Forum venture investors, May 22, Moscow

The venture capital market in Russia, driven by the state, on the one hand, and the first successful transactions outputs, as well as the formation of the first private foundations in the post-crisis period, on the other hand, shows a positive development.
The state, represented by the state development institutions - RVC, RUSNANO and "Skolkovo" - more than ever before in the venture segment. The share of public money in the industry is about 50% of the total market. Launched more than a dozen venture funds parastatals.
Initiatives of state development institutions aimed, inter alia, and to attract foreign institutional and private investors.
The first international success stories - Yandex, EPAM Systems, Qik, Evernote, B2B-Center and others - show that the Russian and CIS market has great potential for transactions at the global level.
In contrast to the segment of Private Equity, the Russian venture capital market are active not only the local team, but also the Western venture capital players.
Do not stay away, get the information first hand, be informed of all developments in the market, find partners and co-investors in Russia and the CIS. Traditionally, our events are attended by representatives of leading companies in the local market.
This year, the forum will include representatives of organizations such as:
• Fund "Skolkovo"
• Russia Partners Tech Fund
• RUSNANO
• Almaz Capital Partners
• Salomons Partners
• iTech Capital
• EBRD Technology Venture Capital
• UFG Private Equity
• Alter Domus
• VTB Ventures
• Global TechInnovations
• Runa Capital

and other leading players in the market of Russia and CIS.
Special invited guest forum - Andrey Romanenko, Head and co-founder of the payment system QIWI, investor and co-founder of the fund iTech I, Addventure III and QIWI Venture, a successful entrepreneur, investor and venture capitalist.
Conference site - www.cbonds-congress.com/events/165/

MLBT13 - current view of mobile technology in business

May 15 Digital October center will take an annual international mobile conference MLBT, which will focus on mobile solutions for business and will be held under the motto "Mobile Trends and Challenges: changing the image of the world."

Experts from the U.S., Europe and Russia will talk about the use of case studies of mobile technologies that have changed the habits and behavior of the people, by the examples of decisions of the areas of medicine, sports, music, security, "smart cities", banking, and others, will discuss the next stages in the development of mobile devices, " global sourcing ", as well as share their plans for companies in the international and local markets.

At the moment, his participation in the event is already confirmed:

Kate TEAP, co-founder of TechCrunch and Just.me (USA);
Binrbaum Charles, director of development of mobile and international destinations Foursquare (USA);
Matteo Pentz, technical director of Frog Design Inc. (Italy);
Harri Koponen, executive vice president ROVIO Mobile Ltd. (Finland);
Florian Meissner, co-founder EyeEm (Denmark);
Ciara Byrne, IT-journalist, VentureBeat (Netherlands);
Rory Kenny, Director of Partnerships TripAdvisor (Great Britain);
Harald Neydhard, co-founder and chief marketing Smaato (Denmark).

MLBT program will consist of eight consecutive blocks. Guests of the event will know what the appearance of new business models should be expected in the market, "killed" a mobile banks physical separation and what is the role assigned to it in Google, listen to the safety report from the experts on iOS and Android, and get an idea of ​​how to learn " feel "your audience and when smart phones will change the tourism industry.

C a detailed schedule of the conference can be found here.

Participation in the conference is paid. Before May 1, the ticket price is 9000 rubles, later it will rise to 11,000. Register and pay for participation can be a link.

contacts:
http://mblt.ru/ru/pages/contacts

Apps4All April 5, 2013, III International Forum Developers

Apps4All-community, bringing together more than 800 Russian developers and IT-industry, will gather at the site of the III International Forum Developers Apps4All Center Digital October, to discuss new trends in the creation and distribution of multi-platform applications. The forum is traditionally attended by representatives of leading IT-companies: «LG» (the general partner), «Qualcomm» (official sponsor), «Softline» (strategic partner), «Google» (partner offline), «Microsoft» (sponsor of the Contest Apps4All), «VisionMobile», as well as authoritative public organization: "Support of Russia", "Development Fund for Venture Capital in Moscow" (strategic partner). The event is supported by the leading universities of the country: Moscow State University. University, HSE and MESI.
Apps4All III Forum will be held within four discussion panels with the participation of Russian developers, experts, world renowned manufacturers of mobile devices and such prestigious speakers as: Nikolay Nikiforov (Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation), Igor Agamirzyan (General Director of "Russian Venture Company") Igor Borovikov (Chairman of the Board of Directors of «Softline»), Michael Vakulenko (Strategic Director «VisionMobile»), Igor Klyukin (Director of Intelligence "Pixonis"), Paul Golub («ABBYY»). "Mobile interface - this is an important trend - says Sergey Belousov, co-owner of the venture fund« Runa Capital », - playground Apps4All combines many interesting applications and talented people. This is more than enough to interest such events. "
The participants of the Forum III Apps4All can discuss trends and developments of the leading companies, emerging market applications «Entertainment», «Enterprise» and «Education»; trends DPS platform and many other issues mobile ecosystem. The event will be summed up II Competition mobile applications Apps4All, which started on February 11 this year. The second competition Apps4All mobile developers will pass on 5 major categories - "Best Developer-outsourcer", "Best Developer of its own products," "Best game developer", "The best digital publisher" and "Best Mobile Startup project" - and four special categories from Google and Microsoft. The winners of the main nominations are determined automatically based on the site index Apps4All apps4all.ru. Winners in special categories, as well as in the "Best Mobile Startup project" defines Expert Council, consisting of leading experts in the field of information technology and representatives of venture funds. Winners will receive cash grants of $ 5,000 - $ 20,000 from sponsors.
All those wishing to visit the III International Forum Apps4all developers to register on the official website: forum.apps4all.ru

The Fourth International Payment System Security Conference

PCI DSS RUSSIA 2013
The Fourth International Payment System Security Conference
Date: March 13, 2013
Location: Moscow
The Fourth International Payment Card Industry Data Security Conference “PCI DSS Russia 2013” will be held on March 13, 2013 in the Golden Ring Hotel, Moscow. This conference is aimed to bring up for discussion the current issues of the implementation of PCI DSS, and remote banking system security in the environment of companies which comprise the market of payment services in Russia and CIS countries.

Conference Format
Representatives of International Payment Systems, of Russian EUROPAY members association, PCI and PA-QSAs of PCIDSS.RU Community, and researchers of Digital Security will speak at the event as well as representatives of leading Russian banking institutions.
The conference will last for one day. Representatives of financial institutions, processing centers, data centers, banking software vendors, other IT service providers, and merchant companies are welcome to participate free of charge. Advance registration is necessary.
Anticipated number of attendees: 250.
Event agenda is available at the website.

Contacts:
www.pcidssrussia.com
E-mail: info@pcidssrussia.ru
Phone: + 7 (812) 703 15 47