A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of international conventions; exhibitions; and sporting, public, and cultural events.
The Roscongress Foundation – a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of international conventions; exhibitions; and sporting, public, and cultural events.
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, and helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.
Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 208 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 5000 people working in Russia and abroad. In addition, it works in close cooperation with 126 economic partners; industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions; and financial, trade, and business associations from 69 countries worldwide.
Agenda
Analytics
Experts
Mikhail Zadornov
Chairman of the Management board of Otkritie FC Bank
Yury Sentyurin
Secretary General, Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)
Bertrand-Marc Allen
President, Boeing International
Moon Jae-in
President of the Republic of Korea
Xí Jìnpíng
President of the People's Republic of China
Vladimir Yakushev
Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation
Fedor Scherbakov
General Director, 1st MediaInvest Media Holding
Ilya Popov
Founder, GoodSurfing Global Project
Marc Bartholomy
Partner and Head of Corporate and Real Estate Practices at Clifford Chance CIS Limited
Igor Snegurov
General Director, VIS Construction Group (VIS CG)
Ekaterina Rybakova
President, Rybakov Foundation
Rustam Milanov
Chief Executive Officer, Visitech
Kirill Varlamov
Head, Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
Quotes
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
One in a Million: In Search of Russian ‘Unicorns’
nternet Initiatives Development Funds invests in start-ups and education, and endorses legislative initiatives. More than 150 thousand people have enrolled in our educational programs in 5 years of the Fund’s work, we have accelerated about 15 thousand projects, invested in about 400 projects,
24.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Digitalization Unlocking New Opportunities in Agro-Industry
Start-up lives in short cycles: test the hypotheses, understand customers’ needs. The agricultural sector by definition has very long sampling cycles, in addition to seasonal dependency. If you did not manage to test something this season, you can only test it in a year from now. In a start-up environment, you do not always have a chance to make it to the next year
24.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Pitch Session for Startups: New Areas of Growth for Business and Government
At the Foundation for the Development of Internet Initiatives we work with start-ups. We could not but pay attention to the fact that in our country the interaction between start-ups and large corporations is rather poorly organized
23.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russia and the Global Digital Agenda
“The technologies of virtual, augmented reality are very interesting, there are technologies in the sphere of the Internet of things, but of course, most implementations that we see and real breakthroughs in technologies that change the processes, increasing efficiency tenfold, sometimes even more, are the technologies of machine learning and big data,”
23.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russia and the Global Digital Agenda
“The so-called opening legislation is a big task. Last year, the law on telemedicine was adopted, allowing the opportunity that the market had been waiting for 23 years, to provide medical services remotely,”
23.01.2018
Russia House in Davos 2018
Russia and the Global Digital Agenda
“The big challenge is the big data market. Our estimation of the market of big data trade in Russia alone, the capitalization of this market is around $40 billion,”
The Roscongress Foundation – a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of international conventions; exhibitions; and sporting, public, and cultural events.
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, and helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.
Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 208 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 5000 people working in Russia and abroad. In addition, it works in close cooperation with 126 economic partners; industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions; and financial, trade, and business associations from 69 countries worldwide.