RUSSOFT is the nationwide association of the most technically competent software developing companies in Russia. At the present day RUSSOFT unites more than 70 companies with 17000+ of highly qualified programmers and software engineers with advanced graduate level degrees in Technology & Computer Science. RUSSOFT Association is the voice of the industry actively advocating its interests in the Russian Government. Being the largest association of software developers in Russia RUSSOFT runs annual researches and publishes surveys on the Russian software export market, in which displays the most precise and trusted information about software developing industry in Russia.

AP KIT (Information & Computer Technologies Industry Association) is the most representative non-profit union of Russia’s ICT industry. AP KIT’s membership includes major domestic and global companies specializing in software, computer and equipment production, as well as the leading domestic distribution companies, system integrators, producers and developers. AP KIT members comprise up to 70% of the market many segments.

The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG’s modeling standards include the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®).

The Cloud Standards Customer Council is an end user advocacy group dedicated to accelerating cloud’s successful adoption, and drilling down into the standards, security and interoperability issues surrounding the transition to the cloud. The Council provides cloud users with the opportunity to drive client requirements into standards development organizations and deliver materials such as best practices and use cases to assist other enterprises.

AgileRussia is a non commercial Agile community in Russia which organizes different events, support conferences, publish articles and drive Agile/Scrum/XP/TDD and etc in Russia with the purpose to improve processes, team performance and engineering excellence.

RASPO (Russian Freeware Association) is designed to facilitate the development, implementation and promotion of the open source and free licensing software in Russia and support its entry to the world market.

ISDEF was formed in late 2002. ISDEF represents and protects the interests of software developers and others active in the software industry.

The primary function of ISDEF is to support and improve the processes of software development and market introduction and promotion. To this end, the association:

• organizes seminars, conferences and other forums for the exchange of expertise
• arranges events tackling the problem of computer piracy
• facilitates the creation and promotion of new software products

Whom does ISDEF benefit?

• Software developers – ISDEF helps them make their businesses successful
• Software users – one of ISDEF’s areas of activity is software quality-control
• Government – ISDEF members join together in order to make the Russian software market a worthy part of the international IT industry
• The IT mass-media – ISDEF is a steady and reliable source of objective information relating to the software and e-commerce sectors
• Businessmen interested in contacting software developers – ISDEF is an excellent place to find potential business partners
• The 10th annual fall conference ISDEF conference will take place September 29 – October 2 in Moscow

Software Russia is a unique analytical web portal dedicated to the entirety of the rapidly expanding Russian software industry on the global market. Created to address the short supply of transparent data available, Software Russia provides the most accurate and up-to-date information about the Russian software market and equips an international audience considering doing business in Russia with the tools necessary to make informed decisions based on unbiased information gathered from reliable sources.

Digital October Center is a place for globally-minded technology entrepreneurship community. The Center is built around two core themes: new technologies and technology entrepreneurship. Key international professional conferences and presentations of new technology products take place in the Center. At Digital October, technology professionals can share best practices, learn about the latest trends and achievements in science and technology, try out latest product releases. One of the main objectives of the Center is to bring globally relevant content to Russian professional community.

Digital October has created an ecosystem of technology entrepreneurship. Located in the very center of Moscow, Digital October brings together engineers and software developers, entrepreneurs and venture investors, executives and analysts from global technology companies, designers and art professionals. The guiding principle of Digital October is meritocracy in which professionalism, accomplishments and innovation are valued.

Hosting-Center provides with all types of telecommunication products and services such as hosting, domain name registration, dedicated and collocation service. Also the company is engaged in SEO and issuing SSL certificates, and offer the sitebuilder. Hosting-Center is one of the biggest hosting providers in Russia. Over 200 000 customers have appreciated service of the company.

Software Engineering magazine.

The Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) established in 2006 embraces more than sixty Russian Internet companies. The Association aims to create a civilized electronic communications market, support educational and scientific projects in the field, and introduce regulations that would protect the interests of the market players.

The Association brings together the key players of the Russian electronic communications market and thus objectively represents the industry interests and solves its problems. Want to help create a civilized electronic communications market in Russia? Join us.

WapStartis the owner of the largest mobile advertising network Plus1 WapStart and the most popular and complete mobile sites catalogue Top WapStart in Russia. WapStart services thousands of mobile publishers with over 10 million unique visitors and over 1.5bln impressions monthly. Plus1 WapStart unique technology allows for detailed targeting and analysis of the visiting audience, resulting in the most relevant ads placement for increased ROI and monetization. Advertisers who already promote their goods and services in our ad network are: RZD (Joint Stock Company “Russian Railways), Mvideo, Beliy Veter (Large Russians Retales ), Tinkoff Bank, VTB24, Alfa-Bank (Large Russians Banks), VW, Garnier, Letoile, LG, Samsung, Google, Yandex (the biggest Russian Search Engine, Google analogue) and other online and offline businesses.

Firmbook

Bankir.Ru

Software People’ 12

Site Bez Zabot conference

ProfsoUX 2012 — the first Saint Petersburg usability and UX (user experience) conference organized by the independent community — UX SPb (www.ux-spb.ru).

MDDay LLC

Web Ready: Internet&Mobile is an open contest of innovative Internet&Mobile projects. It helds in two main nominations: the best internet-startup and the best mobile-startup. The 2012 contest will take place on 01/06–14/10, its final will be held on the 30 of November. Prize fund of contest — 1 500 000 roubles

UA Mobile 2012 – The First All-Ukrainian Conference on Mobile Application Developments.

On November 24 Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design will host the Ukraine’s pioneering international conference on mobile applications and services developments. Attendance to the event is on a paid basis and registration is already open.

The conference’s goal is to create a forum for the exchange of experience and expertise by the developers directly or indirectly involved in work with mobile platforms. The event shall be interesting both for entry-level developers, who will have an opportunity to participate in trainings, and also for skilled professionals. The stress shall be made on practical reports and best practices in specific fields instead of talking on general issues.

The speakers shall include the specialists from leading IT companies of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, experienced practitioners, founders of successful startups, investors in the hi-tech.

When: November 24, 2012, 11 am
Where: Kyiv, Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design

DEV {web}

Digitale

ITmozg is the Russia’s only portal to find work and staff in the Information Technology field. ITmozg.ru is the most attractive and convenient platform designed to engage IT-professionals into dialogue with employers. The company is a nominee for the prestigious RuNet 2011 award, and was twice among the Top 30 start-up teams, according to Pruffi. The team leaders is in the list of 100 future stars of the RuNet.

JobsMarket

IT-Portfolio

SuperJob.ru

IT-Dominanta

IT Selection Agency is the leading full service company in the market of IT recruiting of Russia and CIS. We work with our clients to maximize their productivity, efficiency and profitability. We cooperate with a set of companies from start-ups to Fortune 500 Corporations, trying to achieve success in every aspect of their IT staffing requirements. We work in the market of IT Recruiting since 2007 and we have tens realized projects in this area.

Our Services

• Recruitment of HW and SW Developers: hardware designing, asm, embedded Linux and real time systems, C/C++, Java, .Net, C#, PHP, Python, JS, Perl e. c.
  TOP and Business Development managers for IT&T
• Starting Up of a Project Offices
• HR Solutions for IT&T

Our Geography

• St. Petersburg, Minsk
• Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk
• Mogilev, Saratov, Voronezh, Tula, Tver

Our current recruiting projects: С/C++ developers, Java, .Net, PHP/Python, JS. Art and modeling for game development industry. Mathematic and algorithms. QA Teams.

DigitalHR

CNews is the largest daily online source launched in 2000. CNews focuses on the latest IT news, analytical articles, market reviews, internet surveys. The printed version has been published since 2004. Up to 100 pieces of news are posted on the site daily, providing authoritative insight and opinion on the Russian and Foreign markets of computer equipment, software, automation and informatization, e-commerce and telecommunications, entertainment industry. The average monthly attendance is over 1,5 mln.

The Analytical Banking Magazine is a respectable monthly magazine published since 1995. Over the last several years the magazine has been recognized as the most professional and popular edition in Russian banking industry. The magazine’s subscribers include heads of banks, insurance, financial and investment companies, government, representatives of the legislative and executive authorities from Russia, the CIS, the Baltic states and foreign countries.

TelecomDaily

Startup Afisha

East-West Digital News

UML2.ru Project

12NEWS is a Russian informational agency providing news and analysis about automation management systems for today’s enterprise. Objectiveness is the main mission of 12NEWS and the most complicated as well. 12NEWS holds in respect all IT companies irrespective of their publicity.

SearchEngines.ru is the first Russian web resource about search engines and internet-marketing. Search engines news, analytics, original and translated materials about websites promotion, experts commentaries, digest. Events that are worth visiting collected in convenient calendar, conference reviews and detailed descriptions of key lectures. The biggest forum about working with search engines, where you can find answer for any of your questions.

MeraLabs is a privately owned russian R&D company, founded in 2008. The company develops high-tech venture projects, which belong to the areas of data search and storage technologies, network architectures and telecommunications technologies. The projects developed by the company are currently at the development phases varying from “seed” to “early-stage”.

MSKIT.ru

ITSZ.ru

NNIT.ru

Belorussian community of business and system analytics

Global CIO — official CIO community in Russia & CIS

Quick facts:

• URL: www.globalcio.ru
• Stakeholders: Russian CIO Union and project team
• Format: professional CIO community with quality content, tools & knowledge base
• Active members as of April 2012: 2300+
• Membership growth dynamics: 70-90 CIOs per month
• Focused communications: biweekly e-digest and special e-mail blasts (5000+ subscribers)
• IT budgets controlled by members: over $4B

devclub.eu

Scientific Research Publishing is an academic publisher of open access journals. It also publishes academic books and conference proceedings. SCIRP currently has more than 200 open access journals in the areas of science, technology and medicine.

IT Academy is a leading provider of products for professional education based on information and communication technologies with a network of 25 regional offices throughout Russia and the CIS.

We offers authorized courses of major worldwide vendors: Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, IBM and others; full range of e-learning products; education in “Information Security”, “IT-Management”, “Software Engineering”; e-MBI, CIO, CSO for top management staff.

Our clients are such organizations, as Bank of Russia, Federal tax service of the RF, The State Duma of the RF, LUKOIL, TNK-BP, TATNEFT, MTS, VimpelCom.

Seminar4u.ru — education calendar of conferences, round tables, seminars and trainings, open for adding events after registration. We are focused on events in information technology field.

ComNews

Cloudzone.ru is among the first websites to provide current and complete information about cloud computing in the Russian IT market. Cloudzone.ru delivers news, reviews of the technology offered and practice of its development. Cloudzone was established in April 2010. For more information, please visit the company website.

The federal media resource www.comprice.ru is the mass media devoted to the market of IT. www.comprice.ru offers a content interesting, both for beginners, and for professionals of the computer market.

Open Innovations Association FRUCT

SoftWeek.ru is the portal which can simply provide you with the all interesting information about software market. The news line will allow you to stay informed of new products on the software market, dates of releases of new products of developers and plans of producers.

Our main goal to create the most convenient portal with detailed information and the pleasant interface. Comparative analyses and the reviews of computer programs which are in details describing advantages and shortcomings of these or those programs will be interesting to experienced users. For novice users we provided the IT terminology dictionary that will allow to understand subtleties of this sphere. And interview of the key persons of IT sphere will be interesting to everyone, because that is where you will find revelations, recognitions and, probably, even hints on future sensations which will excite the IT market.

CMS Magazine

Softline Company founded in 1993 is the leading supplier of a wide spectrum of software on the market of Russia and the CIS countries. Today Softline is an authorized partner of more than 300 well-known domestic and world-wide developers (Microsoft, Symantec&VERITAS, Citrix, IBM, McAfee, Novell, Oracle, VMWare, Corel, Adobe etc.).

rocID stands for “Common Runet Users’ Network”. Once registered its users can easily access numerous future professional events on the Runet (Russian Internet).

The magazine Internet v Tsyfrakh is the first periodical covering numbers, facts and analysis of the Internet industry. The magazine includes analytical materials as well as a number of opinion articles by well-known Internet journalists.

PC WEEK/Russian Edition is a weekly IT newspaper. The newspaper covers leading technologies, news of the world and Russian computer markets of interest to corporate user. It is distributed free of charge to companies with more than 10 PCs.

PC MAGAZINE/Russian Edition ( + СD ) is the leading monthly computer magazine. The magazine covers the latest world and Russian technological developments and products of interest to a wide spectrum of users. The magazine comes out 12 times a year with a circulation of 40,000 copies.

Bestsellers of IT market analyzes market status, general competitive situation, trends and key events in the main hardware segments: computers and components, peripherals, consumables, UPS, presentation equipment, telecommunications, digital cameras and other…
Frequency: Four times a year A4 magazine
Circulation: 20,000
Distribution: Free of charge delivery (90%): vendors, distributors, resellers (45%), it-managers of non-computer companies (45%). Editorial subscription, retail, marketing fund – 10%.

IKS-magazine is the business magazine for Telecom, Media&IT in Russia and CIS, an efficient source of information for the managers and industry specialists. All about Telecom, Media & IT business in Russia: Industry news, analytics, market reviews and forecasts, technologies and services.

The magazine covers all directions for telecommunications development (wireline and wireless, television and radio broadcasting, satellite communication, NGN, etc.), media (digital content), information technologies.
Founded in 1992. Circulation: 15.000 Monthly.

Positive Technologies is at the cutting edge of IT Security. A specialist developer of IT Security products, Positive Technologies has over a decade of experience in detecting and managing vulnerabilities in IT systems. Positive Technologies has more than 300 employees at its offices and research centres in London and Moscow. Its technology partners include IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft and HP.

Positive Technologies’ innovation division, Positive Research, is one of the largest security research facilities in Europe. Our experts work alongside industry bodies, regulators and universities to advance knowledge in the field of information security and to apply this analysis to improving the company’s products and services. The centre carries out research, design and analytical works, threat and vulnerability analysis and error elimination.

Since 2004, Positive Research has helped global manufacturers including Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Avaya, Citrix, VMware and Trend Micro to eliminate hundreds of vulnerabilities and defects that threatened the safety of their systems.

The magazine PROgrammer is a unique international non-profit monthly publication about programming and Electronics at the intersection of programming. The magazine was founded in 2010 to promote the experience, as well as to help the novice programmer developer. We publish the author’s interesting original material from their own experience and development as new programmers, and programmers professionals.

3DNews Daily Digital Digest — Russia’s first independent online edition to deal with information technologies. The purpose of the project is to provide media coverage of the IT market through publishing prompt and maximally impartial information; to make the audience aware of hardware and software novelties as well as to assist Russia’s computer users in making the right choice, purchasing and using the hardware and software in the most efficient way.

The magazine «IT Manager» is a reliable assistant director for key decision making in business administration. It is a desk magazine for company executives in IT business. Every issue contains relevant information about events, effective projects, interviews with chief executives, analytics of the market and the ways of its development, opinions of its players.

Periodicity — monthly, circulation — 12700, printing type — full color.

The magazine «IT Expert» is intended for IT professionals. The edition is oriented for specialists engaged in industry, service, in IT-decision and IT-service sales field. It covers the latest technological developments, testing of new products, and summing-up of the market situation in different segments of IT industry both in Russia and abroad.

Periodicity — monthly, circulation — 15000, printing type — full color.

The newspaper «IT News» is about events that happen in IT world. The edition is intended for business customers, management and supervision, IT managers and high readership of different age and education. One of its trends is directed to the new technologies’ popularization and to the timely information about theirs appearance.

Periodicity — bi-monthly, circulation — 15000, printing type — full color.

The main aim of our project — Dnevnik.ru — is to make the educational process itself more effective by using the most progressive educational technologies. Our e-learning platform was founded in 2009, and during the last three years we have already gained about 4 million users in Russia and about 1 million in Ukraine. Our platform has also been deployed in Hungary, Israel and Poland. At the moment, we are localizing our platform for the US market.

Our platform provides three main services:

1. A learning management system that supports the e-learning process, including distance learning and delivery of electronic content;
2. A school management system that helps the school administration manage data, including student grades and activities, attendance records and data regarding teachers;
3. A social network that supports personal profiles, forums, messages, and the ability to upload and share media-files. It also allows parents to become full participants in the educational process of their children.

These three functions make possible an educational process that is far more effective than traditional school interactions alone. Also—and this is one of our top priorities—our system is totally secure and fully moderated, which helps to be sure that the system is not used to share harmful content.

We are working with the Russian Ministry of Education and often provide University entry exams in a distance format (online). We’ve secured collaborations and support from a great number of international corporations, such as Microsoft, Samsung, IBS, Toshiba, Panasonic, Lego and others, in order to make our services more accessible and effective.

Since 2009, our platform has been recognized with such prestigious awards as: the Saint Petersburg best innovation project in the educational sphere (2009), the ‘Fortune from Microsoft’ award (2010), the RUnet Award “Best teacher’s project” (2010), and the “Best e-leaning project” at the World Summit Awards (2011). In 2012 we were reviewed in Informio newspaper as one of the “25 hottest startups in Russia”.

Open Systems — the oldest Russian magazine devoted to complex information systems. Up-to-date computer platforms, operation systems, DBMS, integration of applications and data, IT management. Software engineering. Problems of IT education.

Open Systems magazine has been officially included in the list of scientific magazines, recommended by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation for publishing the results of researched performed by aspirants for a degree of Candidate or Doctor of Science.

Ingria Business Incubator — is a place for startup’s fast growth. The Incubator provides a complex support for residents in attracting investments, team building, in searching for strategic partners and clients, entering the international markets and business scaling.

The federal State Unitary Enterprise “Research and Design Institute of Postal Communication” was founded in 1960. Research and Design Institute of Postal Communication is the leading provider of software and developer of design solutions for postal enterprises in Russia.

The Institute has successfully developed a number of software solutions for automation of different postal activities.

Main activities:

• Software engineering and introduction for postal enterprises
• Scientific research of postal technologies development
• Design of specialized equipment and systems

IT Terra Voronezh

HashCode

NetCat is local company interested in Russian and CIS markets. Here are some facts about us:

• we produce NetCat commercial content management system since 1999
• we are the second biggest CMS vendor in Russia with 15% market share
• we have more than 1700 dealers and more than 17 000 installations

Business Incubator «Top-ideas» – on-line platform that unites inventors, investors, entrepreneurs and innovators, professionals and experts. We will help “grow” your idea, not only through investment, but also by combining the necessary resources for its implementation and competencies.

«BIS Journal − Information security of banks» is a specialized branch periodical publication on banking and other financial organizations’ information security issues.

It contains the full, operative and authentic information on all the actual aspects of information security of banks, the toolkit of information attacks and protection measures, innovations in the field of legislation, regulations and standards, current requirements of regulators, the dynamics of information security market development and other urgent issues.

CRM Experts – internet-journal about crm / marketing / smm / sales / cloud computing etc.

CRMExperts.ru – the right information at the right time. You want to know how you can increase your business & optimize your resourses?!

Well, please, join crmexperts.ru

Business incubator “Navigator vozmozhnostej” at HSE-Perm is the first business incubator in Perm. Today it is one of the most authoritative IT communities in the region. For a couple of years our employees and invited experts are successfully helping projects and teams to realize their ideas into prototypes or in real business. Besides, “Navigator vozmozhnostej” is а partner and a сo-organizator of several large IT conferences and forums, also it carries out periodical educational programs on technological business for everyone.

Garant Company is one of the leading information companies of Russia. It is a developer of a computer legal system GARANT and a complex of information and legal support.

At present, Garant information and legal support helps solve their tasks to hundreds of thousands specialists all over the country. Access to open information legal resources supported by the company is provided to millions of citizens. The company implements innovation solutions applying latest computer technologies, Internet, mobile devices, interactive format of representation of data, satellite technologies. It permits anybody needing legal information to find it quickly and accurately being situated in any part of the country.

RACE is the first in the CIS affiliate marketing exhibition – «Russian Affiliate Congress & Expo».

Dates for RACE 2012: November 8–9, 2012
RACE 2012 Venue: Russia, СROCUS EXPO, Pavilion 2, hall 6

The idea of Russian Affiliate Congress and Expo originated in response to the need to develop business in Russia and other CIS countries in line with global trends.

Affiliate programs are one of the most effective and widely used internet marketing tools in the developed countries accounting for about 40%, whereas this segment in Russia and other CIS countries accounts only for 10% of the marketing activities. The difference is obvious.

ICT-Online.ru

spbIT.ru

“Detali Mira” is a monthly popular science magazine that features regular sections on all the main fields of science and human activities – such as astrophysics, cosmology, physics, chemistry and biochemistry, medicine, genetics, history, paleontology, geophysics, IT, auto industry, robotechnics etc.

“Detali Mira” is a magnet for the curious and active. DM provides its readers with the straight from the source information about the newest and the most outstanding discoveries and inventions all over the world – about everything that can change our life tomorrow or even today. And all this is made in the most illustrative and easily-accessible form.

“Detali Mira” is concentrated on the tramline of the scientific thought, screening out all the info glut and making the reading really informative and exiting.

Circulation: 120 thousand people all over the world.

PLUS Journal is the most competent specialized multiregional periodical in the Eurasian market (Russia, CIS & others) since 1994

The circulation of the journal is 4 000 copies. Number of readers per single copy (on average) – 4,3 pers. Average readership per Issue -17,200 pers.

The publication is distributed via subscription (by the Editorial Board and agencies) and at the events with participation of the journal in the Eurasian market. 12 issues a year

Target audience – mid-level and top managers directly involved in organizing and conducting business, making long-term strategic decisions related to the implementation of projects and technological solutions for business and government agencies.

Specialized periodical about retail & innovations

Mass service for population both in the real and virtual world.

Retail&Loyalty: business, technologies, projects

Retail&Loyalty Journal covers the best world and domestic practices, new innovative ideas in the field of retail business and self-services in the context of new development trends in the businesses associated with traditional and virtual retail services, loyalty and cobranding programs, etc.

Average readership per Issue – 17,200 persons.The Journal print run is 4000 copies. The number of readers per single copy is 4,3 persons (on average). The publication is distributed by subscription (through the Editorial Office and agencies) and at industry events attendee and supported by the Journal on the territory of the Russian Federation, FSU and far-abroad countries.

Frequency: 6 issues per year.

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