On October 25th, about 200 IT Specialists of Ukraine participated in IT Jam – first big, non-commercial event hosted by Ciklum, directed to promote the information technology industry, and demonstrate the benefits of IT community.

Already with the start of its advertisement campaign, IT Jam turned out to be a great success – 460 participants applied to register. The specialized tests, taken beforehand discovered outstanding talents within IT industry and we are proud and excited to congratulate all the winners.

So, here it goes, our super mega special prize – a week-end trip to Denmark found its 1st place winners (Asp.Net – Ihor Morozov, Java – Denys Yermakov, C# - Timur Karanda and QA – Shushana Tamrazova). Asus X80LE laptops went to the 2nd place winners (Asp.Net – Mykhailo Rybnikov, Java – Vitalii Butskevych, C # - Evheniy Dumanskyi and QA – Oleksii Slobodyan). The 3rd place rewards – 160 GB Portable Hard Drive Device was presented for winning in the QA category to Anatolii, SUN Certification for the Java test to Alexey Pilipchuk, Microsoft Certification for winning in ASP.Net category to Marina Chernysheva and Anton Vidishchev. Many other prizes found their new owners as well, after a ‘strong battle' and tons of fun during Brain Ring Competition.

The Briefing, under the name "IT WORLD – THE ROADS TO TAKE" summed up a huge variety of opportunities that are available today to IT professionals. John Sotiropoulos – Chief Architect & Director of Metastorm Company (the Leading BPM enterprise software vendor, Great Britain), gave a wonderful speech on how to "Be global – be the best". Mark Johnson, Investment Director of Nordic Venture Partners from Stockholm shared his ideas on "Starting up a "Google" of tomorrow – what today's investors are looking for". Head of Recruitment in Microsoft Development Centre in Copenhagen, Scott Simons spoke on "What it takes to succeed..." and the CEO of Ciklum (leading IT Outsourcing Company), Mr. Torben Majgaard outlined the "Ciklum – as a platform for your IT career".

Live music played by the outstanding WizeGuys band, added mega spirit to the evening, as well as discovered wonderful dancing talents among IT specialists and Ciklum employees. Even though IT Jam received many compliments from its participants, we still regret that not everyone managed to attend. We hope that will be a great pretext to meet in future, sometime next year in order to once again throw all those positive emotions to amazing and so diverse world of IT.

Enjoy the following pictures and videos from IT Jam 2008 event!

Pictures:

Gallery #1

Gallery #2

Videos:
Ciklum Presents IT Jam 2008 : Part I
Ciklum Presents IT Jam 2008 : Part II

Official post-event press release at Ciklum.net