2-4 August 2006 Trinity Electronics held an IT Forum for the partners of Lower and Upper Povilzhje.

IT FORUM 2006 took place in a cozy and comfortable country house "Russkaya Ohota" just out of Samara from 2nd till 4th August 2006. It was held by Trinity Electronics - one of Russian market's leading distributors of computer components. The even was supported by the industry's leading and world famous players - ALPS, Pioneer, COLORSit and Western Digital. The participants were more than 30 CEOs and top-managers of the 19 most successful companies of the Privolzhsky region from Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, Toljatti, Uljanovsk and Penza .

The special feature of this dealer forum was a rich conference program. It consisted of presentations, numerous one-to-one and round table meetings allowing every Trinity Electronics manager and every vendor meeting with the leading IT business players of the Privolzhsky region, to talk over the business peculiarities, its perspectives and the possibilities of the mutual cooperation.

Our vendors' presentations drew a lot of attendee attention. ALPS sales and marketing manager Stephan Wirkner familiarized the participants with the novelties from ALPS and the perspectives of the FDD market in Russia for the next few years. The Pioneer Senior manager for Optical systems Chris Tampsett told about the ongoing lines of the DVD drives and acquainted the attendees with the revolutionary Blu-Ray Technology and the plans for Blu-Ray sales in Russia. The Head of the Russian office of COLORSit Vyacheslav Shiyani presented about the company and its products. The HDD market was represented by Western Digital and its Marketing and PR manager Irina Udina and the Regional representative Alexander Malinin . During his presentation, Mr Malinin told the participants of the novelties and the ongoing lines of WD hard drives, involving listeners into the lively discussion.

Presentation ALPS	Presentation Pioneer	Presentation Western Digital

Privolzhsky region is one of the priority regions in Russia's contemporary policy of development, it has a vast potential for the economical growth. Thus it is of a highest importance for Trinity Electronics to maintain the cooperation with the existing dealers from the region and gaining new ones.

IT FORUM 2006 allowed the directors and tom-managers of Trinity Electronics to get to know the partners of the Privolzhsky region closer and get the ideas about the demands of the IT business in the Volga cities to work out the individual approach to each dealer, taking each one's needs into consideration. The event allowed all the participants to get to know about the current IT industry news and novelties, get the answers to different questions from the leaders of IT industry for the future effective cooperation.