Russian IT Overview

By Alexei Polyakov

So, where is Russia?

Image source: NHK, 2011

I am from Vladivostok – just an 1.5 hour flight

from Narita

Image Source: NHK, 2011

My Garage Project: @locomizer

Interest ProfilesGeo-Data

ü User Interest Profiles

ü Business Profiles

ü Privacy Protected

ü Companies’ own data

ü Public sources

ü Un- or Semi-Structured Data-as-a-Service

Location analytics – Building Geo-Behavioral Interest Graph

Let’s talk about Russia IT

Quiz

Do you know what is this?

Alexey Pajitnov developed Tetris while

working for Gov Research Center

Alexey PajitnovTetris was born in Moscow at one of the

closed research centers in 1984.

Russian scientist Alexey Pajitnov

develops the very first version of Tetris

on an Electronica 60.

Russian IT started in

military R&D centers

Perestroika, USSR collapse and

followed IT brain drain

100K+ scientist left Russia last decades

1st Most Popular

Destination

2nd Most Popular

Destination

Source: http://www.time.com/

To summarize Russian IT situation:

§ It was historically MILITARY oriented

– no idea of CONSUMERIZATION and

MONETIZATION

§ Soviet Union fall led to the halt in

military spending and followed brain

drain

Is Russian IT dead?

Is Russian IT dead?

Actually, NO.

There is a change

happening right now!

Brain drain seems to slow down

Russia is ready for monetization

Image source: http://en.rian.ru/

Russia Internet

Source: therunet.ru

Russia Internet penetration

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Russia mobile phone market

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Russia ＩT Market hasn`t

experienced Bubble yet

Russian language Market is

More than 300millions

Russia SNS market

VKontakte Odnoklassniki Moy Mir

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Russia Advertising market

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Russia E-Commerce

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Btw, Rakuten invested in Russia’s

largest online shopping site Ozon.ru

Image source: Wired.co.uk

Participated in a $100 Million round

Disclosure: I work for Rakuten

Russia Startups

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As the result…

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Questions?