Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, colleagues!

You are welcome to participate in "ELBA", the 1-st International Forum of Internet projects and investors to be held November 27-29, 2009 in "Bor" boarding house (a recreational complex under the Property Management Department of the RF President).

"ELBA" Forum is:

• The most significant event of 2009 year for Internet-projects held in Runet
• Useful information for creating an efficient business in Internet and for taking strategic decisions
• the newest trends in development, investments and managements of internet projects in Russia and abroad
• Innovative developments and Internet businesses of the year for interested investors
• Communication in informal conditions with colleagues, prospective investors and leading experts.

Within the framework of the Forum a conference is to be held under the title of "Runet as an investee", the first independent Plyuschev Award is to be granted to start-up projects of the year, including the exhibition of Internet-projects of 2008-2009 and thematic round tables, presentations and negotiations are to be organized.

The Forum program offers to the participants a wide range of topics and issues related to design of projects and investments into Internet start-up projects, tailored up to multiple business profiles, various levels of design maturity, expectations from the projects management and requirements of the targeted audience. The program also includes thematic hands-on case studies and open interactive discussions.

Elba Forum will help investors to find projects for capital investments and enable the authors of the projects to raise finance for development of their ideas. This is a fair and exhibition of Runet achievements, where the goods can be displayed and watched on their merits and where the climate is businesslike but informal and encourages trust among the participants and openness to each other. It is also a "broth of ideas", a nutritious soil for new developments, business concepts, ideas of investment and cooperation.

The Forum is to assemble on this single site both developers and supervisors of projects, private investors and representatives of venture funds, as well as those key experts, who are really iconic figures for Runet.

"К2К news", the Forum organizer