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According to Vladimir Basko, the Chairman of  Infopark Board of Directors, duringrecent years a trend for enlargement of IT outsourcing companies has become tooobvious. Large Belarusian companies are extending their geographical presence byopening development offices in Russia, Ukraine, Check Republic and Hungary allowingthe enhancement of production basis, as well as sales offices in the EU countries,the USA and Canada.  Infopark association views its participation in the UkrainianOutsourcing Forum support as one more evidence of the fact that Belarusian ITbusiness is up to international standards.
Bulat Gaifulin, the President of Silicon Taiga noted: I am happy that ourpartnership with the  Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative gets filled up with the realprojects. IT outsourcing business of our countries is closely interconnected and Iam positive that the Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum will be equally useful for allForum participants, no matter where they are located  in Ukraine, Russia orBelarus.
Ukrainian Outsourcing Forums goals and objectives Presentation of UkraineÂ's potential on IT Outsourcing Services and Products market. Attracting new consumers of outsourcing services to Ukraine. Organizing of B2B meetings between Ukrainian and foreign companies. Discussion of the issues tied to development of IT Outsourcing Industry.
Forum ProgramConference Outsourcing technology and infrastructure. Outsourcing business development inUkraine. Ukrainian IT industry manpower. Human resources market, IT professionals supply inUkraine. IT specialists training. Regional software development centers in Ukraine. Regional tendencies. Global marketing of outsourcing services. Global outsourcing market trends. Independent software testing - new type of outsourcing services in Ukraine. Embedded/Firmware programming and Hardware Design in Ukraine.
ExhibitionForum will also expose leading Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian and foreign IToutsourcing companies. There also will be presented professional softwareassociations and alliances working on Ukrainian IT market.
Ukrainian IT Matchmaking Event 2006 ( B2B meetings)Within the Forum there will be held a Ukrainian IT Matchmaking Event 2006. It willallow Ukrainian and foreign participants to organize business meetings,acquaintances, company presentations and find partners. On-line meetings schedulerwill allow viewing the forum participantsÂ' profiles and set the meetings in advance.Round Table Discussions
EntertainmentFor um participants will be able to take sightseeing tours of Kiev and visit the mostfamous sight of the city.
ContactsFor additional information about the Forum program and participation, please visitthe official Forum web site: www.outsourcing-forum.com.ua or request it by phone Natasha Arseeva +38 044 458-17-53
To participate in the Forum, please apply online:http://www.outsourcing -forum.com.ua/en/registration/ index.html
NOTE:ABOUT UKRAINIAN HI-TECH INITIATIVE ALLIANCE:Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative (www.hi-tech.org.ua) is a leading alliance of Ukrainiansoftware development companies working in outsourcing, offshore software developmentand BPO. Ukrainian HI-Tech Initiative is an organizer of annual UkrainianOutsourcing Forum (www.outsourcing-forum.com.ua) Â IT business forum dedicated topromotion and development of Ukrainian software development and outsourcing market.Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative objectives:Â setting up and development of international connections in the sphere of softwaredevelopment;Â creation of a positive image of Ukrainian software development on the foreignmarkets;Â search and selection of partners supplying IT services outsourcing and BPO inUkraine;Â organization of B2B meeting between Ukrainian and foreign companies;Â finding investors into Ukrainian software development industry.
ABOUT the Association of Belarusian IT Developers INFOPARK:Association of Belarusian IT Developers INFOPARK (www.infopark.org) objectives -promotion of Belarusian IT development industry, especially of software development;improvement of legal, economic and social conditions for software development andexport of modern information technology as well as prevention of resources flow-out.More than 40 legal entities with different types of ownership are members of thisAssociation. Among them there are companies with foreign investment and foreignlegal entities specializing in development and exporting information technology,including software. According to expertsÂ' estimations Association of IT Developers Infopark unites more than 60% of all Belarusian software developers.
ABOUT SILICON TAIGA ALLIANCE:The Alliance SILICON TAIGA (www.silicontaiga.org) is aimed at enhancingdevelopment of Russian outsourcing market and its integration into the worldsoftware development industry. The Alliance Silicon Taiga acts in the interests ofits members and of the offshore development branch on the whole. The Alliance ofSoftware Developers Silicon Taiga is one of the largest associations of softwaredevelopers in Russia. In addition to Russian software development companies andscientific research centers, several development companies from Belarus, Ukraine andKazakhstan are also members of this alliance.
