Norway Grants/EEA

Partnership for Development Project (PDP)

 

November 1st 2010, Oslo

ICT Matchmaking Workshop with Bulgaria and Romania

In collaboration with ICT-Norway and the ICT organisations in Bulgaria (www.basscom.org) and Romania (www.anis.ro - Romanian only) 

Venue: Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania, Oslo, Norway, November 1st 2010

Attending: 54 persons from Bulgaria, Romania and Norway.

 

Agenda Nov. 1st

Moderator: Senior Advisor BulRom-programmes, Mr. Knut Ringstad

09:00  Welcome, Mr. Tore Lasse By, Director, Bilateral Cooperation Programme for Bulgaria and Romania , Innovation Norway. Presentations download.

09:05  A short introduction to the Norwegian ICT market. By Fredrik Syversen, director at ICT-Norway.  Presentations download.

09:30  A Bulgarian business experience. By Thomas Bech Pettersen, Director Strategy and Technology, Computas AS. Presentations download.

09:50  A Romanian business experience. By Division Director R&D Dalip Dewan, Visma Software International AS.  Presentations download.

10:20  Q&A

10:30  An introduction to the Bulgarian Market. By Mr. George Brashnarov, Chairman, Basscom.  Presentations download.

10:45  An introduction to the Romanian market. By Valerica Dragomir, Executive Director, Anis.  Presentations download.

11:00  Coffee and fruits

11:15  Short company introductions, 1 min. each, from the Workshop Company Catalogue with eMatch Profiles. 

12:30 - 14:00  Lunch

14:00 - 17:00  Speed-dating sessions

 

From 17:00 Evening program: “Get together” on MobileMonday.

ICE Bar, Kristian IV's gate 12. Venue link. Registration required - but free of charge (as I can see from the link). 

 

Contact points

  • Bulgaria:
  • Romania: 
    • Diana Sacarea (Norwegian Embassy in Bucharest), tel.: (+40) 21 306 98 00, mob.: (+40) 745 38 48 75, email: dsa@mfa.no 
    • Valerica Dragomir (ICT-org. Anis), v.dragomir@anis.ro
    • Norwegian coordinator: Bård Krogshus, mob. (+47) 958 55555, email: baard@infosector.no

Bulgarian and Romanian companies should approach their national contacts for participation and travel subsidies.

 

Mandatory company profile registrations for speed-dating sessions.

All participants must create a business and innovation profile on www.ematch.eu/reg within Oct. 25. - for efficient profiling and matchmaking. There will be produced a Workshop Company Catalogue with extracts from the eMatch Profiles of participating companies.

 

Invite - and communicate with potential partners using the eMatch Message System

When you are logged in with your eMatch account, you can use eMatch Message - an internal B2B mail system for communicating with other eMatch contacts, suggesting speed-dating sessions etc. When logged in, you can select companies by business and innovation categories and click the name of the contact persons you select - to send an email. When ready, please send speed-dating preferences to your national contact point - who set up the speed-dating meeting-plan.

Invitation text to potential Norwegian, Bulgarian and Romanian partners could be: Dear <name>, we find your eMatch Profile (paste target profile URL here) interesting for potential business partnering. We like to discuss the interest and options to meet on Nov. 1st at the "ICT Matchmaking Workshop with Bulgaria and Romania" in Oslo, as described on http://ematch.eu/pdp-bulgaria-romania. Our eMatch Profile is (past your profile URL here). We are looking forward to a swift response. Best regards, ..

 

Speed-dating logistics

Each participating Norwegian company has a numbered place/table with 12 slots á 15 min. (14:00 to 17:00 hrs) for speed-dating sessions. Diana and Galina will set up the timetable matrix. You can send meeting requests to them. Remaining slots can be populated during morning session and lunch.

See 'Online' speed-dating matrix here.

 

Participants list (in alphabetic order). 

The hot-linked company names below have a published eMatch profile. We will publish and link your company name on the list below when you have created your eMatch profile on www.ematch.eu/reg and selected 'accepted for publishing'. The list below with links are updated twice a day based on incoming eMatch registrations.

Confirmed participants from Bulgaria:

  1. Antipodes Ltd.
  2. Balkan Services
  3. BASSCOM (ICT-organisation and co-organiser)
  4. Bianor
  5. CompletIT
  6. Grafixoft Ltd.
  7. INTERCONSULT BULGARIA LTD.
  8. Melon, Inc.
  9. Multiprocessor Systems OOD
  10. Musala Soft Ltd.
  11. Nemetschek
  12. Sirma Solutions JSC (Sirma Group Holding)

 

Confirmed participants from Romania:

  1. Advantage Software Factory
  2. ANIS (ICT-organisation and co-organiser)
  3. AROBS Transilvania Software
  4. ARXIA SRL
  5. CodecArt Alliance SRL
  6. CS ROMANIA SA
  7. Endava Romania S.R.L.
  8. ENEA SERVICES ROMANIA
  9. iQuest Technologies SRL
  10. ISDC – Integrated Systems Development Corporation
  11. IT Six Global Services
  12. MISOFT S.R.L
  13. OSF GLOBAL SERVICES SRL
  14. SMART TECH 2000 SRL
  15. Solutions Oriented Software

Confirmed participants from Norway (links are removed).

  1. Acando
  2. Ahead Capital AS
  3. Bipper
  4. CONSORTIUMGATEWAY
  5. CYBERWATCHER
  6. ICT-Norway
  7. INFOSECTOR AS
  8. IT & Integration AS
  9. Jensen Scandinavia
  10. Konsent
  11. MediaFarm
  12. Mobile Business Magazine
  13. NORSYNC TECHNOLOGY AS
  14. Sintef ICT
  15. Tebol
  16. Trollcard

Speakers (not attending the speed-dating session)

  • Computas
  • Visma

Workshop Company Catalogue

A Workshop Company Catalogue with be printed, based on business descriptions and innovation interests extracted from the eMatch Profiles of participating companies. 

 

Workshop registrations and requests

Event promotion pages, Nov. 1st:

Agenda Nov 2nd, Kunnskapsverkstedet, Klosterøya, Skien

    08:30 Departure by bus from Hotel P-Hotels Oslo, Grensen 19.

    11:00 Arrival IKT-Grenland, Skien

     

    Moderator: Senior Advisor BulRom-programmes, Mr. Knut Ringstad

    11:00 Welcome. By Mr. Bård Stranheim, Director, Innovation Norway Telemark (yet to be confirmed)

    11:15 Introduction to IKT Grenland, host and a regional ICT cluster in Telemark. By Mr. Torkild Follaug, Managing Director.

    11:30 Introduction to "itarena", a regional ICT cluster in Buskerud. By Ms. Nina Green, Chairman of the Board.

    11:45 Introduction to Romanian and Bulgarian ICT clusters

    12:30 Introduction of visiting companies from BulRom 

    12:45 Lunch

    14:00 Individual meetings

    16:00 Summary

Return to Oslo, expected arrival 18:00.  Link to IKT-Grenland (Norwegian only)

     

Page author: Bård Krogshus, mob. (+47) 958 55555, email: baard@infosector.no
Technical support on eMatch registration, company lists: Per Henrik Oja, mob. (+47) 40218422 , email: per@infosector.no
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