Events
1st Yenisei Venture Fair
February 14 – 16, 2013, Krasnoyarsk
About Fair
Yenisei Venture Fair – a new contact and discussion ground, aimed at assistance to structuring favorable environment for realization of Krasnoyarsk Krai investment high-tech projects, and strengthening active interaction between innovation entrepreneurs and Russian and foreign financial institutions.
The First Yenisei Venture Fair will be conducted within the framework of Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum.
Traditionally, Venture Fairs are visited by: managers and partners of major Russian and foreign venture capital and private equity funds, leading specialists an top-managers of investment companies and banks, heads of large financial structures, key persons of international corporations, directors and partners of Russian and foreign stock exchanges, representatives of regional and federal administrations. Participation in the Yenisei Venture Fair has been confirmed already by: Natalia Plugar, General Director of VTB Asset Management; Alexey Ponomarev, Vice President of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology; Alexander Kashirin, Chief of Department for innovations and strategic development, Russian Technologies State Corporation; Konstantin Fokin, General Director of Center for Innovative Development of Moscow, President of National Business Angels Association, and others.
Within the Congress Program framework in the format of on-line discussions and round tables, the participants will be able to share practical experience in the private equity and venture capital sphere, determine efficient development strategies for their companies, and lay the foundation for future business development.
The Program Committee very thoroughly selects speakers for Congress part of the Fair that allows presenting to the audience available opportunities for investors and investee companies as well as independent analysis of the factors that predetermine the future of RE&VC industry.
In preceding years, the “legends” of venture entrepreneurship not only in Russia but in the whole world appeared among the key speakers. Their names speak for themselves: Harry Fitzgibbons, Franklin "PITCH" Johnson, David Giebink, Volker Neuschuetz, Dan'l Lewin, Julian Lighton, Patricia Cloherty, and many others.