Newsletter 1
The First Baltic IT Cruise
November 21-23,2004
The Baltic IT Cruise is a meeting place for IT professionals from the both
sides of the Baltic Sea (Nordic countries, Baltic States, Poland, North-West
Russia). If you are looking to explore new opportunities for your IT development
or to find new markets, to exchange experience of IT outsourcing or establishing
a company on the other side of the Baltics, this event is a must for you. The
conference is going onboard comfortable Viking Line ferry, which also gives an
extra opportunity for good networking.
Ulf Baggstrom, Managing Director CSC Sweden, has confirmed the participation
in the Cruise. CSC is a global leader of IT services, 45 years old, employing
90000+ people around the globe. CSC in Scandinavia has the good experience of
using a Russian software company as a subcontractor. Ulf Baggstrom will speak on
opportunities and challenges of IT outsourcing..
More and more Nordic companies are establishing business on the other side
of the Baltic Sea. This is the opinion from Jan Book, Senior Consultant and
Partner at Informatics, he follows the growing trend for outplacement of the IT
and software development to the Baltic States and Russia. The largest challenge
is still language problems, because not every Nordic company would like to have
the internal communication and documentation in English. Jan Book will present
his opinion in the Cruise program. You may also have a look at the article in
Computer Sweden, http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/ 200408/06/20040806115320_CS/20040806115320_CS.dbp.asp
Head of IT Committee, St Petersburg City Administration will be speaking
at the Cruise. St Petersburg City Administration will be represented by Mr
Sergey Zhdanov, Chairman of the Committee of Information Technologies and
Communication. "The IT integration of the Baltic Sea region is very important",
Mr Zhdanov says. "Nowadays the Baltic Sea region is one of the most developed in
terms of Internet penetration, mobility, developing of new technologies. And it
can grow further by using the skillful pool of resources existing on the other
side of the Baltic Sea".
The most interesting are "real life examples". The experience from many
international business conferences and seminars shows that the most exciting
presentations which raise the large interest from the audience and are followed
by questions and discussions, are examples from "real life", about the concrete
experience of establishing an office, outplacement of software development or
finding a distribution partner. Mane such examples will be collected onboard. We
have invited such companies as TietoEnator, Scala, Nokia, Prolog Development
Center, FOSS, Oplayo, Vinnova, Infochain to exchange their experience with the
audience.
General Consuls of the countries around the Baltic Sea will help for IT Cruise preparation. On October 22, the meeting with all Consulates General of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will be held in St Petersburg City Administration. Consuls will discuss how to distribute the information about the Cruise in their countries and help to attract more participants and mass media awareness.
The program of the First Baltic IT Cruise may be found here
http://www.fort-ross.ru/cruise/program.html
The registration is also going on at http://www.fort-ross.ru/cruise
The organizers of the Baltic IT Cruise is RUSSOFT Association, which unites
75 software development companies from Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia and
Fort-Ross Ltd., the official marketing agency of RUSSOFT.
