PKF Malta has sponsored an international Blueprint for Innovation Session by bringing together a think-tank of professionals representing a cross-section of the market, ranging from start-up success stories to crowdfunding, block chain and bitcoin.

The session was chaired by two keynote speakers who flew from Silicon Valley to share their experiences with of innovators, start-ups, researchers, lecturers and government agencies like Finance Malta, Malta Enterprise and MITA.

The key note speakers were Gor Sargsyan, president of Qbitlogic International, Atlanta (US), and Stas Gayshan, managing director at the Cambridge Innovation Centre (CIC) in Boston. Mr Sargsyan spoke about his experience and the various successful ecosystems that contribute to five per cent of GDP in Armenia and flourish so generously in Silicon Valley.

Following his presentation, there was a key note address by Stas Gayshan, who highlighted the essential ingredients for Malta to succeed in future generation of creative industries which include efficacious physical and social infrastructure together with a network that bonds the nodes which in Silicon Valley jargon is referred to as the ecosystem.