“IT-breakfast” took place in Saint-Petersburg
On June 22, during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2013) a business breakfast “The Russian IT / Internet industry: investment and business climate” took place.
Jul 03, 2013
The "IT-breakfast" was organized by the RVC, RAEC and Russoft; and moderated by Sergey Plugotarenko (RAEC) and Valentin Makarov (Russoft).
In his introduction to the bsiness-breakfast Valentin Makarov has noticed significant achievements of Russian software industry in 2012. 6 RUSSOFT members entered the IAOP list of 100 leading Global Outsourcing providers, while 4 new software vendors entered so-called Gartner Magic Quadrants (PROGNOZ, Diasoft, InfoWatch, Inteltech) and SPIRIT’s number of customers Worldwide reached 1 Bln.
Development of Russian IT industry and Runet largely depends on two conditions: creation of a comfortable business environment and the availability of investment. At the same time has become increasingly important question of finding new sites for investment in those sectors of the market, which will be able to demonstrate the explosive growth influenced by innovative solutions. But for today IT-market still does not have sufficient investment, says Igor Agamirzyan, CEO of RVC.
According to Dmitry Grishin, head of Mail.Ru Group, one of the most pressing problems of the Russian IT-market is the staff deficit and that what is now taught in schools, is uncalled on the market, because so far the Russian education is still largely based on the Soviet system. At the same time Grishin recalled that Mail.Ru Group opened a technology park on the basis of the Bauman University, where he is engaged in training activities.
Maelle Gavet, CEO of the OZON.ru holding, agreed that the e-commerce market is growing every year by 30% and for today the industry has a great potential for further growth, provided that the market progress won’t be interfered with legislative initiatives.
Arkadiy Dobkin (EPAM Systems) and Sergey Kravchenko (Boeing) stressed on significant changes in the Outsourcing business where HighTech niche would be strongly extended by needs of knowledge in engineering sciences. That opens up new prospects for Russian outsourcing industry, traditionally very close to other engineering sciences.
The participants also discussed recent government initiatives. In addition, Igor Ashmanov noted that in Russia there is no association of Internet users. The existing Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) acts primarily on behalf of Internet companies, not from the web users.
However, the next few years IT-industry can grow three times faster than GDP. The presence of such growth conditions stated Russian Deputy Minister of Communications and MassMedia Mark Shmulevich.
In his introduction to the bsiness-breakfast Valentin Makarov has noticed significant achievements of Russian software industry in 2012. 6 RUSSOFT members entered the IAOP list of 100 leading Global Outsourcing providers, while 4 new software vendors entered so-called Gartner Magic Quadrants (PROGNOZ, Diasoft, InfoWatch, Inteltech) and SPIRIT’s number of customers Worldwide reached 1 Bln.
Development of Russian IT industry and Runet largely depends on two conditions: creation of a comfortable business environment and the availability of investment. At the same time has become increasingly important question of finding new sites for investment in those sectors of the market, which will be able to demonstrate the explosive growth influenced by innovative solutions. But for today IT-market still does not have sufficient investment, says Igor Agamirzyan, CEO of RVC.
According to Dmitry Grishin, head of Mail.Ru Group, one of the most pressing problems of the Russian IT-market is the staff deficit and that what is now taught in schools, is uncalled on the market, because so far the Russian education is still largely based on the Soviet system. At the same time Grishin recalled that Mail.Ru Group opened a technology park on the basis of the Bauman University, where he is engaged in training activities.
Maelle Gavet, CEO of the OZON.ru holding, agreed that the e-commerce market is growing every year by 30% and for today the industry has a great potential for further growth, provided that the market progress won’t be interfered with legislative initiatives.
Arkadiy Dobkin (EPAM Systems) and Sergey Kravchenko (Boeing) stressed on significant changes in the Outsourcing business where HighTech niche would be strongly extended by needs of knowledge in engineering sciences. That opens up new prospects for Russian outsourcing industry, traditionally very close to other engineering sciences.
The participants also discussed recent government initiatives. In addition, Igor Ashmanov noted that in Russia there is no association of Internet users. The existing Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) acts primarily on behalf of Internet companies, not from the web users.
However, the next few years IT-industry can grow three times faster than GDP. The presence of such growth conditions stated Russian Deputy Minister of Communications and MassMedia Mark Shmulevich.