THE RUSSIAN VENTURE FORUM (October, 11-12, 2007) is the central event for the participants of venture capital and private equity market - the first-rate annual professional Forum in Russia devoted to the prospects of development of innovation sector of Russian economy and venture capital and private equity market.
Program of the Forum will include a wide spectrum of different actions focused on analysis of the experience accumulated by venture capitalists in Russia and abroad, perspectives of development of national venture capital and private equity industry, and transition of Russian economy to innovative path of development.
The primary topics to be discussed at the Forum include:
* Investment environment: the opportunities for private equity and venture capital investments
Taxation and legal issues, having strong effect on the industry’s development; forming a legislative base for regulation of investment transactions; eligible structural/legal forms of venture capital funds; mechanisms of projects financing.
* State-private partnership
Initiatives of the government authority; experience of the state-business interactions; prospects of co-operation; policy of private equity incentivation; view of experts on the recent economical and political events in Russia and their impact on investors.
* Review of the venture capital and private equity in Russia
Activity analysis of the main subject of venture capital and private equity market, presentation of the theoretical evidence of the venture funds and primary equity funds activities in Russia for the last year, the main tendencies and prospects of industry development.
* Investment sources for MidCap and SmallCap companies
Existing sources of financing for SmallCap and MidCap companies; comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of different sources of financing for SMEs.
* International co-operation in high-tech sphere
Forming of infrastructure of small and medium entrepreneurship support; analysis of current situation, dynamics and prospects of development; prospects of Russian-Finnish and Russian-American partnership.
Key event of the Forum is the VIII Russian Venture Fair, where will be produced practices more than 50 Russian companies, which are concerned with attracting of the venture capital for their businesses development. The projects, which will be produced on the exposition, can make up serious competition not only on Russian new technology market, but also on international market. And some of them have not analogues all over the world.
The list of regular participants of the Forum is evidence of the high-level of the Russian Venture Forum. Annually in autumn, the venture business leaders from Russia and abroad, experts of private equity funds, bankers, managers of major Russian financial corporations and industrial companies, heads of the regions of Russia, ministries and departments concerned, come to Saint-Petersburg.
This year in Russian Venture Forum&Fair work is supposed participation Jeff Milanette (Innovative Partners Inc, USA), Harry Fitzgibbons (The Russian Technology Fund), Maaret Heiskari (Sitra), Valery Doronin (Troika Capital Partners), Vladimir Burenkov (JSC «GOTEC-Invest»), Dmitry Kulish (Intel Capital), Michail Shkrumelyak (International Bridge Investments), Alexander Filatov (Associations of independent directors), Ivan Rodionov (Venture Investment Fund), Igor Makarov (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and other representatives of the leading international and Russian organizations, taking active part in venture capital and private equity sphere.
THE RUSSIAN VENTURE FORUM
St.-Petersburg, October, 11-12, 2007
YOU SHOULD BE REGISTERED TO COME TO THE FORUM
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