In Moscow, at the Expocentre Fairgrounds on Krasnaya Presnya, a round table “The Year of Science and Technology through the Prism of Congress and Exhibition Events” was held, the Lenta.ru correspondent reports. Heads of relevant federal ministries and departments, scientific and industrial organizations discussed the relevance of exhibitions and congresses for the promotion and implementation of advanced innovative Russian products in production, talked about the popularization of Russian science and shared their experience of new formats of cooperation between government authorities, industrial enterprises and exhibition organizers.
Sergey Bednov, General Director of Expocentre, the main organizer of large-scale international industry exhibitions in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe, Chairman of the RF CCI Committee on Exhibition, Fair and Congress Activities, spoke about plans for 2021. According to him, “the expositions of all our technological exhibitions will contain new products, developments and technologies. This is evidence that during the pandemic, our engineers and designers did not stand still, but sought to come up with new innovative solutions that our exhibitions will demonstrate and promote. “. “I am sure that the novelties of this particular season will arouse special interest among specialists and business,” Sergei Bednov is sure.
The participants paid special attention to the results and prospects of the “NTI-EXPO” project (“Science-Technology-Innovation EXPO”), implemented jointly by the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Rationalizers and ” Expocentre “. The project includes the Russian High Technologies Week, the Russian Software Forum: Effective Solutions for the Digital Economy, the RENWEX international exhibition – Renewable Energy and Electric Transport, Russian Industrial Week, and the Forum on Artificial Intelligence. According to Vladimir Kononov, Chairman of the NTI-EXPO Organizing Committee, State Duma Deputy, “Our project helps Russians, industrialists and scientists to find each other and carry out this line from science to industrial implementation. The annual program of the NTI-EXPO project includes large-scale events with state participation, focused on the promotion of national projects.