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During the Forum opening, both Forum organizers and partners noted growingsignificance of outsourcing as a separate market segment. Nikolay Katerinchuk, thePeople s deputee of Ukraine, who was present at the official Forum Opening Ceremony,noted the importance of governmental support of the decision made at the Forum inorder to grant development of Ukrainian IT as well as economics as a whole.
According to Victor Maznyuk, the Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative President, one of themain Forum achievements is discussion and approval of Ukraine, the IT-First Nation the government programme aimed at development of Ukrainian software industry. Theprogramme will be forwarded to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the nearestfuture. This programme ratification will facilitate solution of the problems thathinder intensive development of competitive IT industry in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2007 exposed a real potential of outsourcing in Ukraineand Eastern European countries. Business Process Outsourcing was presented on aqualitatively new level. A whole seminar, organized by the Forum partner BalticOutsourcing Association was dedicated to the future BPO development in Ukraine.
Another positive factor worth mentioning is the increasing attractiveness of theForum among similar events in the Eastern European region. The evidence of this isgeographical expansion of the industrial partners. For example, in 2007 BalticOutsourcing Association together with Hungarian Outsourcing Association joinedtraditional by now partners of the UOF Infopark from Belarus and Silicon Taiga from Russia.
During Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2007 significant attention was paid topresentation of potential of Ukraine and Eastern European countries in outsourcingand IT services, attraction of the new clients as well as addressing current issuesof IT outsourcing industry. More than 100 companies from 12 countries of the worldparticipated in the conference and Forum exhibition.
Information. First Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum was held in 2003 with less that 100people participating. In 2007 more than 150 participants were registered. Among theForum participants there were noted experts in outsourcing, representatives of theleading Ukrainian and foreign software development and IT outsourcing companies,investment companies as well as representatives of the national IT Associations andlocal state authorities. Overall more than 100 organizations from Belarus, Belgium,Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, theUSA, Ukraine, France, Check Republic, and the Republic of South Africa participatedin the Forum.
The Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum 2007 Goals and Objectives are: presentation of IToutsourcing services potential of Ukraine and other Eastern European countries;attraction of new customers for outsourcing services; organization of B2B meetingsbetween the Forum participants; discussion of issues in development of IT industryand outsourcing.
UOF 2007 Subjects were:
- Global marketing - Ukrainian regional Software Development centers. - IT professionals market. Search. Training. Education. - Software quality. QA and testing. Independent testing. - BPO in Ukraine
Also there have been held the Round-table Discussions in presense of well-knownexperts: UKRAINE, THE IT-FIRST NATION programme development , Ecosystem ofSoftware Development industry.
