Andrey Sviridenko – expert in technologies of compression and recognition of speech, audio, video, and data transmission, and in the development of hi-tech hardware and software products for satellite navigating receivers GPS. Andrey Sviridenko is President and the founder of the group of companies SPIRIT of which primary activity is the development and licensing of hi-tech software products for  conference-communication, processing of speech, audio and multimedia. The company cooperates with the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation in the field of satellite communication. Products created by experts of Spirit, are used in more than  80 countries.  Andrey Sviridenko is also the founder and head of the company SeeStorm, developing innovative technologies in the field of synthetic video for mobile services.