagn Toukharian (Principal Engineer at Qualys and Adjunct Lecturer at AUA) explored how modern AI agents are now capable of automating a hacker’s cognitive loop at machine speed. During his talk, Vaagn examined real-world containment failures and contextual poisoning techniques to demonstrate how rapidly the threat landscape is evolving. He emphasized that relying solely on semantic guardrails is no longer enough for businesses and developers. Instead, the industry must shift its focus toward building structural, secure-by-design defenses integrated directly into the system's architecture. 📸 Event Photos 📺 Full Lecture Follow us and stay tuned for our upcoming events! 🌻