NevaCamp 2009 was the first international unconference on internet technologies and startups held in St. Petersburg, Russia from June 26-28. It included a startup competition called StartupVision that featured 22 projects, as well as participant-led sessions over 2 days covering topics like future web technologies, startups, and venture investment. Over 250 people from 10 countries attended and participated in the event, which aimed to facilitate networking and informal communication around internet topics.

1. Post release

2. Partners
Sponsors and partners
Information partners Organizer
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3. NevaCamp 2009. Future Web
NevaCamp was the first international (un)conference on
internet technologies and startups in St. Petersburg
(Russia). It was during White Nights, June 26-28.
Karelia business-hotel
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4. Event Format
NevaCamp is the largest international barcamp in
Russia.
BarCamp is an international series of open
conferences. Conferences of this type commonly
include presentations, training sessions, guest's
speeches, and discussions. Schedule of
presentations is formed «on the fly» by participants
who choose topics of their presentation in the
scope of the general idea.
Everyone has an opportunity to express himself.
Participants:
Startup entrepreneurs, bloggers, Internet
enthusiasts
• Russian and international Internet and New Media
experts
• Business People
• Software and hardware developers
• Students and post-graduates
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5. Main points of NevaCamp 2009
• Future Web and New Media
• Technologies
• Startups
• Venture Investment
Organization model:
• Networking
• Informal and creative communication
• Participant-driven
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6. 4 Threads
Ladoga - A large hall for 300 people. "Onega" - Audience of 150 people.
"Vuoksa 2" - audience of 40 people. "Vuoksa 1" - audience of 40 people.
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7. Networking
Registration zone Networking zone
Coffee-break in Art zone
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8. Agenda
For 3 days User-generated agenda
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9. Investor Day and StartupVision
(Friday)
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10. Agenda
1st day - Friday - 26 June.
10:00 – Registration.
11:00 – Grand Opening of NevaCamp and Startup
Contest – StartupVision.
11:30 – Panel discussion: “Early stages - from idea to
innovative business, could Russia absorb foreign
experience”.
12:30 - Evgeny Marchenkov: Microsoft BizSpark - Program
for startups.
13:00 – coffee-break.
14:00 – Pitch Elevator (1st part of the contest).
15:30 – Startup Crash Test Piter 1.0 (2d part of the contest).
17:30 – Closure of StartupVision and summarizing outcome.
18:30 – 20:00 - "Dinner with investor".
21:00 – Cultural program for participants – City Tour (on the
ground) and City roofs tour (above).
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11. Experts and keynotes
• Denis Dovgopoly (CEO, IDCEE, Ukraine)
• Gleb Kaplun (CEO, startup-center Web2people, Russia)
• Eugeny Pluzhnik (CEO, Moscow business school, Russia)
• Alexandra Rasskazova (Investor, eVenture Capital Partners
GmbH, Russia)
• Mikula Catherine (Investor, eVenture Capital Partners GmbH,
Ukraine)
• Ryabyh Andrey (entrepreneur, investor, Russia)
• Chebotarev Maxim (manager, Softline Venture Partners, Russia)
• Popov Dmitri (expert and serial entrepreneur, Russia)
• Alexandrova Louise (Petersburg organization of business angels)
• Kiril Bolgarov (manager, QD, Russia)
Also:
• Will Cardwell (CEO Technopolis Ventures, Finland),
• Artur Surov (Technopolis Ventures, Finland),
• Teemu Arina (founder and CEO of Dicole Oy, Finland),
• Tommi Rissanen (Finland)
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12. StartupVision – startup contest
First in St. Petersburg Annual International Award in the field of Internet startups,
Media, Augmented Reality. 22 projects from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus
were presented. Sampling took place in two (on the event):
Stage 1 – “Pitch Elevator”: each contestant made a presentation for 2 minutes.
Stage 2 – “Startup Crash Test 1.0”: the best 3 selected at 1st stage make a full
presentation and discuss their projects with the experts and the audience
(during 30 minutes each). Startup Crash Test is very popular in Ukraine, now in
Russia.
The best project received Expert Board
the prise:
• grant from Moscow
Business School for a 2-year
business education MBA.
• participate in an
International Investor Day of
Central and Easten Europe
2009.
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13. StartupVision contestants
All details here: http://nevacamp.com/en/nevacamp09
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14. Videos
You can find videos of all projects on our YouTube Channel.
Use this short URL to visit one:
http://j.mp/playlist_startupvision2009
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15. Venture Capital
Investments in the early stages. Is it possible to use in Russia
foreign experience?
Early stages - from idea to innovative business, could Russia absorb foreign
experience (Panel discussion)
Will Cardwell, Denis Dovgopoly, Gleb Kaplun, Evgeny Pluzhnik,
Technopolis IDCEE, Ukraine Web2People, Moscow Business
Ventures,
Russia School, Russia
Finland
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16. BarCamp
(Saturday and Sunday)
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17. Agenda
Day 2 - Saturday - June 27
10:00 – Registration.
11:30 – Grand Opening of NevaCamp, presentation of
barcampers from ex-USSR countries.
12:00 – Charles McCathieNevile. Opera Software presentation.
13:00 – Coffee-Break.
14:00 – Presentation of participants, 4 parallel tracks. See 8 slide.
18:00 – Ending of the second day.
21:00 – Fire Party in Derzis Club.
Day 3 - Sunday - June 28
11:00 – Registration.
12:30 – Sun Microsystems. Ivan Chirkov. Technology JavaFX:
Rich Internet Applications on the mobile platform.
13:00 – Ilya Antipov. Presentation of business-incubator INGRIA.
13:30 – Coffee-Break.
14:30 – Presentation of participants, brainstorming.
18:00 – Official closing of NevaCamp.
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18. Venture Capital
Trilateral roundtable - the government,
investors, entrepreneurs.
Denis Dovgopoly (Ukraine)
The dynamics of the industry
Technology entrepreneurship in
Ukraine.
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19. Presentations
Charles McCathieNevile, “United Standards”
(Spain, Opera Software)
The participants preparing presentations
themselves made up the schedule for
the day (4 threads).
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20. Presentations
Softline Venture Partners,
eVenture Capital Partners GmbH
Everything you wanted to know about
investing - Investors respond to questions.
Ivan Chirkov, Sun Microsystems
Technology JavaFX: Rich Internet
Applications on the mobile platform
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21. Presentations
Gleb Dolotov (Germany)
Accessibility Award
Teemu Arina (Finland)
“Real- time Web.
The future web in the enterprise”
Valer Batcu (Moldova)
“Blogging – Shaping the Social Visions”
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22. Presentations
Bashmakov Pavel (Ukraine) Inessa Shlapak (Kazakhstan)
Using iPhone-applications business, Moija zarplata project
marketing, PR
Julia Mandryka (USA) Alexey Dovgikov (Russia)
About starting project in USA E-lama – secrets and tricks of
context ads.
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23. Presentations
Nechiporenko Dmitry (Ukraine) Alexandr Zverev (Russia)
Creating network of sites MetaInternet
Igor Andreichin (Ukraine) Dibrova Vitaly (Ukraine)
Online home accounting Future Web: New services
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24. Accesability Award
Our partner and sponsor - german company
Dialog Web Design organized jointly with
NevaCamp competition to design a barrier-
free internet initiative «Life to Learn
Accessibility Award».
The prize fund is 1000 euro.
Winners here: www.lifetolearn.org.
Purpose: To award the project
which removes the obstacles in
obtaining and using information.
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25. Results
250 people from 10 countries (Russia, Finland,
Ukraine, Belarus, USA, Spain, Germany,
Moldova, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan) attended in
NevaCamp.
22 start-up from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova,
Belarus presented their projects at the first
international Russian startup competition
StartupVision.
Participants were held 35 sessions for 2
days (in Russian and English
languages).
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26. Responses in blogs and press
Some press articles:
http://www.dp.ru/a/2009/07/01/Nemeckaja_kompanija_nagradi
http://www.dp.ru/next/a/2009/07/14/Barkemp_budem_realistami
http://spbit.ru/news/n60771/
http://www.spbit.ru/meetings/m60719/
http://spbit.ru/news/n60970/
http://events.cnews.ru/agenda/index.shtml?2009/06/26/348126
http://www.unova.ru/article/565
http://mbschool.ru/news/?new=506
Some posts from blogs:
http://dennydov.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post_27.html
http://dennydov.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post_563.html
http://zhilinsky.ru/2009/05/15/nevacamp/
http://andreyka2.livejournal.com/30392.html
http://andrey2.ru/opera-unite/
http://byblogger.net/nevacamp-2009-otchyot/
http://optimizze.ru/news/nevacamp-2009-vpechatleniya/
http://www.ishmametov.ru/spb-day-1
http://www.neweurasia.net/ru/media-and-internet/
http://educamp-donetsk.livejournal.com/5729.html
http://craftzone.blogspot.com/2009/05/nevacamp-2009.html
http://digik.livejournal.com/91579.html
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27. What’s next?
NevaCamp 2010 | New Reality
It is about all changes that were happened in the Web and real world
under the influence of the Web and technologies.
It is connected with technologies (mashups, augmented reality and even
internet of things, location-based, new media, real-time web, etc) and
Reality.
It is about combination virtual and real things.
It will be a place for connecting people and sharing ideas, receiving vision
and making real things.
You should be here! We are going to astonish you …

28. Fill power of smart mobs

29. City roofs tour 2009
Want to get unforgettable impression?
Visit St.Petersburg again … in 2010!
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30. Contacts
Please contact with Vitaly Vlasov
to get more information
+7 (905) 285-6996
inxaoc@gmail.com
http://nevacamp.com
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