Ural IT-cluster
Sverdlovsk region, 2012
Story of founda4on
1941 Ural Instrument-development plant and NPO Automa?cs are established;
1952 Radio-Technical department established at the Ural Polytechnic University;
1985-2000 IT-boom, rst regional IT-companies are founded; 2000-2010 Russian lead IT-Companies form their infrastructure
and nd market niche; 2010 - Ural IT-companies enter the world market.
Specicity of the Ural IT-cluster
The main specializa?on of the cluster soMware development; Yekaterinburg is a preOy big city and it is ideal for soMware-
development environment and posi?ve co-existence of many major IT-companies;
Yekaterinburg is a preOy small city so that all the top-managers and heads of major IT-companies know each other in person and as a result the whole business sphere develops more eec?vely.
Coopera4on
More than 1 billion rub
100 mln 1 billion rub
5 mln 100 mln rub
Startup
Assosia7ons Subcontract Research ac7vity
Structure
IT-cluster companies
76 IT-companies from Yekaterinburg, that are not in
the cluster
Infrastructure it-eburg.com, it-people.ru
Venture funds
Infrastructure of IT-environment
Human Resources Coopera?on with
Universi?es
Coopera7on, informa7on exchange
$, exper7se Human Resources
65 companies 10,5 billion rub
300 companies and 50 billion rub to
2016
IT-cluster environment
IT-companies
Higher Educa?on Ins?tutes
Infrastructural Organiza?ons
Regional Support Informa?on Environment
Ural Federal University Ural State University of
Economics Ural State Pedagogical
University Branch of Siberian State
University of Telecommunica?ons and Informa?on Sciences
Humanitarian University
Noncommercial partnership Ural IT-Cluster
Ural ASU Professionals club
Mentors Club IT-companies Associa?on it-people.ru IT-HR
agency Three commercial IT-
venture funds Ural Business Angels
Associa?on
Sverdlovsk Regional Investment and Development Ministry
Sverdlovsk Regional Ministry of Informa?on Technologies and Communica?ons
Infrastructural hub of Sverdlovsk region
Yekaterinburg city administra?on
Entrepreneurship Development Support Fund
it-eburg.com specialized regional IT-portal
Guru in the Urals project World programming
championship stages Wednesday Open
Seminars projects Innova?on projects
management school project
Professional IT-conferences : failconf.ru, dump-it.ru, ekbpy.ru
Training program for IT-entrepreneurs GoValley!
IT-cluster companies
Small companies
Startups
Average companies (turnover > 100 mln. rub. or > 100 employees)
Major companies (turnover > 1 billion rub. )
20 projects invested by the venture funds 43 projects received nancial grants More than 100 projects develop using their own resources
More than 80 companies
Naumen, Yandex(branch), EastWind , ACS-IT, SAP (branch, established in 2012)
Total: 15 companies
SKB Kontur, ProsoMsystems, SoMline (branch) Sberbank-Technologies JSC established its branch in Yekaterinburg in 2012
World Market Orienta4on
IT-Companies employees
Company general turnover, mln. rub
number of companies
number of employees
including engineer resources
Turnover above 1 billion rub. 7 070 3 1 975 948
Turnover 100 mln 1 billion rub. 2 946 15 2 075 1 182
Small companies turnover lower than 100 mln rub. 589 47 964 578
Startups - 80 200* 170*
Regional companies , that do not cooperate with the cluster
Higher Educa4on Ins4tutes that cooperate with the Cluster professors* students*
candidates (postgraduate
s)*
Research ac4vity, mln
rub.
Ural Federal University 453 3 947 108 126,5 Ural State University of Economics 8 70 2 11,5
Ural State Mining University 11 48 1 13,1 Humanitarian University 14 225 2 3 Ural State Pedagogical University 33 99 17 1,9
Branch of Siberian State University of Telecommunica?ons and Informa?on Sciences
93 1 577 18 -
Ural State Professional Pedagogical University
44 205 8 0,7
Ural State Forest Engineering University 12 55 4 5,5
Ural state university of railway transport 12 35 10 -
Total: 680 6 261 170 162,2 * - only for IT sphere
Source: Cnews.ru (RBC Holding project)
Yekaterinburg leader of Russian SaaS market
Dynamics and forecasts for the growth of IT-companies employees
2000 AKCIT Associa?on establishment. The main purpose is to protect the local market from the suppliers from the other regions;
November, 2010 establishment of the Cons?tuent assembly of Ural IT-cluster; recogni?on of the need to coordinate the companies ac?vity to prepare Human Resources and to win the interna?onal market;
January, 2011 mee?ng of the Sverdlovsk Governor with the IT-entrepreneurs. The following decisions were taken at the mee?ng: IT sphere is marked as the priority for the regional economy; Minister of IT and Minister of Investments and Development are assigned to par?cipate in the Guardian Council of IT-Cluster;
May, 2011 Ural IT-cluster is registered as a Noncommercial partnership and keeps its ac?vity ?ll the present moment.
Story of Noncommercial partnership Ural IT-Cluster
Managing Team
President of NP Ural IT-cluster
CEO of NP Ural IT-Cluster Development director of NP Ural IT-cluster
Kalaev Dmitry Managing partner at RedBuOon Capital, Skolkovo fund IT-cluster expert
Serebrov Maxim General director of Extreme Pro company, member of the board at Informa?on network, business angel
Davydov Alexander Chairman of the board at NAUMEN, co-founder of SKB-Kontur, Michrotest, NAUMEN
School Higher Educa?on Ins?tutes
Professionals Technologies and companies development
World Market
School children Students
Entrepreneurs Startups Companies
Professionals Experienced experts World experts
Involvement and Career guidance
Adapta?on of educa?on and aOrac?ng the experts
1. Entrepreneurship support
____________________ 2. Technological upgrade
Establishing contacts and rela?ons at the world
market
Infrastructure
Work Direc4ons
Managing Team
School children Courses, IT-championships and contests
Higher Educa4on Ins4tutes
Adapta?on and development of the educa?onal programs, popular in the IT-sphere
Migra4on Experts community for social recogni?on. Forming the region brand at the inner market.
Startups Establishment of the projects, ini?a?ng the startups; support and assistance for the projects
World market Business missions, development of the regional brand at the world IT-market
Infrastructure Developing the condi?ons and environment to decrease the expenses for IT-business management at Sverdlovsk region
Structure of the Cluster and work direc4ons
STRATEGY TACTICS (working groups)
REALIZATION
Private investments granted for 20 startup-projects Two regional seed venture funds for IT-startups are established Red BuOon Capital and Projector 43 projects received grant from the regional government The total growth of the Clusters company turnover is above 30% NAUMEN announces the delivery of one of its products to the market of Asia and Pacic region. The product
is designed for the Call-centers and occupies one of the leading posi?ons at the Russian market. Several business trips to Israel and USA are conducted. More than 20 representa?ves of Ural IT took part in
the trips. The total volume of scien?c research (together with URFU) reached 66 mln.rub. Other IT-events: Ural Programming Championship, IT-days at Innoprom-2012, Start in Garage, HackDay,
Failconf, DUMP. More than 20 IT-events and more than 8000 par?cipants. Several Masters Degree programs are specially adapted for students and postgraduates Partnership agreement signed with Skolkovo fund; three companies become Skolkovo residents Total volume of the private IT-companies investments reach 20 mln.rub (seminars, scholarships, grants etc.) Regional Targeted Program Informa?on society of Sverdlovsk region is established for the upcoming ve
years 2011-2015..
Results of the year 2011
Thank you for the aeen4on!
