Oct 01, 2010: Global Innovations: Potential, Problems, Opportunities in/for Russia

Within the framework of the 3rd St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum, on Friday, October 1, AmCham St. Petersburg co-organized a panel discussion


where global leaders discussed cutting-edge trends in innovations and how Russian businesses can profit from joining them. The discussion was designed to introduce the Russian small and medium size business community to technologies of the future as an opportunity for ideas, creation and development of new and innovative companies. Participants of this discussion — heads of leading companies from the Silicon Valley — discussed the most important modern technology trends and their deployment in Russia, opportunities that exist for Russian entrepreneurs: as partners, suppliers and start-ups. Participants of this panel discussion talked about the main global trends which will appear in the near future, and the opportunities that these innovations may provide for the emergence of start-ups and broader development of existing Russian companies. During the discussion, certain technologies were showcased, and examples of their possible implementation were provided. As part of the demonstration, the newest technology from Ambiq technology that is being offered to the Russian market, was presented, along with other technologies provided by the participants.

Issues discussed:

• What are the current global technology trends?
• How do these technologies affect the Russian business, and what development opportunities do they present?
• What is the social significance of adoption and development of these technologies?
• What is the current state of infrastructure in Russia and what are the potential opportunities for its development based on these technologies?
  

Key speakers:

• Joel Schwartz, Senior Vice-President, EMC Corporation (presentation, PPTX, 1.6 Mb);
• Michael Matveev, Director of R&D-center, Honeywell (presentation, PPTX, 1.9 Mb);
• Jonatan Schmidt, Chief Technical Officer, Ambiq Technology;
• Igor Kaloshin, Russia Operations Director, Intel Corp.;
• Manfred Mueller, Chief Executive Officer, SCM Microsystems (presentation, PPTX, 602 Kb);
• Jesse Adams, Board of directors member, Verifone (presentation, PPTX, 87 Kb);
• Ruslan Belyaev, the St. Petersburg Regional Head, Citibank (presentation, PPT, 2.7 Mb).

Moderators:

• Maria Chernobrovkina, AmCham St. Petersburg
• Misha Rozenberg, Ambiq Technologies

For more information on the Forum, please consult the Website http://enforum.spbinno.ru/