In October 2010 Sofia will become the meeting point for software professionals to discuss topics related to the current challenges software development companies are facing and a variety of possible solutions and opportunities for the future.

Two international conferences will join together this year in Sofia: CEE-SPI and EuroMed SPI, and will be hosted by the ESICenter Bulgaria. Indeed, after three successful conferences - in Krakow, Budapest, and Bucharest - the 4^th CEE-SPI, a Kugler Maag CIE conference will be joining together for this edition with the first edition of EuroMed SPI, a European Software Institute (ESI) conference in collaboration with Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

These conferences serve as a forum for companies of the region to report and share their experiences in improving their software process capabilities. It also serves to raise awareness about the need for professional, mature processes as a key competitive weapon.

KUGLER MAAG CIE, European Software Institute and ESI Center Bulgaria are looking forward to seeing you in Sofia, Bulgaria, for our 4^th CEE-SPI conference & the first EuroMed-SPI on 18^th and 19th^th of October 2010!

Call For Papers

If you wish to send a contribution to the conferences, fill in the following file and send it to cee@no_Spam.kuglermaag.com

File to fill in for sending an Abstract

Deadline: 15th of June 2010

For the third year running, KUGLER MAAG CIE is organizing the conference on Software Process Improvement (SPI) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This year’s long-awaited event will take place in Bucharest, Romania, from 21st to 22nd of October 2009.
Last year over 50 participants from finance, IT, telecommunications, and from the automotive industry attended the conference coming from countries across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia. They had been attracted by a program consisting exclusively of experience reports from both multinational organizations such as Thyssen Krupp, Motorola or HP as well as from small and medium-sized enterprises from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
This year the conference program is very rich and diverse again. - See for yourself!
http://www.cee-spi.com/programm0.html

The conference will cover a whole range of experience reports from all over Europe including Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Bulgaria, and cover a wide range of industries such as automotive, pharmaceuticals and IT.
Participants will have the opportunity to take part in lively panel sessions which will be organized around two hot topics, namely “Process Improvements in Times of Crisis” and  “Process Improvement and the Human Factor”

For further information and registration see
http://www.cee-spi.com/conference2009.html

Please note that on 20th of October - for the first time in Central and Eastern Europe - the SEI-accredited Services Supplement for CMMI® V1.2 training will be held.
For more information see http://www.kuglermaag.com/training_cmmi_svc_com0.html?&L=0

If you wish to participate, please contact Kugler Maag at cee@kuglermaag.com

For the second year running, and following on from the success of 2007, KUGLER MAAG CIE is to organize the conference on Software Process Improvement (SPI) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This year’s long-awaited event will take place on 4th - 5th November 2008 in Budapest, Hungary.

Last year over 90 participants from the sectors of Finance, IT, Telecommunications as well as the Automotive industry attended the conference from countries across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) including Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. The participants had been attracted by a programme exclusively consisting of experience reports from both multinational organizations such as Motorola and Siemens VDO as well as small and medium enterprises from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

Once again, this conference will cover a whole range of experience reports from all across Europe including Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and Turkey and across a wide sector of industries such as Automotive, Banking or Telecommunications from high-ranking companies such as HP, Motorola, Sabre Holdings and Thyssen Krupp Presta.

Guests will have the opportunity to participate in lively panel sessions which will be organized around two hot topics namely, “Agile Development and CMMI: complementarity or contradiction” as well as “Software process improvement in mixed model environment”.

Due to the high level of education and quality of software engineers in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), many R&D centres from big multinational companies have been established and local companies are increasingly selling their services abroad (Nearshore development, IT outsourcing). However having first-class software engineers is only one of the factors for success in a project. The process capability of an organization strongly influences the final results. CEE “competitors” such as India or China have been undertaking program to improve the quality of their processes for years now.

This conference serves as a forum for CEE companies to report and share their experiences in improving their software process capabilities. It also serves to raise awareness about the need for professional, mature processes as a key competitive weapon.

“Software Process Improvement is gaining more and more momentum in CEE in order for companies to sustain their competitiveness against competition from India and China. Global companies wishing to outsource their development or those making software buying decision are increasingly using maturity models such as CMMI or SPICE in order to assess risks related to their suppliers. Consequently more and more companies are implementing process improvement initiatives and eventually aiming for “certification”. We are therefore expecting a rise in the number of participants this year as the programme is a very relevant and attractive one”, commented Christophe Debou, Chairman of the conference and Director of Central and Eastern Europe at KUGLER MAAG CIE.

For further information and registration, see http://www.cee-spi.com/