RUSSOFT Software Development Forum

Forum RUSSOFT

RUSSOFT Software Development Forum 2010, (June 4th  2010, Hotel Park Inn ("Pulkovskaya"), St. Petersburg) is held in conjunction with the annual CIO White Nights Congress.

The Forum is intended to become a location for free communication of software and software development services providers in Russia, software consumers represented by enterprises’ CIOs of all economic sectors of St. Petersburg  and other Russian cities, as well as representatives from the Ministry of the Russian Federation Government directly responsible for the development of innovation economy and for the information technologies’ implementation  in all spheres of national life – The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, and the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

• identification of information technologies implementation existing problems in the real economic sector in Russia;

• demonstration of the real conditions and potential of software development industry in Russia to public authorities, analysts and potential customers in Russia and abroad;

• the crisis implications and industry development problems’ discussion;

• mutually acceptable solutions in the field of legislation and administration focused on  industry problem solutions’ development and realization of the IT implementation potential  within the country ( professional training, State support of export-oriented vendors, demand stimulation for IT in public administration, economic and social spheres).

An important Forum task is to establish direct contacts of potential software suppliers and consumers for specific projects realization.
RUSSOFT Annual General meeting will be also held during the Forum. Representatives of the above mentioned Ministries are also invited.  During the meeting will be also discussed the involvement  of  the Russian companies’ export deliveries experience accumulated during the execution of varied projects abroad in the realization of the e-government program in Russia.

• SPb CIO Club (arranges annual Congress of  IT-directors "White Nights", June 4-6, same location);
• ADMIN Ltd. (Forum co-organizer,June 4th);
• Information and Computer Technologies Industry Association (APKIT).

• Forum sponsors: Intel, KPMG;
• “Quality” sponsor: Certification Association “Russian Register”;
• Panels and “roundtables” sponsors: Exigen Services, Reksoft, VideoMost;
• Forum is supported by the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade, Saint-Petersburg.

• top management of companies supplying software development services and vendors of licensed software (70-100);
• CIOs of clients’ companies (70-100);
• analysts and industry experts (10);
• representatives of scientific and educational institutions (10);
• mass media (10-30);
• government officials, State Duma deputies, representatives of regional authorities (10).

PS. Previous RUSSOFT Forums were held since 2001 and were originally known as Software Outsourcing Summit.