Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative has become a strategic partner of forthcoming conference TMT.Ventures’08 Kiev.

April 10, 2008, Kiev – Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative has become a strategic partner of conference TMT.Ventures’08 Kiev, which will take place on April, 17 in hotel Hyatt Regency, Kiev. The conference is organized by New Europe Events in cooperation with the Warsaw Stock Exchange and MCI Management that are very interested in attracting Ukrainian fast growing companies. TMT.Ventures has a long history of stimulating entrepreneurship and technology investments in the Central and Eastern Europe region. In 2007 New Europe Events together with Platinum Partners – MCI Management and Warsaw Stock Exchange – organized a series of events in Warsaw, Prague and Bucharest. These events were accompanied by an informational campaign targeting the most innovative managers and entrepreneurs operating in the space of new technologies in Central Europe. The event is aimed at discussion of emerging trends and opportunities in Central Europe, development of early stage innovative companies and related opportunities for the growing Ukrainian market. The main focus of TMT.Ventures is regional and global expansion opportunities and businesses promising to scale up giving the shareholders high rates of return on their investment. “TMT Executive Seminar” are leading series of conferences dedicated to new technologies in Central and Eastern Europe. Our events have had lots of interests in the last few years. In 2007 conferences under “TMT Executive Seminar” was held in Poland, Romania and in the Czech Republic. Together with our Platinum Partners we have decided to organize similar events in other countries, where fast developing technology companies are being created. This year we are going to Ukraine and Slovenia, and probably also to Bulgaria or Romania again” – says Ewa Stepien from New Europe Events. A Special Guest of the conference will be Ms. Lidia Adamska, Member of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. An especially interesting figures of the conference are Yuri Boyko, who possesses international experience as a serial entrepreneur and independent Advisor to Eastern European start-ups on business development strategy and raising capital, and Paul Fisher, who is the Associate in Advent Venture Partners,  one of the first US-style venture capital firms in Europe, with over 500 mln GBP of fund commitments under management. The members of Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative are 42 young and fast growing companies, that is why the partnership of TMT.Ventures is a great opportunity for its members to present themselves, meet world class investors such as Advent Venture Partners, Intel Capital, ABRT Venture Fund, MCI Management, Martinson Trigon Venture Partners and others and learn what companies these investors are looking for in Ukraine and Central Europe. During TMT.Ventures’08 Kiev conference there will be ‘7 minutes’ competition.  It is a unique competition for innovative entrepreneurs and their projects from the space of telco, new media and new technologies. It is an express elevator up to the community of investors and experienced businesspeople with decision-making power whose recommendations and support are like rocket fuel for the projects aimed in the right direction. For more information about `7 minutes` contest visit   http://www.7minut.eu. Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative is a leading Ukrainian alliance of offshore software development and IT outsourcing providers. The mission of the alliance is to promote Ukrainian software development companies in the global market. Hi-Tech Initiative provides the Ukrainian software developers with the opportunity to enhance their business in the areas of IT outsourcing and offshore programming by using the partner network and marketing channels of the Initiative in the external markets. Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative provides the services in establishing partnerships, collaborating in IT projects implementation, assisting in BPO between Ukrainian and western companies. Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative is an organizer of annual Ukrainian Outsourcing Forum – IT business forum dedicated to promotion and development of Ukrainian software development and outsourcing market. For more information about TMT.Ventures’08 Kiev event please visit http://ww.tmtevents.eu