Official start-up of GenerationS-2015 Project: Reload. Corporations and Start-ups. Official opening

GenerationS-2015

In order to support the development of innovation infrastructure in Russian corporations in 2015 RVC reformatted the project. Now GenerationS resources will be used to create corporate and industrial accelerators in close cooperation with major Russian corporations. The corporate partners of accelerator will be introduced at the event - Russia's leading corporations who will be directly involved in the selection and assessment of projects, development and implementation of the acceleration program based on their real needs in innovative developments.

GenerationS for corporations is the opportunity to search for promising innovative technologies through a regional partner network of GenerationS, bringing together start-up schools, business incubators, universities, and other participants in the innovation ecosystem working with start-ups. GenerationS-2015 will allow corporations to test the mechanisms of corporate accelerators, implement pilot projects on the use of "open innovation" instruments with RVC's expert support and other market participants.

GenerationS for start-ups is a free acceleration program, obtaining skills in technology business, opportunity to modify your product in a close cooperation with potential corporate customers, develop the relationships among corporations, investors and experts, increase business potential and investment attractiveness your project.

The partners of GenerationS, the participants of the innovation ecosystem working directly with start-ups will receive the access to expertise and other resources of corporations within the frame of the project.

Theme of the event: Interaction of corporations with small and medium-sized businesses which will be the matter of argument in the main roundtable "Start-ups and Corporations. Growth Points." The roundtable participants, the representatives of partner corporations, experts and start-up winners of GenerationS-2014 will discuss whether the corporations can become the driving force of innovative infrastructure development in the country, whether they can overcome the internal barriers and establish the productive interaction with small businesses that may become an incentive for big businesses to use the "open innovation" instruments.

The participants of the separate roundtable "Practical Futurology" will discuss the technological innovation motion vector in the coming years. Discussion moderator: Maxim Kashulinsky ( slon.ru ). Speakers: Dmitry Peskov (ASI), Igor Karpovich (Sberbank), Vladimir Pirozhkov (AstraRossa), Evgeniy Kuznetsov (RVC).

As part of the event the presentation of seven industrial areas-tracks of GenerationS accelerator in 2015 will take place: SmartCity, BiotechMed (medicine and biotechnology), Oil&Gas (technologies and materials in the oil and gas sector), Power&Energy (modern power generation), Aerospace (technology for the aerospace industry), Robotics, the seventh track will be announced directly at the event. Corporate partners and track operators will share the project expectations, mark the direction of developments which are interesting for them at this stage and tell about the peculiarities of their branch acceleration programs.

The speakers of the event will be: Director General of RVC, Igor Agamirzyan, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Fund for the Promotion of the Development of Small Businesses in the Sphere of Science and Technology, Ivan Bortnik, Director of Innovation Markets Department of RVC, Gulnara Bikkulova, President of Leta Group Company, Aleksandr Chachava; Director of Prospective Business Development Lines Center of Sberbank, Igor Karpovich; Managing Director of Prostor Capital Company, Aleksey Soloviev; Director for Saturn Scientific and Production Association, Dmitriy Ivanov, and others.

Address: the city of Moscow, 12, Kutuzovsky Prospect, bld. 3, PM Loft Hall.
Registration start time:10:00
Time of the event: 10:30