Doing Digital Forum (DDF) 2026 has kicked off in Yerevan, bringing together top local and international experts, business leaders, and public sector decision-makers. The premier event for digital transformation and financial technology is being held under this year’s theme, “Bridging Platforms and Economies.”

Tatevik Simonyan, co-founder of SPRING PR, the forum’s organizer, highlighted in her opening remarks how geopolitical and economic shifts are breaking old connections, and how digital technologies are becoming key to creating new economic “bridges” in this rapidly changing world.

“For the fourth consecutive year, we are coming together around the same idea—discussing the digital world. Since its launch in 2023, the forum has brought together more than 60 distinguished speakers and over 3,000 participants from various countries and continents. In 2023, we talked about how digital transformation is the number-one imperative of our time, anticipating the events and epic changes without which it is now impossible to imagine the functioning of many sectors. In 2024, we redefined and reaffirmed the need to keep pace with these rapid transformations and, in some ways, even to harness them. In 2025, the forum’s central theme focused on one of the most influential and complex phenomena shaping human history—money and its future—which was discussed in the context of all possible scenarios. This year, the theme of DDF 26 perfectly reflects our overarching concept: “Bridging Platforms and Economies,” said Simonyan.

Tatevik Simonyan emphasized that humanity is living in a period when geopolitics is being reshaped “before our eyes”, and the “tectonic shifts” taking place are changing not only the balance of power but the very logic of connections between economies.

“The bridges that have connected the world for centuries or decades are literally burning today. Economic ties are breaking, logistics chains are being reorganized, and traditional routes are being closed or redefined. If old connections are destroyed and bridges burned, then who, where, and how will build the new ones? One of the most modern and powerful answers is digital: today, digital technologies are changing not only business but also the ways economies are interconnected, building new bridges. These changes are occurring amid global competition, economic fragmentation, and rapid technological progress,” Simonyan said.

According to the co-founder of SPRING PR, over the years, the forum’s themes, areas of discussion, participant geography, and speakers have evolved, but the emphasis has remained the same: positioning Armenia as an innovative hub for digital transformation.

“Today, this mission takes on a new emphasis because we are not only talking about a digital hub but also about Armenia as a new bridge—a bridge that can connect not only regions but also different economic systems, financial flows, and technological ecosystems,” Simonyan added.