On September 28, 2015, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev will take part in the International Online Conference “Russian Agenda in Technological Revolution”. The conference is timed to the fifth anniversary of Skolkovo Foundation and will be performed as part of preparation for Open Innovations Forum 2015. Dmitry Medvedev will join the online conference from Hypercube in Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Within the event, Dmitry Medvedev will speak with major international experts in innovations about integration of Russia into global innovation environment, achievements of technological capitalization in Russia and plans for further development of innovative fields.
Those experts to have conversation with Dmitry Medvedev will be the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Rafael Reif; Craig Barrett, Co-Chairman of Skolkovo Foundation Council; President of Strategic Relationship at Google Carlo d'Asaro Biondo; Director General of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) Luis Sanz; Managing Partner of UMJ Russia Fund Yusuke Otsubo; Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); CEO of Group IB Ilya Sachkov.
The meeting will be moderated by the TechCrunch Europe blog’s Editor At Large Mike Butcher.
The conference will be broadcasted in real time via Youtube at the official website of Open Innovations Forum and Technology Show. Viewing is open for everybody at http://forinnovations.ru/ru/prime_minister.
The broadcast starts on September 28, 2015, at 3:30 pm (GMT +3).
Feel free to join the online conference. Your questions to the Dmitry Medvedev are welcomed at conference@forinnovations.ru
About Open Innovations Forum and Technology Show
Open Innovations Forum and Technology Show 2015 is the largest Russian event that focuses on future technologies in the modern human society, economy and everyday life. Forum has been held since 2012 under the aegis of the Russian Government, with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and with the participation of the Moscow City Government as well as Russian institutes of development: RUSNANO, RVC, Skolkovo Foundation, Vnesheconombank, Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology. The operator of the Forum is St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Foundation. Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, heads of governments of some foreign countries, representatives of large companies have taken part in the Forum over the last three years.
The participants of the Forum are major technological companies and new startups, venture industry and state institutes of development, visionaries and engineers, suppliers and consumers of technologies.
This year the event will be held in the new format of informal discussions held in as live and interactive environment as possible. Besides plenary sessions, the Forum will feature master classes, open lectures, presentations, debates, workshops, public interviews.
Discussions will center around the topic “Humanity in the Center of the Technological Revolution” and will focus on five major spheres of the human life, dramatically changing under the impact of technologies – productivity, habitat, education, health and entertainment. Each of these five areas will be discussed during one of five days of the Forum.
About the Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with the objective of accelerating Russia’s transformation from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective, the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, composed of more than 1,000 high-tech startups, Skolkovo Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech) - a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together, these entities establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Fifty global corporations including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, Samsung, and Panasonic have already recognized the opportunity Skolkovo presents by signing R&D partnership agreements with the Foundation. The cumulative revenue of Skolkovo’s startups through December 2014 reached $1 billion. They brought in more than $220 million in investment, creating 13,500 jobs and filing over 1,300 patent applications along the way. By 2020 over 2 million square meters of residential and office space will be built in Skolkovo with 35,000 people working daily in the Innovation Center. For more information: http://www.sk.ru/en
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