Finally the recording is available:  http://tinyurl.com/GABA-Cloud

“It was a pleasure to meet everyone and I am very happy to see the growth of the software exports market in Armenia and the excitement of the outsourcing and software vendors” said Emmy.

The event was coordinated by Michelle Messina -  mmessina@explorainternational.com of Explora International. Explora International is focused on assisting international companies to enter the US market.

Gallery of Funds Event – If you are an entrepreneur and wish to find out more about what a Venture Capitalist really thinks, the best thing to do is ask them. At the next Gallery of Funds Event sponsored by Softjourn, you will be able to do that. Tom Dennedy, GP at Artiman Ventures and Brendon Kim, GP at Altos Ventures, both seed stage funds will be answering your questions.  MORE INFO

Myself and about one hundred thousand + other people in Kyiv were treated to a wonderfully entertaining 2+ hours of music, not to mention the thousands who had gathered to watch on video screens in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lviv and the millions watching around the country (where they were all much drier than we were in Kyiv!).

It is great news for the country that it is being recognized as a world class country and attracting such events.

The event begins at 8:00AM and continues until 2:00PM. Righthand Partners has selected seed and early stage (Series A, B, C, & Restart) companies who will each give a 10-minute presentation, and receive 10 minutes of feedback and questions from investors sitting in the audience. Usually there are more than 20 VC’s in attendance. For more information go to the Right Hand Partners site:

Softjourn is very pleased to be sponsoring this event and supporting entrepreneurs and Startups and wishes all presenters the best of luck!

 This year’s event will be taking place:

Quadrus Conference Center
2400 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California 94025

November 28, 2007
5:30PM-8:00PM

RHP is a VC Relations company: The trusted conduit to reach the venture capital community.

The Visibility Conference is an exclusive event where 10 selected seed and early stage companies are given the opportunity to present to a select group of venture capitalists. Right-hand Partners is well-known in the venture capital community and has a reputation for attracting the best fundable ventures to its Visibility Conferences and Softjourn is pleased to be able to take part.

A first time event which is coming up rapidly and is focused on Central and Eastern Europe is the Central & Eastern European Outsourcing Summit which will take place in Kyiv between 12 and 14 September. Ukraine as well as Belarus and Russia will be featured. Click here for more information. The event is sponsored by IT Ukraine, a consortium of Ukrainian Outsourcing providers.

Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA

Emmy’s presentation is titled: Managing Distributed Software may not be for everyone but it could be for You!

While not quite the dirty word that it once was, offshoring, whether outsourced or with an internal team, is still misunderstood. What is even more misunderstood is the importance of the role of the Project manager who is responsible for getting the most out of a remote team. There is more to this role than thinking that you will be up every night late working with the team in order to make sure that work is getting done. Is it a role for you, and how would you go about carrying it out?

In late 2006, an article in McKinsey Quarterly, “Splitting Demand from Supply in IT”, which may have you thinking about a role you can play in an industry increasingly being supplied globally. The growing number of advertisements for those who are familiar with working with offshore teams may also have you thinking and wondering. Do you have the skill set necessary and if not, how do you go about making it work.

This presentation aims to:

- Dispel the myths associated with managing remote software development,  

- Assist a Project Manager in determining whether or not managing a distributed team is for them (beyond the usual question of; do you like to chat and see people face to face or can you work with a team that you never met),

- Give practical methods for building trust long distance,

- Zero in on the key differences between managing a co-located team versus a distributed or virtual team (there are but a few, most practices are needed for both types of teams),

- Analyze the hype of cultural differences when managing a remote team, how can culture really affect the project you are working on?

Ms. Gengler is a member of the Project Management Institute San Francisco chapter and Kyiv, Ukraine chapters.

The focus of this year’s PMI symposium is: “New Horizons in Project, Program and Portfolio Management” – Identifying and applying Project Management Best Practices, Methodologies, and Trends that Enable Organizations to Succeed in a Global Economy. For further details go to the PMI site for the San Francisco chapter.