CEE-SECR is the premier software engineering conference in Russia. The 2013 edition of the conference will take place on October 23-25 at the Digital October Center in Moscow. Over 700 industry specialists, representing all IT areas, are expected to attend the event. The CEE-SECR 2013 Program Committee is launching a call for speakers, who should apply …
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The St. Petersburg National Research University of IT, Mechanics, and Optics team won the International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM ICPC) for the seventh time. The ACM ICPC finals, which were organized in Saint Petersburg last week, attracted 120 teams from 36 countries. The winning team of three students, who …
The microelectronics industry in Russia has been receiving quite a lot of attention recently with growing realization that intensive industry development is crucial to achieve import substitution and eventually compete in the international market. At the conference that took place recently in Zelenograd as part of SEMICON Russia 2013, which is devoted to the development …
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Demo Europe, a major start-up and venture conference, took place at Moscow’s Digital October center last week. On June 3 and 4, Russian start-ups presented their projects while venture capitalists listened. All the while, journalists from major Russian and world media outlets followed the presentations with attention, looking for future stars. What did they notice? Here some …
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As Russia’s banking sector seeks new, customer-focused strategies to win over clients in an increasingly competitive market, Russian startups are close at hand and ready to support such strategies with an array of advanced IT solutions. In St. Petersburg on May 31st, eighteen startups, all residents of the Ingria business incubator, made a series of …
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Late last month, MassChallenge, a nonprofit organization that runs a $1 million annual global startup competition, hand-picked 128 first-round winners to join its 2013 Accelerator Program. RVC-USA, the Boston-based representative office of Russian government-owned RVC and a two-time platinum sponsor of the MassChallenge competition, announced last week that four Russian startups had made it to …
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On June 22nd, a team of entrepreneurs from New York is bringing a one-of-a-kind invite-only tech conference to Moscow. The event that promises to become a beacon of networking between Russian and American founders will be attended by 100 hand-selected members of the Russian tech elite – noteworthy startups, investors and media representatives. Beta Week will …
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BIT Contest, the largest tech contest in Russia and its neighboring countries, is holding its 10th edition this year with a richer and more international format. Inspired by the MIT $100K competition, BIT contests — short for Business of Innovative Technologies — were organized for the first time in 2003 within Russia’s most prestigious business …
HSE Inc., the startup incubator of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, has concluded the 2012-2013 season of its Iron Entrepreneur business game for aspiring entrepreneurs from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. In the finals, 91 participants had two days to develop business solutions based on Qmodule, a wireless technology that allows users to control different objects. …
Gvidi, a mobile app dedicated to restaurants, cafés and bars across Russia and neighboring countries, won the Best Idea award earlier this week in an Android developer contest organized by Tactrick Mobile Solutions. The prize for the winner in this category is “support for the development of the product in question and its further development …
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After visiting Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), and Almaty (Kazakhstan), HackDay#27 is coming back to Saint-Petersburg on May 24-26. The event will offer a chance to build a team, attend learning sessions, develop a prototype and present it to the city’s IT community as well as to investors and industry experts. All that in just 48 hours – with …
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Held last week in Moscow and Kazan, Tatarstan, the 2013 edition of the Russian Tech Tour offered yet another illustration of the growing appeal of the Russian tech scene to venture capitalists. Not only did more than 70 Western and Russian businessmen visit some of the Russian capital’s hottest tech spots, from Skolkovo to Digital October, they …
