CeBIT Fairgrounds, NORD/LB-Forum, Ground Floor, Room 04/05, 15.03.2007

Aim	Generate an impulse for German-Russian IT cooperation Create awareness of the potential for German-Russian Cooperation in IT Present success stories and perspectives Start series of events during CeBIT 2007
Date & Time	March 15, 2007, 11:00 – 13:00
	13.00 - 14.00 Stand-up reception 13.00 - 14.00 Press Conference (Convention Center, Room 14)
Venue	CeBIT Fairgrounds, NORD/LB-Forum, Ground Floor
Programme	Moderation: Dr. Mathias Weber, Head of Department, BITKOM e.V. (Berlin), Valentin Makarov, President of RUSSOFT, Member of the Board, APKIT (St. Petersburg) 11:00 Russia – Partner Country of BITKOM 2007  Ulrich Dietz, Member of the Presidency, Chairman of the Board, GFT Technologies (St. Georgen) 11:10 Opening Speech Michael Glos, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology (Berlin) 11:20 Opening Speech  Sergey Naryshkin, Deputy Prime Minister, Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow) 11:30 High-tech Exports from Russia – Strategic Initiatives of the Russian Government  Leonid D. Reiman, Minister of the Russian Federation for Information Technologies and Communications (Moscow) 11:40 Signing Ceremony of two Contracts 11:50 Strategic Russian-German IT Cooperation leads to Keeping up European Competitiveness on the Global Market  Valentin Makarov, President of RUSSOFT, Member of the Board, APKIT (St. Petersburg) 11:55 Russian-German ICT Cooperations - Prospects for new business models  Lothar Pauly, Member of the Board, Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, CEO, T-Systems, Member of the Board,  Deutsche Telekom AG: (Frankfurt am Main) 12:05 IT as a growth driver for the Russian Economy  Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann, Chairman of the Board, SAP AG (Walldorf) 12:20 Development of the Russian IT-Industry - Opportunities and Perspectives of the Russian-German Cooperation  Dmitry Loschinin, Chairman, RUSSOFT, CEO, Luxoft (Moscow) 12:30 Russia - A Strategic Region for Software AG's Global Growth Strategy  Karl-Heinz Streibich, Chairman of the Board, Software AG (Darmstadt) 12:45 From Russia to Germany: From Pilot Project to Global Technology Player - a Russian-German Coalition in Bloom  David Yang, CEO, Abbyy Software House (Moscow) 13:00 Reception
Languages	German and Russian. Translation (German, Russian) will be provided.
Participants	Top managers of ICT companies from both countries, representatives from governmental organisations, associations, innovation promotion agencies, investment companies, etc