This year the largest startup conference for tech entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe will host over 12,000 participants, 2,000 startups and 700 investors from 20 countries around the world.
In addition to Skolkovo’s traditional areas (IT, energy efficiency technologies, space technologies, nuclear technologies and biotechnologies), the program will now include a new trend – agricultural technologies. This section will include topics such as 'Genomic and Conventional Selection of Plants and Animals', 'Precision Agriculture', and 'Advanced Processing of Agro Raw Materials and Waste'.
The program also includes visionary sessions on future technologies dealing with gadgets ('Big Mobile Revolution'), the role of women in innovation processes ('Womennovation'), and transportation ('Transport of the Future', 'Innovation in Railway Transport').
This year the additional program will see an entire pavilion devoted to interaction between art and science (Art&Science Day). All the gurus of modern art and science will gather in one place on June 2. They will talk about the amazing results that can be produced by the synergy of artists and scientists. The key speaker will be Dmitry Bulatov, the artist, theorist of art and curator of the National Center for Contemporary Art, whose works were presented at 49th and 50th Venice Biennials.
The most spectacular event of the Startup Village 2016 will be the Open International Championship FORMULA DRONE (FPV Drone Racing), which any multicopter owner can take part in.
A separate zone will showcase augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR Zone). In addition, Sberbank will hold an Open Big Data Championship.
This year, the Startup Village website has an SV Partner service, where startups and investors can easily arrange meetings during the event. Featured filters help them find a desired partner and pre-arrange the meeting schedule.
The additional program includes several workshops on intellectual property to help startups gain crucial business and international communication skills.
Here are just some of the innovation community headliners who will take part in the Startup Village 2016:
Other speakers and mentors of the event: Alec Saunders, Senior Director of Microsoft Ventures, Ziegler Volker, Head of 5G Leadership, Chief Architect, Mobile Networks in Nokia, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO Kaspersky Lab, Ruben Vardanyan, President of Vardanyan, Broitman and Partners, and many others.
View the complete program here. A list of speakers and participants can be found here.
Startup Village 2016 will take place at the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on June 2-3. This is the fourth gathering of technology entrepreneurs, the largest in Russia and other CIS countries. Young entrepreneurs and startups can participate in the Startup Village Competition, and win prizes ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.
Participants can attend lectures, workshops, and discussion boards presented by global leaders in the innovation community. For two days the conference venue will host an exhibition of startup inventions – Startup Bazaar, with 100 new projects.
If you wish to participate, please register as media here.
Background
Startup Village 2016 is the 4th International Conference for technology entrepreneurs, the largest in Russia. The main goal of the festival is to give startup founders a chance to communicate with successful entrepreneurs, large industrialists, investors, public officials and with one another. It is the only startup conference held in the open air in the developing city of Skolkovo, the first innovation centre of Russia. The project is supervised by the Skolkovo Foundation in cooperation with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech). General partner – INNOVESTOR, strategic partner – RUSNANO, official partner – SBERBANK. Industrial partners: EY, PANASONIC, INPAS, SAP, INTEL, TELE2, ROSSETI, GOOGLE, EMS, URSC. Other partners: Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology and IIDF. Sponsors: CISCO, SIBUR, NOKIA, KASPERSKY LAB, ROSTELECOM, LIDER Finance and Construction Corporation, ALMATY TECH GARDEN.
The event on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/RussianStartupTour
http://vk.com/russianstartuptour
https://twitter.com/russianstartup
The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 upon the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation. The goal of the Foundation is to engage recent applied research in Russia by developing a positive R&D environment for five major technological areas: energy efficiency, space, biomedicine, nuclear and computer technologies. The Foundation is supervising the establishment of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, whose activities are regulated by a law ensuring a favourable business environment for project participants (in 2015 there were over 1,400 participants). The total revenue of participating companies as of June 30, 2015, exceeded 1 billion rubles. In addition, the amount of attracted investments exceeded 200 million US dollars, the number of jobs created is now over 17,500, and the number of patents reached 753. An important part of the Skolkovo ecosystem is the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), established and operated with the support of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In June 2015 the first 53 graduates of Skoltech received their Master’s degrees. By 2020, Skolkovo will comprise over 2 million square meters of industrial premises, offices, and residential areas, with 35,000 people working at the Innovation Centre. Website: www.sk.ru
Contacts for media:
Taisiya Yarmak
Head of International PR
+79166948826
tyarmak@sk.ru