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.

Andrey Samokhin

Andrey Samokhin

General Director, National PPP Center; Chief Executive Officer, VEB.RF
Quotes
04.09.2024
EEF 2024
The Digital Present. Effective Platform Solutions for Different Economic Sectors
The peculiarity of platform solutions is that citizens interact with them regularly, directly, and most importantly, it forms a certain culture of consumption, a culture of everyday life. On the one hand, platform solutions change cities and bring digitalization. On the other hand, they completely change the consumer picture and familiar things. We even had a hypothesis that with the introduction of digital services in a certain mathematical pattern, the quality of life in a city where the most basic services appear automatically increases
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Promoting Russian Software: Opportunities in the Domestic Market and Export Possibilities
We are perfectly capable of building a community that will help us share best practices and reshape the culture of promoting the product ‘package’. This culture is underdeveloped in our country
06.09.2022
EEF 2022
Promoting Russian Software: Opportunities in the Domestic Market and Export Possibilities
We at sanctions as an opportunity to develop our own competencies. When we speak with the Skolkovo and Skoltech community, we see that there is a strong hope to invest in Russian software producers and domestic competitive products. I am focusing on opportunity rather than problems
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Healthy City, Healthy People
An important product we are working on now meets all sustainable development requirements. It is a master plan, which includes a master layout and the region’s socio-economic development strategy. Normally these are two different documents that are too complicated and never clear. However, we see that master plans are recognized by investors, government and general public
02.09.2021
EEF 2021
Healthy City, Healthy People
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