Regional Investment Forums of Business Leaders
History & Data
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2007
Regional Magazines Presentation Parties City
Date
# of Participants
General / Financial Directors
Nizhny Novgorod
March 30th , 2007
119
53%
Yekaterinburg
August 29th , 2007
122
55%
Novosibirsk
October 31st , 2007
125
56%
Rostov-on-Don
December 19th , 2007
134
55%
MARCHMONT conducted a series of quarterly conferences in 2007 – Presentations of the Investment Guides MARCHMONT for several regions in 4 cities of Russia. The total number of events’ participants reached 500 people in 2007, including regional business, authorities representatives, and the potential strategic partners
Investment Guides over Russia MARCHMONT– Research & Information Bulletins, devoted to the analysis of The economic potential & investment opportunities of the Russian regions
Magazine circulation reached 25 000 pcs (10 000 – in English, 15 000 – in Russian)
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Regional Conferences Series 2008 Financial Resources Raising Conferences “Growth Strategies & Investments into the Business Development” City
Dates
# of Participants
General / Financial Directors
Chelyabinsk
Jan 30th, 2008
114
52%
Kazan
Feb 27th, 2008
103
56%
Novosibirsk
Apr 24th, 2008
108
58%
Nizhny Novgorod
May 25th, 2008
125
63%
Krasnodar
June 26th, 2008
107
53%
Yekaterinburg
Jul 24th , 2008
119
55%
Tomsk
Oct 22nd, 2008
116
53%
Samara
Nov 25th, 2008
105
53%
MARCHMONT conducted a series of conferences for the business managers & top-managers of the leading regional Russian companies in the capitals of 8 regions of Russia in 2008 Total number of participants reached 900, including the regional business, authorities representatives, and non-governmental organizations
Main Topic of the Conferences – How to decrease the barriers for the investors, seeking for the investment possibilities in the regions
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Regional Conferences Series 2009 Regional Investment Forums for Business Leaders “Using the Advantages of the Entrepreneurial Innovations” City
Date
# of Participants
General Directors
Novosibirsk
Feb 26th, 2009
93
66%
Nizhny Novgorod
Mar 31st, 2009
132
61%
Kazan
May 29th, 2009
89
54%
Sochi
Jul 30th, 2009
85
48%
Ekaterinburg
Sep 30th, 2009
85
66%
Tomsk
Nov 25-26th, 2009
72
51%
Rostov-on-Don
Dec 17th, 2009
60
53%
MARCHMONT conducted a series of conferences in 7 key cities of Russia in 2009 Investment Forums program included the following topics:
How to develop the business in crises conditions How to find the investor: from start-up till IPO Practical experience of the companies as regards the efficient realization of the anti-crises programs IR-strategies and building-up the efficient communication with the investors Discussion panels with the leading Russian experts & consultants
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Our Partners & Sponsors 2007-2009
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Regional Investment Forums 2010 Third Annual Business Leaders Investment Forum “Innovation For Business” New exclusive two-day Forum for the leaders of the regional business community, innovators, entrepreneurs, business angels and investors, interested in the company competitiveness & efficiency increase using the innovations & new technologies
Forum Agenda: Day 1: Applying Innovative Thinking to Improving Company Efficiency & Market Competitiveness
Day 2: Attracting Investment Capital into Innovation Projects & Enterprise Modernization
Session 1: Preparing the foundation for Russia’s 21st century Innovation Economy Session 2: From Laggard to Leader. How the UK Transformed into an Innovation Economy Entrepreneurship in UK Session 3: How the UK Transformed into an Innovation Economy Entrepreneurship in UK over the Course of History Session 4: Use of Technologies to Increase share in the market – Global Tendencies Session 5: Alternative Investment Sources – Using Innovation to Attract Strategic Partners Networking, reception
Session 1: Round table: Regional Investment Climate – Success Conditions Session 2 Practical Experience in Developing Innovation Projects Session 3: Round table: Case Studies – Modernization through Innovation Session 4: Round table: Investment into technologies & innovations – barriers & solutions Closing Reception for participants & special guests
Investment Forum will provide an excellent opportunity to meet leading innovators and review success stories and to network with investors seeking innovation related. The program is aimed at presenting international best practices, introducing and adapting new innovations into manufacturing and business processes – and demonstrating how this approach can be useful in creating new value at enterprises and attracting new capital and strategic partners. Investment Forum will provide an excellent opportunity to meet leading innovators and review success stories and to network with investors seeking innovation. Related possibilities for networking, coffee-breaks, lunches and closing receptions are available for all the participants
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Investment Forums of Business Leaders 2010 Third Annual Business Leaders Investment Forum 2010 “Innovation For Business” 12 Key Regional Cities are included into 2010 Program Date Jan 27-28
Local Co-Organisers Samara
Regional Center of Innovations&Technologies and Transfer
Feb 19-20
Novosibirsk
Mar 24-26
Nizhny Novgorod
Apr 22-23
Astrakhan
May 26-27
Vladivostok
Jun 30 - Jul 1
St. Petersburg
Date
Local Co-Organisers
Jul 22-23
Moscow Region
Regional Administration
Aug 25-26
Volgograd
HSE, NN Branch
Sep 22-23
Kazan
Technical University
Oct 20-21
Perm
Techno-RATEC
Nov 17-18
Ekaterinburg
SOBA
Dec 08-09
Tomsk
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iCamp Regional Administration
Techno Park Idea, Technopolice Khimgrad HSE, Perm Branch, i&I group Delovaya Rossia FIBR
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General Partner & Sponsors 2010
GENERAL PARTNER:
OFFICIAL SPONSORS:
NATIONAL CO-ORGANISER:
INVESTMENT PARTNER:
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Regional & Informational Partners 2010 REGIONAL PARTNERS:
INFORMATIONAL PARTNERS:
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Investment Forums Speakers 2010 Best speakers of Russia in the sphere of investment management and venture financing, leading specialists of international consulting companies participate in the series of Business Leaders Investment Forums hold by MARCHMONT Capital Partners!
Ян Рязанцев Director, Investments Department, Russian Venture Company, (RVC), Moscow
Boris Dorin General Director, Branan, Moscow
Evgeny Evdokimov Managing Director at state corporation Rusnano, Moscow
Oleg Elshin Executive Director, Partner East Kommerts, Moscow
Natalya Milchakova Partner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
Evgeny Savin Founder, UNOVA Media, BIT Competition, iCamp, Moscow
Vitaly Lazorin CEO, Center for promotion of innovative technologies “NovStream – Constructive Solutions”, expert of Center for Technology and Innovation of PwC, Moscow
Kendrick White General director, Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod
Eduard Fiyaxel President of the Start Investment Business Angel Association, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod
Konstantin Fokin President, National Business Angels Association, Moscow
Patricia Cloherty Chairman & CEO, Delta Private Equity Partners, LLC, Moscow~New-York
Eric hansen Vice President, The U.S. Russia Center for Entrepreneurship, Moscow
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Target Audience
Target Audience Regional Conferences Series 2010
Entrepreneurs, owners of the companies, SME representatives General Directors, top managers Financial Directors, Directors on Strategic Developments Active & Potential Business Angels Investment Funds Representatives Innovators (Scientific Research) Higher Educational Establishments Representatives, Students Opora Rossii, Delovaya Rossia, Chambers of Commerce Representatives
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Regional Investment Forums 2010 Statistics of the Regional Investments Forums «INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS» 2010 № of participants
General Directors
January 27-28, 2010
79
25 (31,6%)
Novosibirsk
February 19-20, 2010
134
60 (44,8%)
Nizhny Novgorod
March 24-26, 2010
210
51 (24,3%)
Astrakhan
April 22-23, 2010
135
44 (33%)
Vladivostok
May 26-27, 2010
101
32 (32%)
Saint-Petersburg
June 30 – July 1, 2010
174
46 (26%)
Moscow Region
July 22-23, 2010
232
87 (37,5%)
Volgograd
August 25-26, 2010
159
82 (51.6%)
Kazan
September 22-23, 2010
131
40 (30.5%)
Perm
October 20-21, 2010
Ekaterinburg
November 17-18, 2010
Tomsk
December 08-09, 2010
City
Date
Samara
Forum target audience (100 – 150 participants) are local business leaders and entrepreneurs, innovators and angel investors aimed at improving the competitiveness and efficiency of their enterprises via innovation and new technologies investment.
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MARCHMONT Investment Forums
Investment Forums Targets & Opportunities:
Support of the national target – development of innovation economy of Russia Support in the development of innovation projects for their further commercialization and alternative funding sources attraction Promotion of development concept of “Ecosystem” demanding innovation decisions which could increase efficiency of production and raise competitive capacity of Russia on the threshold of the expected accession to WTO Support of SME of Russia, description of business development and strategic partnership forming by means of working models.
Special strategies and consultation of innovators and entrepreneurs within the process of their projects development for further commercialization and attraction of alternative funding sources from business-angels and investment community of venture capital Direct contacts establishing, meetings with optimally appropriate financial partners willing to participate in investment projects development Increase of quality of information flows between entrepreneurs searching for partners and investors looking for Russian regional projects with minimal risks and barriers Experience exchange with other companies. Estimation of one’s project perspectives.
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Comments of participants and partners
Feedback from MARCHMONT regional conference participants and partners 2010 «The event is really important and essential. It is the only opportunity for innovation producers to find a common informal language and meeting points with investors». Artem Strochkin Director LLC “Laboratory of optic-measuring systems", Volgograd
"I often hear reproaches to ourselves as we only speak on innovation ecosystem development. I’m sure that this forum is a definite specific step in the innovation climate development in this region." Vitaly Lazorin CEO, Center for promotion of innovative technologies “NovStream – Constructive Solutions”, expert of Center for Technology and Innovation of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Moscow
"LLC “Binar Co Group of Companies” expresses appreciation for perfect organization of Third Annual Business Leaders International Investment Forum “Innovation For Business” that took place in Nizhny Novgorod from 24th till 26th of March. Meaningful and rich in content program gave a possibility to conduct a full-scale discussion on interaction with partners and colleagues. The ground of the Forum, level of participants, topics discussed during the Forum – all these factors jointly gave the possibility to use the time of the Forum with maximum efficiency. World Trade Center proved to be a good place for making business contacts, conduction of negotiations and for training possibilities for our young colleagues. We hope for fruitful cooperation in future." Alexander Korobko President, “Binar Group of Companies”, Sarov
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Comments of participants and partners
Feedback from MARCHMONT regional conference participants and partners 2010 "Caspian Innovation Forum is a successful example of combination of private initiative on the new investment projects search on innovation economy development stimulation. Only such combination will guarantee realization of accumulated experience of the Region in the sphere of bio resources research and other spheres that could provide the region economy new growth points in the nearest future." Oleg Lysak Senior Expert, Infrastructure Programs, the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, Moscow
"Innovation for Business” Forum attracts more and more regional participants and this is really wonderful as only together innovations could be developed successfully. Innovation policy support on behalf of the Administration is a necessary component of success. We see the availability of these two factors in the Region and it means that success will come." Evgeny Savin Organizer: iCamp & BIT Competition; Founder, General Director, UNOVA Media, www.unova.ru, Moscow
«The Forum in Nizhny Novgorod served as a communicative platform for meeting of perspective companies working in technological innovations sector and practicing investors. The world experience shows that venture capital takes on special significance in the situation of economic crisis acting as funding source for innovation enterprises. I think that the Forum contributes to entrepreneurs’ level upgrading as well as additionally attracts companies’ and investors’ attention to MICEX projects aimed at economy innovation sector supporting and developing». Anzhelika Golova Senior specialist, Auctions conduct and depository services department, Formal equity market, MICEX Povolzhje, JSC, Nizhny Novgorod
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Aims and tasks
Aims and Tasks of Regional Investment Forums 2010 and 2011 Primary goals of forums “Innovations for business” in 2010: Determination of key partners, active participants and innovators, business-leaders for representing them ideas and necessary components for innovation clusters forming. Discussion of problems in Russian economy aimed at consumption. Representation key partners the ideas of business-angels clubs establishment and Business Innovation Technologies contest, meeting each other, etc. Basic aims of forums “Innovation Infrastructure” in 2011:
Increase of innovation community’s awareness level in overcoming of barriers, evolved within regional innovation clusters forming, with the aid of well-known Russian and foreign experts.
Practical dialogue with participants on execution mechanisms and necessary institutions organization. Increase of higher educational institutions’ interest and motivation in activity course changing in conformity with market needs. Assistance in establishing of strong ties between academic, scientific and business communities which are in need of innovation solutions and modernization. Increase of investors’ interest in long-term investments.
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Business-Leaders Investment Forums 2011 Annual Business leaders Investment Forum 2011 «INNOVATION INFRASTRUCTURE» Preliminary 2011 Programme: Date
Regional Co-Organizer
January February 16-17 Novosibirsk March 23-24
Saint-Petersburg
April 20-21
Astrakhan
May 25-26
Obninsk
June 29-30
Nizhny Novgorod
Regional Administration SOBA Technical University
Date
Regional Co-Organizer HSE
July 20-21
Moscow
August 24-25
Volgograd
September 14-15Tomsk
October 19-20
Government
November 16-17
HSE
December 07-08
Perm
Regional Administration FiBr / Regional Administration
i&i group, HSE
Voronezh, Krasnodar, Tolyatti, Ufa, Irkutsk, Ekaterinburg, Kazan
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Media and PR-support of forums in Russia and abroad INTERNATIONAL MEDIA-PARTNERS:
Announcing & e-mail shots to subscribers about the conferences with help of international media-partners
RUSSIAN INFORMATIONAL PARTNERS:
NEWS Web-Site www.marchmont.ru / www.marchmontnews.com Bi-lingual, for Russian & International Business Community
Address electronic dispatch of MARCHMONT Preview, including information on forthcoming forums once in two weeks using exclusive contact base (25 000 contacts) Specially developed interactive website section “Conferences” containing detailed information on all previous and forthcoming forums. Total information on speakers, sponsors and partners of forums is available in the website. Website visitors are invited to register for a forum, ask speakers questions. Final materials on forums (presentations, photos, videos, reports) are in easy access. About 5 000 people a day visit the website.
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Possibilities of joint organization of Forums
Possible variants of joint organization of Forums:
Providing with a location for holding a conference Lunches and coffee-breaks organization Invitation of a target group Invitation of speakers is possible
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Sponsorship opportunities Forum sponsorship
General Partner Official Sponsor Regional Sponsor Coffee-break / Session / Networking Reception Sponsor
Opportunities for sponsors: Your company banners/stands are placed in the registration area and at the conference hall. Your company logo and brand name are shown on all Forum promotion materials and press-releases. You get the opportunity to put your company materials into the Forum delegate package. You get 1 full page of advertisement in the Official Forum brochure which is being given to every Forum delegate. Your company gets up to 10 complimentary passes to the Forum. You get full Forum participant list with contact details after the Forum and Forum photo-report . Daily bi-lingual business news web-site www.Marchmontnews.com (more than 5000 top-managers and owners from Russia and abroad visiting our web-site daily) : Your company logo on the Conference page of the web-site. Data about company on the Conference page of the web-site (section “Partners”).
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Media-partnership opportunities 2010 Opportunities for media-partners:
Your company becomes an Information partner of the Forum. Your company banners/stands are placed in the registration area. Your company logo and brand name are shown on all Forum promotion materials and press-releases as the Information partner. You get 1/3 page of advertisement in the Official Forum brochure which is being given to every Forum delegate. Your company gets complimentary passes to the Forum.
Daily bi-lingual business news web-site www.Marchmontnews.com (more than 5000 top-managers and owners from Russia and abroad visiting our web-site daily) : Your company logo on the Conference page of the web-site. Data about company on the Conference page of the web-site (section “Partners”).
Obligations of media-partners:
Your company logo on the Conference page of the web-site with the direct link to your company website. Forum announcement on your company web-site. Report about the Forum results on your company web-site. Your company places a banner with Forum announcement on your company web-site. Invitation distribution with participation recommendations.
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