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.

Sergey Solovyev

Sergey Solovyev

General Director, Chairman of the Management Board, T1 Group (2020-2022)
Quotes
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Balancing Act between Competition and Collaboration among Companies Entering Business Ecosystems
We all know that privacy will become more and more expensive, but I think we’ll reach the point where users only share data with their favourite ecosystem,
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Balancing Act between Competition and Collaboration among Companies Entering Business Ecosystems
As we can see, the centres of ecosystems are currently state corporations, and I think it’s best to regulate the state’s influence on the creation of ecosystems [...] I believe within each ecosystem it’s essential [...] to kill internal [product] competition in order to reduce the complexity of internal interaction because external competition will always put pressure on any market player,
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
The Balancing Act between Competition and Collaboration among Companies Entering Business Ecosystems
Russia, of course, has more customer ecosystems, including banking ecosystems, primarily customer-oriented ones. At the same time, the latest studies – I literally today received them – show that by age 30, seven out of ten people around the world will hide their data from IT and advertisers in order to control access to this data. Customer ecosystems will experience a certain crisis,
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Globalization, Protectionism and Technological Security: Finding the Right Balance
The Russian state should take an active part in financing Russian vendors who develop products, and admit their right to make mistakes
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Globalization, Protectionism and Technological Security: Finding the Right Balance
The state does not really help companies to go abroad. <…> While testing a hypothesis on the foreign market will cost a Russian company its life, it will be very difficult for us to make global products
03.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Globalization, Protectionism and Technological Security: Finding the Right Balance
We can see the state efforts aimed at development of the Russian IT market. <…> But <…> 1–2% of revenues (compared to global companies) do not really allow to make a great product
04.10.2018
Russian Energy Week 2018
Alternative Energy for Transport: Present and Future
The technologies already making their way into the Russian market are saltwater-water and water-water heat pumps <...> The Russian market is fairly cautious about using air source heat pumps, since many of the country’s regions have a cold climate