OREANDA-NEWS. April 21, 2008. MEIT-2008 – the first International Forum “Information technologies and information security in mechanical engineering. Industry solutions” – will be held at KAMAZ Inc. on 24 and 25 April.

In the International forum there will participate the representatives of the RF Ministry of Industry and Energy, the Federal Agency of Information Technologies, the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control, the Federal Security Service, the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Ministry of Informatization and Communications of the RT, the RT Security Council, the Administration of Naberezhnye Chelny, the Russian Automobile Manufacturers Association, Russia’s Engineering Workers Guild, the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises, Russia’s Association of Information Technologies Standardization.

To the forum there were invited the representatives of CEO, CIO of the automobile enterprisers of Russia, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Japan, People’s Republic of China, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – developers and suppliers in the sphere of information technologies and information security, managers and experts of the largest automotive enterprises of the Russian Federation.

Within the bounds of the forum there will be discussed such issues as information technologies management, outsourcing of information technologies, data processing centers serving information technologies and also information security.

It’s planned to lead a round-table discussion where there will be considered problems of unification of users’ interface by integration of different IT-systems in a large industrial enterprise with a ramified infrastructure.

KAMAZ Inc. and the Information Systems Academy (tel.: 8 (495) 231-30-49, e-mail: conf@infosystem.ru) participate in organization of the event. The sponsors of the Forum are the companies CITRIX, IBM, NOVELL.

An information support is provided by the magazine “Information Security. Inside”, FineStreet Media Group, the editions IT News, IT Manager, “Express Electronica”, CNews, the Business Center of the RT – the Internet-portal TatCenter.ru, IA “Tatar-inform”, world mechanical engineering Allmash.ru, the information and analytical portal www.safeprom.ru, the mechanical engineering portal www.mashportal.ru.

Within the bounds of the forum there will be held a press conference to which there were invited the representatives of mass media. You can find more detailed information about the forum and fill the application form here.