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.

Vladimir Rubanov

Vladimir Rubanov

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Software Development, Huawei R&D Russia
Quotes
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Global IT: Growth Resources
In the future, everything will be open source. But how will we divide the fields, how will we compete? Influence in the international arena will be measured only by the number of people in a country who understand the relevant parts of global open-source projects and can continue to develop in any circumstances
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Global IT: Growth Resources
How can one create global platforms that impact the entire world? It is my personal opinion that it is completely impossible without open-source software. Modern platforms will not work if they belong to monopoly holders in the absence of multistakeholder governance [a decision-making practice in which the world community acts together — Editor]. Platforms cannot live without equal ownership. [...] Open-source software makes it possible even for enemies to work together. No trust is required to collaborate in open-source software
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Digital Transformation of Business: International Experience and Russian Practice
As a country, we cannot create all the requisite technologies ourselves. It would require a colossal amount of resources. And even if we had all these resources, it would be pointless, as we’d just be doing something akin to inventing a bunch of bicycles. We all know that innovation and isolation are completely incompatible with each other