The Program of the Second International Business Summit

on 10-12 September 2013 in Nizhny Novgorod

Date/time / Event / Notes / Venue
10 September 2013
9:00-18:00 / Education and industry forum “Innovative Education as the Locomotive for Russia’s Technological Breakthrough” / The aim of the Forum is to attract available financial resources to innovative business, formation of a transparent and steady investment market.
Among the participants invited to the Forum are representatives of state, financial, consulting and educational organizational institutions and international organizations.
The Forum also includes the XI Fair of Start-up Innovative Projects and Companies entitled “Russian Innovations to Receive Russian Capital”, where companies will represent projects in the following areas:
- medicine of the future;
- national IT-platform;
- innovative technology for transport;
- sustainable development technologies, energy efficiency and resource saving;
- technologies for the extraction, use and advanced processing of hydrocarbons, new composite materials and technologies;
- materials and technologies of metallurgy and metalworking, use of nanotechnology in the modern manufacturing companies;
- technologies for manufacturing companies;
- agrobiotechnology;
- social innovations. / Nizhny Novgorod Fair
11:00-11:45 / Opening of the XVIII Russian Industrial-Economical Forum 'Future of Russia' / Display at the exhibition aimed at the promotion of competitive products and services, advanced technology and developments; demonstration of the forms of implementation of innovative projects in the spheres of science, education, culture, healthcare, insurance, information technology; establishing contacts and developing mutually beneficial economic relationships between economic entities / Nizhny Novgorod Fair
11:45-12:45 / Tour around the exhibition
“Research and Industry Potential of Russia: Territorial Innovative Clusters and Technological Platforms” / Nizhny Novgorod Fair
14:00-16:00 / Joint Session of Federal Council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), Coordination Council of RUIE departments in Volga Federal District, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation — “Development of Personnel Potential in the Russian Federation, with Due Regard for the Influence that Russia’s Joining the WTO has on the Labor Market” / Honorary guest: Alexander Nikolayevitch Shokhin, participants — presidents of educational institutions of higher education of the regions of the Russian Federation, members of the Council of University Presidents of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, / Nizhny Novgorod Fair; the Hall of the Coat of Arms
11 September 2013
09:00 – 09:30 / Opening of Investment and Construction Forum “DOMOSTROY EXPO-2013” / Organized by:
The Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Federal Housing Construction Promotion Fund, Builders of Russia Union, SC “Expert Region”.
Official Partner: “LUKOIL-Volganefteproduct” / Youth Theatre of Nizhny Novgorod
09:00 – 12:00 / Round table of the Russian-German Foreign Trade Chamber / Topic: “Issues involved in the localization of manufacturing in Russia”
Main issues:
- Russian government’s strategy on the localization of foreign manufacturing companies in the Russian Federation.
- localization in Russia: factors and conditions for doing business
- conditions for supplier companies for doing business in the regions of Russia
Participants:
- representatives of companies with German capital that work in the Nizhny Novgorod Region and Volga Federal District (Mercedes, Robert Bosch, Uhde, Volkswagen, Schott)
Participants:
- representatives of regional administrations of Volga Federal District / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
Hall No. 1
9:00 – 14:00 / Chess parlor / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
10:00 – 11:00 / Opening Ceremony of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ / Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ (Sberbank of Russia) / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
10:00 – 17:00 / All-Russian Congress of the Mass Media / Topics for discussion during the Congress:
- Mass-media in the structure of the modern life of the society;
- Information as the main element of communication. Social networks;
- Role of social networks in business. Online business;
- State-of-the-art information technologies, mass media development trends;
- Introduction of digital television;
- Interaction between mass-media and the market of advertising. Advertising in the structure of the mass-media;
- Social sphere and business: mass media in the conflict of interests;
- Market as a factor of mass media modernization;
- Media economics
- The public as a factor of Russian media system transformation;
- the need for media policy.
The events will be supported by the Union of Journalists of Russia and the Union of Journalists of Moscow / Nizhny Novgorod Fair
11.00 – 14:00 / «Challenges of Advertising in Russia. Consolidation Advertising Communities» 14th Annual Conference / Organizer — Nizhny Novgorod Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Administrator — Nizhny Novgorod Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry / Nizhegorodskaya Yarmarka (Nizhny Novgorod Fair)
University Hall
12.00 – 14:00 / Plenary Assembly / Live broadcasting by Vesti-24
Participants:
- representatives of federal and regional authorities;
- commercial representatives of Russia in foreign countries;
- managers of major foreign companies, participants of business missions (the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, China, Czech Republic, Poland);
- senior management of the Russian business structures / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
Plenary Assemblies Hall
14:00 – 18:00 / Business conference on the Public-Private Partnership in the sphere of defense industry / The conference will include the round table discussions:
“Public-Private Partnership in the Sphere of Defense Industry Projects and Risk Allocation”
Issues for discussion:
1. Possible types of public-private partnership in defense industry
2. Overview of public-private partnership in different countries
3.Risk allocation principles
4. Major risks to be taken into consideration depending on the type of a public-private partnership
5. Typical models of contracts and settlement procedures
6. Regulatory structure of the Russian Federation in the sphere of investments in defense industry
Round table “Procedure for Public-Private Partnership Projects Implementation in the Sphere of Defense Industry”
Issues for discussion: 1) PPP projects preparation
2) Tender holding
3) Project financing
4) Organizational structure for project monitoring / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
Hall No. 1
14:00 – 14:30 / Opening of the Press House / Nizhny Novgorod Fair
14:30 – 17:00 / Dinner given by V. P. Shantsev, the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region / Dinner for VIP visitors / Nizhny Novgorod Fair
14:30 – 17:00 / All-Russian Conference “Business Incubation as the Mechanism for Small Business Development” / 32 business incubators from different regions of the Russian Federation are invited to participate.
During the event, the participants will share their experience of business incubation process implementation, discuss measures aimed to support entrepreneurs, issues involved in innovative projects selection.
The Conference is aimed at expansion and reinforcement of interregional and international business cooperation in the sphere of business incubation; solution of methodological problems of business incubation, development of a project for the evaluation of efficiency of business incubators and technological clusters, exchange of experience and learning the best practices in the management of business incubation processes. / “Clever” Business Incubator
12:00-16:00 / Communication platform activity in the format of В2В / Negotiations in business-to-business format between Russian and Foreign participants of the Business Summit as scheduled on the website of the Forum in the Communication Platform section.
The format of the negotiations will enable the participants to establish business contacts and develop joint projects and learn about the complete cycle of investment project support on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Region / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park, “Kommersant Bar”
15:00-17:00 / Round Table held by Kommersant Publishing house: “Investment Legislation of the Region as an Instrument of Capital Raising” / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
9:30-17:30 / Seminar: “Changes in the Mechanisms of Trade Policy Implementation after Russia’s Joining the WTO” / Issues for discussion:
- subsidy assistance in the international trade and in the Russian practice;
- modern trends and practical instruments of domestic market protection in different countries of the world;
- technical regulation within WTO and Customs Union: barriers and opportunities;
- intellectual property protection when selling products abroad;
- Obligatory notification on the changes in the legislation and protective measures in the WTO countries / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
Hall No. 2
10:00-14:00 / INVESTOR DEMO DAY / The aim of the event is to attract investment to projects. The format of the event is a presentation of innovative projects to the investors.
Goals of the event:
- to attract investments to innovation projects;
- giving start-up businesses a chance to develop their skills of communication with investors;
Participants:
Project teams formed in the project “Youth Innovation Center”, winners of the “Start-up Search” event and MITS-2013 Forum, which have their own innovative developments.
The investors to take part in the event will be representatives of seed funds, venture investors, business angels, major entrepreneurs. / The premises of the Customer Operations Support Center ‘Volga-City’ on the territory of Ankudinovka IT-park
Plenary Assemblies Hall
17:30-18:00 / Signing cooperation agreements / Nizhny Novgorod Fair, the Dome
18:00-20:00 / State Reception / VIP participants / Nizhny Novgorod Fair the Hall of the Coat of Arms
10:00-18:00 / Investment and construction forum “DOMOSTROY EXPO-2013” / Aims: enhancing the efficiency of cooperation between state authorities, local administration, construction business, credit and finance institutions, mass media and public in the development and implementation of Investment and construction policy in the Nizhny Novgorod Region and Nizhny Novgorod city, as well as in the implementation of certain construction projects
The program of the Forum includes a plenary assembly, topic-based round tables, seminars, presentations and a 4-day exhibition “DOMOSTROY EXPO”; among the parsons invited to participate in the exhibition, there are representatives of State government bodies of all levels, federal and regional institutions for development, business, expert and scientific communities, investment and construction companies, mass media. / Youth Theatre
10:00-17:00 / International Research and Application Conference “Topical Issues of Economics, Management and Innovations” / Organized by Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University” / Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University
12 September 2013
11:00-17:00 / Work of business-missions from foreign countries, topic-based round tables and visiting sessions at investment sites / Companies of Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod Region
17:00 / Evening reception with the participation of the mass media

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