TIRANA, September 13 /ATA/ The “Digital Nomad” festival starts in Tirana, a three-day event that brings together digital experts from different countries of the world, who will share their experiences with young professionals, entrepreneurs and innovators, who are currently exploring the world of technology and work in distance.
At the press conference, together with the guests of the festival, Mayor of Tirana Erion Veliaj expressed his happiness that the Albanian capital is finally making a big step towards technology and innovation.
Veliaj said that cities like Tirana have their originality and that is exactly why they have become attractive cities for tourists, but also for activities of this level.
The head of the municipality said that just like this very important festival, which came to Tirana in the year when our capital is the European Youth Capital, other big events, over 1000 of them, have been organized and are expected to be organized in the future.
“Tirana has recorded 1000 activities this year. We had Dua Lipa’s Sunny Hill festival, or Rita Ora’s concert. A little while ago we organized the final of the Conference League. Therefore, I firmly believe that if this event, this activity, this festival produces this fable, it produces this story of what we have achieved,” underlined Veliaj.
He said that the epicenter of this transformation is located today as a living monument in the center of the Albanian capital, Pyramid building, which is being transformed into the largest technology center in the Balkans.
“Just the fact that the Pyramid building, which is perhaps the most beautiful metaphor of Albania’s transformation, – we are moving from a dictator’s mausoleum to the largest center of IT, information technology, coding, electronics, robotics, I believe that the history of that building alone, shows the transition better than anyone; so we really start a trend of a Tirana that does not stop, to become maybe not a “new-old” city, but an original city”, Veliaj concluded his speech./p.s./
