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Back to 2008 year Program
Wednesday, June 20
- 12.00 Exhibition set up
- 13.00 Registration begins
- 14.00 - 16.30 Workshop
"Term Sheets and Rules of Engagements with Investors"
(Petrodvorets hall, 2nd floor)
Ilia Dubinsky, IFC (World Bank Group)The Workshop is intended as an in-depth look at nuts and bolts of term sheets, valuations and rules of dealing with potential investors. It will cover such topics as: "What a term sheet is", "How to examine a term sheet: a section-by-section view", "Valuations and the terms", etc. The workshop will also briefly cover questions of managing expectations, selecting the "right" investor, increasing value of a company, and negotiating the deal.
- 16.45 - 17.00 Exhibition opening
- 17.00 - 18.45 RUSSOFT Open Meeting
(Petrodvorets hall, 2nd floor)
Moderator - Valentin Makarov, President, RUSSOFT
The RUSSOFT Board will conduct open discussion with its current and potential members over strategy of RUSSOFT, achievements that RUSSOFT made in 2006 and challenges that it will meet in 2007. The Meeting is open to all Forum participants.
- 19.00 Welcome cocktail and reception
Thursday, June 21
- 8.00 Registration continues
- 9.30 - 10.00 OFFICIAL OPENING (Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)
Moderator - Valentin Makarov, RUSSOFT
- Program Committee
- Government of St. Petersburg
- Ministry of IT and Communications of Russia
- RUSSOFT Association
- 10.00 - 11.30 Keynote Session (Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)
Moderator - Dmitry Loschinin, CEO, LUXOFT
- Michael Corbett, IAOP
"The World of Global Sourcing"
- Detlev Hoch, McKinsey
"Software Development: from Russia to the Global market"
- Wayne Rash, Senior Writer and Washington D.C. Bureau Chief, eWeek
"Opportunities in Enterprise Convergence"
- 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break and networking (Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor)
- 12.00 - 13.30 Keynote Roundtable (Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)
"Global Sourcing"
Moderator - Nikolai Puntikov, President, Eastern Europe, Exigen Services
Participants:
- 13.30 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 - 16.30 Parallel Sessions
Session 1. "Captive Centers"
Roundtable
(Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)
This session will be focused on sharing experience and views of major international players who have already established their captive centers in Russia. The issues are: why Russia, why captive (as opposed to outsourcing), lessons learned. |
Session 2. "Industry consolidation"
Roundtable
(Pushkin hall, 2nd floor)
Within the last 12-18 months the Russian software development industry has witnessed significant acceleration of consolidation, particularly at the top segment of the market. Several major players experienced mergers and acquisitions which were aimed at important growth. The session will allow participants to gain key insights of the consolidation process. |
Session 3. "Product Engineering from Russia"
Panel
(Petrodvorets hall, 2nd floor)
This session will cover successes and problems in a very promising area of software development outsourcing to Russia, where the Russian software development industry’s reputation as an excellent partner shines through. |
Moderator
Justin Lifflander, HP
Participants:
- Vladimir Polutin, CEO, Motorola St.Petersburg
- Alexander Kozlinski, Intel Moscow
- Igor Agamerzian, General Manager, EMC St.Petersburg Development Center
- Natalia Geller, Operations Manager
- Igor Kaloshin, Intel
 Roman Golovatsky, Associate, DLA Piper- Company presentation - Yury Uskov, Director of Business Development, CPS Labs Ltd
- Andrei Masalovich, President, Inforus Consortium
- Company presentation - Menno de Jong, Director Levi9
- Company presentation - Small&Big
- "Sweden - A Leading ICT Country" - Dr. Ciro Vasquez, Senior Business Development Manager ICT, Member of SOS, EOS, IEEE Communications Society
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Moderator
Ilia Dubinsky, IFC
Participants:
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Moderator
Alexis Sukharev,
President, Auriga
Participants:
- "Rethinking Product Development Engagements" - Ekaterina Zabelinskaya, Director, Custom Applications & Outsourcing BU, Reksoft
- Victor Pichushkin, Software Development Manager, World Wide Telecom Software Solution Center, HP Russia
- Victor Weinstein, CEO, Aplana Software
- Omar Ahmad, Chief Executive Officer, Comapping
- Michael Bykov, Chief Technical Officer, Luxoft
- "Product Engineering" - Alexis Sukharev, President, Auriga
- "Product Engineering Outsourcing" - Mikhail Bykov, Luxoft, CTO
- "Product Development for Innovative SME’s" - Victor Weinstein, CEO, Aplana
- "Rethinking Product Development Engagements" - Alexander Egorov, Chief Executive Officer, Reksoft
- "A novel way of sharing knowledge" - Andrey Terekhov, President Lanit-Tercom, Omar Ahmad, CEO Comapping.com
- "Product engineering from Russia. Telco software use cases" - Victor Pichushkin, Software Development Manager, Hewlett-Packard
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- 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break and networking (Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor)
- 17.00 - 18.30 Exhibition reception and matchmaking (Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor)
Corporate presentations of Russian companies
(Leningrad Hall)This session is designed to allow small and mid-sized companies from Russia to present their business and skills to international customers. We invite vendors to send us applications for participation in the Corporate Presentations Session. |
RUSSOFT Press-club
(Pushkin Hall, 2nd floor)
RUSSOFT executives and leading members will share with Russian and foreign Mass-Media the results of two studies over the Russian software export: IDC study of 2007 and the 4th Annual Russian software export industry survey conducted by RUSSOFT. |
One-2-One matchmaking(Leningrad Hall) |
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- Presentation of RUSSOFT 4th Annual Software Export Industry Survey
- Presentation of IDC 2007 study of Russian software export
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- "Software Development & More from Russia to the Global Market - Trends, Opportunities & Threats in Global/European IT Services" - Detlev Hoch, McKinsey
- "Opportunities in Enterprise Convergence" - Wayne Rash, eWeek
- "Winning the Global War for Talent through Outsourcing" - Michael Corbett, IAOP
- Idor Kyprienko, ICT Policy Development Expert
- "Deloitte CIS Services Overview." - Valery Zaichenko, Senior Manager, TI, Olga Moskaleva, Outsourcing Leader, Ivan Ladygin, Senior Manager, S&O
- "Siemens IT Solutions and Services" - Edgars Puzo, Director of Global Production Center
- Dmitri Issanov, CEO, Database Intelligence
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- 19.00 Dinner at Pribaltijskaya Hotel
- 21.00 Relaxing opportunity in Waterville Aquapark, next to Pribaltijskaya Hotel
Friday, June 22
- 8.00 Registration continues
- 9.30 - 10.30 Keynote Session (Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)
Moderator - Arkadiy Dobkin, CEO, EPAM Systems
- Dean Davison, VP – Research, NeoIT
"Russian IT-industry as seen by international analysts"
- Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
"Russian IT-industry image in the international Mass Media"
- 10.30 - 11.30 Keynote Interview (Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)
"Russian software industry leaders"
Moderator - Wayne Rash, Senior Writer and Washington D.C. Bureau Chief, eWeek
The session is devoted to an open discussion between acknowledged leaders of the Eastern European software export market. They will share views over modern trends, prospects, problems and solutions.
Participants:
- 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break and networking (Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor)
- 12.00 - 13.30 Parallel Sessions
Session 4. "Maturing Outsourcing Engagements: higher complexity - new opportunities"
Panel
(Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)This session is particularly dedicated to software methodologies and engagement models that Russian software companies successfully apply in the their relations with global clients. |
Session 5. "Successes of Vertical expertise from Russia (Telecom)"
Panel
(Pushkin hall, 2nd floor)Russoft Annual Export Services Survey (2006) shows that the customers from telecommunications sector make up the second largest client segment for the Russian software outsourcing vendors. The panel will present the best cases of cooperaton between Russian software development companies and customers from telco industry. The discussion will involve both service and product providers from Russia with the real life examples of their successes in the global market. |
Session 6. "Successes of Vertical expertise from Russia (Finances)"
Panel
(Petrodvorets hall, 2nd floor)This session will highlight success stories and experience of International customers and Russian providers in joint projects - this time in the field of Finances and Banking, where Russia is very quickly becoming a major player. |
Moderator
Arkadiy Dobkin, CEO, EPAM Systems
Participants:
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Moderator
Alexander Egorov
CEO, Reksoft
Participants:
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Moderator
Dmitry Loschinin, Luxoft, CEO and President
Participants:
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- 13.30 - 15.00 Vendor hosted lunch in the Leningrad Hall
- 15.00 - 16.00 Parallel Sessions
Session 7. "Legal Framework for Doing Business in Russia"
(Pushkin hall, 2nd floor)This Session will be devoted to educating newcomers from Western countries on the legal system of Russia. International lawyers of high repute and substantial experience in Russia will share their thoughts and provide updated information on how to do software business in Russia. |
Session 8. "New approaches to the practical education of software engineers"
(Petrodvorets hall, 2nd floor)This session will be devoted the hottest topic in the software development community: How to get qualified and committed engineers for our fast growing industry?. Renown Gurus in the field will share their experiences of organizing sustainable processes of educating and training engineers. |
Session 9. "Nearshoring to Russia from the Northern Europe"
(Leningrad Hall)
This session will touch upon experience of Nordic businesses in the software development outsourcing to Russia – the most natural nearshoring desitination in the Baltic Rim. Common characters, extended historic links, cultural closeness and still – challenges and regional particularities to be taken care of for getting substantial success. |
Moderator
Victor Naumov, BEITEN BURKHARDT Partner
Participants:
- Arthur George, Baker&McKenzie
- Igor Motsnyi, White & Case
- Tatiana Nikiforova, BEITEN BURKHARDT
- Pavel Andreev, Ernst & Young
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Moderator
Andrey Terekhov, Lanit-Tercom
Participants:
- Denis Milov, TEKAMA
- Dmitry Beresnev, COMPETENTUM Group
- Rechmensky, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University
- Valery Andreev, Soft Joys
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Moderator
Arcady Khotin, Ardin Software
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- 16.00 - 17.15 Matchmaking and corporate presentations
Corporate Presentations
(Leningrad Hall)This session is designed to allow small and mid-sized companies from Russia to present their business and skills to international customers. We invite vendors to send us applications for participation in the Corporate Presentations Session. |
One-2-One matchmaking(Leningrad Hall) |
- 17.15 - 18.00 Closing Ceremony (Leningrad hall, 2nd floor)
- 18.30 - 19.00 Departure to the center of St Petersburg
- 20.00 - 22.00 Gala Dinner in one of the most beautiful Palaces on the Nevsky prospect, Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace. Grand Ball Show with some interesting surprises for the guests
- 22.30 The first bus departures back to Pribaltijskaya Hotel
- 23.00 – 00.30 White Nights Boat Trip, transfer to the Hotel
- 00.30 Second bus departures to Pribaltijskaya Hotel
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