Testimonials

Tatiana Danielyan

Tatiana Danielyan

“The event was extremely well organized and managed, and I derived enormous satisfaction from meeting up with very interesting people and making lots of extremely useful contacts…”

Deputy Director of Linguistic Product Department

ABBYY
Adobe “We would be more than happy to continue the collaboration over the years to come, as we consider SECR one of the best developer conferences in the Eastern Europe area…”

Senior Marketing Manager EMEA for the Platform Business Unit

Magdalena Neagu

Magdalena Neagu

Vladimir Bulov

Vladimir Bulov

“I took a dive into SECR atmosphere in 2008 for the first time and found interesting people and I liked the conference and the way it was held…”

Head of AvtoVAZ information technology development center

AvtoVAZ
Carnegie Mellon “… in part, the success of the conference was a result of the desire of Russian software professionals to network, learn, and advance the state-of-the-practice. This is a hallmark of our emerging discipline…”

Carnegie Mellon researcher, one of the authors of CMM

Mark Paulk

Mark Paulk

Alexander Ageev

Alexander Ageev

“CEE-SECR has become a place where you can get practical advice from professionals who entered the path of innovation, who overcame the difficulties and got to know the pleasure of success…”

Vice-chairman of Central Moscow Depositary

CMD
EMC2 “No doubts, that SECR is considered to be a world-class conference and comprehensively reflects the status of IT industry in Russia as well as development trends in the world…”

General Manger of the Software Development Center of EMC2 Corporation in St. Petersburg, Russia

Vyacheslav Nesterov

Vyacheslav Nesterov

Nikolay Puntikov

Nikolay Puntikov

“The organizers of this unique software engineering forum offer an event format that is appropriate for software developers, analysts, and managers at all levels, right up to CEO…”

Exigen Services President, Offshore Delivery

Exigen Services
Exigen Services “The SECR abbreviation is an independent brand, a sign of quality for a large number of software developers throughout Russia and other countries…”

Exigen Services Marketing Communications Director

Anastasia Novoseltseva

Anastasia Novoseltseva

Paul R. Croll

Paul R. Croll

“This is the key software engineering event in Central and Eastern Europe with over 500 participants and speakers from 15 countries…”

Chair, IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering

IEEE Computer Society
Intel “Well-organized conference that’s truly needed for Eastern European and, in particular, for Russian engineers and programming people. They have plenty to say and to ask…”

Principle Engineer, Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives department manager, Intel

Boris Sabanin

Boris Sabanin

Stanislav Kalkanov

Stanislav Kalkanov

“Where else would you have an opportunity to talk to Larry Konstantin about Use Cases writing, or ask Mark Paul a question about CMM architecture peculiarities?..”

Head of Luxoft Quality Center, Russia

Luxoft
Microsoft “The concept of Software Engineering is very important for modern economy based on knowledge, and especially in Russia, as the country is traditionally known by its strong software developers…”

DPE Director, Microsoft Russia

Dmitry Khalin

Dmitry Khalin

Michael Cusumano

Michael Cusumano

“It was particularly useful and rewarding for those of us coming from abroad to learn something about Russia today and the state of the Russian software industry…”

MIT Sloan professor, award-winning author

MIT Sloan
Motorola “The conference program always keeps focus on important aspects of state-of-the-art software engineering technologies, and provides a unique opportunity and ground to meet in person with world-known gurus in software engineering…”

Quality manager, Motorola, Saint Petersburg Sofware Center, Russia

Alexander Babkin

Alexander Babkin

Valentin Makarov

Valentin Makarov

“…the speed with our leaders’ rose to the highest level of processe completeness (according to CMMI standard) shows Russian developers’ potential software development process organization…”

President of RUSSOFT Association

RUSSOFT
Rusventure “The fact of holding such a conference shows a transition from programming as a craft to programming as an industry…”

CEO of Russian Venture Company, member of SECR Software committee in 2006-2009

Igor Agamirzyan

Igor Agamirzyan

Askhat Urazbaev

Askhat Urazbaev

“I see the conference as actually a place where you can meet software engineering thought-leaders from all over the world. SECR is one of the most important events that makes Russia a part of world software engineering community…”

Agile Coach, agile evangelist, founder of community AgileRussia, co-founder of ScrumTrek

ScrumTrek
Total Objects “For me, an entrepreneur and the acting manager, the SECR conference allows to understand the main trends of software development technology and software business…”

President of Total Objects Russia

Vladimir Serbin

Vladimir Serbin