 On May 22 and 23, the American University of Armenia hosted the first in its kind data science workshop. The initiative of the event belonged to Arthur Petrosyan, the chair of the computer science department at Savan & Sonya Akian College of Science and Engineering. We were looking for refocusing our computer science curriculum more towards data science. So the idea then came, why don't we create at the AUA a platform for these researchers to gather, present their results, interact, exchange the ideas, and perhaps even become collaborators in certain fields. The support of Dean Hajian and President Elke Regan, this idea of creating this workshop was born and it was decided that it will be hosted at the AUA. The workshop consisted of five sessions during which representatives of about 15 prominent IT companies based in Armenia and abroad presented their researches concerning algorithms, data analytics in business, data science infrastructure, natural language and image processing, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. The main purpose of the workshop was to initiate scientific interactions among groups of scientists and entrepreneurs in Armenia and abroad who work on developing cutting-edge algorithms for machine learning and big data analytics and their applications in various areas of science, economy and commerce. Overall it was pretty interesting to get an insight on what large companies do with their data here in Armenia, how they process it, what they do with it basically and the speakers did a pretty good job on explaining what is what. It is always interesting to see what new things people are trying and how they work out and it's also giving a boost or sort of news for future work. It is helpful both for people from academia because they try to learn what is going on in the industry on the data-related projects and I think that it's also interesting for the people from the industry because they are learning what the people in the academia in Armenia are doing on such kind of topics. I think the presentations were very insightful. I enjoyed very much most of them. Currently the organizers are investing their best efforts in making the event annual.