Who and what holds conferences?

This question - a regular, when you visit any conference. Understanding the answer - it is very important to me is as a journalist, it helps to answer, including what is happening and focus on the market.

Last week was the two conferences:. MS Innovation Day. and. Cloud computing, practice and development '.



Since the first is clear: people do previously developed a plan for its implementation a budget. How are they to ' work out ' - is another question. In general, it is clear they are trying, but it works ' old-fashioned ', I would routinely. It is clear - people bonded....

By the way, it seems, budgets pourezali - household items at the conference were weak, for food at lunch I had to stand for 15-20 minutes. On the ' feeding ' journalists do not have enough money ( for the first time with this encounter ).

But the second - it is not clear. Do not know who organizes. It is unclear who pays for it all ( the whole organization was very decent, coffee, lunch). Managed to collect a very respectable (and incidentally, interesting ) the command of speakers: Rostelecom, IBM, MS, Nokia, Galitsky, SoDIT. Out of a cloud drifted into obscurity and AMD, and - in the sponsors....

What are they suddenly flew to honey, and even, perhaps, and gave the money?.

With that audience in the hall was not more than 50 people, half of them - representatives of the speakers.

From the press it was the other way around. It seems I had another guy. With that list of ' media partners ' high (but I must say - frankly weak).

Why would it?.

The only explanation - in a ' partner ' for the first time I saw ' Rostelecom '. And this despite the fact that Rostelecom made ​​with the initial report and left.

It turns out this version of the. The conference was organized ' Rostelecom '. He is standing in the plan approved by the Ministry of Communications to create the program ' National cloud platform '. Rostelecom had to put a ' tick ' in the paragraph, report. He did.

I understand that exactly the same pattern ' Sirius '. held in late May, SPE conference.

But what is interesting. ' Sirius ', it seems, with the NPP ' flew by '. And what will be obtained from Rostelecom?.