About

The TRIZ Developers summit is one of the key annual events of the TRIZ community. The next Summit will be held on June 13-15, 2019 in Minsk, Republic of Belarus. Participants of the Summit: TRIZ developers and TRIZ users will discuss new approaches, methods and tools of TRIZ for Business, Information Technology and Engineering, as well as in education.

The Summit will include three Sections.

Section “TRIZ for Business” will be chaired by Valeri Souchkov, TRIZ Master ad Sergey Boyko, Director of EPAM Systems.

Section “TRIZ for Information Technology and Engineering” will be chaired by TRIZ Masters Mikhail Rubin and Vladimir Petrov.

Section “TRIZ for School Students” will be chaired by Natalia Rubina, TRIZ Master.

More details about topics of the TRIZ Developers Summit to be held in June of 2019 can be found in the Information Letter #1 http://triz-summit.ru/confer/tds-2019/info/1/ and at the website https://events.epam.com/events/triz-summit-2019-eng

Participants

Everyone interested in modern TRIZ and its progress is invited to take part in the conference. We invite professional TRIZ developers as well engineers and entrepreneurs who use TRIZ in their practices, Information Technology professionals, teachers, students who study TRIZ. Such a practice is the result of 15 years of organizing the TRIZ Developers Summit.

Registration

To take part in the TRIZ Developers Summit in 2019, you should register as a participant. Registration is open since December 15, 2018 and is available at the following link:

https://events.epam.com/events/triz-summit-buy

Fees for Participants

Sales of tickets will be accessible from January 15, 2019.

A participant can choose either one, or two, or all three options:

	Day one 1. Plenary talks and master classes:	20 USD
	Days 2-3. Conference and Sections:	30 USD
	Dinner with speakers (Days 1 and 2) :	50 USD
	Total:

Discounts:

Early bird registration (till January 15, 2019): 20%
Registration and early purchase of ticket from January 15 till April 1, 2019: 15%
Registration and purchase of ticket from April 2 to May 15, 2019: 10%
Registration and purchase of ticket after May 16, 2019: no discount
Students: discount 50%
School students who participated in the Summit Cup in 2019: 100%.

For Authors of Presentations

If you are interested to present a paper at TRIZ Developers Summit in Minsk, you may apply for a paper presentation.

Presentation Topics

Different aspects of emergence and solving inventive problems in business and management.
1. Tools of extraction of inventive problems in business and management.
2. New tools of solving inventive problems in business and management.
3. Specifics of applying key TRIZ tools to extract and solve inventive problems in business and management.
4. Trends and regularities in business and management.
5. General issues of applying TRIZ in business and management.
TRIZ in Engineering and Information Technology.
1. Specifics of applying TRIZ at industrial organizations, Information Technology companies and start-ups.
2. Theoretical aspects of applying TRIZ in the areas of Information Technology.
3. General issues of applying TRIZ in Engineering and Information Technology.
TRIZ in School Education
1. Experiences with educating students in schools.
2. “TRIZ Summit Cup” competition. Organizational and participation issues. Results of the competition.
3. A system of knowledge assessment “Icarus and Dedalus” in school education.
4. General issues of applying TRIZ in school education.

Order or Preparation and Submission of Conference Materials

The following actions are expected from you if you are willing to prepare a paper and present it at the conference:

Deadline	Description	Result
15.01.2019	An author of a future paper submits an application with proposal of his/her paper https://events.epam.com/events/triz-summit-2019-eng/talk-proposal )	The Conference Program Committee issues a letter with confirmation of receiving the application
31.01.2019	The Conference Program Committee considers the application and makes a decision	The Conference Program Committee issues a letter with decision
15.03.2019	An author submits a paper	The Conference Program Committee issues a letter with confirmation
	The Conference Program Committee organizes review of the paper. An Author modifies the paper according to notes and comments proposed.	Communication between an Author and The Conference Program Committee
31.04.2019	The Conference Program Committee makes final decision about the paper acceptance	The Conference Program Committee issues a letter with final decision and information about presentation in the Conference Program in case of paper acceptance
31.05.2019	An Author submits presentation of the paper	The Conference Program Committee issues a letter with confirmation of acceptance of the presentation
13-15.06.2019	An author presents the paper at the conference
30.06.2019	The Conference Program Committee publishes the paper and the presentation in the materials of the conference	The Conference Materials are published

Requirements to the materials submitted to the Conference

A paper should be written in Russian or English in A4 page format in Microsoft Word. Length of the paper: from at least 4 pages to 14 pages maximum. Font size and type of main text is 12 (Times New Roman), line space 1,15. Text should be justified. Paper title: font 14 Times New Roman Bold, text should be aligned in center. Section titles (if present): font 12 Times New Roman Bold, text should be aligned left. Images inserted must be GIF or JPG. It is requested to not use automatic numbering of tables, images, footnotes and references. The paper must include abstract in both Russian and English.

Looking forward to meeting you at the TRIZ Developers Summit 2019 in Minsk!

Conference Organizers

Letter 2 TDS 2019