Some January BISNIS Events in Washington

 

BISNIS Bulletin, February 2001

 

On January 9, BISNIS welcomed Jonelle Glosch, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Baku, Azerbaijan, to the USA Trade Center to speak about doing business in Azerbaijan. Ms. Glosch, who has been working with U.S. companies on the ground in Azerbaijan for the past 5 years, focused her remarks on how to identify business opportunities, work with local and state governments, and engage with U.S. oil and gas consortia operating in the country. She also offered insights into, and examples of, how to get things done in Azerbaijan and the region, with information about problems that exporters and investors are likely to encounter and how to overcome them. 

 

The AmCham Baku comprises 81 member companies of all sizes and offers a wide range of practical business services and information resources. For more information, visit the Chamber online at www.amchamaz.org.

 

For more information on Azerbaijan, visit BISNIS Online at www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/country/Azerbaijan.htm.

 

 

On January 11, BISNIS held a roundtable on “Information Technology Developments and Opportunities in Russia” at the USA Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The roundtable featured the following speakers: Leonid Malkov, president of Cogitum (Reston, Va.); Geoff Evans, U.S. director of Sib IT (Minneapolis, Minn., and Novosibirsk, Russia); Winston Lindsley, president of International Technology Information Consultants, Inc. (Fairfax, Va.); and Dmitri Simonenko, CEO of  Plesk, Inc. (Chantilly, Va.). Some 27 U.S. companies and organizations attended the event. The speakers discussed some of the pros and cons of working with Russian IT companies and programmers, addressing such issues as intellectual property rights protection, the qualifications and experience of Russian software engineers, and the difficulties of management and communications between U.S. and Russian firms. After the speakers presentations, they engaged in a lively Q&A session with the audience.

 

For a summary of the discussion, visit BISNIS Online at www.bisnis.doc.gov/bisnis/country/010111itrndsum.htm.