Preliminary PROGRAM of SDS
(Software Development Summit)

2-3 June, 2008, St Petersburg, Russia

Monday, 2 June 2008
8:30	Registration
9:20	Opening Welcome speeches by AT Software, Forum Nokia, Microsoft
9:40	Plenary Session - Key-note speech Ilya Ponomarev, Chairman of the Technologies Sub-commission, State Duma, Russia “State Innovation Policy to be realized in the Package of Laws on Innovations (2008)”
10:10	Roundtable (Ball-room): “The Russian Software Ecosystem: Global Trends & Challenges” Moderator: Michael Anobile, Managing Director, LISA Participants: Michael Friedland, Executive VP, Luxoft Nikolay Puntikov, President Eastern Europe, Exigen Services Andrey Terekhov, Chairman of Board of Directors, R&D Director, AT Software Anatoly Gaverdovsky, Senior Vice President, EPAM System Michael Tsygankov, Russian Software Economy Lead, Developer and Platform Ecosystem, Microsoft Russia	Master-class (Hall “Blues”): Practical master-class on development tools, technology showcase (TFS + MSF Agile) Dmitry Andreev, Architect Evangelist, Microsoft	Training (Hall “Jazz”): "How to get money for early innovative project" Investment alliance of: Microsoft Russia: Eremin Sergey, Project manager by technologic enterprise development Intel: Yuri Frantsuzov, Strategic Business Development Manager, Russia & CEER National Business Angel Association of Russia (RUSSBA): Alexander Kashirin, Chairman of the Board Vadim Strenaluk, Assistant of executive chief Jami: Maxim Snigirev, CEO – “Pitch as an important part in money rasing”
11:40	Coffee-break
12:00-14:00	Press conference for journalists by AT Software (Hall “Samba”) Participants: Andrey Terekhov, R&D Director Leonid Belyaev, CEO Vladimir Ufnarovsky, Сhief executive Pavel Adylin, CTO
12:10	Panel discussion (Ball-room): “Geographical aspects of choosing partners for software development” Moderator: Nikolay Puntikov, VP, Exigen Services Participants: Yelena Belyayeva, Process Engineer, Motorola, - “Frameworks to build the process for distributed teams” Artem Astafurov, VP of global projects department, DataArt – “Divaded commands mangement as a competitive struggle tool on the gloal outsourcing market” Anna Obukhova, project manager, Exigen Services – “Distirbuted teams in agile practices” Roman Isakov, Exigen Services Delivery Director, - “Features of regional offices constitution”	Master-class (Hall “Blues”): Practical master-class on development tools, technology showcase (TFS + MSF Agile) Dmitry Andreev, Microsoft	Panel discussion (Hall “Jazz”): “Opportunities and peculiarities of the early stage investments in IT” Participants: Alexander Kashirin, Board, National Business Angel Association of Russia (RUSSBA) Gregory Bunatyan, CEO, “Rosinfocominvest” Investment Fund Dmitry Dakhnovsky, CEO, TEKAMA Eremin Sergey, Project manager by technologic enterprise development, Microsoft Russia
13:40	Lunch
14:10	Panel discussion (Ball-room): “Distribution of packaged software products” Moderator: Valentin Makarov, President, RUSSOFT Participants: Daniel Ischenko, VP of Business Development, Speereo Software Leonid Volkov, SKB Kontur. “Infrastructure of promotion of web-services for small business Harald Horgen, President, The York Group Mikhail Philippenko, CEO, Fast Repots – “Fast Reports experience of product business creations.”.	Forum Nokia Panel (Hall “Blues”): "Mobile services and applications, creating and driving the markets. Russian and European experience. How Nokia can help developers" Moderator: Kirill Zelenski, Head of Business Development, ForumNokia EMEA Participants: Gian-Luca Cioletti, Head of Business Development, ForumNokia EMEA Abbyy: Gregory Lipich Emoze: Carol Tal Iricom: Mikhail Ryazanov	Panel discussion (Hall “Jazz”): “Training of Personnel for software development industry” Moderator: Andrey Terekhov, R&D Director, AT Software Participants: Dmitry Dakhnovsky, CEO, TEKAMA Marat Nasrutdinov, Reader of KSU, - “Standards of education: social and cultural method” Viktor Gergel, Dean, University of Nizhni Novgorod Sergey Avdoshin, Higher School of Economics – “Problems of effective search for qualified IT personnel in Russia” Elena Komarova, HR-director, Exigen Services
16:10	Coffee-break
16:40	Plenary session - Key-note speech Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer, President of BITKOM Association "The German ICT Market: Major Trends and Perspectives for German-Russian Cooperation"
17:10		Roundtable: “HR and the personnel retention” Moderator: Natalia Bocharova, Managing Director, LLC “Professional Tochka Ru” Participants: Julia Sakhorova, director, HeadHunter: Saint-Petersburg Svetlana Savelyeva, HR-Director, AT Software Ekaterina Aludauri, HR-director, Reksoft Sergey Vorotko, CEO, Vorotko Corporation Ltd., “ELS – Enterprise Liberal Solutions” Elena Komarova, HR-director, Exigen Services	Roundtable: “Organization of the licensed software development business” Moderator: Alexander Galitsky, Almaz Capital Partners Participants: Digital Design Nikolay Dobrovolsky, VP, Parallels Alexander Patsay, Chief Product Manager, SPIRIT - “How to build the best software product and achieve success on the software market” Michael Chernin, Commercial manager, DocsVision Grigory Lipich, CEO, ABBYY
18:40	Networking Session (Ball-room): Cocktail and informal communication
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
10:00	RUSSOFT annual Conference Presentation of the 5th Annual survey on software export market
12:00	Plenary Session - Key note speech (Ball-room): Peter Schumacher, President & CEO, Value Leadership Group Inc. “Winning in the new competitive paradigm in European IT services. Strategic implications and opportunities for Russian offshore IT services firms.”
12:45	Plenary Session - Key note speech (Ball-room): Alec Miloslavsky, President of Exigen Services, founder of Genesis - “Future of the Software development industry in 2020”
13:30	Lunch
15:00	Roundtable (Hall “Blues”): “Some legal and taxation aspects of running software business” Participants: "Tax issues for software development companies." Oleg Berezin, Partner, Deloitte & Touch Regional Consulting Service Limited Viktor Naumov, Partner, Salans	Small Companies Presentations (hall "Samba"): Arranging sub-contracting between SMEs and mid-sized software development outsourcing businesses Veronika Zaslavskaya, CEO, Metalink Ltd. - “Officeverse – virtual office world” Alexander Shafiev, Titan Ilya Krasnoperov, Keyintegrity Ltd. Ivan Brink, President, Intekh-Don Alexandr Guerchoig, director, 1-C - “Saas distribution with 1C” Askar Rahimberdiev, CEO and co-founder, LogneX Valery Vakulenko, President, ROST	ISDEF panel (Hall “Jazz”) Moderator: Felix Muchnik, CEO, Softkey Panel discussion: “Selling software in Russia” Participants: Alexander Lyskovsky, President of Alawar Entertainment Sergey Ryzhikov, CEO, 1 C-Bitrix Mikhail Philippenko, CEO, Fast Repots Ekaterina Sukhanova, Manager of working with developers, Allsoft.ru - Internet as a Software sales canal in Russia
16:30	Panel discussion (Hall “Blues”): “Russia’s place in IT Globalization. Developing software in Russia: challenge or opportunity?” Moderator: Alex Sukharev, CEO, Auriga Inc Participants: Peter Schumacher, President & Founder, Value Leadership Group Inc. Siegfried Langer, IBM Igor Agamirzyan, EMC	Master-class (hall "Samba"): “How to successfully sell your software worldwide” Harald Horgen, President, The York Group	Match-making (Hall “Jazz”):
19:00	Gala-dinner