Skoltech has announced the program for its Frontiers of Progress conference, which will take place on campus from May 22-23 as part of the Moscow Entrepreneurship Week. Organized with the support of Sber, Rostec, the Moscow Government, and other partners, the event will bring together major corporations, leading research institutes, and policymakers. Discussions will focus on the latest technological challenges in artificial intelligence, energy conservation, photonics, advanced materials, and biotechnology.

The two-day conference program will include 13 open-dialogue sessions, presentations with subsequent discussion, and roundtables with a total of 100 speakers participating, as well as poster presentations and tours of Skoltech laboratories. The exhibition space will showcase 50 projects featuring Skoltech technologies that have been successfully implemented in industry. These include Russia’s first 5G base station, photonic integrated circuits, and an AI platform for wildfire monitoring. About 1,000 representatives from major corporations, key government organizations, and leading research centers, including institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will attend the event.

During the plenary discussion, Skoltech Board of Trustees Chairman Victor Vekselberg, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank Herman Gref, VEB.RF Chairman Igor Shuvalov, Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, and other speakers will exchange their views on technological development from the perspectives of the government, business, and academia. The discussion will be moderated by Andrei Fursenko, assistant to the president of the Russian Federation.

Skoltech President Alexander Kuleshov will moderate a session in which HSE Rector Nikita Anisimov, ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasiliev, MIPT Rector Dmitry Livanov, Pirogov Medical University Rector Sergey Lukyanov, and St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Rector Andrey Rudskoy will discuss the global trends in university science.

The science and technology track will feature discussions about AI applications in industrial automation, spatial monitoring, and fulfilling national objectives. Participants will include Sber, AIRI, the RAS Institute of Control Sciences, Gazpromneft Science and Technology Center, and other organizations. Experts from AFK Sistema, the Moscow Photonics Center, the Molecular Electronics Research Institute, and the Photonics-2030 program will discuss the prospects of the national photonics ecosystem and optical communications market for the next decade.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade, MSU, the Skolkovo Foundation, and InEnergy will discuss the current state of affairs in energy conservation. The Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Healthcare, Juntendo University (Japan), Sirius University, and the RAS Institute of Biotechnology will exchange their takes on the future of biotechnology. Sessions on advanced materials science will bring together speakers from the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, the Russian Institute of Standardization, TsNIIMASH — the lead institute of Roscosmos — and other organizations.

Top managers from Gazprombank, Rostec, and other companies will participate in a discussion about the future of Russian technology, while heads of technology departments from Gazpromneft, T-Bank, VTB, and the Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Healthcare will share the expectations of employers from university graduates.

The complete conference program is available on the website.