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.

Ivan Oseledets

Ivan Oseledets

General Director, AIRI – Artificial Intelligence Research Institute; Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SkolTech)
Quotes
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Artificial Intelligence: New Opportunities or Missed Profits?
There is expected to be a significant reduction in the cost of developing such models, and this is impossible without new architectures and new algorithms. <...> There is huge potential here
07.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Technological Entrepreneurship: The Basis of Russia’s Economic Development
Students should be taught... to be entrepreneurs. We either teach them to be entrepreneurs or engineers. In this sense, SkolTech has experience we could learn from. [...] Because the university was built from scratch, with the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation as an important component of the educational programme. Students learn entrepreneurship at the same time as they do Deep Tech. [...] [After their studies. – Ed.] some of them get into science, and some go on to become entrepreneurs
16.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
AI: The Foundation of the Economy of the Future and a Beacon of Russian Technological Sovereignty
We need an experimental legal regime. Otherwise, a lifetime won’t be enough to get through all these barriers [restrictions on the use of AI]. Moscow has shown remarkable results in medicine. We have absolutely nothing to fear. Nothing terrible will happen. Where everything is digitized, AI can be introduced there very quickly
16.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
AI: The Foundation of the Economy of the Future and a Beacon of Russian Technological Sovereignty
When will large companies start investing in the AI labs of universities? In China, there are four yuan of private funds for each one yuan of public funds per student. Here at [the Higher School of Economics and  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology], students in their first or second year of studies are immediately hired by banks and IT companies. They become hard workers in the AI sector