On 12 September the President of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Rifkat Minnikhanov presided first meeting of the organizational committee of the Russian Venture Forum 2025 held in Tatarstan Government House with participation of the Director of the regional Investments- Venture Fund Damir Galiev, the Executive Director of the Regional Fund of Scientific and technical development of Saint Petersburg Igor Gladkikh and other members of the organizational committee who discussed the concept of the event.
The forum will be held from 9 to 11 April in 2025 with its zero day taking place in Innopolis and Damir Galiev stated that the number of the forum participants will be bigger. He also said that a special attention be given to attracting international delegations with the aim of shaping new partnership ties.
On top of traditional topics of the venture market, the forum will cover issues of Pre-IPO stages of technological companies, kinds of support and investments into late stage startups and international interaction.
Speaking about changes in the business programme of the forum, Igor Galdkikh said that the main sphere will be venture investments and technological entrepreneurship, markets and the ecosystem. He also told that there will be new formats for the business programme, such as the finals of the Venture Games, the Venture League and the Evening Forum.
The forum will traditionally have the pitch sessions for the startups to be chosen into the acceleration programme in the Idea Technical park which will be organized for seven months after the selection process, the Director of the Technical Park Dias Safin said.
The director of the Association for Facilitation of digital Development Artyom Safin reported participants of the meeting about the exhibition and work with the partners during the Russian Venture Forum.