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June 15-17,
2005
St
Petersburg,
Russia
 
Newsletter 1
March 2,
2005
 
Two
of Top 100 IT Executives (Computerworld’s award) will speak at the Summit
The
Organizing Committee is happy to announce that two of top 100 IT executives
named by ComputerWorld will participate in the Summit – Dave Hammond from Cardinal Health and
Yuri Oguiar from Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. They will present their vision
of benefits and challenges of offshore
outsourcing.
 
Reksoft will sponsor the panel with leading IT analysts
speaking about Russia’s place on the world
map
One
of the leading IT service providers in Russia, Reksoft, will sponsor the panel where top
analytical agencies will present their view of Russia
– Forrester Research, Gartner Group, IDC.
 
Intel
Russia sponsors the panel devoted to
“brain drain” problems
Brain
drain – is it still a problem in Russian IT society, or is Russia
facing another problem in IT educational system? This issue will be discussed at
the panel organized and sponsored by Intel Nizhny
Novgorod.
 
The
featured country is Sweden
Sweden will participate with a large
delegation and will organize a seminar over IT outsourcing opportunities for
Swedish companies in the framework of the Summit. The partner and co-organizer from the
Swedish side is Swedish Trade Council which predicts the participation of at
least 20 Swedish companies.
 
Two more world leaders in the IT: United States
and Israel will be
in the focus of discussions within a Panel devoted to their National markets and
to cooperation  opportunities with
Russian companies.
USA will be represented by Mr.Harris
Miller – president of IT American Association (ITAA) and President of the World
IT&Service Alliance 
(WITSA).
Mr.
Uri Har will represent Israel as Managing Director of the
Israel Electronics and Information
Association.
 
Networking is the key
issue
The
Summit will give
an excellent networking opportunity as always. Among the planned networking and
cultural events we can mention Gala Dinner in the President Putin’s new
residence, Konstantinovsky Palace, Countries’ cocktail (where participants will
make  their country presentations
for the audience), Matchmaking Session (half a day event devoted to B2B talks),
exhibition of the leading IT service providers in front of the main
hall.
 
 
ROSS
facts
Dates
– June 15-17,
2005
Place
– Hotel Pulkovskaya, St
Petersburg
Participating countries – over
20.
Participants – 600 (100 already
registered).
Exhibitors – 30 (25 already sold
out)..
Registration – www.soft-outsourcing.com