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.

Dmitry Chernyshenko

Dmitry Chernyshenko

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Quotes
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Artificial Intelligence: New Opportunities or Missed Profits?
Professionals are needed in three areas. First, there are the highly qualified specialists – a golden thousand are required. Then there are broader specialists and scientists – 4,500 are needed today. And then there are industry specialists who also possess expertise in artificial intelligence – about 10,000 of them are needed each year. So, we need 15,000–16,000 specialists to just maintain the level of competitiveness we have
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Artificial Intelligence: New Opportunities or Missed Profits?
We have a large number of developers in Russia, but we definitely need more. This figure is currently at 2,000, and they have developed a total of 2,500 solutions in the country. Clearly, this work will need to continue
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Artificial Intelligence: New Opportunities or Missed Profits?
Artificial intelligence is probably the most important topic for the life of our country. Certainly, as far as the economy is concerned, it is one of the most important and promising areas today. We are now passing the singularity, where technological progress is occurring at a very high speed. More and more, leading experts are talking about the development of strong AI. It used to be said that this would emerge in 10 years. That was revised to some time this decade, and then Elon Musk recently wrote that strong AI would appear next year. Technologies are approaching human capabilities at a cosmic speed of the kind not seen before. Big-tech leaders agree that the future lies with so-called AI agents. These are compact models that perform tasks for users, both in the virtual world and the physical, everyday one. Essentially, these will be personal assistants, and they are already starting to make inroads in various industries. A key area is their role as education assistants for schoolchildren and students. That is because it has been proven that personalized learning is at least twice as effective. AI is most needed by people in key areas of life, such as education, medicine, and science
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Efficiency and Justice: A Christian Perspective on Socio-Economic Development
In Russia, we are building a strong state that will unite the people, protect them from emerging threats, and lead them towards further development and prosperity. This can only be achieved on the basis of traditional spiritual and moral values, which I am confident are shared by the overwhelming majority of our citizens
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Tourism and the Hospitality Industry: New Mechanisms of State Support
As domestic tourism becomes more popular, foreign investors will come here to build their hotels and networks
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Tourism and the Hospitality Industry: New Mechanisms of State Support
The volume of funding for the tourism sector has increased 12-fold recently, with RUB 200 billion allocated from the federal centre to achieve these tasks. All this works towards fulfilling the task set by the President – to ensure that by 2030, the number of tourist trips reaches 140 million per year and the contribution of tourism to GDP rises to 5%
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Success Rating: Investing in Professionals of the Future
Achieving these goals is linked to a sustainable behavioural model – the desire of schoolchildren and vocational students to start their working path as early as possible. Ideally, they should begin working while still studying. A solution can only be found if schools, vocational institutions, and employers are involved in the system of career guidance and support for students' professional self-determination from an early stage
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Success Rating: Investing in Professionals of the Future
It is very important to pay special attention to the implementation of the new programme, major renovations, and the equipping of vocational organizations
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Scientific and Technological Vectors of Russia
Bringing total spending on science to at least 2% of GDP by 2030 is something we will have to work very hard to achieve
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Scientific and Technological Vectors of Russia
The strategy of scientific and technological development, which we are focusing on, assumes proportional growth in private investment, which should be not lower than government investment. Currently, it is around 40%; the dynamic is not bad
15.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Sport in the New Reality: From Competition to Product
We are creating new sports formats to bypass obstacles and prohibitions. I am talking about the competition “Games of the Future”, the Spartakiad of the strongest, the Games of Asia. This year, Russian athletes took part in the World Boxing Championship; Russian-Chinese youth games were held... A large number of international competitions are being held, and their number should be increased
15.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Sport in the New Reality: From Competition to Product
We managed to continue the construction of sports facilities, despite the fact that a huge amount of money is being spent on the SMO at the moment. We have more than 353 thousand sports facilities, a well-developed infrastructure, which has grown by more than 30 thousand facilities. New personnel are being trained and continued professional education is being provided on an ongoing basis. By 2024, more than 50 thousand specialists will be trained additionally. <...> Now we consider sport as a full-fledged economic value. The volume of financing for the sports sector is returning to the pre-pandemic level of up to 670 billion roubles. The goal is to at least double the share of sport in GDP
15.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Sport in the New Reality: From Competition to Product
Russian athletes are banned internationally. They are bullied in every way possible, they are forced to betray their country. We were also denied the use of the sports infrastructure, to which we were hooked. Many sports federations are used to having half of their training camps abroad. As a result, we did not build some sports bases, and now we are hastily making up for this shortcoming. <...> We see a high dependence on imported equipment, almost total. As a great sports nation we deserve to have our own equipment, but so far 90% of the market is foreign. <...> Another challenge is the ban of international federations on holding competitions in this country. We find our own ways, and, thank God, most of the world is not under the influence of those who are trying to interfere with Russia, although they are also being excluded from regular international competitions
15.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Sport in the New Reality: From Competition to Product
Our country is now in an extremely difficult situation. There is an attempt to cancel Russia as a sports power, even if it is going to damage everyone else. <...> After our stunning success in 2014, we have been facing a series of difficulties. But despite the enormous sanctions pressure, we understand that everything has its political motives, and we must develop sports in our country
16.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
The Route is Set: The Prospects for Developing Auto Tourism in Russia
It is vital to sort out the rules for issuing subsidies and subsidized loans. We will instruct the Ministry of Economic Development to act accordingly, and will work this through. And for my part, I would also ask the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance to calculate the effect for budgets at every level. I am specifically referring to federal investments. This way, we can – together with the Ministry of Finance – reasonably demand these changes
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Major Challenges of the Science and Technology Decade
A system has now been developed, and will go into commercial operation as early as this August. This will focus on the integrated national accounting information system; research, development and technological work; and a few other IT systems. These will provide end-to-end traceability of all market players and scientific teams, from a person, to a topic. Most importantly, it will put all links of the chain together, right up to those who scale up production and commercialize products on the market. Ultimately, these principal customers will be supported by the fact that there will be competition in developing technologies for them, and that they will be in a position to choose
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Major Challenges of the Science and Technology Decade
This qualified customer, which will be responsible for rolling out and commercializing technology, is now assuming a dominant role. <...> We now have an enormous amount of money circulating in the economy. It appears as though companies are holding RUB 26 trillion in deposits, and maybe even more. This is money which must go towards building production
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Travelling to the East: Opportunities for Investors and Tourists
By order of Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, a federal tourist inter-regional territorial spatial planning scheme called "Far East" is being worked on in a priority mode. It includes the Far East – Kamchatka Territory, Sakhalin Region, and Primorye Territory in the first place. As a result of this work, proposals for urban planning documentation will be formed this year. Rostourism together with VEB.RF is currently wrapping it up. Twelve resorts will be created, including development concepts and economic models, which will allow to quickly prioritize the efforts to support these projects and attract investors
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Travelling to the East: Opportunities for Investors and Tourists
We are now witnessing a huge unsatisfied demand, which must be met immediately. Russian President Vladimir Putin points this out to us, he says that we need to create the infrastructure as soon as possible, because tourism activities create a huge multiplier effect
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Travelling to the East: Opportunities for Investors and Tourists
If in 2020, our funding for tourism was about 11 billion, this year we allocated more than 75 billion, and these figures will keep on growing. From next year to 2030 direct budget investment alone are expected to reach 462 billion roubles
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Travelling to the East: Opportunities for Investors and Tourists
We predict that by 2030 the number of trips per year in our country will exceed 140 million. Now it is 60 million people. <...> The potential for tourism development is huge, so I propose to replace the “renaissance” [of Russian tourism Development – Ed.] with the “future Klondike”. I suggest we help investors to carry out their activities, to remove red tape, to make project management transparent, to help make the recuperation rate faster. These are tasks for federal executive authorities and, of course, for authorities on the ground
07.09.2022
EEF 2022
Russian East 2.0. Regional Drivers of Digital Development in the New Reality
We know that the estimated shortage of IT specialists in the country is around 1 million specialists. Of course, we are now doing our best to train... specialists in the IT industry. <...> Undoubtedly, universities in Far Eastern and Siberian regions, which are at the top of the world rankings for education quality, have authored very important digital projects and are a very serious forge of personnel for us. At the same time, we understand that despite the high level of education, IT specialists migrate to other regions or countries, which is a problem
07.09.2022
EEF 2022
Sports in the Far East: Creating New Opportunities
First of all, this [the Eastern Economic Forum – ed.] is a platform for building ties with our partners. There are a number of friendly countries with whom we are restarting relations. I’m speaking about countries in the SCO, BRICS, and the CIS. We hold joint events with them. Chess is one good example in terms of organization. An alliance has been built not under the auspices of FIDE [the International Chess Federation – ed.], but through an alternative [organization – ed.] which was set up
07.09.2022
EEF 2022
Sports in the Far East: Creating New Opportunities
We are continuing to implement a plan covering physical culture and sport. This is so that despite all the sanctions and restrictions, the competitive process continues to run as planned, thereby enabling athletes to demonstrate their prowess. On the eve of the Eastern Economic Forum, Vladivostok hosted its first SUP tournament. More than 200 athletes from eight countries [took part – ed.]. This attests to the excellent potential of the Far East
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Sport Without Borders: New Scenarios and Formats
We are urgently creating these camps here, in Russia. At the same time, we are further improving our existing camps in Novogorsk, the Krasnodar Territory. We need camps in different climatic zones. The most important thing is that business is involved in this process, because it sees interest and a payback horizon
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Sport Without Borders: New Scenarios and Formats
Technological sovereignty dictates that we must possess these technologies, be able to produce them in Russia, and of course, we should be guided by the principles of expediency. No one says that we should close everything on ourselves, because this is the path to degradation. <...> We cannot remain isolated. The Russian market for sports equipment and sports technologies is not enough to pay for [production. – Ed.]. We will definitely need to find ways to enter the foreign market with our goods. Sports export in every sense is a trend as well
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Sport Without Borders: New Scenarios and Formats
Ninety percent of dependence on imported equipment in our country is a terrifying figure. <...> We analyzed more than 500 different items that were imported according to the commodity list of foreign economic activity in past years. Import has stopped now. We want to phase out imports as soon as possible
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Sport Without Borders: New Scenarios and Formats
We have an intermediate victory in restoring the rights of our bobsleigh federation. This is very good news. We need to work with lawyers, we need to work with our international colleagues to resolve this issue. Nothing can be done here without the support of the Ministry of Sport
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Sport Without Borders: New Scenarios and Formats
While we are strengthening the sovereignty of national sports, we need to be open to friendly countries. We need new formats of cooperation. <...> This is Asia, the whole East, Africa, the SCO, BRICS, our good friends from the CIS. A large number of competitions are planned. Even this year there will be a number of open competitions with the participation of a SCO country. <...> We need to promote our system of alternative competitions on the basis of the new alliances that we are now building
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Sport Without Borders: New Scenarios and Formats
They tried to humiliate, fence off, and cause impediments to our athletes in every possible way, but, in fact, they shot themselves in the foot, because the world of sport without us is inferior. Not to mention the principles and values of sport that have been violated
17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
The Russian Economy: How to Build the Bridge to the Future?
We were in a colonial technological dependency in the global technology distribution chain, and we were buying boxed solutions. Oftentimes our own scientific discoveries formed the basis of technologies that were being sold back to us at high prices. [...] We got hooked on technology, and [at present – Ed.] transitioning to our own technology is a painful process
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Russian World-Class IT-Solutions: Our Response to Global Challenges
We do a lot of work with the Ministry of Finance to identify industry leaders in the import substitution of specific software solutions, and identify competence centres capable of substituting by type of software, and the result is a multidimensional matrix. But the most important principle we abide by is that there must be at least a few, definitely more than two, competing solutions in each area of focus, otherwise there will be no development because competition is a very important factor in development
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Russian World-Class IT-Solutions: Our Response to Global Challenges
You (Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadayev – Ed.) have predicted that by the end of the year 35,000 companies will be registered in the register of Russian IT companies, while we have only 14,000 products in the register of domestic software, which is half as many as the IT companies. And at the same time, these 14,000 products are made by 4,000 suppliers in total. That is, everyone is rushing there for the incentives, and there are deferrals from the army and everything else, but to say that they are making products that will flood the market, well, it really hasn’t come to pass
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Russian World-Class IT-Solutions: Our Response to Global Challenges
Thirteen areas of focus (manufacturing, public administration, healthcare, education, science, ecology and environmental management, agriculture, social services, construction, transport, the fuel and energy complex, urban housing utilities, financial services – Ed.) help us cover all of the areas in full. This is basically the environment our IT industry has to work in, and it is a huge place to work, because on average, functional import substitution, that is, where systems have replaced a hundred percent of what needs to be replaced, has only happened in about a third of all solutions. In other words, 70% of the market is still waiting for us. Obviously, our domestic market is insufficient in itself to recoup direct investments in development, so on the one hand, we will support this financially, development and implementation, and on the other hand, we certainly expect very strong exports to foreign markets
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Russian World-Class IT-Solutions: Our Response to Global Challenges
We will have 35,000 companies accredited by the end of the year, Russian companies on our list, in the register. They’re not just coming for the incentives, and the number of incentives is totally unprecedented, from interest rate subsidies for turnover and, of course, everyone’s favorite benefit – deferment from the army – which we have, well, and, of course, various tax breaks. But we understand that the conditions for running an IT business in Russia are much more favorable than anywhere else in the world, and we generally expect the industry to mobilize now and react quickly. It is beginning to do so already, but probably not at the pace we would all like, where we wave the magic wand and there are substitutions for everything. There is good news that a huge niche has opened up, opportunities for our IT specialists to occupy this niche, but you have to understand that the window of opportunity is rather small