An event on outsourcing at offshore zone.

Two important leadership themes that address the strategic value and relationship between CIOs and information technology service providers:

"Outsourcing Vendor Relationships and the CIO - Current Trends, Best Practices, The Hype and The Reality"

"Russian Information Technology Service Providers - Current Trends, Best Practices, and Leveraging The Domestic and Global EcoSystem"

February 4th, 2004 St. Petersburg, Russia - Grand Hotel Europe

CIO Collective and Eugene Goland, Founder of OOBP.org, are pleased to announce a major event - Global Technology Forum in St. Petersburg Russia. This event will be held on February 4th, 2004 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Stuart Robbins, the executive director of CIO Collective and a key technology thought leader to America's Premier CIO Community is a featured keynote speaker for this event. This special one-day event will address the important issues of outsourcing and offshoring, vendor selection and management as well as a major impact on the role of a CTO/CIO. In addition, Stuart will also provide an executive overview, and analysis of a changing CIO role, best practices, and emerging opportunities in the current global marketplace. Our second speaker, Valentin Makarov, President of Consortium "Fort-Ross IT Services", will discuss emerging trends in St.Petersburg technology community as well as the importance of leveraging a unique and complex value chain ecosystem by Russian Information Technology Service Providers. A group of selected top scientific experts, University academics, government officials and foreign dignitaries as well as the top technology , business leaders and CIO's of Russia's largest and most influential companies, top managers of St. Petersburg and Moscow based international companies are invited to participate.

St. Petersburg, Russia - Grand Hotel Europe