First Dutch - Russian & Belarusian IT matchmaking event creates opportunities
Cooperation between Dutch, Belarusian and Russian companies, active in the IT/Software development sector, highlighted real opportunities for further strengthening their relationships.
Nov 30, 2012
Cooperation between Dutch, Belarusian and Russian companies, active in the IT/Software development sector, highlighted real opportunities for further strengthening their relationships. This is the overall outcome of the 1st trilateral IT matchmaking event organized at the World Trade Center in The Hague on Friday the 23rd of November.
More than 40 companies participated in this 1st trilateral IT matchmaking event. Half of the present companies came from Russia and Belarus, including some of the world’s most renowned organizations such as Russian search engine giant Yandex and software developer Artezio. The event was organized by the WestHolland Foreign Investment Agency (WFIA) and the Netherlands Council for Trade Promotion (NCH) in cooperation with RUSSOFT, the Belarusian Embassy in The Hague and the Belarus Hi Tech Park.
Russia and Belarus are countries well known for their IT expertise and software development skills. Due to their traditional focus on mathematics and science programs, these countries provide a large resource of highly skilled IT and software development professionals. With a strong focus on providing IT outsourcing services, mainly for CIS countries, Eastern Europe and the United States, they are now looking to increase their market share in Western Europe. Experience shows that this is most effectively achieved through partners, distributors or being physically present.
According to Mr. Patrick Bos, International Business Advisor of the WFIA: "During this event WFIA, Ministry of Economic Affairs and ICT Office highlighted the opportunities and need for cooperation between Russian and Belarusian IT & Software companies. A good cooperation between the Netherlands, Russia and Belarus can be very beneficial for all countries and companies, and in the coming year such opportunities will be further investigated and taken advantage of."
"The seminar in The Hague bodes well for a very good start to 2013 – the Year of Russia in the Netherlands and the Year of Netherlands in Russia. The aim of RUSSOFT is to use such events to provide Dutch businesses with practical and reliable information about every advantage being offered by Russian IT-companies to their respective customers in the European Union, especially as compared to other international IT-outsourcing service providers. We take advantage to talk about our high quality services, about the traditionally high level of professionalism of Russian developers and about cultural closeness of engineers from Russia and from Europe. In practice that means that under the present circumstances, where there is a shortage of approximately 40.000 developers in the Netherlands, our outsourcing service providers have important chances to strongly enlarge our presence in the Netherlands" this according to Mr. Pavel Adylin, Chairman of the Board of RUSSOFT, located in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Mr. Alexander Martinkevich, Deputy Director of Hi Tech Park located in Minsk, Belarus, confirmed: "During the matchmaking our companies had the opportunity to meet and to exchange their opinions with Dutch companies and I believe that in the future it will help both parties to realize their full potential of cooperation."
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Russoft www.russoft.org
The Russoft association is the most active association of software companies in Russia. Founded in September 1999, when 10 companies from St Petersburg first created consortium of software businesses. Since then Russoft has increased its memberships and hosts 70 members in 2012. At the same time Russian export of software and services reached 4 Billion US Dollar and Russia became #1 outsourcing software development service provider in Europe. During 20 years the software industry has grown into internationally recognized partner with companies like Yandex, Mail.ru in, EPAM Systems and Luxoft.
Belarus Hi-Tech Park www.park.by
Belarus Hi-Tech Park in Minsk is one of the leaders among innovative IT clusters in Central and Eastern Europe. The cluster includes 118 IT-companies with more than 13.500 software engineers. Most of them are engaged in high-end software development and IT-services for customers in more than 55 countries of the world. World leading corporations, such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Citibank and Google are among major consumers of Belarusian software development in Belarus Hi-Tech Park. The Belarus Hi-Tech Park offers advanced technical education, highly qualified specialists combined with a special business environment for IT business with incentives unprecedented for European countries.
WestHolland Foreign Investment Agency (WFIA) www.westholland.nl
The WFIA assists international companies in establishing, expanding or relocating their operations in the WestHolland region. The WFIA was founded in 2000 by the municipalities of The Hague, Delft, Leiden and Zoetermeer along with The Hague Chamber of Commerce and The Hague Region. Since December 2008 the municipality of Lansingerland has been a member of the WFIA. The Province of South Holland also supports the WFIA.
Netherlands Council for Trade Promotion (NCH) www.handelsbevordering.nl
The Netherlands Council for Trade Promotion provides a platform for Dutch companies looking to go "international" with their business. NCH serves as a bridge for establishing international business relationships between Dutch companies and foreign markets with the main goal to increase Dutch trade.
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For more information:
Laurens Kok, Communications Manager West Holland Foreign Investment Agency
070 311 55 55/06 83 21 01 72 [email protected]
More than 40 companies participated in this 1st trilateral IT matchmaking event. Half of the present companies came from Russia and Belarus, including some of the world’s most renowned organizations such as Russian search engine giant Yandex and software developer Artezio. The event was organized by the WestHolland Foreign Investment Agency (WFIA) and the Netherlands Council for Trade Promotion (NCH) in cooperation with RUSSOFT, the Belarusian Embassy in The Hague and the Belarus Hi Tech Park.
Russia and Belarus are countries well known for their IT expertise and software development skills. Due to their traditional focus on mathematics and science programs, these countries provide a large resource of highly skilled IT and software development professionals. With a strong focus on providing IT outsourcing services, mainly for CIS countries, Eastern Europe and the United States, they are now looking to increase their market share in Western Europe. Experience shows that this is most effectively achieved through partners, distributors or being physically present.
According to Mr. Patrick Bos, International Business Advisor of the WFIA: "During this event WFIA, Ministry of Economic Affairs and ICT Office highlighted the opportunities and need for cooperation between Russian and Belarusian IT & Software companies. A good cooperation between the Netherlands, Russia and Belarus can be very beneficial for all countries and companies, and in the coming year such opportunities will be further investigated and taken advantage of."
"The seminar in The Hague bodes well for a very good start to 2013 – the Year of Russia in the Netherlands and the Year of Netherlands in Russia. The aim of RUSSOFT is to use such events to provide Dutch businesses with practical and reliable information about every advantage being offered by Russian IT-companies to their respective customers in the European Union, especially as compared to other international IT-outsourcing service providers. We take advantage to talk about our high quality services, about the traditionally high level of professionalism of Russian developers and about cultural closeness of engineers from Russia and from Europe. In practice that means that under the present circumstances, where there is a shortage of approximately 40.000 developers in the Netherlands, our outsourcing service providers have important chances to strongly enlarge our presence in the Netherlands" this according to Mr. Pavel Adylin, Chairman of the Board of RUSSOFT, located in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Mr. Alexander Martinkevich, Deputy Director of Hi Tech Park located in Minsk, Belarus, confirmed: "During the matchmaking our companies had the opportunity to meet and to exchange their opinions with Dutch companies and I believe that in the future it will help both parties to realize their full potential of cooperation."
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Russoft www.russoft.org
The Russoft association is the most active association of software companies in Russia. Founded in September 1999, when 10 companies from St Petersburg first created consortium of software businesses. Since then Russoft has increased its memberships and hosts 70 members in 2012. At the same time Russian export of software and services reached 4 Billion US Dollar and Russia became #1 outsourcing software development service provider in Europe. During 20 years the software industry has grown into internationally recognized partner with companies like Yandex, Mail.ru in, EPAM Systems and Luxoft.
Belarus Hi-Tech Park www.park.by
Belarus Hi-Tech Park in Minsk is one of the leaders among innovative IT clusters in Central and Eastern Europe. The cluster includes 118 IT-companies with more than 13.500 software engineers. Most of them are engaged in high-end software development and IT-services for customers in more than 55 countries of the world. World leading corporations, such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Citibank and Google are among major consumers of Belarusian software development in Belarus Hi-Tech Park. The Belarus Hi-Tech Park offers advanced technical education, highly qualified specialists combined with a special business environment for IT business with incentives unprecedented for European countries.
WestHolland Foreign Investment Agency (WFIA) www.westholland.nl
The WFIA assists international companies in establishing, expanding or relocating their operations in the WestHolland region. The WFIA was founded in 2000 by the municipalities of The Hague, Delft, Leiden and Zoetermeer along with The Hague Chamber of Commerce and The Hague Region. Since December 2008 the municipality of Lansingerland has been a member of the WFIA. The Province of South Holland also supports the WFIA.
Netherlands Council for Trade Promotion (NCH) www.handelsbevordering.nl
The Netherlands Council for Trade Promotion provides a platform for Dutch companies looking to go "international" with their business. NCH serves as a bridge for establishing international business relationships between Dutch companies and foreign markets with the main goal to increase Dutch trade.
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For more information:
Laurens Kok, Communications Manager West Holland Foreign Investment Agency
070 311 55 55/06 83 21 01 72 [email protected]