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Monthly Digest November 2011 Game|Changers Monthly Digest November 2011 Introduction Alumni information (2010-2011) Corporate track meetings Entrepreneurial and Ecosystems tracks meetings Bioinformatics track meetings Banking track meetings Recommended and Co-located events Additional information November Statistics Authors
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011.
1. Introduction This is an official Game|Changers ad-hoc education program digest containing information about meetings and events we have organized and took part in and results we achieved during the month.
Game|Changers is a free one-year program for ad-hoc education and research of IT business designed for 20 students. It also includes open innovations, business development and HR platform for organizations and event series with the total expected audience of 250-300 people.
The program has a main corporate track and additional tracks on some particular topics: banking, bio-informatics, entrepreneurship, and ecosystems. The digest will be divided by tracks, but there will be additional separation as well.
2. Alumni information (2010-2011) We track previous year students’ achievements and involve Game|Changers alumni in further program activities. On November, 15 Dmitry Orlov was hired on the position of Project Manager at i-Free (St. Petersburg).
3. Corporate track meetings 2nd November, Yandex SPB Office, Internet Companies Invited experts: Vladimir Gorovoy (Head of Yandex.Uslugi at Yandex), Evgeniya Smolnikova (Academic Program Manager at Yandex). Extra expert: Dmitry Kachmar (Vertical Services, Yandex). During the meeting Evgeniya told us about her career from SKB Kontur to Yandex, commenting on companies’ management and development processes and educational activities. Vladimir presented information on the topic “How the web affects traditional markets” giving examples from current Yandex.Uslugi services. Dmitry told us about technical side of vertical services at Yandex.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011. The main part of the meeting included presentation by Sergey Dmitriev and Vladimir Gorovoy on Russian and US Internet Companies – we discussed what they are, business models evolution, organizational and management structure, differences, ratings of biggest internet companies and which company can be considered anInternet Company.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011. 9th November, IFMO QD, IT Industry in Russia and Industry Associations Invited expert: Valentin Makarov (President of RUSSOFT) During the meeting the President of RUSSOFT association told us about his background and career, experience in association creation, we discussed IT Industry in Russia and its main problems, the role of Business Associations in IT businesses and other topics related to IT business and its’ support. Also Marina Sukhorukova (Director at IFMO MTE) told us about QD incubator and MTE (Master of Technology Entrepreneurship) program. MTE and Game|Changers students were introduced to each other and discussed common interests.
16th November, AU RAS, IT in Business. Who is Entrepreneur Invited expert: Alexey Baranov (CEO at Indeed-ID). During the meeting we discussed Alexey’s career path to Indeed-ID and his experience in other projects he is or was involved. Discussion concerning operating features of IndeedID was held, also we discussed what is IT for society. Alexey told us about his experience in different aspects of business, partners/clients/government relations and personal development.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011.
23rd November, IFMO QD, Org meeting. Homeworks and quests During this organizational meeting we discussed current issues related to homework, reports, quests, game mechanics and scoring. 25th November, IFMO QD, SPB.com - Small Global IT companies. Marketing in IT Invited guest: Olga Steidl (Vice-President at SPB). Olga told us about her background, education, activities including work at SPB company and mentoring start-ups, time-management, marketing and business. We discussed a lot of issues related to global IT companies on the example of SPB which grew from a small local company to one of the strongest global IT companies on the market of mobile applications. We talked about global marketing, expansion to different foreign markets, mental differences between different countries,ways of operating on foreign market and various company organizational structures. Besides corporate topics Olga also shared her experience on time-management, workplace organization and other topics.
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29th November, i-Free Ventures, i-Free, Augment Reality and NFC Invited guests: Kirill Petrov (i-Free, cofounder), Sergey Shulga (i-Free, cofounder), Kirill Gorynya (i-Free, cofounder). The cofounders of i-Free told us about company history and its development from a small start-up to a big dynamic company, whichis nowadays operating globally. A lot of new technologies developed by i-Free were presented to our participants; also we had an excursion to NFC (Near-Field-Communication) demo room situated at i-Free office.
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30th November, Ingria, Ecosystem Events, Startups Invited guests:Ilya Antipov (Director of Operations, IngriaIncubator), Anton Fedosin (DzenMoney), Oleg Rozhdestvensky (Ingria), Aleksander Petrov(BodyNova). During our meeting at Ingria Incubator Ilya Antipov told us about his experience in ecosystem events creation, incubatororganization and management, government relations, business projects and education. Oleg Rozhdestvensky told us about Ingria and Universities connections and internship opportunities. Also we had presentation of two Ingria residents: Anton Fedosin with DzenMoney project (personal finance) and Aleksander Petrov with BodyNova project (3D models for plastic surgery). They shared their experience on start-up creation and work in the incubator.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011.
4. Entrepreneurial and Ecosystems tracks meetings A few meetings of E&E track were included in corporate track and thus have been described there.
10th November, IFMO QD, Social Entrepreneurship Invited experts: Denis Stark (founder of Musora.Bolshe.Net), Julia Druzhkova (founder of project Spasibo). Participants of the meeting discussed topics related to Social Entrepreneurship: what it is, what components it should include, legal aspects, social influence, transformation and others. Denis Starktold us about the project created in 2004: Musora.Bolshe.Net. Project included 3 operating business-models: Ecomobil (paying to yard keepers for sorting garbage collected by them); Mortgaging cost (it was based on the concept of broken windows theory: we do notlitter if it is tidy around); Corporate eco-party (organizing corporate meetings to collect garbage in public places). Julia Druzhkova told us about Charitable shop "Spasibo": the idea of its creation, experience abroad, expectations and problems (legal issues, item sorting, construction of a business model and others). Spasibo is a charitable shop where people can bring their things which will be sorted and sent to charity organizations or sold in this shop for the price of RUR 50.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011. 14th November, Ingria, Universities: Trends, Economics, Politics, Research Invited expert: Igor Fedyukin(Research Fellow and Director for Policy Studies, New Economic School; Advisor to the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation). During the meeting we discussed with Igor different aspects related to Universities and educational process in Russia and abroad. Also during the second part of the meeting we outlined the most important persons and universities in St. Petersburg connected with IT education.
5. Bioinformatics track meetings 4th November, JetBrains, Bioinformatics Origins and Biotech Companies Lecture summary: Presentation by Maxim Shvecov: “What is Bioinformatics”; discussion on “What else can be studied using bioinformatics, future of bioinformatics” and Overview of Johnson&Johnson company by Olga Yanyuk. Homework given: write and present 2 paragraphs about bioinformatics company you like (from a list in google docs); Study places to take Master degrees in bioinformatics. Quest given: Contact any company from the list and try to persuade them to make a lecture for us (online). Duration: whole semester. Evaluation: Quest is considered as completed when a lecture is held. 12th November, AU RAS, Proteomics-based bioinformatics, 23&me Invited expert: Yuri Porozov PhD in Medicine, MSc in computer science. Lecture summary:During the lecture we discussed the worldwide opportunities of taking degree in bioinformatics. Yuri told us about his work experiences in bioinformatics in Italy 9
Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011. and Russia. He compared the development of bioinformatics in Russia, Italy, India and Europe. An overview of 23&me project was made and presented by Alexandra Vachnadze. Homework given: prepare an overview of the selected company; top 5 places to study bioinformatics (MSc by Olga, Bachelor by Maxim, MB by Alexandra). Quest given:Make a report about differences among sequencing technologies:Microarrays; Exome sequencing; Full genome sequencing. Duration: app. 1 month. Evaluation: Award is given by the audience after presentation of a report. 18th November, AU RAS, Biotech Education &PacBio Summary of lecture: Literature and articles in science by Sergey Dmitriev; Introduction in bio-fuels by NikolayVyahhi; Overview of Pacific Biosciences by Maxim Shvecov; Organizational questions (Next semester projects, Moscow &Skolkovo, Cases in bioinformatics by Alexandra Vachnadze, Upcoming events). Homework given:Read .pdf files in Dropbox about bio-fuels and agriculture; Development of the medical and bioinformatics industry in Europe, China and USA.
6. Banking track meetings 3rd November, Philip Delgyado's apartment. What is money? Philip is a former employee of Yandex.Dengi. Now he works as a Chief Technology Officer ata start-up. Besides that he is an active member of Planning Future Society. The second expert was Gregory Fishman - founder of "Cognitive Financial Technologies" and a partner in "Automated Intelligence Systems" company (trading algorithms for stock exchange). Our guests were Maria Vinogradova (Head of Marketing Department) and VeronikaVetrova (HR Director) from OpenWaycompany. We talked about the origins and history of money, credit cards, e-money, etc. We tried to invent our own definition of money and found out a lot of its’ unique features. Some important banking terms were discussed: emission, inflation, futures contracts, hedging and so on. The second part of the meeting was about the future of money. Our goal was to comprehend the main tendencies of the world progress in terms of money and value changing. So we suggested several means of transactions which perhaps will be able to replace money.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011.
8th November. OpenWay. Payment Processing Ecosystem Our main speaker was Maria Vinogradova. Maria takes part in business development in the company and suggestion of new products that will be the most useful for their clients. Other experts: Veronika Vetrova, Anton Voskobovich (Software Engineer) and Alexander Vakhabov (Designer).
We began with clarifying various banking terms. Than we talked about different payment systems, and how they work with banking cards. We also figured out the path of clients’ money from the POS to the issuing bank. Than we talked about four main players on payments market: telecom companies, e-money, e-payments and banks. After the meeting students received home task to analyze in groups these four players and to make a short presentation.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011. 22nd November. OpenWay. This meeting was a continuation of the previous lecture. Our speaker was Maria Vinogradova. At the beginning of the meeting students showed their home taskpresentations about E-Money, E-commerce and Telecom companies. During the lecture we talked about different systems which were created for the needs of banks, for payment process automation and about problems of these systems. Then we were told about web and mobile banking in developed countries. At the end we discussed and compared the future banking and payment processing trends in Russia and abroad.
7. Recommended and Co-located events We had 7 recommended and co-located events in November. November 14th:Seminar about Skolkovo grants at Ingria, organized by Ingria Incubator. November 17th:Oracle’s ThinkQuest Presentation at IFMO, organized by IFMO. November 19th-20th: STS Workshop at EU SPb, organized by EU SPbandSkolkovo Foundation. November 19th-20th: Hackday #20, organized by Kechinov studio. November 19th-20th: OpenWay Autumn School, organized by OpenWay.
8. Additional information During the second month we had 1 social event in the CafĂŠ V-meste on 12th November. We had a great chance to chat in informal atmosphere, eat home-made food, drink coffee and play board games. Apart from Game|Changers participants there were a few alumni and an expert guest as well.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. November 2011.
9. November Statistics a. 15 meetings b. 8 different places to meet c. 22 key guests d. 7 recommended and co-located events e. 1 social event
10. Authors Digest prepared by Mikhail Vink, Media Relations. E-Mail: Mikhail.Vink@gamechangers.ru Bioinformatics track information prepared by Maxim Shvecov. Banking track information prepared by Valery Sizikova. Editors: Olga Barshay (English), Sergey Karashevich (Design), Sergey Dmitriev (General).
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