TEKAMA was founded in 2003 and is comprised of an IT, software development and entrepreneurship training centers, a management consulting and audit firm catering to the hi-tech and software industries. TEKAMA became the first SEI CMMI Partner in Eastern Europe/CIS (2005), held the first vendor-independent software development conference in Russia/CIS (www.secr.ru – 2005), the first technology entrepreneurship conference (www.etecr.ru – 2006), and created the first managing software development training program in Russia (2004).