Main events of week on May 9 - 15

May 9

On May 9 in addition to the Victory Day celebrated by the whole country there will be also two local IT events which, of course, do not compete with a great holiday on scale.

- the first, this day Sergey Lukash, the vice president Rostelecom celebrates a birthday. Lukash began the labor activity in 1976 the radioman of the Almaty basin management of Kazglavselezashchit, then served, Federal State Unitary Enterprise Svyaz-bezopasnost, Svyazinvest and its MRK worked at top positions in Gazprom. In a present position – it is slightly more than half a year.

One more birthday boy of day - Victor Weinstein, the CEO of Aplana Aplana. Victor is from Ukraine, studied in MSU and worked as the programmer in Dialog-MGU company. Then got to IT to Tagir Yapparov and worked in it till 2001. Same year the Aplana company which is initially expected the western markets which Victor also headed was selected.

May 10

On Tuesday will open one their most significant telecom exhibitions of year - Communication - Expokomm 2011. It will work up to May 13. It is the main exhibition for specialists of the industry, the largest in Russia and Eastern Europe the international exhibition of communication systems, means of telecommunications and navigation equipment

On this birthday Yury Chekhovich, the CEO of Forecsys notes, the graduate of MIPT, in the company works at once after the end of study – since 2000.

May 12

On Thursday the Russian forum on management of the Internet underthe name "Management of the Internet" of the same name will take place. The action purpose - to integrate all professional points of view and to organize a discussion between state bodies, professional telecommunication community, business and civil society concerning further development of the Internet in Russia.

Also this day there will pass Day of career of the IT manager of 2011. It will be a question of responsibility of IT managers and their role in the modern organizations.

This day Alexander Milyavsky, the Russian entrepreneur and the politician was born. He possesses the Cyprian holding Holdings: he owns considerable assets in the field of telecommunications and development. Milyavsky is also large sponsor of United Russia who offered in 2009 for needs of a batch of 43 million rubles.

May 13

In St. Petersburg this day there will take place the conference of the CodeCamp 2011 programmers. In two days of a conference there will pass four sections: industrial software development; cloud services; software development for mobile platforms; information security.

May 14

On May 14 Ilya Korobov, the CEO of "INPAS" was born. The graduate of Moscow Administrative Road Inspectorate (specification), in 1997-2000 worked in RRC, then passed into "INPAS".

, the most famous birthday boy this week is Mark Zuckerberg, the millionaire, the founder and the chief executive of Facebook. He is only 27 years old. Zuckerberg owns 24% of stocks of the company. In March, 2010 the Forbes magazine recognized him by the youngest billionaire in the list with a status of $4 billion. In September, 2010 in the annual list of billionaires of America of the Forbes magazine Mark took the 29th place with a status in $6.9 billion.

One more birthday boy of day - Evgeny Yurchenko, the chairman of the company "Investment fund of A.S. Popov". From February, 2009 to September, 2010 was general the director of Svyazinvest holding. Was considered as the compromise candidate between the Marshall Capital Partners company having a great influence on the Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev and the largest player of the Russian telecommunication market — AFK "Sistema" of Vladimir Yevtushenkov.

May 15

This day in 1997 the HTC Corp company, one of the world's largest mobile device manufacturers, first of all popular models of smartphones was founded. Revenue of HTC at the end of 2010 made $9.6 billion.

It is possible to study the complete list of events of this week here.