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Valentin Makarov

Valentin Makarov|Валентин Макаров

President
RUSSOFT

Valentin Makarov was born in April 16, 1955 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia.

He graduated from Leningrad Aircraft Instrumentation Institute (now State University of Space Instruments, St.-Petersburg) in 1978 and had been working in Defense industry until 1985. In 1993 he attended courses of Manchester Business School and in 2000—courses of Diplomatic Academy of Russia.

Since 1985 and until 2000 Valentin Makarov devoted his life and energy to extending economic and cultural ties of St. Petersburg and Russia within the country and overseas, while working in the Leningrad Polytechnic University, then in the Permanent Delegation of Russian Federation to UNESCO, in the “Association of Free Economic zones of St.-Petersburg” and finally as the deputy chairman of the Committee of External Relations of Administration of St.-Petersburg.

In 1999 he was elected the president of the “St Petersburg Consortium «Fort Ross» IT services”, then after amalgamation with the National Software Development Association in May 2004 he became president of the united “RUSSOFT Association”, which is the unique voice of the software development industry in Russia.

Valentin Makarov got significant experience of lobbying interests of the industry in the State of Russian Federation. He had been also involved in conducting Nation-wide market studies and organizing marketing activities of RUSSOFT in Russia and abroad (Russian IT-Seasons, Road-shows, ROSS Forum, etc.). He was also representing APKIT (Russian IT&Computer Association) in WITSA in 2002–2007.

Gold sponsors

Deutsche BankIntelJetBrainsSAPSberTech

Silver sponsors

First Line SoftwareEMCQt by Digia

Hackathon sponsor

Digital Design

Sponsors

GenesysLuxoftOracleJelasticMediapark

Innovative Sponsor

IBM

Main partners

RussoftAP KIT

In cooperation

ACMACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

Hackathon partners

API MoscowInnovation Development Center MoscowGitHub

Partners

ParallelsPMI Moscow chapterSoftware EngineeringLuxoft Training

Technical partners

Hosting CenterReisebuero WELTDigital October

Mobile partner

Eventicious

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RAECROSA

Educational Partner

IT Mine

Organizers

Software Russiai-Help
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