IT Import Substitution: New Experience: a talk for O-1 and EB-1A
Conference
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From the organiser's official site
What the organisation itself states on its site tadviser.ru. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.
- Organiser
- A TAdviser conference.
- Date and venue
- February 15, 2023, Moscow.
- Frequency
- The archive on the "TAdviser Conferences" page lists 19 events with "Import Substitution" in the title for 2017-2024.
- Audience
- According to the page, 170 people attended.
- How speakers are selected
- The page describes no talk selection or programme committee; questions about giving a talk and about sponsorship go to the same organiser address. No prices for speakers or partners are given.
- Proceedings
- The page is a TAdviser report on the talks; the page read mentions no proceedings or publication of the papers.
- Speakers were customer representatives (import substitution results and plans) and vendors (their capabilities and products).
- The partner block on the page shows: official partner, partner, exhibition partner. A "partner information" section describes the companies.
- Programme on the page: 18 timetable slots, from 10:00 to 16:00.
- Report sections: the year's results for Russian IT, customer expectations versus reality, risks of working with Western vendors, replacing HR and teamwork systems.
- The programme has 16 talks: state bodies and state companies (Treasury, the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, Rosmorport, NSD, Rosatom units), the Digital Ministry and RFRIT, and vendors (1C, Selectel, C3 Solutions, etc.).
Source: the organiser's site tadviser.ru (pages /a/701547, /index.php/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8_TAdviser), checked Oct 2, 2026; the version on the site applies.
What officers look at: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(v) - own work and how speakers were selected
What officers look at: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(vi) - scholarly article, peer review, readers, indexing
Facts from open sources
- Active since
- 2005 [© notice on the site]
Collected automatically from the sources shown, checked 2026-09-09; not a USCIS assessment.
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