A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Parity debate The Age of Digitalization: Equality of Opportunities

Hall 1, Tavricheskiy Palace
Moderator
Ekaterina Inozemtseva
Co-founder, Russian Lakes Project; Coordinator, Women for Regional Development and Domestic Tourism Project, Council of the Eurasian Women’s Forum
Speakers and experts
Victoria Abramchenko
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Svetlana Balanova
Chief Executive Officer, National Media Group
Olga Miller
Managing Director at UBS, Switzerland
Olga Uskova
Founder, President, Cognitive Technologies
Elena Myakotnikova
Member of the Executive Committee, Director of Sustainable Development, RUSAL
Natalia Albrekht
Executive Vice President for Organizational development, HR & Support at VimpelCom
Olga Bessolova
Vice-President of the Graduate Women International
Nana Kulikova
CEO & Founder at BOSOTU (SMM, PR & Digital Agency)
Sergey Nakvasin
Director, National Center for the Development of Artificial Intelligence under the Government of the Russian Federation
Precious Thulisile Mabuza
Cybersecurity Consultant with FOCUS SISTERS, Republic of South Africa