This spring, however like all the previous ones, is rich in interesting events and conferences. At last it’s time for RIF and CIB, the time when all internet specialists gather together and discuss their professional challenges and try to find creative solutions. We sum up the results and select ways of development. Despite every participant of the events knows what this all about we are all sure that it will be extremely interesting!

RIF – Russian Internet Forum will take place on the 3-4th of April, participation in the Forum is free, one only needs to pay for staying in “Lesnie Dali” hotel and food and banquet. RIF has been run since 1997. The organizer of the event is Regional Social Center of Internet Technologies. The intrigue of this year is the presence of Dmitry Medvedev at Russian Internet Forum opening. His arrival is planned for 11 a.m. Dmitry Medvedev is expected to say general words about Russian IT-technologies and the importance of its development for further economical growth. By the way, RIF has the blog where I’ve noticed adv. of a new movie “About Runet” – the first performance of it will be on the 7th of April at 8 p.m.

RIT - Russian Internet Technologies  conference has been run from 2007 by a community of Web-developers for web-developers, it will take place on the 14-15th of April. Participation is paid (from the 1st of April it costs 9000 rubles). Here everybody talks PHP, ASP and AJAX. At the conference there will be Alex Moskalyuk, a developer of Facebook, who will present Facebook Infrastructure and Facebook Platform and widgets, built into Facebook’s pages. By the way, social networks are not only technology, but also social networks themselves. We’ll get to know about it more from report “Failures of innovators and success of conservatives” presented by Vladimir Voloshin, the creator of Eva.ru, the largest Russian community for women.

CIB – Internet and Business conference will take place on the 16-18th of April in “Bor” hotel. The main part will start on 17th of April. The participation is free as well as at RIF one only needs to pay for staying in hotel and banquet. This conference will open with night sit-round gathering at 00.00 and informal conversations on interests. Two main themes are declared for discussion sections «Social networks» and «Investments in internet projects». Alex Moskalyuk, after two presentations at the RIT, will tell us at CIB about Facebook expansion strategy on international markets & social networks business. The intrigue of the conference is the possible participation of representatives of social network “Vkontakte” – the Russian clone of Facebook. Interesting innovation of this year – minisections – unlike a round table this format of discussion can organize any participant of conference if only the theme of declared minisection is worth talking about, so the public voting decides what minisections will participate at CIB.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
On the 3th of April I’ll make my broadcast from RIF on Twitter.com/OlkaRose – Follow me!