Registration to the Skolkovo International Conference for startup companies and investors is available on the Startup Village web site www.startupvillage.ru. The conference will take place at the Skolkovo Innovation Center’s Hypercube May 26 – 28, 2013. The event is a perfect platform for creation and fostering of a startup community in Russia.
Startup Village key partners: Skolkovo Institute for science and technology (Skoltech), Technopark Skolkovo, Microsoft corporation, Startup Sauna, TechNode, Rusbase.
The conference boasts 3000 registered participants; among them are representatives of innovation companies, venture funds, development and innovation institutes, government and mass media representatives, mentors and business-angels. Startup Village attracts 1000 companies and over 300 investors. The large-scale event features honorary guests -foreign experts in the field of technology startups - members of Helsinki’s Slush conference and Vienna’s Pioneers Festival.
Startup Village mission statement as assigned by the Skolkovo Foundation and is to unify Russian start-up community and provide it with direct access to investors, partners, corporations and mass media. Its goal is to create an opportunity and environment for cooperation and communication. This is a place for investors and startups to exchange presentation skills, find partners, get expert opinion and help of colleagues. Conference members get an opportunity to participate in discussions and meetings on current issues and affairs.
Pekka Viljakainen, the founder evangelist of the Startup Village and advisor for the president of Skolkovo Foundation: “Startup Village visitors may listen to presentations of startup companies and investors, join panel discussions, attend master-classes, listen to first-hand success and failure stories, participate in trainings and other events.”
Startup Village details are available at the www.startupvillage.ru.
Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the head of the Russian government. Its mission is to mobilize Russian resources in the field of new technology research and commercialization and modern applied research, to create a research-friendly environment for scientific fields of energy and energy-efficiency, space exploration, biomedicine, nuclear and computer technologies. The project includes Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Technopark, research institutes, Center for technology and capitalization exchange, representative headquarters of foreign companies and R&D centers, living quarters and social infrastructure, as well as expansion to other Russian centers of innovation. Skolkovo Innovation Center and its residents are regulated by law of favorable economic conditions.
Roman SherbakovSkolkovo Foundation Press-centerTel.: +7 (495) 967 01 48, ext. 2260Fax: +7 (495) 967 01 96E-mail: rs@sk.ruwww.sk.ru