The investment Portal of Russian regions – investinregions.ru – is a joint project of the Roscongress Foundation and the RK-Investments Foundation, supported by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Investinregions.ru is a modern and popular digital resource bringing together the entire investment agenda of all Russian regions simultaneously. The RK-Investment Foundation traditionally organizes presentations of selected projects from the investinregions.ru portal as part of the major events of the Roscongress Foundation. Initiators from various parts of our country come to talk about their projects.
We are pleased to invite Forum participants to get acquainted with current and developed ideas and the Investment Portal of Russian regions at the EEF-2022. The session will feature a selection of top projects posted on investinregions.ru. The initiators will talk about their initiatives in various sectors, share their experience, and answer questions.
Speakers:
1. Yachting and Sailing in the Far East project
● Maxim Pinigin, CEO and Founder of SilaVetra

1. Pod Nebom (Under the Sky) project – a glamping network and service company for glamping management in different regions of Russia
● Sergey Petrov, Serial Entrepreneur and Co-founder of Pod Nebom glamping

2. RK-Smart project – state-of-the-art fuel card processing technology
● Alexey Zolotarev, CEO, RK-Smart

3. DKV Innovative Technologies Project – Innovative line of food supplements based on a natural antioxidant with an immunomodulatory effect
● Yuri Yakobson, General Director, Innovatsionnye Tekhnologii DKV
● Olesya Kuritsyna, Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Innovatsionnye Tekhnologii DKV

4. Construction of Residential Apartments in Baikalsk, Irkutsk Region project, Irkutsk Special Economic Zone
• Elena Vaskova, Head of Infrastructure Support Department, Korporatsiya Razvitiya Irkutskoy Oblasti

6. Car leasing investment project
• Natali Toporina, Investment Attraction Manager, Avtolizing Group

7. Partizan Valley Winery Project – unique opportunities and prospects for local winemaking and grape-growing
• Igor Drabyazg, Founder of the complex

Moderator:
Alexandra Beloshitskaya — executive Director of the Fund RC-Investments

Given the changing landscape of global markets, the role of prominent development institutions is undergoing changes. Today, the focus is on solutions and developments that aim to ensure the country’s independence from imports in information technology, medicine, energy efficiency, and industry.
What role do development institutions play in the struggle for technological sovereignty? How is the government helping tech businesses today? Can companies adapt to the needs of the domestic market?
In the impromptu ring of the Innovation Space, leaders from the Skolkovo Foundation will answer some of the most pressing questions from startups, scientists, students, and the media. In turn, Skolkovo residents and project founders will answer questions from development institutions.
Questions include:
● The Skolkovo Foundation has always been associated with grants and support for companies in their early stages. Today, funding is shrinking and is low as it’s ever been. What’s next?
● Startups view any opportunity to leave the Russian market today as a chance and a golden ticket even though the Russian market has all kinds of new niches and earning opportunities today that did not exist a year ago. How can we change attitudes to incentivize companies to meet the demand in Russia?
● No company will achieve results without making its own efforts towards development. By shifting responsibility for the result to a development institution, it’s impossible to become a unicorn in your industry or simply a commercially successful company. How can we educate young tech entrepreneurs to be proactive and is this possible? Or does it depend solely on the personal qualities of the founder?

Speakers:
Igor Drozdov — Chairman of the Board, Skolkovo Foundation
Kirill Kovalevskiy — CEO Innofarm-DV

Moderator:
Elina Tihonova — Anchor, RBC

The global community had been largely focusing on the new urban development agenda and the goal of ensuring the sustainable development of innovative cities prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the pandemic restrictions and the geopolitical fault that has emerged along the North–South line two years later, global cities are increasingly focusing on their own autonomous development, and the concept of ‘sustainability’ has taken on a slightly different meaning.
How can Russian cities meet the criteria for sustainable development in the new realities of diminished global food and energy? What role does technology play in this? How will the new waves of the pandemic affect the restructuring of urban agglomerations? What experience can Moscow, members of the new generation of entrepreneurs, and Friends For Leadership leaders offer the world?

Speakers:
Alexey Bondaruk — Deputy Director, Moscow Department of Foreign Economic and International Relations
Sharifah Norizah — Chief Executive Officer, Asian Youth Network Resources, Regional Caucus Coordinator, Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY)

Moderator:
Roman Chukov — Chairman of the Board, Russian Center for the Promotion of International Initiatives

Speakers:
Denis Balura — Founder, Tomoru
Artur Biktimirov — Neurosurgeon of the Medical Center of the Far Eastern Federal University
Vladimir Brusilo — Deputy General Director, AGM Systems, with a project to develop laser tools for mobile and aviation systems, BIM TIM modelling, and the design, development, and construction of highways, pipelines, and technological development on the coastal zone
Aleksandr Ganushkin — Director, Robot
Evgeny Moskaev — Founder, Atlantis
Ekaterina Sokolova — Director for Development, Marineo; Deputy Vice Rector for International Activities, Nevelskov Maritime State University
Андрей Теняков —
Alexey Titov — General Director, Marine Robotic Systems and Tatishchev Astrakhan State University, with a project on crewless ships and A-Navigation

Moderator:
Aleksandr Nikolaev — Co-founder and СЕО ViNTERA.TV, ERA

Expert jury:
Alexander Borisov — the Director of High Technology Park “IT Park”
Kirill Kaem — Senior Vice-President for Innovations, Skolkovo Foundation
Vera Ptitsina — Deputy General Director, Yukutia Venture Company
Anna Struchkova — General Director, Agency for Investment Promotion and Export Support of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)