IBA participated as a general partner in the eighth international forum on banking IT entitled BankIT’2011. Held from November 16 to November 17 in Minsk, Belarus, the event was organized by the National Bank of Belarus, the scientific and technological association Infopark, and the Association of Belarusian Banks.

The program of the forum included an official opening ceremony followed by a plenary meeting and panel discussions. Ryhor Zlobin, Technical Director of IBA, spoke at the plenary meeting. He presented the IBA’s perspective of the development of the Belarusian national payment infrastructure, including the national retail payment system under the tentative name of Belcard Electron. According to IBA, the system can cut payment chain expenses and maintenance costs, as well as contribute to a stronger positioning in the retail sector.

The BankIT program included the following panel discussions.

• Strategic and operational bank management
• Building and managing banking IT
• Banking IT solutions: tools and technologies
• Modern trends in data centers and IT infrastructure
• Information security and e-workflow.

IBA presented the following services and solutions for the banking and finance sectors.

• ITIL based on IBM Tivoli: Service Desk on a palm. Dmitry Trubach, IBA department head
• ITIL based on IBM Tivoli: managing a complex IT infrastructure. Daniil Satsura, system analyst
• Key aspects of development and implementation of automated business intelligence (BI) systems. Valery Lubnevsky, department head
• Automated Budgeting System for a commercial bank. Yuri Zholnerkevich, project manager
• Project management: PMI standard. Vladimir Dyubkov, director of the IBA Training Center
• Mobility, sociability, cloud computing – technologies that cannot be ignored. Vladimir Bankovich, deputy department head
• Internet Banking based on IBM WebSphere Portal Server. Alexander Kovalev, technical director at E-Business Division.