Professionals are primarily distinguished by the desire to learn and improve their level of knowledge and skills. We do our best to assist in this by supporting various thematic IT conferences throughout the year. As in the past year, we bring to your attention an informational leaflet on relevant conferences that may be of interest to various specialists.

Unfortunately, the organizers of many conferences have not yet announced plans for 2015, therefore only information on announced events is presented here.

Winter Nights: Mobile Games

One of the largest conferences in Europe for developers and publishers of mobile games. The conference will feature representatives from a number of international companies involved in the creation and distribution of games for various mobile platforms. Very rich two-day program.
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Dates and venue : February 9-10, 2015, St. Petersburg, Victory Square, 1, Park Inn Hotel.
Website: http://www.wnconf.com

SPM Conference (Software Project Management Conference)

The fourth international conference in the field of IT-projects management. Presented here are reports of renowned experts in their fields. The topics of the reports are divided into four groups (principle 4P): personnel, processes, projects, products.

Dates and venue: February 20-21, 2015, Moscow.
Website: http://www.spmconf.ru/ru/index

AgileDays

Specialized conference for developers. This time the main topics of the conference will be the philosophy and methodology used for flexible process management, be it the development of a company or product development.

Dates and venue: March 19-20, 2015, Moscow.
Website: http://agiledays.ru

eTarget

The conference is dedicated to internet marketing, advertising and SEO. Within the program, invited experts will read reports. There will also be round tables. Anyone can visit the exhibition, which will be attended by companies specializing in advertising and promotion on the Internet.

Dates and venue: March 12-13, 2015, Moscow.
Website: http://www.etarget.ru

Analyst days

This international conference on systems and business analysis traditionally discusses various practical issues related to innovations, trends and problems in the field of design and requirements management, as well as relevant technicians, tools and technologies.

Dates and venue: April 17-18, 2015, Minsk, Belarus.
Website: http://www.analystdays.com/ru/index

Russian Internet Forum (RIF + KIB 2014)

One of the largest and most popular in the country, this IT conference will be held for the 19th time. In general, it is devoted to the technological and legislative development of the Internet, e-commerce, advertising on the Internet, the development of network technologies, including search and cloud, Internet marketing, recruitment in IT. Typically, a two-thirds conference program consists of what visitors and participants offer ahead of time. Thus, each RIF + CIB reflects the trends and interests of the IT community characteristic of this year. On average, the event is attended by about 10,000 people.

Dates and venue: April 22-24, 2015, near Moscow pensions “Polyany” and “Forest Dali”.
Website: http://2015.russianinternetforum.ru

Devcon

This annual conference is devoted to the development and testing of software for the Microsoft platform.

Dates and venue: May 20-21, 2015, Moscow Region.
Website: http://www.msdevcon.ru/

Russian marketing week

Large-scale four-day event dedicated to advertising and marketing on the Internet. The audience will be addressed by a variety of speakers, from freelance professionals to executives of large international companies.

Dates and venue: May 27-30, 2015, Moscow.
Website: http://rmweek.ru

SPIK (St. Petersburg Internet Conference)

This conference is devoted to various aspects of the development of the Internet in Russia, doing business online, legislative issues and information security issues. At the moment, the program of the conference of this year has not yet been formed. You can familiarize yourself with the program of last year at the link: http : //2014 .sp-ic.ru/ program/

Dates and venue: May 28-29, 2015, St. Petersburg, ul. Korablestroiteley, 14, the hotel "Baltic Park Inn".
Website: http://sp-ic.ru

InfoSecurity Russia / InfoSecurity

At this exhibition and conference you will have the opportunity not only to get acquainted with the latest equipment and software to ensure information security, but also to take part in workshops and discussions.

Dates and venue: September 23-25, 2015, Crocus Expo, Moscow.
Website: http://www.infosecurityrussia.ru/infosecurity-russia

highload ++

Conference developers of high-loaded systems. Invited experts will give reports at the conference, I will give lectures and master classes on a wide range of issues and problems facing the developers. Anyone can see the presentations from last year’s conference.

Dates and venue: October 22-23, 2015, Krasnaya Presnya, “World Trade Center”, Moscow.
Website: http://www.highload.ru/

OGIC

Exhibition of novelties in the field of computer games and electronic entertainment. Designed for a wide range of visitors - both for specialists in the development of computer games and 3D-technologies, and for all sympathizers.

Dates and venue: Spring 2015, St. Petersburg.
Website: http://ogicon.ru

WhaleRider

Annual conference on Internet entrepreneurship and project management. The event raises a wide range of issues within the framework of the two general themes, in connection with which the conference will be of interest to very many specialists, managers and businessmen.

Dates and venue: end of September, Moscow.
Website: http://whalerider.ru/

Share your opinion on these conferences, if you have already been to them in previous years: what did you like, what would you recommend to pay attention to, what disadvantages did you see for yourself during attending these events?
Enrich the list of interesting events in the comments!