ROSS 2005: Newsletter 2

Russian Outsourcing & Software Summit
June 15-17, 2005
St Petersburg, Russia

Newsletter 2
March 29, 2005

EPAM Systems and Luxoft – two best service providers from the Eastern Europe - will both be Silver Sponsors of the Summit!
Two competitors and leaders of the Russian speaking software development Community will be sponsoring the Summit this year. It became a good tradition that ROSS evokes more and more interest from Russian outsourcing service providers who take opportunity of promoting their services and brands at the Summit.

ITCI will sponsor the Panel devoted to the problems and opportunities of software development outsourcing for financial organizations (banking, insurance, currency exchange, rating agencies, etc.).
One of the leading outsourcing service providers for the financial sector – IT Consulting International – will sponsor the panel where global customers from financial markets and leading Russian service providers will discuss ways of effective cooperation.

Nordic participation in ROSS 2005 is becoming more and more solid. Swedish Trade Council intends to bring a team composed of 50+ CEO and CIO from Swedish IT companies for participation in the seminar over IT outsourcing opportunities for Swedish companies. KarelTeck (an IT Park from Finland) will bring an important delegation of Finish businessmen from the Mobile Communication sector who are willing to learn about opportunities of work with Russian service providers.

Both delegations will take part in the SoftTelco Conference which was moved from April 1, 2005 to dates of ROSS 2005 in order to be included into the Program of the Summit. Up to 100 participants of SoftTelco will enjoy an intensive program of Panels’ and Roundtable discussions over software development projects for Telecom - both in mobile and stationary communications.

This year Summit will witness a so much anticipated dialogue between Russian software development Community and Community of Russian natives who got solid positions among international IT vendors and investors.
Alexander Galitsky from EuroTour will bring to the Summit a team of prominent Russian natives who became IT personalities in the West. Top managers from Google, Intel Capital and Vector Capital will share their views over opportunities and challenges of investments in the Russian software development market.

ROSS facts
Dates – June 15-17, 2005
Place – Hotel Pulkovskaya, St Petersburg
Participating countries – over 20.
Participants – 600 (140 already registered).
Exhibitors – 30 (27 already sold out).
Registration – www.soft-outsourcing.com