The 5th annual Open Innovations Forum will take place on 26-28 of October in the newly opened Skolkovo Technopark. For three days Skolkovo Innovation Center will become the place to share knowledge and experience in the sphere of technology entrepreneurship and innovative development. The Forum will open its doors for over 12,000 guests from 85 countries.
The Open Innovations 2016 Forum will host more than 90 various events: from panel discussions, presentations and lectures to workshops, pitch sessions and hackathons. All events are organized and designed to have interactive formats.
The top innovative projects will be showcased at the expo by the clusters of National Technology Initiative of Russia, including aero net, marine net, energy net, tech net, food net and neuro net. These projects are expected to define the structure of the world economy in the next 15-20 years.
The key plenary session of the Forum ‘Growth technologies: will security or dreams determine further technological progress’ will take place on 26 October at 12.00-13.30. It will feature Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of Russia; Ofir Akunis, Minister of Science, Technology and Space of the State of Israel; Paul Misener, VP for Global Innovation Policy and Communications, Amazon; Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies; Viktor Vekselberg, President of Skolkovo Foundation; Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Executive Board, ROSNANO; Ilya Sachkov, Founder and CEO of Group-IB.
For the first time the Open Innovations Forum will bring together the leaders of the largest international events and communities in the field of technological entrepreneurship. iLeaders Team-Up will take place on 28 October at 11.15 at the Big Stage of the Forum.
The talk show will discuss the communities and the leaders behind them as the driving force for traditional and technological entrepreneurship and explore the potential for creating the global matchmaking platform among these communities as centers for local startups, investors and businesses that want to access foreign markets. It is a rare chance to meet in once place Yossi Vardi, Chairman of DLD, Plamen Russev, Chairman of the Board Global Webit Series, Marianne Vikkula, CEO, SLUSH; Andreas Tschas, Co-founder and CEO Pioneers; Audrey Verhaeghe, Chairman The Southern Africa Innovation Summit (SAIS) and many other iLeaders.
The registration for media is open here till 23rd October: https://forinnovations.ru/en/registration
About the Open Innovations Forum
The Open Innovations Forum is held annually in Moscow since 2012 following the government’s resolution. The Forum is organized by the Skolkovo Foundation and coorganized by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Moscow City government, RUSNANO Fund for Infrastructure and Educational programs, Russian Venture Company, Vnesheconombank, and the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises.
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 1,500 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. The cumulative revenue of Skolkovo’s startups through June 2016 reached $1,6 billion. They brought in more than $350 million in investment, creating 21,800 jobs and filing over 1,900 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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