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Three Busy Days At RIF+KIB 2011, Major Internet Event in Russia

I just came back from Moscow after spending three days at the RIF+KIB 2011 , the biggest Internet conference in Russia. I decided to attend this event to use this opportunity to promote SEMPO in Russia, and learn for myself about SEO/SEM business practices in this rapidly growing market where Yandex, not Google, is a dominant search engine, and what difference does it make. It was a very interesting experience, I have learned a lot about the Russian Internet industry (called RuNet in Russia) and particularly about online marketing business there, and I met a lot of great people there. About 7,000 people attended this three-day event, mostly young, in their 20’s and 30’s, very ambitious and eager to learn about the Internet industry.

The program of the conference consisted of two main groups of events. The main program was formed by organizing committee and it was broken into sections covering a lot of topics: Online Marketing, Web Development, Social Media, education, start-up businesses, legal aspects, government regulation, etc.

The second group (Program 2.0) was formed by participant’s voting for presentations submitted prior the conference. I submitted three proposals to speak, with topics like International SEO, Internet Marketing Education and SEMPO itself and at the end none of them were accepted. Presentations about education was getting quite a lot of interest and votes, but at the end it was the only presentation in this section and was rejected based on the rules. International SEO presentation (which was the only one) was taken into consideration for Regional Promotion section along with several other speakers, and this section was very popular with participants who voted for it. I was watching the voting very closely, and I was confident it would be one of the most popular among attendees. Unfortunately, when I came to the conference, somehow, in a very mysterious way, the whole section with 8 speakers from other regions of Russia wasn’t included in Program 2.0 of this event.

Later I had some private talks with people close to organizing committee, and they told me that the conference program was finalized the night before opening, organizers had problems to get speakers for several sections. If it was a case, why any of my proposals were weren’t included along with many other proposals from regional companies – I don’t understand.  I was also in many ways frustrated with how difficult it was to communicate with organizers of this event. While all contact info was posted on the website, nobody replied to my emails, and it was almost impossible to get any answers over the phone, especially if you call from Canada.

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