July 16-17, the 2nd StartupPoint will be held in Yekaterinburg

On July 16-17, the 2nd StartupPoint will take place in Yekaterinburg at the INNOPROM-2010 industry and innovation forum .

What is INNOPROM?
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At the Exhibition and Forum "INNOPROM-2010" the direction of small IT companies of the Sverdlovsk region is planned to be shown with a single stand. It will feature 20 start-up projects at the commercial implementation stage and 30 start-up projects at the prototyping or idea stage. Also, 150 representatives of IT companies working on their own projects, 10 venture funds and 4 invited experts will take part in the stand.

What is StartupPoint?

StartupPoint in the framework of "INNOPPROMA" will take 2 days:

1st day (July 16) - speeches of experts, investors, business angels and the Success Story, which blew up the runet (registration on innoprom.org );

12.00-12.10 - Opening of the site of IT strapups I. A. Bogdanovich - Minister of IT and Communications of the Sverdlovsk Region
12.10-12.30 - presentation of the “Software cluster of the Sverdlovsk region” program
12.30-13.00 - Guest speaker Alexei Kostarev (I-Jet Media, developer of the game "Merry Farmer"): "The story of our success"
13.00-13.30 - Elena Alekseeva (Softline Venture Partners): “What to do to receive funding from the venture capital fund”
13.30-14.00 - Pavel Cherkashin (Microsoft): “What you can’t say to an investor at the first meeting”
14.00-14.20 - Coffee break
14.20-14.50 - Anna Nekhanova (VTB Capital) “Experience of investing VTB venture funds in IT projects”
14.50-15.20 - invited speaker Sharovarin E.V. (ASK company, Ekaterinburg): “How I successfully sold my IT business during the crisis year”
15.20-15.30 - Annual M.V. Director of the Department for the Development of Entrepreneurship of the Sverdlovsk Region "Small Business Support Program of the Sverdlovsk Region: Possibilities of IT Companies"
15.30-16.00 - Presentation of the DevGeneration program and successful investment project Actio (actio.tv)

2nd day (July 17) - StartupPoint in the traditional format ( registration ).

12: 00-12: 30 - Registration
12: 30-12: 50 - Greeting of the organizers, Vitaly Panarin
12: 50-13: 20 - SpeedNetworking
13: 00-13: 30 - Coffee break. Runs parallel with SpeedNetworking
13: 30-13: 45 - Invited speaker Bakunov (Yandex)
13: 45-15: 45 - Elevator Pitch - presentations of startups 10-12 projects, including 8-9 ideas and 3-4 business
15: 45-16: 00 - Voting for startups
16: 00-16: 20 - Coffee Break, Chatting on the sidelines
16: 20-16: 50 - Startup Lynch startups selected by viewers
16: 50-17: 05 - “Microsoft programs to support start-ups”, invited speakers of Zvezdin (Microsoft) and Ustinov
17: 05-17: 20 - Start of the IT Breakthrough program Softline + United Russia
17: 20-18: 00 - Round table with experts and investors.

If you have not been to a previous event, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the StartupPoint format .

Register on the 2nd day of StartupPoint on July 17th.

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Any IT start-up can apply for a presentation of their project on StartupPoint. Applications of projects are accepted at any stage: ideas, prototype, beta, launch and even an existing business entering a new stage of development.

To do this, you must submit an application for the presentation of your project no later than July 13.