On March 3, Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov met participants of All-Russia startup tour 2015 at Kazan IT-park. Advisor to President of Skolkovo Foundation Pekka Viljakainen, Vice-president of Skolkovo Foundation, Head of external communications and advertising department Alexander Chernov, Tatarstan Minister of Economy Artem Zdunov took part in the meeting.

All-Russia startup tour is a large-scale project aimed at searching for prospective innovative ideas, development of startup teams in the sphere of high technologies, and formation of startup society of young talented entrepreneurs, investors, representatives of technoparks, top universities and research institutions.

The startup tour is organized by Skolkovo Foundation and Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.

Ildar Khalikov welcomed participants of the event and noted that he was glad to see representatives of other regions.

Khalikov stressed that the man mission of the tour is to find out the ways to make young businessmen known not only in Russia but abroad.

The Prime Minister wished everyone interesting and effective work at the event.