Awards ceremony organized to recognize key figures who have made a significant contribution to the Russian Corporate IT sector and voted for by present and past attendees of the conference.

Category 1 – Most admired public figure in the corporate IT sector in Russia and abroad

Winner – Olga Dergunova, President, Microsoft, Russia

Also nominated: Andrey Korotkov, Advisor to Chairman and CEO, Vneshtorgbank

Winner – Sergey Kiryushin, Deputy General Director, IT & Communications, Aeroflot – Russian airlines

Also nominated: Alexey Telyatnikov, Deputy General Director/Head of IT, Rosgosstrakh, Valery Shorzhin, Director of IT, Golden Telecom, Sergey Mednov, Vice President & CIO, Alfa-Bank, Herman Epstein, CIO, BBH AB

Winner – Vladimir Kiva, CIO, Perekriostok Group

Also nominated: Alexey Telyatnikov, Deputy General Director/Head of IT, Rosgosstrakh, Igor Kovalev, Director of IT, Ford Russia, Pavel Pestrjakov, Director of IT, Corporation “Incom - Nedvizhimost”

Winner – Dmitriy Shevchenko, CIO, EuroChem

Also nominated: Richard Ames, Vice President and CIO, ТНК-BP, Alexander Prozorov, Director of IT, East-Line ( Domodedovo)

Winner – Mikhail Erenburg, Director of IT, Russian Aluminium

Also nominated: Alexey Katrich, Director of IT, UFG, Igor Kovalev, Director of IT, Ford Russia, Sergey Rozov, Director of IT, Brunswick UBS Warburg, Petr Kutnikov, Director of IT, GUM

Winners:

Best Russian IT solutions provider for 2006- CROC

Best foreign IT solutions provider for 2006- IBM Global Service