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Hello everybody, hello to you for watching 
us right now on YouTube live,

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and hello to you who found our content on 
our YouTube channel and now wondering what 
this is all about.

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We're very excited to present you the International 
Conference on Code Quality, the IEEE sponsored 
computer science event

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which we've been organizing for more that 
a year.

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And now let me tell you quickly the story 
of how it all started and what's staying 
behind this.

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About a year ago, maybe a little bit earlier, 
a few people including myself were thinking 
about

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how we can help Russian researchers and practitioners 
to be more integrated with the international 
community.

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In order to solve this problem, in order 
to achieve this goal, we found a solution 
which was quite easy to find.

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we decided to organize a truly international 
computer science conference inside Russia, 
which would be, as I said, truly international.

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In order to make it truly international, 
we set ourself 5 important objectives, 5 
components, 5 success factors of this goal.

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First of all, we got support from IEEE. IEEE 
computer society is one of the largest, maybe 
even number one organization in the world,

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non-profit organization which supports these 
activities, supports events, community workshops, 
and things like that.

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And we got their support. Second, we put 
together a program committee of people from 
different countries and different organizations,

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of different companies over the world. We 
have 30 people right now in the program committee, 
and only 5 out of them are based in Russia.

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We actually even have more people from the 
USA than people from Russia in the program 
committee.

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So we managed to put together truly international, 
in our opinion, the committee, the technical 
or program committee,

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of people who decide which articles have 
to be published, and which articles have 
to be rejected.

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That was the second success factor for us. 
And actually it was quite difficult to find 
those people and to convince them

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that they should join us to be part of this 
program committee, because it's a new conference, 
we're doing it for the first time,

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and actually we approached a few hundred 
people from different organizations, different 
places, and managed to convince

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about 30 of them to join us, which we believe 
is quite a success.

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Number three was the necessity for us to 
find local partners, so we decided that the 
conference will be international,

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but the sponsors and partners have to be 
local based in Russia. And we actually found 
them.

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First of all, we found the university, the 
HSE Higher School of Economics, which is 
Russian university,

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and they supported us with this initiative 
and gave us all the necessary support.

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Also we found three other universities in 
Russia, which in our opinion are the largest 
and the most reputable organizations in Russia,

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and they also became our supporters, our 
partners. They didn't help us financially 
so much, but they gave us quite a lot of 
organizational support.

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And also we found partners, commercial organizations 
which are based in Russia, not all of them 
are purely Russian,

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it's difficult to imagine right now a large 
organization which is connected to only one 
country, but we found 4 great partners.

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Number one is of course Huawei Russian Research 
Institute which is probably one of the largest 
research organizations in Russia right now,

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it contains almost 1000 people and they're 
all researchers and practitioners, so this 
organization supports us, and we're glad 
to say that we managed to find this support.

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Also we got support from Kaspersky, it's 
quite popular, also international company 
with the headquarters in Russia,

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the company is originally Russian. Yandex, 
another company, also with Russian roots, 
also now it's