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.
Today consumers are becoming more proactive, they have potential, they seek information – more information than ever. They demand this information. <...> The second trend is digitalization. Can you imagine what impact digitalization has had on our business plans and strategies? Everything we do is now being accelerated. We do not start anything new; things just speed up. And the third one: people feel socially responsible, they care more about the environment. This is becoming an extremely important topic. People <...> are willing to pay extra for that, if necessary — Lakish Hatalkar, Area Managing Director, Consumer Health in Russia, Ukraine and CIS, Johnson & Johnson.
ESG, or sustainable development, has already become a kind of new standard, or a new guarantee for successful business all over the world. <...> The pandemic has further accelerated this process and this ESG transition. In addition to the fact that we can already see [it, Ed.] on both state and corporate levels, [ESG transition, Ed.] has received extra financing. For example, the way out of the post-COVID crisis across the world is now seen through a 'green door‘, through ESG-related projects, primarily environmental ones. As far as I know, three trillion dollars have been allocated to this globally — Tatyana Zavyalova, Senior Vice President for ESG, Sberbank.
Indeed, even at the St. Petersburg Forum, you can have a look at the programme and see that so much attention has never been paid to social topics, to charity, to volunteering, to people’s involvement, to mutual assistance. This also shows how the mindset <...> of the business has changed, among others. We had around 9,000 companies [during the pandemic, Ed.] <...>, from large corporations to small regional companies. <...> Just an entrepreneur, a bakery owner who made bread and delivered it to doctors at hospitals. <...> Of course, foreign companies that are represented here also contributed. McDonald's offered meals for ambulance crews, KFC provided support — Ksenia Razuvaeva, Head, Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh).
COVID-19 has become an unprecedented challenge for the whole planet. It demanded a comprehensive response, efforts by authorities and business, but such large-scale problems always open up new opportunities. The pandemic gave a great boost to the realization that it is important for business not only to earn money, but also to develop its regions, human capital, and carry out social functions. This is not just a tribute to fashion anymore, this is a real demand from people and from society. Some analysts <...> believe that in a few years companies that are not involved in activities related to sustainable development and CSR [corporate social responsibility, Ed.] will not be able even to raise borrowed capital — Artem Metelev, Chairman of the Council, Association of Volunteer Centers; Founder, DOBRO.RU.
We have invested 2.5 billion dollars, we have 63,000 employees [in Russia, Ed.], and we plan to employ another 6,000 this year. <...> Everything we sell in Russia is made in Russia. <...> Why am I giving you these numbers? So that we understand the scale. <...> At the moment <...> we are still looking for companies that will recycle plastics. In fact, by 2025 we plan to completely stop using plastic materials. The same is true for emissions <...> by 36 % compared to 2015, we have reduced the emissions — Marc Carena, Managing Director, McDonald's Russia.
Johnson & Johnson believes it is in a unique position. We can help many people in the healthcare sector by offering our products and services. Our brand is known all over the world, every day 1.2 billion consumers buy our products, they use them on a regular, daily basis. Last year, during the pandemic, we saw an acceleration of this process – the process of increasing attention to public health. Today everyone thinks and talks about it. At Johnson & Johnson, we believe we exist for these situations. We plan to launch new healthy lifestyle programmes. It is an important process — Lakish Hatalkar, Area Managing Director, Consumer Health in Russia, Ukraine and CIS, Johnson & Johnson.
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.