Window to Europe opens October 23 at RIW 2010

    This year StartupIndex became one of the organizers of the Russian Internet Week (RIW-2010) conference, which will be held from October 21 to October 23 at the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya.

    RIW is one of the largest events for all participants of the domestic Internet market, therefore StartupIndex approached with the utmost responsibility to the organization of its section. This year we promise to bring the conference to a new, international level.

    The StartupIndex section, which is fully dedicated to startups and investments in IT and New Media, will be held in the gray room throughout the final day of the conference (October 23). Western experts and speakers StartupIndex , Greenfield , Startuppoint , AddVenture , IQ Oneand the HSE will talk about the trends in the Runet market, Internet projects, investments and the secrets of profitable interaction between investors and entrepreneurs.

    One of the central blocks in the StartupIndex section will be the Startup Crash Test in English , which will bring together experts and investors from Western Europe.

    Among those who confirmed their participation:


    Pavel Chudzinski (Pawel Chudzinski), TEV
    Venture Fund (Team Europe Ventures) , Germany


    Enrique Barreira (Enrique Barreira) DAD
    Incubator Fund (Digital Assets Deployment) , Spain


    Olivier Cahané,
    Venture Fund OCP Finance , France


    Ashish Puri, Partech VC
    Venture Fund , France Mark Hoffman, GruenderSzene Expert Bureau , Germany Félix Arias, Bcn-HighGrowth Venture Fund , Spain Òscar Farrés, Venture Part Fund Debae experts will participate in the event remotely. The section will also host the final of the StartupIndex competition among startups oriented to the international market. At the end of the day, its results will be summed up and a winner will be determined who will go to represent Russia at the Paris LeWeb conference .

















    The StartupIndex section will be held as part of the overall program, so the passage will be free.

    For everyone who cannot come to RIW, there will be a live broadcast on Twitter @startupindexru .

    Recall that RIW (Russian Internet Week) is held for the third time. The project debuted in 2008 in conjunction with the Infocom exhibition. And for two years now, “Russian Internet Week” has been taking place as an absolutely independent and independent project. This year, the English-language website RIW-2010 was opened for foreign conference participants, created with the support of StartupIndex.

    Details and registration: www.riw10.ru

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