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Monthly Digest October 2011 Game|Changers Monthly Digest October 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 October Statistics Authors
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. October 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 whole 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 October, 1 Elizaveta Kosyachenko was promoted to the position of Consultant, Risk Consulting department at KPMG (St. Petersburg office).
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. October 2011.
3. Corporate track meetings We began our work with an organizational meeting on 5th October in JetBrains just a few days after results of the application process had been announced. During this meeting we have been introduced to each other - both participants and curators. Also we had a key guest Yandex - Dmitry Kochmar (Vertical Services). After a short introduction we divided into a few teams and created our vision of educational process from the participants’ side, and presented it to everybody. As a homework we had to complete our suggestions about educational process, structure it and present to the curators during the next meeting. Also we have received a Quest (Quest is an extra task usually considered as non-trivial): to write about ARPA-ED (http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/arpa-ed-background.pdf) document in 5 tweets or equivalent blog post. This task was successfully completed by 3 participants. During the next organizational meetings on 9th and 16th October in HomeWork (http://hw.shouldknow.ru/) roles and tracks were chosen by participants and discussed with organizers. Game|Changers is a wiki course and it means that most of every-day work on educational process is done by participants themselves with help of curators.
When all organizational issues were resolved we began to work on the topic IT for Business, 12th October in AU RAS. Key experts: Alexander Klechikov (Deputy Director for IT at Institute for System Analysis and Monitoring), Alexey Korotkevich (Deputy General Manager at FORS SPb).
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. October 2011. During the meeting we discussed what the IT industry is, talked about company structure, position and communications of IT department in a company structure, connections between IT department and external participants in industry process. Our home task depended on the main track each participant has chosen before, mostly about system integrators. Also everyone was asked to create a short bio and LinkedIn profile. The next meeting was organized at HomeWork, 18th October on the topic IT & Media. Key experts: Pavel Zhitnyuk (Partner at iTrend), Svetlana Romanovich (Director at NextMedia), Vitaly Yanko (Sales and Marketing Director at Agnitum), Yury Lifshits (Director and Founder at VnimanieTV.ru). During the meeting we discussed Corporate IT Media (the structure of the media market, types of media, research agencies), Business in Social Media (tools, possibilities, importance, trends), IT events (problems, future, purposes), Future Media.
On 26th October we had a meeting at EMC2 Dev Center St. Petersburg and discussed Large IT Multinationals. Key experts: Vyacheslav Nesterov (General Manager at EMC2 St. Petersburg Development Center), Sergey Kalinin (EMC2 DataCenter Lab Manager), Artem Aliev (EMC2 High Performance Calculations Consulting Group Manager). This time we worked on the structure of large IT multinational companies and studied a few cases of different IT companies - their history, structure, management, financial characteristics. Also we discussed different stock market issues and types of bonuses for top-management and other employees.
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. October 2011.
4. Entrepreneurial and Ecosystems tracks meetings We decided that in order to work more productively on certain topics, it is better to organize most of our meetings inside Entrepreneurial and Ecosystems tracks together. The first meeting was rather spontaneous and it was organized on 28th October in INGRIA Business Incubator on the topic Ecosystem, technological entrepreneurship & Incubators. Key experts: Lewdmila Pavlova (TimePad co-founder, earlier Deputy Director at Business Incubator HSE.Inc), Sergey Poduzov (Adviser at Technopark Ingria).
During the meeting we discussed process of the first business incubators establishment in Russia, experts’ participation in business and technology entrepreneurship, defined what ecosystem is and argued on the topic who can be called an entrepreneur.
5. Bioinformatics track meetings October 28, meeting in JetBrains Invited expert: Natalya Volodyna - Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, ex-employee in Geropharm During the lecture we discussed with Natalya: ways of drugs distribution and launching new medicine, microbiology and bio-informatics, medicine and pharmaceutical companies, the activity of Gerapharm company and situation on pharmaceutical market in Russia. 5
Game|Changers Monthly Digest. October 2011. Home task: read articles in Game|Changers Bio Reader; look through the list of bioinformatics-related companies in google docs.
6. Banking track meetings During the October banking track had a few organizational meetings with sponsors and curators in order to figure out the schedule and prepare the first meeting. The first meeting was organized on 3rd November and will be covered in the next digest.
7. Recommended and Co-located events We had 9 recommended an co-located events in October. October 2nd: Feedback party was organized by the Game|Changers team in order to meet students who applied to the program, but were not accepted. Event took place at the Green Room of Loft Project ETAZHI.
October 14th: Creative Industries Seminar (After-Party) at HomeWork, organized by HSE and Game|Changers. October 17th: Student Projects Cases (Meeting) at HomeWork, organized Game|Changers and St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. October 19th: Vladislav Tsyplukhin master class (Head VKONTAKTE.RU) at Homework, organized by Vnimanietv.ru. 6
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Game|Changers Monthly Digest. October 2011. October 23th: Mobile Apps Focus Groups, event by iFree at Repino Hotel. October 25th: IT and Arts (Round table) at HomeWork, organized by Game|Changers and Homework. October 27th: IT Industry Investment in Russia (Conference) organized by Deloitte at Erarta museum. October 27th: 'Yota Space About', A. Sanches (Master Class), organized by Benua at Benua. October 29th: IFMO HackSpace Opening, by NRU IFMO at IFMO.
8. Additional information During the first month we had 1 social event in the Green Room of Loft Project ETAZHI on 9th October. We had a great chance to chat a little in informal atmosphere in order to get to know each other better. Apart from Game|Changers participants there were a few alumni and expert guest as well.
9. October Statistics a. 8 meetings b. 5 different places to meet c. 13 key guests d. 9 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. Editors: Olga Barshay (English), Sergey Karashevich (Design), Sergey Dmitriev (General, Program Director, E-Mail: Sergey.Dmitriev@gamechangers.ru).
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