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06th October 2006, Friday

A Success Story - SWSoft about the World of Virtualization

Maxim Tsiplyaev/Acronis, Alexander Tormasov

SWSoft
Chief Scientist

Within a short period of time the SWSoft company won recognition in the field of virtualization and automatization. The company's technical plans, operating principles and the possibility of cooperation with programmer groups and individual programmers will be spoken of by the company's chief scientist. The success of scientific cooperation programmes with Russia's leading universities - Moscow Physics and Technical Institute, Moscow State University, Novosibirsk State University, will also be reported. The implementation of the Parallels project that recently became one of the hits of Apple computer virtualization may be cited as a successful example of such development policy.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 40 min.

Start time 15:00 - 15:40

Location Krymski Val

Panel: Russian Investment Specifics or Year Summary Viewed by VC

Roman Simonov (Intel Cap), Vladimir Bernstein (RU-tech /RTVP), Andres Susi (MTVP)

The panel will include a discussion of investment funds' activities on the Russian high-tech market for the last 12 months. Representatives of venture companies most active on the Russian high-tech market will share their impressions, experience, expectations and problems they had working with the Russian companies they invested or did not invest in. They will also speak of the particulars of their funds and the requirements to investment subjects. Such companies as Acronis, SWSoft, Invisible CRM, SJlabs, Reksoft, etc. are known to have been invested in by the indicated venture funds.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 80 min.

Start time 15:40 - 17:00

Location Krymski Val

How do we invest in early stages?

Arkady Popov

Infinity RT Venture Partners
Associate

The joint fund Infinity RT sets itself the task of providing 'seed stage' investments and application of the proven and well-behaved 'Israeli' model of high-tech company promotion. What will the fund be like and what role will it play in the Russian investment industry – all that will be contained in the fund representative's report.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 40 min.

Start time 17:30 - 18:10

Location Krymski Val

Panel: Living with Investor

Vlad Voznesensky (Invisible CRM, CEO), Anton Chizhov (Invisible CRM, СТО), Dmitry Staviskiy (EverNote, Founder and President)

Two companies founded by Russians that received investments from different financial sources will share their experience of the pre-investment, investment and post-investment periods, and their plans for the future. The companies will demonstrate the presentations that enabled them to convince the investors of the correctness and feasibility of their concepts.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 60 min.

Start time 18:10 - 19:10

Location Krymski Val

07th October 2006, Saturday

Investment Readiness: One, Two, Three - Ready!

Alexey Gostomelsky (Partner), Sergey Karpov (Corporate Financing)

ValueTech

It is known that investors do not invest in ideas and sometimes not even in very interesting technological solutions. Investors invest in a business project, i.e. a well packed business implementation of a unique technological solution. The emergence of a service company like Value Tech on the market will allow to fill the gap between the entrepreneurs' hopes and investors' expectations. Value Tech representatives will share their intentions.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 40 min.

Start time 10:00 - 10:40

Location Krymski Val

The evidence of virtual worlds profitability or getting investment on innovation projects

Andronik Nazaretian

EnterNetica
President

1. От технологий к бизнес-решениям. Бизнес-фантазии и реальный рынок.
2. Отрезвляющий эффект финансового плана.
3. Учимся говорить на языке инвестора.
4. Дилема: инвестиции в компанию или в бизнес-проект.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 20 min.

Start time 10:40 - 11:00

Location Krymski Val

Follow the Leader - IBM's Tornado programme

Dmitry Rekesh

IBM

The development of business relations between global market giants and young companies is known to always stumble across the formers' bureaucratic barriers. IBM is trying to resolve the problem by introducing its Tornado programme.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 20 min.

Start time 11:00 - 11:20

Location Krymski Val

From an idea to business implementation

Anatoly Gaverdovsky

VDI
CЕO

VDI company's CEO will share his positive and negative experience in launching new projects and starting new companies on the basis of an existing business. One of the business ideas that were born in the depths of the business value added off-shore company and implemented as part of an investment project will be presented in the form of case-study.

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Topic language Russian

Duration 40 min.

Start time 11:20 - 12:00

Location Krymski Val

Why quality investment is required to build value

Sergey Gorbuntsov (Analytical Consultant), Jason Smolek (Director)

J&P Company

Our abstract draws on the question, of why even successful companies (and not only startups) need investment to avoid commercial stagnation, loss of market share, management complacency, or slowing of R&D and product-service innovation.
In our presentation, (J&P) will draw upon real case studies and examples from Russia and abroad of software, service and IT providers, who used, misused or even did not take investment and the consequences of each. We show compelling evidence that while many companies can grow organically to a point, further investment is required to reach the “next stage of growth” to reach critical mass and compete on a global basis.
Our argument for Russian software, service and IT providers is that investment, if properly managed and bundled with real incentives and compliance can build value, in particular for improving their marketability, price competitiveness and competing in export markets. Russian software, service and IT providers have to attract quality investment (not purely financial) in order to compete with newcomers in Asian markets, where VC capital is becoming more available and direct competition from this region for Russia will become more dominant in the mid- to long-run.

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Topic language English

Duration 40 min.

Start time 12:30 - 13:10

Location Krymski Val

Maximizing Company Value Through Strategic Partnerships

Mark Sochan

Mark Sochan will speak about how Russian software companies can accelerate their software license sales in the US and global markets through strategic partnerships with key ISVs. By accessing the large install base of customers, emerging technology companies can leverage the marketing muscle of large ISV's to find a cost effective way to build a sales channel, align technology roadmaps, and to increase shareholder value.

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Topic language English

Duration 40 min.

Start time 13:10 - 13:50

Location Krymski Val

	Maxim Tsiplyaev/Acronis, Alexander Tormasov SWSoft Chief Scientist
Within a short period of time the SWSoft company won recognition in the field of virtualization and automatization. The company's technical plans, operating principles and the possibility of cooperation with programmer groups and individual programmers will be spoken of by the company's chief scientist. The success of scientific cooperation programmes with Russia's leading universities - Moscow Physics and Technical Institute, Moscow State University, Novosibirsk State University, will also be reported. The implementation of the Parallels project that recently became one of the hits of Apple computer virtualization may be cited as a successful example of such development policy.
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Topic language	Russian
Duration	40 min.
Start time	15:00 - 15:40
Location	Krymski Val

	Roman Simonov (Intel Cap), Vladimir Bernstein (RU-tech /RTVP), Andres Susi (MTVP)
The panel will include a discussion of investment funds' activities on the Russian high-tech market for the last 12 months. Representatives of venture companies most active on the Russian high-tech market will share their impressions, experience, expectations and problems they had working with the Russian companies they invested or did not invest in. They will also speak of the particulars of their funds and the requirements to investment subjects. Such companies as Acronis, SWSoft, Invisible CRM, SJlabs, Reksoft, etc. are known to have been invested in by the indicated venture funds.
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	Arkady Popov Infinity RT Venture Partners Associate
The joint fund Infinity RT sets itself the task of providing 'seed stage' investments and application of the proven and well-behaved 'Israeli' model of high-tech company promotion. What will the fund be like and what role will it play in the Russian investment industry – all that will be contained in the fund representative's report.
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	Vlad Voznesensky (Invisible CRM, CEO), Anton Chizhov (Invisible CRM, СТО), Dmitry Staviskiy (EverNote, Founder and President)
Two companies founded by Russians that received investments from different financial sources will share their experience of the pre-investment, investment and post-investment periods, and their plans for the future. The companies will demonstrate the presentations that enabled them to convince the investors of the correctness and feasibility of their concepts.
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	Alexey Gostomelsky (Partner), Sergey Karpov (Corporate Financing) ValueTech
It is known that investors do not invest in ideas and sometimes not even in very interesting technological solutions. Investors invest in a business project, i.e. a well packed business implementation of a unique technological solution. The emergence of a service company like Value Tech on the market will allow to fill the gap between the entrepreneurs' hopes and investors' expectations. Value Tech representatives will share their intentions.
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	Andronik Nazaretian EnterNetica President
1. От технологий к бизнес-решениям. Бизнес-фантазии и реальный рынок. 2. Отрезвляющий эффект финансового плана. 3. Учимся говорить на языке инвестора. 4. Дилема: инвестиции в компанию или в бизнес-проект.
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	Dmitry Rekesh IBM
The development of business relations between global market giants and young companies is known to always stumble across the formers' bureaucratic barriers. IBM is trying to resolve the problem by introducing its Tornado programme.
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	Anatoly Gaverdovsky VDI CЕO
VDI company's CEO will share his positive and negative experience in launching new projects and starting new companies on the basis of an existing business. One of the business ideas that were born in the depths of the business value added off-shore company and implemented as part of an investment project will be presented in the form of case-study.
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	Sergey Gorbuntsov (Analytical Consultant), Jason Smolek (Director) J&P Company
Our abstract draws on the question, of why even successful companies (and not only startups) need investment to avoid commercial stagnation, loss of market share, management complacency, or slowing of R&D and product-service innovation. In our presentation, (J&P) will draw upon real case studies and examples from Russia and abroad of software, service and IT providers, who used, misused or even did not take investment and the consequences of each. We show compelling evidence that while many companies can grow organically to a point, further investment is required to reach the “next stage of growth” to reach critical mass and compete on a global basis. Our argument for Russian software, service and IT providers is that investment, if properly managed and bundled with real incentives and compliance can build value, in particular for improving their marketability, price competitiveness and competing in export markets. Russian software, service and IT providers have to attract quality investment (not purely financial) in order to compete with newcomers in Asian markets, where VC capital is becoming more available and direct competition from this region for Russia will become more dominant in the mid- to long-run.
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Topic language	English
Duration	40 min.
Start time	12:30 - 13:10
Location	Krymski Val

	Mark Sochan
Mark Sochan will speak about how Russian software companies can accelerate their software license sales in the US and global markets through strategic partnerships with key ISVs. By accessing the large install base of customers, emerging technology companies can leverage the marketing muscle of large ISV's to find a cost effective way to build a sales channel, align technology roadmaps, and to increase shareholder value.
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