Software Development Summit 2008

The SDS 2008 will showcase the entire range of the rapidly growing Russian software development industry. Detailed information on the SDS 2008 will be constantly updated on the website of the Summit (www.sd-expo.ru).

The conference will take place in a newly built SPA-hotel "Holiday Club St. Petersburg" Located on the spit of Vasilievsky Island, in the historical center of Saint Petersburg, a short distance from many of the city’s sights. For example, it’s just 200 m to the banks of the Neva, 600 m to Nevski Prospekt and the State Hermitage Museum.

The summit was well known under the names of Russian Outsourcing and Software Summit and RUSSOFT Forum. This year the Program Committee decided to modify the format and the name of the event. The modification is caused by the broadening of the audience covered, for the organizers join together the interests of software outsourcing and product development branches, creating the condition under which participation will be interesting to enterprises, mid-size and small companies developing software for local and Global markets.

Summit Highlights:

• Huge delegation of companies running various business models – product and service oriented – working on Russian and Global markets
  
• Great international l audience including solution providers for the Russian market and clients for Russian companies
  
• Roundtables and panel discussions on following questions:
  • Main trends of the Global software market, the influence of US and European recession on Russian service and product providers, 12-year forecast of the software industry development. This and many other things from the point of view of Russian market leaders and world known gurus
    
  • Personnel training and management
    
  • IT field venture financing
    
  • Development of product oriented business, attracting investments, sales management
    
  • Government policy on support of innovative business
• Presentation of the 5th Annual Survey on Russian Software Export Market (2007 FY
  
• Subcontractors’ exchange for small business and Russian leading software service providers
  • Presentations of world’s leading software product and solution vendors in search for SMB providers
    
  • Specialized matchmaking session for software service providers – ExecutEVE, large US and European customers participating
• Exhibition of technological solutions and platforms of the world’s leading vendors for their partners and customers
  
• Business and informal networking

Keynote highlights:

• Avinash Vashistha, Chairman & CEO, Tholons, founder of NeoIT
  
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer, President of the Presiding Committee of BITKOM, Founder and Chairman of IDS Scheer AG
  
• Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services, CO-founder of Genesys
  
• Ilya Ponomarev, Chairman of the Technologies Sub-commission, State Duma, Russia

SDS 2008 is meant for experience interchange, partner search within the industry, for attracting overseas and local corporate clients and customers to the products and services provided by Russian software industry. The summit will showcase the scale and potential of the native software industry to the Russian government, overseas partners and the industry itself!

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Contact:
To get details or arrange an interview, please contact Philipp Agapov via email or tel.: +7 495 940 6569