Software Outsourcing Summit 2002 Newsletter 1
January 14, 2002
Dear colleagues,
Hereby we invite you to learn more about preparations for Software Outsourcing Summit
2002 in St Petersburg, Russia, with the help of our newsletter. The newsletter will be
distributed by e-mail and first come out twice a month. While the Summit will coming closer,
in April and May, the newsletter will come out weekly.
We hope that You find interesting material in our newsletter and it will assist you in getting
more knowledge about the Summit and in making decision about your participation in the
Summit (for those of you who are not registered yet).
Sincerely,
The Organizing Committee
Topics:
- Registration has started
- Renewed version of the Program
- What will be the difference between Summit 2001 and 2002
- Get acknowledged with partners and sponsors
- Conference of Russian Virtual IT Alliance
- We become more and more interactive
Registration has started
Registration for Software Outsourcing Summit has started before New Year. Now we have already
got 30 registered participants from 14 companies. Russian cities represented are St Petersburg,
Moscow, Taganrog, Rybinsk, Novossibirsk. The countries represented are Russia, Ukraine, Estonia,
Norway, India and Pakistan. But also we have confirmed speakers from Denmark, Great Britain,
Netherlands, Germany, Canada and USA.
The logos and profiles of registered participants will be very soon published on the web site. But even
now you can have a look at the preliminary list of companies with their web site addresses:
| TESIS, Moscow | http://www.tesis.com.ru |
| Korus Consulting, St Petersburg | http://www.korusconsulting.ru |
| MERA, Moscow region | http://www.nppmera.ru |
| Beartech, Taganrog | http://www.beartech.ru |
| Krista, Rybinsk | http://www.krista.ru |
| ATAPY Software, Novosibirsk | http://www.atapy.com |
| AKMA, St Petersburg | http://www.akma-software.ru |
| Bee Pitron, St Petersburg | http://www.bee-pitron.com |
| Naumen, Ural region | http://www.naumen.ru |
| Quest Studios, Pakistan | http://www.queststudios.net |
| Microlink Systems, Estonia | http://www.microlink.com |
| Texas Networks, India | http://www.texasnetworks.co.in |
| ISD, Ukraine | http://www.isd.dp.ua |
| Kola Science Center, Norway | |
Renewed version of the program
The first version of the program has already been published on the web site. But by the end of the
Year the Organizing Committee has prepared the new variant of the program.
Second International Software Outsourcing Summit
"Russian Opportunities in export of Outsourcing Services"
June 6-7, 2002
Hotel "Pulkovskaya", Saint-Petersburg
PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE
Wednesday, June 5, 2002
18.00 - 19.30 Registration of participants
20.00 - 21.00 Welcoming Cocktail
Thursday, June 6, 2002
Plenary sessions - Congress-hall of the Hotel "Pulkovskaya"
09:00 - 09:10 Greetings from the Governor of St Petersburg
09:10 - 09:20 Greetings on behalf of the Government of Russian Federation
09:20 - 09:30 Greetings on behalf of the Organizing Committee
09:30 - 10:15 "Role of Russia in the International market of Outsourcing" (Igor Agamirzian, Microsoft)
10:15 - 11:00 "Dynamics and tendencies of the International market of Outsourcing" (name of the speaker needs confirmation)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee-break
11:30 - 12:00 "Modern approaches to project management in outsourcing. R&D consuming business solutions optimal niche for Russian outsourcing companies in the International market" ("Fort Ross", Saint-Petersburg)
12:00 - 12:30 Presentations of Sponsors: "Baker&McKenzie", "Sonera", "LG - electronics"
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.30 Inauguration of the "Exhibition of providers and solutions" (Hotel "Pulkovskaya")
14.30 - 18.00 Work at the exhibition
15.00 - 16.30 Meeting of the ADONIS project of the EU (to be confirmed). Organizers: European Commission, Russian Academy of Sciences, "Fort Ross"
14.30 - 18.00 Panel discussions
Panel 1: Presentation of activities of the World leading IT Associations. Regional opportunities for outsourcing (names of speakers need confirmation)
Moderators: Alexis Sukharev ("Auriga", USA), Andrey Fedorov ("Digital Design", St Petersburg)
14.30 - 15.00 Mathias Weber (BITKOM, Germany)
15.00 - 15.30 NASSKOM (India) (need confirmation)
15.30 - 16.00 Frank Binnie (ScotlandIS, Scotland)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee-break
16.30 - 17.00 Jan Zneider (ITEK, Denmark)
17.00 - 17.30 IT business in Finland (name of speaker needs confirmation)
17.30 - 18.00 (name of speaker needs confirmation)
Panel 2: Successful export oriented models of Russian IT business. Case studies.
Moderators: Andrey Terekhov ("Lanit-Terkom", St Petersburg), Marc Granic ("MERA Networks", Russia-Canada)
14.30 - 15.00 Andrey Sviridenko ("Spirit", Moscow) "Analyze of successful models of Russian IT business in the Foreign markets"
15.00 - 15.30 Arcady Khotin ("Arcadia", St Petersburg)
15.30 - 16.00 George Pachikov ("ParallelGraphics", USA)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee-break
16.30 - 17.00 Nikolai Puntikov ("Star", St Petersburg)
17.00 - 17.30 Vladimir Vaschenko ("Novosoft", Novossibirsk) (needs confirmation)
17.30 - 18.00 Alexander Egorov ("Reksoft", St Petersburg)
16.00 - 17.00 Round Table - "Legal aspects of exporting software development products and services from Russia" (participants: Baker&McKenzie, BBLP Beiten Burkhardt Mittle & Wegener, Coudert Brothers, KPMG, Hedman Osborne & Westfallen)
17.00 - 18.00 Press conference with participation of VIP guests
19:00 - 22.00 Reception on behalf of the Organizing Committee
Friday, June 7, 2002
Panel discussions
Panel 3: Project Management and Quality Assurance in the Outsourcing Projects
Moderators: Robert Williams (former IBM high executive), Arcady Khotin ("Arcadia", St Petersburg)
09.00 - 09.30 Alexandre Sukharev ("Auriga", USA)
09.30 - 10.00 Len Erlikh ("Relativity Technology", USA)
10.00 - 10.30 Marc Granic ("MERA Networks", Russia-Canada) "Winning the Software Outsourcing Race"
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee-break
11.00 - 11.30 Vladimir Polutin ("Motorola", USA)
11.30 - 12.00 Navyug.Ìohnît (Quality Assurance Institute, India) - to be confirmed
12.00 - 12.30 (name of the speaker needs confirmation)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Round Table of the Panel 3: "Niche of outsourcing from Russia in the International market" (participants: representatives of IT-businesses from the USA, Scotland, Scandinavian countries, India, Germany, St.-Petersburg. Moscow, Novossibirsk, Tomsk)
Panel 4: Partnership between Government and Community of Software developing companies. Present and the Future
Moderators: Mathias Weber (BITKOM, Germany) Representative from the Russian Ministry of Communication and Informatics (needs confirmation)
09.00 - 09.30 Valentin Makarov ("Fort Ross", St Petersburg)
09.30 - 10.00 Igor Zabadayev (SibAcademSoft, Novossibirsk) (needs confirmation)
10.00 - 10.30 Bulat Gaifullin (NSDA, Moscow)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee-break
11.00 - 12.30 Round Table of the Panel 4: "Realization of the "eRussia" Program. (participants: representatives from Russian Ministries of 1) Economic development and Trade, 2) Communications and Informatics, 3) Industry, Sciences and High Technologies, from Associations of IT companies from Germany, India, Scotland, USA, Denmark, Finland, from Associations of IT companies from St.-Petersburg, Novossibirsk, Tomsk, Moscow)
11.00 - 12.30 Fergus O’Connel "Managing Outsourcing Projects and companies" (open training course)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
Panel 5: Problems and prospects in High Education of software developers in Russia.
Moderators: Academician Ivannikov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) (needs confirmation), Vladimir Parfenov (St.-Petersburg University of Fine Mechanics and Optics)
09.00 - 09.30 Andrey Terekhov (St.-Petersburg State University)
09.30 - 10.00 Institute of System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences (need confirmation)
10.00 - 10.30 Novossibirsk State University (name of the speaker needs confirmation)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee-break
Panel 6: Creation of infrastructure for industrial software development
Moderator: Valentin Makarov ("Fort Ross", St Petersburg)
11.00 - 11.30 IT Technopark, Sweden (needs confirmation)
11.30 - 12.00 Ilpo Santala ("Innopoli" IT Technopark, Finland)
12.00 - 12.30 IT Technoparks in Bangalore, India (needs confirmation)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Round Table of the Panel 5: "Education in professional software development - basis for the future of Russian Economy". (participants: representatives of Ministry of Education, Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies, Universities from Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Novossibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Tomsk, from CIS countries)
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee-break
16.00 - 18.30 "Soft-Stock-Exchange" - match-making area for clients and vendors in software outsourcing
18.30 - 19.30 Diner (Hotel "Pulkovskaya")
20.00 - 22.00 Cultural Program ("Mariinsky Theatre")
Saturday, June 8, 2002
10.30 - 12.00 Kick-off Meeting of the "Russian IT Alliance" (needs confirmation)
Before 12.00 Free time, additional sight-seeing Program
12.00 - 15.00 Tour visit to splendid suburbs of St.-Petersburg
Sunday, June 9, 2002
Departure of guests
What will be the difference between Summit 2001 and 2002
Our goal is to do the Summit as interesting and useful for participants as possible. That’s why it will
be more focused on concrete interests of the companies.
The first interest is of course to gain more customers and business partners. We will enlarge the
match-making part, separate it into a special section and give more space and time for it. Every IT
outsourcing buyer (potential customer) will get the own table with a number, so it will be easy to find
the company you are looking for even if you had no time to book a meeting beforehand.
We will also arrange an exhibition of companies and solutions. The exhibition will be divided in two
parts: the first part will be devoted to IT outsourcing providers which can show their solutions for
potential customers and different software development companies which present their products. The
other part of the exhibition will be given to IT Associations from all over the world which will present
their catalogues and information materials about their members.
The second interest is the most actual topics for IT outsourcing buyers and providers. This year we
will concentrate more on project management in IT outsourcing, positive examples, methods and
different project management types will be discussed during the conference part.
Our partners and sponsors
We would like also to draw your attention to the partners of our Summit 2002.
Our partners is the following IT Associations which will come to the Summit and try to get as more
participants of their members as they can:
We would like to welcome our information sponsors:
Conference of Russian Virtual IT Alliance
Last year at the First Summit we had been talking about the forming of All-Russian IT Association.
Since then several regional and interregional IT Associations have been created or are in the process
of creation. At the Second Software Outsourcing Summit we will do an attempt to build the Virtual
Alliance of IT Associations and companies in Russia in order to coordinate their activities and to
represent Russian IT for the International IT community in a better and stronger way.
The first Meeting of Russian Virtual IT Alliance will be held in connection to Software Outsourcing
Summit, on the 8th of June, in St Petersburg. We will keep you informed about all news in
development of Virtual IT Alliance idea.
We would like to be interactive
Our aim is to be interactive and to communicate with our registered and potential participants. Please,
send your questions and suggestions to us. If you would like to place some information or discussion
questions in this newsletter, just send text to the newsletter editors:
Vera Semyonova, send e-mail
Boris Anninsky, send e-mail
And don’t forget to visit our web site for more information: http://www.soft-outsourcing.com
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