For the fourth year in a row, Condé Nast Digital Day brings together over 500 leading marketing and communications professionals from the luxury industry. This year’s conference, which was held last week in Moscow, offered a special focus on e-commerce: how to build your sales online, how different is the online customer and its buying behaviour, …
Condé Nast’s 4th Digital Day: A “Window to the Future” in Moscow Read More
Earlier this month La Conférence Luxe & Digital gathered almost two hundred industry representatives, experts and journalists from Russia, France and the United States to share their experience and views on today’s digital trends in the luxury and fashion industry. Previously staged in Paris since 2010 and Moscow last year, the event was coordinated this …
Conference on luxury’s digital revolution: from eBay inspiration to 3D novelties Read More
Heureka Conference, in partnership with East-West Digital News, invites Russian startup entrepreneurs and investors to Berlin on May 14 to be part of the most hands-on and educative networking conference for the digital economy in Germany, Europe and the global markets during the Berlin Web Week. For one day Heureka proudly lives up to its …
Petr Mitrichev, a Russian programmer with a clutch of major global IT competition wins already under his belt, came out on top earlier this week at Facebook’s 3rd annual Hacker Cup international programming contest, notching his second personal Cup win and making the competition’s first prize Russian-only for a third year running. Mitrichev, a 28 …
Russian programmer wins Facebook Hacker Cup – again Read More
Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group, announced this past Friday the winners of its annual Best Gadget of the Year Award. The award event was hosted by Hi-Tech Mail.Ru, the group’s media project which collected users’ opinions on new tech solutions across digital sectors. With more than 2.3 million votes taken into account – …
Samsung’s smartphones and Apple’s tablets named “best gadgets of the year” Read More
Abstract submission deadline: April 1, 2013 – The VII International Forum “From Science to Business” will take place on May 15-17 2013 in St. Petersburg. Traditionally the Forum gathers representatives of universities, government, business, and institutes of development. This year’s edition is dedicated to the globalization of innovations. The organizers believe that the expansion of …
This Monday, a group of select innovation experts and mentors is starting a six-week-long road show through 15 Russian cities – from Rostov-upon-Don, to Astrakhan, to Tomsk, to Vladivostok in the Far East – aiming to meet thousands of local startup entrepreneurs, innovators, and representatives of technoparks. In each city, the program consists of presentations, …
Government-sponsored startup tour to bring innovation expertise to 15 Russian cities Read More
HUBFORUM – “La Conférence Luxe & Digital,” the first business event dedicated to digital luxury, lifestyle, and fashion, will hold its second Moscow edition on April 2, 2013, on the final day of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia. The conference, which will gather leading fashion, luxury and digital marketing professionals from Europe and the USA, will explore …
The Luxury, Fashion, Lifestyle & Digital Business Conference is coming back to Moscow Read More
With spring just around the corner, it’s time to register for the 8th Silicon Valley Open Doors – SVOD’13 event on June 10 and 11! SVOD is different from other conferences. Our motto is: “No bull, strictly business”. We have no prepared speeches or marketing pitches. Instead, we put the industry’s top players to unscripted …
Silicon Valley opens its doors – Announcing SVOD’13 Read More
News360, a Russian startup operating from Moscow and Silicon Valley, was honored last week in the mobile content portion of the World Summit Award (WSA). The startup was recognized as having the best M-media and news project among the entrants. News360 offers a set of mobile apps which filter and stream news content based on users’ interests and …
Russian-American startup ‘News360’ honored at Abu Dhabi’s World Summit Award Read More
Deadline for applications for the 2013 Russian Tech Tour: February 22 – The 2013 Russian Tech Tour, which will be held in Moscow and Kazan on April 23-26, will pair the most promising early and later stage growth companies with representatives from leading cross-border venture capital and global corporate firms. The funds that will be …
Tech Tour seeks 25 most promising emerging Russian technology companies Read More
Russia’s Zeptolab and AlterGeo were honored last week in Berlin at the finale of The Europas, a contest for technology startups that attracted over 1,000 companies this year from all over the world. The two companies have been judged as the “Best Russian Startups,” with Zeptolab getting two additional awards – the Best Gaming or Social …
ZeptoLab and AlterGeo walk away with top awards at The Europas Read More
