Guest Speakers

Guest Speakers and Invited Experts

• Vitaly Yanko - Sales and Marketing Director, Agnitum (topics: 'IT Media, Industry Events')
• Anna Degteva - Instructor, St. Petersburg State University (topic: 'English')
• Phil Delgiado - Team Lead, Yandex.Money (topics: 'Industry Origins and Rise, Demand for IT')
• Romuald Zdebskiy - Technical Evangelism Manager, Microsoft (topic: 'Multinational Corporations')
• Igor Odintsov - Business Development Manager, Intel (topic: 'Multinational Corporations')
• Igor Shturts - Professor, St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University / CEO, Driver-Inter (topic: 'Speech Communication')
• Mikhail Ilin - General Manager, Opera Software Russia (topic: 'Multinational 'Squirrels')
• Ilya Shpankov - Community Outreach Manager, Opera Software / 'Legend' at Habrahabr (topic: 'Multinational 'Squirrels')
• Alexander Shtuchkin - Entrepreneur/Product Designer (topic: 'Multinational 'Squirrels')
• Paul Votchitsev - Academic Program Manager, Yandex (topic: 'Industry Evolution')
• Vitaly Vlasov - Founder of CityCamp Russia (topic: 'Motivation to work in NPO')
• Sergey Mezentsev - Student Partner, Microsoft (topic: 'Web Standards Group')
• Vadim Makeev - Web-evangelist, Opera Software, Russia (topic: 'Development of web standards')
• Vladimir Medeyko - Head of Non-commercial partnetship 'Викимедиа РУ' (topic: 'Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation')
  • Sergey Lusse - Specialist, Nokia Siemens Networks (topic: 'Certification and Standards')
  • Valentin Makarov - President of RUSSOFT Association (topic: 'RUSSOFT Association')
  • Vladimir Gorovoy - Head of Yandex.Uslugi (topic: 'Yandex and Russian IT companies, management in IT')
  • Victor Bocharov - Developer, Yandex (topic: 'Yandex and Russian IT companies, management in IT')
  • Vartan Khachaturov - Project Manager, Scartel (Yota) (topic: 'Open Source Software')
  • Yury Lifshits - Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research (topic: 'Yahoo! Research: main principals and goals')
  • Boris Novikov - Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, St. Petersburg State University (topic: 'Academic and Corporate Research')
  • Oleg Stepanov - .NET Project Lead, JetBrains (topic: 'JetBrains products')
  • Sergey Poduzov - Consultant, Business Incubator 'Ingria' (topic: 'Technology Entrepreneurship Ecosystem')
• Irina Kuznetsova & Danis Suleymanov - Founders, 2Nova (topic: 'Startups: personal experience')
• Aleksander Petrov - Founder, BodyNova (topic: 'Startup: personal experience')
• Marina Varzar - HR Manager, EMC (topic: 'PD Ecosystem')
  • Aleksandr Klechikov - ex-head of IT department, CEDIPT (topic: 'IT in St. Petersburg Government')
• Natalya Churda - Marketing & PR Manager, HeadHunter (topic: 'HH services, IT Labour market')
• Varvara Agaponova - Recruitment consultant (IT/Telecom market), Ancor (topic: 'Ancor services, recruitment in IT')