Russian Startups Go Global 2017 - new global opportunities for Russian IT entrepreneurs

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November 29, we hold a Russian Startups Go Global 2017 conference for IT entrepreneurs with the potential for development and scaling in the international market. In this post we will describe how the event of last year passed, which blocks the Russian Startups Go Global 2017 program is divided into, and which foreign guests can be heard at the event.

As it was in 2016

Last year, we held Russian Startups Go Global 2016 - the first international event of the IIDF for IT founders of Russia who want to conquer new horizons. Guests from 500 Startups, Seedcamp, Cherry Ventures and Maxfield Capital, Ideal Machine, as well as representatives of the embassies of Great Britain, Ireland, France and Germany came to us, and the founders of IT start-ups could communicate with Russian and foreign investors in a one-on-one format . As it was, you can look at the video:
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Then we got a lot of feedback:



We saw the value of this event for entrepreneurs - and this year we decided to continue to acquaint Russian IT start-ups with opportunities for development in the international market. We are waiting for everyone who is interested in the global development of their company, on Russian Startups Go Global 2017 ! The event will be held November 29 in Moscow in Izvestia Hall , register and come!

How will it be in 2017

The main program of the conference consists of three blocks: "Business", "Technology" and "Fundraising and M & A". Speakers at Russian Startups Go Global will talk about how to adapt a product for a foreign market, how B2B sales in Russia and the USA differ, how to build a strategy for working with investors to increase the company's capitalization, how to attract investments abroad, and share cases from their practice. . Among them:

Amrit Dhir, Global Campus Operations Manager at Google for Entrepreneurs

Amrita is heading global operations at Google for Entrepreneurs and is coordinating the expansion of this network - is now preparing to launch Campus Berlin. His team manages Campus technical and physical operations and a network of Google sites for entrepreneurs in start-up hubs around the world: in London, Madrid, São Paulo, Seoul, Tel Aviv and Warsaw.

Alexander Gorny, director of strategy and analysis for Mail.Ru Group

He has gone from a programmer to the Mail.Ru Mail department head. In March 2006, he moved to the Rambler Internet holding to the post of director for the development of web projects. In 2011, he was appointed director of information technologies for the Mail.Ru Group, and in 2016, director of strategy and analysis. This position focuses on M & A, investment and the launch of new projects within the company. He runs a blog # startup - author reviews of startups and their business models.

Marvin Liao, partner in venture capital fund and accelerator 500 Startups

Marvin invests in startups from all over the world in the field of digital media, adtech, marketing cloud, e-commerce and mobile. For more than 10 years, Marvin has worked in various departments of Yahoo! Inc. - in sales, business development, advertising and marketing, mainly at the level of regional or global management in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA. He is a mentor of several acceleration programs in Europe, Israel and the USA - he helps startups to develop marketing, sales and partnerships.

Ryan Peng, Managing Director, Digital Dao China

Ryan is an expert and entrepreneur from China in the areas of IT and digital. One of his projects with strong expertise in Chinese digital, Cloud COmputing, SaaS attracted investment from Sequoia Capital. Ryan worked for 8 years as Senior Product Manager at SAP, the largest software developer for the enterprise sector worldwide.

Valerie Prune, Director of Open Innovation at EDF

Valerie is the co-founder of the Nugenia Association, which is engaged in research and development of nuclear fission technologies and has more than 110 participants in 28 countries. Together with partners from Europe and Silicon Valley, he founded an association that helps promote business innovation. Now Valerie lives and works in Paris, where he is the director of Open Innovation in Europe and the Middle East and is developing a mutually beneficial cooperation with EDF Group startups.

Peter Green, co-founder of the Republic, a leading platform for crowdfunding investments in the United States

In the company, Peter is responsible for the Republic product and coaching fundraising startups. Republic is a member of the leading group of investment sites with AngelList and CoinList.
He has been working in the IT field for more than 15 years and is a mentor and advisor to a number of startups on product creation, branding and fundraising. In California, he founded the successful SaaS company MeetingPulse, fashion-brand Volga Verdi, the #VVY app and the Mine network. Previously, he worked for Leo Burnett Moscow in the department of interactive design on projects for GM, P & G, Mars, Sberbank, McDonalds and others.

Boris Batin, Co-Founder and CEO ID Finance

From September 2003 to July 2006, he held the position of Deputy Director of the Capital Markets Division of the Deutsche Bank Group in London. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Vice-President for the debt capital markets of Russia and the CIS countries Renaissance Capital in Moscow. From 2010 to 2012, he served as Vice President for the Debt Capital Markets of Russia and the CIS at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Moscow. In 2012, Boris Batin founded the first Russian online lending company ID Finance.

Laurent Ellerbach, Head of the Technical Evangelical Group for Central and Eastern Europe at Microsoft

Laurent is the leader of technical evangelical teams in central and eastern Europe, which implies the involvement of developers and students of technical specialties through events and online, as well as co-writing code with them. As a student, he joined Microsoft, where he had worked for 20 years in various positions. All these years he has been actively helping startups in technical and business matters.

Brent Cooper, co-founder of Moves The Needle, author of The Lean Entrepreneur

Author of The Lean Entrepreneur, The Entrepreneur, and The Lean Brand. Brent helped startups to evolve from an idea to rapid growth, a corporation sale, an IPO and knows all the typical mistakes of entrepreneurs from their own experience. As the founder of Moves the Needle, it helps corporations set up work with innovations and implement practices from the founders of startups.

Alexey Pelevin, CEO and founder of the legal reference system and information portal Pravo.ru

In 2000, he worked in the design studio of Artemy Lebedev as a designer. In 2002, he organized the Park design studio, and in 2008 participated in the creation and launch of the legal reference system and the Pravo.ru information portal. In 2009, Pravo.ru won the state tender for servicing the sites of arbitration courts, and since 2010, the company has been automating the arbitration system of Russia with the Electronic Justice service. In 2012-2013, systems were opened to automate the legal activities of Casebook, Caselook and Case.Pro.

We also invited special guests of the event - representatives of investment companies and foreign embassies in Russia:

• Fouad Kefief, Head of New Technologies, Innovations, Services Department, Business France ;
• Birgit Reuters-Brownweiser, Director of CEE, ABA – Invest in Austria ;
• Maxim Steigerwald, Director of Investment at IIDF;
• Alina Bezuglova, founder of RuTech ;
• Lyubov Markova, Senior Manager, Germany Trade and Invest .

Well, one of the most practically useful parts of the conference is the cases of the founders with the experience of entering foreign markets. Last year, this conference block gathered a lot of positive feedback from the participants - the stories can be heard on video .

This year, IIDF launched an international accelerator to adapt the product, gain first customers and accelerate growth in the US market - Techmafia. Therefore, we invited its participants - Convead CEO Alexei Kovalev, Stafory Development Director and Robot Vera co-founder Alexei Kostarev, CEO Knoema Vladimir Bugay - to share their first sales and pilot cases in the states.

And at the end - we will hold a closed paid Afteparty network , where participants can chat with speakers and special guests behind the scenes.



Participation in the general program of Russian Startups Go Global 2017 is free, registration is required . To participate in the Afterparty must purchase a ticket.

Sign up , come and become part of the atmosphere of Russian Startups Go Global!