Game Changers Game Changers Ad-hoc Research and Education Program

Game|Changers Game. Changers Ad-hoc Research and Education Program free two-year program for ad-hoc education and research on IT business St. Petersburg, Russia since 2010 http: //gamechangers. ru St. Petersburg, 2013

Professional Development • Hard Skills Soft Skills • Information on Ecosystem • Networking • Community • Intrepreneurship

About Goals • • Game. Changers – is a platform for outstanding students and open innovations development in IT sphere. The program creates a network between students, organizations and universities. Philosophy • Educate for Game. Changing • Work with all elements of ecosystem • Lack of formalities, ad-hoc study plan • Mentoring / Tutoring, individual approach • Relationship for all life, not for study time Tools Key Partners Spheres of Collaboration Success Stories Team and Contacts

Tools About Goals Program component’s: • classes with experts and key persons from the IT industry, Universities, marketing and management fields; • intensive networking; • project-based work; • internships in leading IT companies, business incubators and venture funds. Tools Key Partners Spheres of Collaboration Success Stories Team and Contacts

Tools About Goals Program timeline: 1 semester – Introduction in IT Industry 2 semester – Thematic tracks (business in biotech, data mining, design and usability, transforming education, legal issues in IT, ecosystem of entrepreneurship, digital fabrication) Upcoming: Product Design, Enterprise Architecture, Urban Informatics 3, 4 semester – projects Tools Key Partners Spheres of Collaboration Success Stories Team and Contacts

Partners Examples About Goals Tools Key Partners Spheres of Collaboration Game|Changers is a unique academy for future IT business leaders. Using various innovative education formats such as wiki-style program, sessions with top IT experts and a lot of mini team projects it delivers great teaching results. Vladimir Gorovoy, head, Yandex. Uslugi Success Stories Team and Contacts

Business development within companies: About Goals i-Free Innovations - Company’s team of “artificial intelligence” development has been strengthen by Program’s graduates and experts; - Scientific conference “AINL 2012” (Artificial Intelligence and Natural Languages) was organized by the Program student EMC 2 - research of world bioinformatics industry - workshop on bioinformatics technologies I believe the key reason of Game. Changers success is the right approach to selection of people. It creates a unique atmosphere which makes possible to grow world-level professionals. Vyacheslav Nesterov, General Manager 2 , St. Petesburg SW development center EMC Tools Key Partners Spheres of Collaboration Success Stories Team and Contacts

Internships and Employment About Goals Tools Key Partners Spheres of Collaboration Success Stories Team and Contacts

About People Core team Alyona Markovich Director for Strategic Development Sergey Dmitriev, Program Director, cofounder Advisory Board * Ilya Antipov, Co-founder of RIS Ventures, Director "Start in Garage" Goals Nikolay Vyahhi, Bio. Tech Curator, cofounder Mikhail Vink, Communications and Outreach Yury Lifshits, Founder of Should. Know. ru, Cofounder of Home. Work project Tatyana Gavrilova, Head of the IT in Management department at GSOM SPb. SU Vasily Markov, Tax Practice Director, Deloitte Touche CIS Vladimir Gorovoy, Head of Yandex. Uslugi, Yandex Andrey Terekhov, CEO, Lanit-Terkom, Head of Software Engineering Chair * check out full list Tools Key Partners Spheres of Collaboration Success Stories Team and Contacts