Sponsorship details and pricing information have been published in Sponsors section of our site.

Interesting statistics. You can see list of companies that were sponsors of CEE-SECR more than once. The Organizing Committee wants to note that Microsoft supports CEE-SECR every year. Intel and Siemens were sponsors of the conference 3 times.
We invite you for shponsorship.

The 6th conference “Software Quality Assurance Days” will be held on October 28-29, 2009, within the 5th Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia.

CEE-SECR is one of the largest events in the world of IT in CEE countries. Each year the conference is attended by prominent representatives from domestic and international software companies providing all participants with an opportunity to exchange experience with their counterparts from other countries.

The union of the two conferences this year will be a direct confirmation of the integrated approach to IT-infrastructure quality control and assurance. The event is focused on specialists working at different levels of business around the world, from small companies to big corporations.

As Vladislav Orlikov, chair of the SQA Days Organizing Committee, said, such partnership promotes development of information technologies in Russia and other countries both within and outside the CIS:

“Cooperation with SECR has become the next step for the SQA Days team towards implementing the concept of cooperation in the IT-industry. As always, we concentrate our efforts on three main aspects: reliability, efficiency and usability of information for each participant.”

This year’s SECR Conference will be held for the fifth time. The jubilee event is planned to introduce a number of new initiatives part of which are for the moment kept in secret by the organizers. Among those already known is free participation of the winners of the most popular Russian and international IT-competitions. At the top of the list are the winners of the Imagine Cup finals, which has partnered with CEE-SECR Conference this year.

“Each year we aim to improve the quality of the CEE-SECR Conference. The partnership with the SQA Days will help us deliver more value to CEE-SECR participants. I hope we’ll succeed in introducing the best practices of this event and making CEE-SECR-2009 even more beneficial for the software community,” said Denis Milov, executive VP of TEKAMA (Moscow-based company that is the key organizer of the event).

The announced partnership between CEE-SECR and SQA Days is the latest but not the last announcement within the initiatives planned.

Organized since 2005, the annual CEE-SECR conference is the key Eastern European event on Software Engineering, which attracted speakers from 15+ countries, and every year has over 500 attendees from all over the world. The list of keynote speakers from previous conferences includes prominent technology leaders and authors of legendary bestsellers from the USA and Europe. The conference is usually supported by Adobe, Borland, EMC2, Exigen Services, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, ORACLE, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, VMWare and other leading high-tech companies. Visit http://www.cee-secr.org to get more information about the event.

The range of conferences under the general name «Software Quality Assurance Days»(SQA Days) well-known to the participants first of all on actual questions which bring up at section sessions.
At present SQA Days is one of the largest events in sphere of modern information technologies in the Software Quality Assurance field on the post-Soviet territory which unites leading experts of the international level. Visit http://www.it-conf.ru to get more information about the conference.

We are glad to inform that SES-2009-KZ is an information partner of CEE-SECR 2009. Project Software Engineering Summit - 2009, Kazakhstan (SES-2009-KZ) is an effective tool of international benchmarking. Its main objectives are anti-crisis improvement of activity of IT-departments, economical and financial-analytical services of state structures, enterprises of large and small business, science and education spheres of Kazakhstan; assistance in formation of national infrastructure in the area of Software Engineering / IT-Leadership / BPM - Business Performance Management and Business Process Management / Industrial and IT-Outsourcing / Program and Project Management / Information business – analytics, etc. Details: www.softprom.kz

Every year CEE-SECR presents an array of reports on peopleware in software development and leading a software team. Audience of the conference contains hundereds of project managers and directors of software companies. We’re glad to announce that Happy PM Club has become info partner of CEE-SECR 2009.

Happy PM Club is a resource for the first line managers in software industry. The resource publishes articles on leading software teams and manager development. It also contains a number of interviews with executives of top software companies and talks with industry experts.

In 2009 Microsoft will be the Premium Sponsor of the event. Additional details will follow.

Non-profit partnership RUSSOFT greatly supports and influences the conference from the very first SECR. It is hard to overestimate the contribution of this organization to forming the industry of software development in our region and recognizing of our industry by the global market leaders.

RUSSOFT Association is the nation wide association of the most technically competent software developing companies from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine. By joining forces under the leadership of RUSSOFT we are able to provide customers with a range of comprehensive solutions and IT services. RUSSOFT is a part of the Russian Information and Computer Industry Association (APKIT) where we play the role of Software Development and Export Committee. Being a part of APKIT enhances our abilities to lobby the Government to support the IT industry.

During the last years SECR was hold with support of large and well-known non-profit association AP KIT. The anniversary conference won’t be an exception. SECR organizers are grateful to AP KIT for support and attention to questions of software engineering development.

AP KIT – is a mergence of power of different companies to create a consolidated public opinion of the industry. The association aims to uphold its interests during the dialogue with the government. At the same time the association is a working mechanism of interaction within the industry.

Software Engineering Conference Russia 2009 - SECR will be held in October, 28-29, 2009. The conference collects from year to year hundreds participants - from engineers to directors of the hi-tech companies. All these experts well know a role of fundamental scientific researches though in practice deal with their applications is much more often.

We are glad to inform that the Leonhard Euler International Charitable Foundation for Mathematics (Euler Foundaion) became an information partner of SECR 2009.

The Euler Foundaion works in the area of support of mathematics and mathematical education in Russia.

SECR became Imagine Cup partner. Two members (Alexandr Gavrilov, Denis Milov) of SECR program committee were invited as a part of jury of the competition. The winners of the competition got an opportunity to participate in upcoming SECR 2009. We are sincerely congratulating teams from Nizhny Novgorod, Vladivostok and Volgograd. We wish them further professional advancement and success on the World stage of Imagine Cup.

Best regards,
SECR organizers.

Photo material from vesti.ru.

Dear Colleagues,

there is a new section on SECR 2009 Web-Site devoted to the history of SECR.
You can find it here.

Best regards,
Organizers