St. Petersburg, April 8-10, 2008: the exhibition complex Lenexpo in Gavan' housed a specialized exhibition-conference "Infocommunications in energy" - information systems and telecommunicational solutions.

It was the first time that this exhibition was organized. It became a constituent part of the 8th St. Petersburg International Energy Forum that incorporated specialized exhibitions covering all range of services in the sphere of energetics: "MIRR (Mineral and raw & fuel and energy resources)", "OilGasExpo", "Oil refining and oil chemistry, "MPExpo", Biofuel summit & Expo, "ATOMTEC", "Trans-TEC-Expo". The exhibitions were conducted under the auspices of Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Federation Council Committee on natural resources and environment protection, National Bioenergetics Association (NBEA), National Bioenergetics Union and other governmental and professional organizations, which indicates that there is a need for such exhibitions in the industrial center of Russia.

The exhibition was opened by the Secretary of the Public Chamber of the RF, RAS Academician,President of the Russian Research Center "Kurchatovsky Institute" E. P. Velikhov, Executive Director of "Global Energy" Fund I. M. Lobovsky and RESTEC Chief Executive Officer S. N. Trofimov.

The exhibition provided a possibility to get acquainted with modern achievements and perspective developments in infocommunication technology for the automation of energetics functioning, to reveal the irreplaceable role of ICT in business processes of the energy sector of our economy and to establish direct links between producers and developers of ICT-solutions and experts of energy complex.

The largest Russian and foreign companies of the North-West Region, developers and suppliers of ICT-solutions and services, equipment and components for industrial process automation participated in the exhibition. Among them are Rostelecom JSC, ACG "Business System Development", MVS Global Communications, GlobalTel, INFOSUITE and others.

The business program of the exhibition included the conference "Infocommunications in energy", which was held on April 9. The important part of the conference was a discussion on the role of infocommunications in the increase of energy companies profitability, on new opportunities to implement modern informational technology and communicational means in business management. This indicates that currently efficient operation of energy companies is no longer possible without an extensive use of infocommunicational technology. Each of energy industry branches has the need for the informatization of key aspects of its functioning, optimization of technology, research and education processes.

The conference consisted of 8 lectures covering various aspects and trends in ICT implementation in energetics. The lectures were given by Digital Design, St. Petersburg – "The system of document workflow of an energy company by the example of OGK-5"; SELTA SPA, Italy – "Telecommunicational systems in energetics"; MVS Global Communications, Moscow – "Examples of using terminal servers for satellite mobile communication Inmarsat in oil and gas industry"; ACG "Business System Development", Moscow – "Establishment of automated management systems for energy companies", and others.

The exhibition and conference were attended by around 2500 experts: representatives of federal and regional government, representatives of administrative bodies, CEOs, senior engineers, heads of Automatic Process Control Systems departments, engineers for automation from companies from various branches of energy sector, representatives of sectoral unions and associations, higher educational establishments, research organizations, financial bodies, mass media, consulates, deputy corps.

Chief media sponsor of the event was the "Energetics and Industry in Russia" newspaper. Informational support was provided by "PCWEEK", "Cnews", "Information services Director", "REM", "ISUP", "Fubix", "All Computer World of St. Petersburg", "Energy Inspection Service and Energy Security", "Transducers and Systems", "Industrial Automation in Russia" and many others.

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