April, 10, 2014 the interuniversity student conference "Day of technologies EMC" was held at the ITMO University. Within the conference there was a public speech of the Vice President for strategy and innovation and honored engineer of EMC Corporation, a co-author of RAID technology, author of the book "Innovate With Global Influence" Steve Todd.

Vladimir Nikiforov, Pro-rector on scientific work of the University ITMO, and Vyacheslav Nesterov, Director General of the St. Petersburg development Center EMC spoke a salutatory word about the importance of cooperation of the ITMO University with international companies, the role of EMC Corporation in the cooperation, as well as about the current partnership initiatives and projects in the scope of development of information technologies and IT education.

Sergey Horuzhnikov, Dean of the faculty of information and communication technologies ITMO University, and Inga Petrovskaya, senior Manager of new business development of the St. Petersburg Development Center EMC performed about prospects of development of the joint programs of internships, student projects and activities.

Steve Todd gave a lecture about development of the IT industry on the example of the strategy of development of technologies EMC, told the audience about "third platform" and what opportunities it opens for students, startups and large companies.

After the speech, the speaker answered the questions connected not only with his prolonged work at EMC Corporation, but also with personal life experience. Steve talked about his best project, about the difficulties he faced and also gave valuable advice and tips for participants.

Everyone could monitor the performance of Steve Todd in real time thanks to the live broadcast of the event.

Next, after a short break for coffee, the participants were divided into two streams, where the representatives of the company EMC (Mikhail Stepanov, development consultant products company Saint-Petersburg development center Corporation EMC, and Vladimir Suvorov, the leading developer of solutions of the Center of research and development EMC) held two parallel technological track. The competition for participants was held in the framework of technological tracks. The winners were awarded with prizes from the Centre of development of the EMC.