Alexey Abramov, Evgeny Kaspersky, Alexey Pivovarov at MERLION IT Summit 2021

3 september 2021

More than 5,700 people gathered at the summit site or watched the broadcast of the big IT event with the participation of IT industry leaders and journalists from RBC TV and the YouTube channel Redakciya.

MERLION IT Summit 2021, one of the most significant IT events in Russia, took place on September 2 with the support and participation of leading Russian and foreign IT vendors. Market leaders, representatives of well-known companies, experts and analysts gathered in one place to discuss the prospects of information technology in the new reality and share experiences in implementing projects in various industries. This year's event was held in a hybrid format: offline and online.

The summit attracted more than 5,700 participants and viewers of the online broadcast. 37 MERLION vendors and partners unfolded their stands in the exhibition area. 420 personal business meetings were held, organized with the help of special Summit services. More than 25 media representatives covered key events of the Summit.

The program included 58 business events of various formats: classic lectures, interviews with IT industry leaders, open discussions, case studies, workshops, and analytical studies.

The most popular speeches were welcoming speeches by Alexey Abramov, Chairman of the MERLION Board of Directors, and Dmitry Vinogradov, MERLION's General Director, as well as key interviews with top managers of global IT companies IBM, Intel, HPE, Kaspersky Lab: Alexey Ivanov (Head of Intel in Russia); Tatiana Sorokina, General Director of IBM in Russia); Dmitry Lasht (Commercial Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Russia); Evgeny Kaspersky (General Director of Kaspersky Lab). The plenary session was moderated by Alexey Pivovarov, a well-known journalist and author of the YouTube channel Redakciya.

The IT industry has been the main architect of change over the past two years. Speakers discussed major industry trends and the changing needs of users and companies in the current environment.

After the keynotes there were 5 thematic clusters and 3 panel discussions where representatives of vendors, system integrators and companies-customers of IT solutions, experts and analysts discussed the prospects of technology development in various segments of the global IT market and ways to improve the efficiency of IT infrastructure and business processes. The panel discussions were moderated by Renat Lashin, Executive Director of the ARPP "Domestic Soft"; Alexey Degtyarev, Editor-In-Chief of the professional publication about engineering and digital infrastructure "TSODy.RF"; and Andrey Levchenko, host of RBC.

The event also included workshops and hands-on demonstrations of new solutions and products for engineers and technicians.

An agreement on strategic cooperation and development of T-COM equipment distribution in the Russian Federation was signed during the summit with the Russian manufacturer of telecommunications equipment T-COM LLC (a joint venture of TVEL JSC and D-Link Corporation). The document was signed by Dmitry Vinogradov, General Director of MERLION, and Sergey Dorofeev, General Director of T-COM LLC.

Dmitry Vinogradov, General Director of MERLION:

"The main topic of our summit this year - "Architecture of the New Reality" - was a red thread running through all the speeches and presentations. After all, it is information technology today that is the main driver, the main architect of the changes taking place. MERLION has always strived to be at the forefront of ongoing changes and we continue to evolve into a technology company, primarily to become more useful and efficient for our partners in project distribution, so we were looking forward to our summit. And I am very glad that the communication with our old and new partners and customers, colleagues and friends took place in person this year as we all really missed it.

More than 55 well-known IT companies have become official partners of the summit. Among the partners are such global and Russian brands as IBM, Intel, HPE, Huawei, APC, Aruba, Astra Linux, CommuniGate Systems, Crucial by Micron, DeepCool, Dell Technologies, Eaton, Fujitsu, H3C, High Energy, Hikvision, Hitachi Vantara, HOSTVM, ICL Tekhno, Ippon, iRU, ISPsystem, ITK, Lenovo, Micro Focus, One Identity, Panduit, Polymatica, Powercom, Quantum, Quest, RDW Computers, Rutoken, Seagate, Supermicro, TEGRUS, TP-Link, Unify, Utinet, Veeam, Veritas, Vertica, VMware, Western Digital, Absolut Bank, Aktiv, APROTEH, Baikal Electronics, InfoTex, Kaspersky Lab, MKB, MyOffice, NTC IT ROSA, RED SOFT, Rosatom TVEL.

The event was supported by 19 media partners - leading industry publications and online resources, business media, industry associations and professional organizations.

All of the online conference materials will be available on the event website shortly, and a video of all of the speeches can be viewed now. All registered participants will be notified when materials are available.

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