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.

Stanislav Bliznyuk

Stanislav Bliznyuk

Chairman of the Management Board, Tinkoff Bank
Quotes
07.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
How Digital Platforms and Ecosystems are Transforming the Economy
Competition is cool. It’s the right thing to do. And regulators, I think, should be working in that area, creating competition among platforms. Because there are situations where platforms or systems take a significant part of the market
07.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
How Digital Platforms and Ecosystems are Transforming the Economy
There is no finalized definition [of the digital platform, – Ed.], but each participant has their own understanding. So, I would like to share my understanding. If before we said that an ecosystem, a platform, is a bunch of products, that they do something there in the digital field, now we have a different understanding, that an ecosystem combines the use of science as the main means of product creation and production
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Talk to Me: AI and Voice Technologies in Business
Over time, people will be increasingly using all sorts of different devices [...] Eventually, organiza-tions will appear, I hope, and we will also have examples of algorithms when you trust a robot be-cause this is a more correct algorithm. Over time, people will start to get used to it, and they are already getting used to it. There are already a lot of aspects that we can’t rule out
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Talk to Me: AI and Voice Technologies in Business
When we entered this threshold, we were solving an exclusively practical issue [...] We started by solving some local issues of our own, investing intellect and capital, and we generated value from this. Then we started to make voice technologies [...] and now we already understand that it is a competitive advantage [...] Those who own this technology and those who can create various ser-vices and products will ultimately be the innovator and trend-setter for the market
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Talk to Me: AI and Voice Technologies in Business
Voice technology is not just a bot that says something […] It’s the so-called voice identification of the client […] Because a person […] can never understand online whether the voice is the same or not on the fly. A machine can […] There is a call quality control process [...] If there is suddenly some inconsistency in the procedure in the call, we can flag this call, and then a person will listen to it manually and make a decision