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.

Guo Ping

Guo Ping

Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rotating Chief Executive Officer, Huawei
Quotes
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Who Stands to Win in the Global Competition for Supremacy in Artificial Intelligence?
We agree that cooperation must be international. On the one hand, these are shared technologies. <...> They need to be used throughout the world. Of course, some data belong to a certain country, but some elements should be united based on the data that are in possession of one country. <...> That is why cooperation between companies from all countries is crucial for maximum success
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Transformation in a Rapidly Changing World: States, Companies, People
The next generation will live in intellectual society that will have three important features: everything will be connected to the Internet; everything will have sensors, and everything will be a smart device. <…> To achieve that, we need to massively invest in R&D, as well as design and experimental work. For example, last year Huawei’s investment reached 15 billion dollars. We believe that each year we need to invest 10% of our revenue into R&D
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Transformation in a Rapidly Changing World: States, Companies, People
IT is a technology that makes it possible for business to work; it is a core technology
24.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Transitional World: What Will Tomorrow Bring?
All digital technologies have already changed the world significantly. Today we’re saying it’s Internet 1.0, because until now most changes were happening on the consumer’s side