EVENTS

Location

Dates 

1

Scientific-practical conference: Human resources for Russian venture investing industry

Moscow 

January 31, February 1

2

Voronezh Industrial Forum 

Voronezh 

February

6 to 8 

3

Innovative project contest. Organizer: Bauman Moscow
State Technical University (MSTU) 

Moscow 

February 26

4

Conference: Growth strategies and investments in business development

Kazan 

February

27 to 28

5

VI-th Moscow International Show of innovations and investments. RUSSBA scientific-practical seminar: Business angels and small innovative company development

Moscow 

March 3 to 6

6

IT Alliance presentation (Intel, Microsoft, RUSSBA) and press conference

Moscow 

March 13

7

Interregional exhibition: Big services to small business.

Conference: Modern instruments to support small business

Ryazan 

March  

26 to 27

8

IV-th North socio-environmental congress: North dimension of global problems; first results of the International Polar Year.

Round table: Urgent issues of the scientific-technical and innovative-industrial development in Komi Republic 

Syktyvkar 

March  

27 to 28

9

12-th Russian Internet Forum (RIF2008). Round table: Investing in IT and Russian Internet. Venture financing of Internet projects (RUSSBA)

Moscow 

April 4

10

IT Alliance presentation session (Intel, Microsoft, RUSSBA)

Moscow 

April 9

11

EBAN 8-th Annual Congress

Arnhem,

 the Netherlands 

April 14 to 15

12

All-Russian forum of business media

Moscow 

April 23

13

IX-th International Forum: High technologies of the 21-st century.

Seminar: Problems in venture investing for small innovative companies

Moscow 

April  

22 to 25

14

RUSSBA seminar/training course: Preparation of innovative projects to be presented to investors

Izhevsk 

May 13 to 16

15

Seminar on the applied policy aspects: Financing at early development stages, and Preparedness of innovative enterprises to be invested in.

Moscow 

May 23

16

Round table: Technology forecasting and formation of orders for innovative developments in medicine, in the framework of Saratov Fair of medical technologies (RUSSBA)

Saratov 

May 21 to 23

17

All-Russian forum: Small and medium-size businesses as a basis for Russia’s social-economic development in the 21-st century.

Moscow 

May 26

18

Software Development Summit 2008  Training course: How to attain  investments to an innovative project at the early stage of development?

Saint-Petersburg 

June 2 to 4

19

Round table: Venture Capital in Russia". Presentation session.

Moscow 

June 10 to 11

20

Rosatom Innovative Forum

Moscow 

June 16

21

Moscow Venture Forum   Presentation session (RUSSBA)

Moscow 

 June  

18 to 19

22

1-st Russian Forum: Russian Capital to Russian Innovations, and  VI-th Fair of business angels and innovators. 

Cheboksary 

June  

19 to 21

23

Conference: Growth strategies and investments in business development

Krasnodar 

June 26 

24

Siberian Venture Fair 

Novosibirsk 

June  

26 to 27

25

2-nd Interregional Economic Forum 

Samara

July

26

3-rd Kazan territorial venture fair  Presentation session

Kazan 

July 3 to 4

27

INTERNATIONAL FORUM  Business extreme: innovations, personality, health 

Karelia 

July 11 to 14

29

Kuban venture forum 

Sochi 

September 18 to 19

30

8^th Venture Fair and Venture Forum 

Saint-Petersburg

October

8 to 10

31

“Integration”, the 13-th All-Russian scientific-industrial innovative exhibition-fair 

Tomsk 

October  

15 to 17

32

1-st National Congress of business angels of Russia (RUSSBA).

RUSSBA Annual meeting.

Moscow 

October 31

33

2-nd Pacific Venture Platform: Maritime territory as the Russia’s innovative terminal in the Asian-Pacific Region (APEC).

Organizer: Techno RAPEC Center 

Vladivostok 

November

34

Series of training sessions for Russian business angels and innovative company managers in India’s Silicon Valley in the framework of the Year of Russia in India, 2008 (RUSSBA)

Bangalore, India 

November  

20 to 22

35

Russian-Indian Forum: Problems, experience and prospects for innovative development; India – Russia, in the framework of the Year of Russia in India, 2008 (RUSSBA, INTECH)

Delhi, India 

November  

25 to 28

36

International Invention Fair

Seoul, Korea

December

11 to 15