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.

Vladislav Onishchenko

Vladislav Onishchenko

President, Agency for Transformation and Economic Development
Biography
Graduated from Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

1995–1998 – Head of the Analytical Department of the PRIME-TASS business news agency;

1997–2000 – Senior Expert with the economic expert group of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation;

2001–2012 – Manager of projects introduced by the Government Executive Office, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of the Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and international projects in the CIS countries;

2012–2018 - First Deputy Head of the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation.

On 18 August, 2018 he was appointed as the new Head of the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation.

On September 18, 2020, he was elected president of the Center for Strategic Research Foundation.
Quotes
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Who Stands to Win in the Global Competition for Supremacy in Artificial Intelligence?
From the point of view of the state, we hardly can be pioneers in technology, that should be left for business. But creation of regulatory framework and opening and describing the data that the state possesses can provide a considerable impetus to the development of artificial intelligence in the country
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Who Stands to Win in the Global Competition for Supremacy in Artificial Intelligence?
Technologically, it is not difficult to collect the sufficient amount of data. The problem is how to learn to work with these amounts and exchange them. This is in many respects a legal issue and a problem of setting standards
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