This Summit is in its seventh year, and is the leader in advancing outsourcing as a management discipline. It is the one event that successfully brings executives, managers, consultants and providers together for a once-a-year learning experience examining outsourcing’s latest developments and future trends.

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The 2004 Outsourcing World Summit

Eugene Goland, Founder of OOBP.org, gave a presentation at the CIO Community of Practice Meeting in the Silicon Valley and participated in the round table discussion. The topic of this month's meeting was the practice of offshoring. Eugene Goland presented the details and advantages of using Russian software outsourcing firms. Topics discussed included security, means of communication, US job loss, and cost savings. The CIO Community of Practice consists of CIOs of the leading Silicon Valley's IT firms, such as Synopsis, Yahoo, Alcatel, and Symantec.

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