Preliminary Program
for the Technology US-Russia Roundtable

Hilton and Towers Hotel,
San Jose, California
November 21, 2002

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Main Goals of the event:

• Put words of the 1^st IT Roundtable Memorandum into action.
• Market Russia technology skills to U.S. companies with real examples.
• Make contacts with U.S. companies with potential projects and follow-up.
• Based on results of Working Meeting - build ideas for joint actions for 2003.

Agenda:

8.00 - 9.00	Registration
9.00 - 9.20	Opening speech from the Co-chairman of US-Russia Roundtable Academician Eugeny Velikhov
9.20 - 9.50	Intel story in Russia. Opportunities and challenges (Richard Wirt, Intel fellow)
9.50 - 10.20	Opportunities for mutually advantageous Russian-American cooperation in Global IT Business. (President of RUSSOFT Association Mr. Valentin Makarov)
10.20 - 10.50	State and prospects of the Russian IT sector. View of American business (Aberdeen Group Research Director Mr.Stephen Lane)
10.50-11.20	Coffee break
11.20 - 12.50	Session 1 Topic: Technological cooperation with Russian companies for increasing business competitiveness
11.20 - 11.50	Presentation of Success Story: Boeing (Sergey Kravchenko, President Boeing Russia)/Luxoft (Tom Sundsboe, Director)/Parallel Graphics (Georgy Pachikov, CEO)
11.50 - 12.10	Presentation of Success Story: STAR Software (Nick Puntikov, CEO) / CSC Denmark (Niels Erik Clausen, Programme Director)
12.10 - 12.30	Presentation of Success story: eVelopers (Regina Velton, CEO)/Philips Semiconductors
12.30 - 13.00	Press briefing
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch Lunch Speakers: 1) Ray Bingham, CEO of Cadence, 2) Eric Finch, PRTM partner
14.20 - 15.30	Session 2 Topic: successful models and problems of American investments and Russian-American cooperation in the Russian IT market
14.00 - 14.20	Presentation of success story: Mirantis (Alex Freedland, Chairman and CEO)
14.20 - 14.40	Russian market of software development. Investment opportunities, prospects and problems of American-Russian IT cooperation (David Kramer, Managing Director TerraLink USA)
14.40 - 15.00	Is it worth to invest in Russia? (Benchmark Capital)
15.00 - 15.30	Discussion
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 17.20	Session 3 Topic: Joint Development of products for the Global market
16.00 - 16.20	Presentation of Success Story: Telma (Michael Bobrov, sales&marketing)/Motorola
16.20 - 16.50	Challenges of the Russian Offshore Market. EPAM System's Case Study: Gartner Group (Rita Terdiman) / EPAM Systems (Arkadiy Dobkin, CEO)
16.50 - 17.20	Discussion
17.20 - 17.40	Concluding remarks (Esther Dyson - Chairman of the EDventure Holdings)
18.30 - 21.00	Dinner (dinner speaker - Franc Spindler, VP of corporate technology marketing, Intel Corp.)