For our first panel of the day “What are we building? Models for Excellence in Armenia-Diaspora Collaboration,” Lara Setrakian, the Acting President of APRI Armenia, presented the panel and the guests. Aram Pakhchanian, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Ayb Educational Foundation, Marie Lou Papazian, CEO of TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, Ruben Vardanyan, Public and Political Figure, and Ara Barsam, the Global Executive Director of COAF, shared their ideas about building and collaboration between Armenia and the Diaspora.