The Chairman of Foundation ICT Cluster Mr. Peter Statev took part in the first edition of the Bulgarian Investment Forum which took place on 1st December 2011 in London, UK. The event was organised by Invest Bulgaria Agency as part of a series of targeted investment forums in 9 countries in order to promote the investment opportunities in 8 industries in Bulgaria. The project is part of IBA’s overall marketing strategy for promoting the benefits of investing in Bulgaria by targeting and attracting investors in priority sectors.

The investment forum presented the IT and BPO sectors in the country which was an excellent opportunity for Bulgarian and international companies with local presence to present their innovative products and activities.

More than 100 representatives of English and international IT companies, representatives of the government and Bulgarian business participated in the conference.

The Seal of e-Excellence will celebrate its 10th anniversary at the CeBIT award ceremony in 2012. Since 2003, the European Seal of e-Excellence rewards ICT and digital media companies with an excellent track record in innovation and marketing. The Seal, open to all sized companies, is widely known for distinguishing companies with innovative products and services and evidence of successful marketing at home and abroad.
Join the group of the e-Excellence winners.
The Seal is increasingly gaining recognition and becoming a major focal point for Europe’s most successful ICT and digital media companies.

In the Seal trajectory more than 350 companies have been awarded with the Seal “platinum”, “gold”, and “silver” awards. The winners have incorporated the Seal as part of their on-going marketing programmes, helping to promote themselves in the global market place.

For more information visit the Е-Seal’s website:
www.seal-of-excellence.org,
and ICT Cluster’s website:
http://www.ictcluster.org.

Contact:

Svetla Georgieva
Office Manager
Foundation ICT Cluster
Telephone: 02/489 97 44
e-mail: svetla_georgieva@ictcluster.bg

Seal of e-Excellence and ICT Cluster

Г-н Тодор Балабанов е първият млад предприемач, който успешно приключи обучението си в Естония в рамките на програмата "Еразмус за млади предприемачи". Той прекара тримесечно обучение в Естония във фирмата “Regio”, управлявана от г-н Teet Jagomagi.

Програмата се състои от практически насочени бизнес обучения, които се водят от ментори с цел обмен на опит, ноу-хау и бизнес контакти и покрива широк спектър от ключови и актуални теми като Лидерство и управление на екипи, Стратегическо планиране, Вземане на решения, Финанси и оптимизация на разходите, Управление на представянето и лична ефективност, Продажби и връзки с клиентите, Онлайн маркетинг, ПР и изграждане на положителна репутация и други.

Ментори в програмата са успешни български мениджъри и предприемачи.

Участието в Top Class предлага също така и членство в регионалния CEED Клуб и участие в множество бизнес срещи и конференции на местно и международно ниво за установяване на бизнес контакти.

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Кандидатствайте за участие в Top Class на www.ceed.bg и спечелете предимство пред конкурентите си!
За допълнителна информация тел: 819 43 43 или email: ivanka@seaf.bg.

Win recognition for your success in innovation marketing !

Apply now for the European Seal of e-Excellence 2012 ! 

10th Edition

BECOME PART OF THE CLUB OF e-EXCELLENCE!

If your company has an excellent track record in marketing its innovative products and services, apply for the Seal 2012 and gain visibility through this prestigious label of excellence.

Awarded for the 10th time since 2003 by EMF and its Partners, the Seal is widely known for recognizing ICT and digital media companies with:

1. innovative products and services;
2. a proven track-record of excellence in their marketing, in particular outside their home market.

Apply now online at: www.seal-of-excellence.org
to become part of the exclusive club of 200+ companies who have won the award during the last 10 years!

Consult the 2011 winners brochure here.

The winners will be announced @ CeBIT, the most prestigious ICT fair in Europe on 6 March 2012.

Seal of e-Excellence and ICT Cluster

Prof. Rangel Giurov, Chairman of the Executive Board of National Science Fund and Mr. Peter Statev, Chairman of the Management Board of Foundation ICT Cluster were guests of the ceremony.

The event is a continuation of the highly successful ISROSES symposium held in Varna, Bulgaria, during 17-22 September 2006.
The main purpose of the International Symposium on Recent Observations and Simulations of the Sun-Earth System II (ISROSES-II) is to bring together cross-disciplinary scientists from around the globe to have focused discussions on fundamental problems related to the space environment of the Earth.

The main organizer is Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), USA. The event is sponsored and supported by International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), International Union of Radio Science (URSI), American National Science Federation, NASA, Foundation ICT Cluster and Balkantourist.
The event brings together scientists from Bulgaria, USA, Europe, Japan, Russia, Canada and etc.

Foundation ICT Cluster supports the Bulgarian science by organizing and supporting such kind of events of great importance.

Mr. Peter Statev – Chairman of the Management Board of ICT Cluster and Associate Professor Vladimir Poulkov - Chairman of the Management Board of Bulgarian Cluster “Telecommunications”, took part in the forum.

Organizers and media partners of the event were Uconomics, Utilities Magazine and Facilities Magazine.

The aim of this forum was to create a successful dialog between the interested parties in the sector “Telecommunications”.
The new market regulations, the structural amendment, including fusions and absorptions, infrastructure challenges as well as the convergention and digitalization are of great importance for  the development of the telecommunication sector today.  All these factors make direct influence over every player in the communication and media market, business society, related and using the telecommunication providers, media companies, providers of audiovisual media services and radio services. 

Mr. Peter Statev made a presentation  “Financing and Investment of the Telecommunications Market” .

The event was hosted by CEED & Western Anatolian Information and Electronics Regional Innovation Centre Project (BATI-BINOM)

Turkey is a rising star in Europe and the fastest growing market in the region. ICT and Electronics represent one of the fastest growing sectors in Turkey and its getting stronger in global competition. The combination of high added value, innovation, creativity, and extensive research is helping Turkish firms to develop products, not only for local market, but abroad as well.

CEED brought together around 25 entrepreneurs from CEED centers in Kosovo, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia,  Macedonia and Montenegro to meet with around 25 Turkish entrepreneurs and begin to build long-term
cooperative business relationships. The afternoon session on Tuesday June 28th was set aside to conduct one-on-one business development meetings. Throughout the day there was informal opportunities to meet transnational peers.

Major trends & topics discussed:

- Approaching the Turkish market, short cuts on how and what to look for.
- Collaboration, finding and choosing a partner.
- Cloud computing, and the many new opportunities it’s creating to build and staff new companies, and strengthen existing businesses
- The ‘Mobile’ landscape, and how it will change everything. Examples of businesses incorporating mobile technologies.
- Social media, and how it could be leveraged to make connections and build your business.
-  Electronics, and new trends from even smarter TVs, to smartphones controlling more, to ‘Apps’ everywhere (in cars, appliances, eReaders, stereo receivers, cameras, printers, etc.)

Representatives of the Bulgarian companies: Smartcom – Bulgaria AD, Elexim and Antipodes Ltd , and a representative from Kardzhaly Municipality took part in the event, supported by Bulgarian ICT Cluster
Тhe conference and B2B meetings gave to Bulgarian companies the opportunity for future business collaboration with Turkish partners :
- Some Turkish companies were interested in the last project of Antipodes for Google, realized on Google App Engine with access for all mobile devices. It is expected the started contacts to lead to implementing future projects in Turkey.
- The speed networking gave the opportunity for Elexim to start dialog for future business collaboration with 3 Turkish companies.
- Smartcom -Bulgaria has found potential partners during the event and continues negotiations with them. There was discussed also a partnership with Izmir polytechnics for common R&D projects.

International Power Supply (IPS), member of Bulgarian Cluster “Telecommunications”, took part in the world exhibition Intersolar Europe 2011, which took place on 8-10 June 2011 in Munich.

On June 3, 2011 on a meeting of founders of Bulgarian Cluster “Telecommunications” a new member of the cluster was unanimously adopted - STI Networks.

Conference „I3E Hightech days” took place in Vienna on 23rd and 24th May 2011 within the project „I3E – Promoting Innovation in the Industrial Informatics and Embedded Systems Sector through Networking". The event was organized by Ecoplus, The Business Agency of Lower Austria Ltd – project partner.
The conference is a part from work package 3 of the Project I3E. Representatives of all project partners participated in the event. Experts in the field of microelectronics from USA and Brasil made presentations.

On 17th May, 2011 In Triaditsa hall in Grand Hotel Sofia, on the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day, a discussion forum devoted on the present and future of the national telecommunications infrastructure was held. The forum was organized by ACIS, ASTEL and ICT Cluster.

Mr. Parvan Rousinov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTITC), Mr. Evgeni Angelov, deputy minister of economy, energy and tourism, General Hristo Tihinov, Director of Communications and Information Systems, Ministry of Defense ( MO), Ivan Dimitrov, Director of Communications and Information Systems at the Ministry of Interior (MoI), Yordan Georgiev, Executive Director, Bulgarian Energy Holding, Vladimir Pulkov, Dean of the Faculty of Telecommunications, TU – Sofia took part in the round table discussion. The position of the organizers was presented by Mr. Peter Statev, Chairman of ICT Cluster,  Mr. Antoni Slavinski, Chairman of the board of ASTEL and Boyko Simitchiev, Vice – Chairman of the Board of ACIS.
Suggestions from the business were done by Mr. Tzvetan Mutafchiev, CEO of Telelink, Mr. Peter Belev, executive director of Multiplex, Stoil Trifonov, President  of International Power Supply (IPS) , Mirela Georgieva, Nokia Siemens Networks, Vesselin Kalchev, Director  Business development, Smartcom - Bulgaria.

According to the European directive "Digital Agenda for Europe" Bulgarian ICT business is ready to actively participate in the unification of the Bulgarian telecommunications infrastructure and to offer economic model for maintaining and managing an operating broadband.
In the forum were exposed the positions about the state of telecommunications infrastructure, managed by different ministries, agencies and other government agencies.

The proposals of the Business were: creation of a public council for management and coordination of the national telecommunications infrastructure; implementation of public private partnership in order to make national telecommunication infrastructure more effective and accessible.