subscribe to news A joint meeting of the Russian CCI Committee on Exhibition, Fairs and Congress Activities and Russian Health Care Week’s strategy session

A meeting of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Committee on Exhibition, Fairs and Congress Activities was held at Expocentre Fairgrounds within Russian Health Care Week 2022 in conjunction with the Strategy Session on the Decade for Science and Technology: Medicine, Human Resources, Laws.

The meeting was dedicated to the Decade of Science and Technology announced by the President of the Russian Federation from 2022 to 2031, and the role of congress and exhibition activities in its implementation. Alexey Vyalkin, Chairman of the Russian CCI’s Committee, Director General of EXPOCENTRE AO, noted that the topic of innovations in the medical industry was the key one for all the events of Russian Health Care Week.  More than 700 companies from 10 countries are taking part in these events. 45 substituent entities of the Russian Federation are represented by group stands. The conference programme of the Week includes more than 70 expert events.

"It is extremely important for us to demonstrate not only innovative technologies, but also technologies of the future. And above all, the vector of our attention is now aimed at the interested student audience," stressed the chairman of the Committee. Thus, for the second year in a row, together with the Filatov International Fund for Development of Biomedical Technologies, EXPOCENTRE is holding the Interdisciplinary Forum ‘The Medicine Young’, which has found support among leading Russian scientists. Therefore, already the first Forum ‘The Medicine Young’ has attracted more than 3,500 participants from almost 100 cities from all regions of Russia.

As for involving experienced professionals in solving technical problems and creating conditions for promoting innovative developments, the Week will present several highly specialised platforms, a kind of growth points where the interests of Russian science, manufacturers, investors and consumers converge. In particular, these are additive and biomedical technologies, medical robotics, and digital medicine, said Alexey Vyalkin.

It is noteworthy, he continued, that Russian Health Care Week is part of two initiatives of the Decade of Science and Technology in the Russian Federation at once: ‘Designing the Future’ and ‘Platforms for Interaction of Science, Business, State and Society’. This clearly confirms that the country's medical industry is not only actively developing, but also needs to be professionally promoted through such congress and exhibition events as Russian Health Care Week.

Then Alexey Vyalkin briefly summarised the preliminary results of the Committee's work this year, noting that the Russian Government had approved the road map for the implementation of support measures and strategic development of exhibition, fair and congress activities through 2025 developed with the participation of the Chamber's dedicated Committee. The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry was approved as one of the main implementers of 12 out of 15 measures of the road map.

As part of the implementation of the roadmap, a position on the regulatory framework for the industry was formulated and sent to the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. The Committee's experts paid special attention to the development of proposals for financial support measures for the industry. According to Alexey Vyalkin, the most demanded for enterprises and exhibition organisers would be to reallocate budgetary funds intended for co-financing the participation of Russian companies in events abroad to organise expositions at major industry exhibitions with export potential in the Russian Federation, taking into account the current situation.

The roadmap also includes a revision of the National Standardisation System (NSS) in the field of exhibition, fair and congress activities. One of the key activities of the Committee is the preparation of proposals for the development of regional infrastructure for the congress and exhibition industry, said the head of the Committee and EXPOCENTRE in conclusion. 

The moderator of the strategy session, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education Vladimir Kononov, noted that Russian Health Care Week is also part of the large-scale project NTI-Expo (Research -Technology-Innovations Expo), focused on the implementation of state programmes in science and technology, education and digital economy.  

The session covered a wide range of issues related to the development of medicine, medical technologies, organisation of health care, training of personnel for modern medicine with a focus on primary care, as well as improvement of the regulatory framework.

Members of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Committee for Exhibition and Congress Activities took part in the joint session in online and offline formats: Tatiana Anisimova, Yury Katsnelson, Gennady Drozhzhin, Daria Ostrovskaya, Andrey Zhukovsky and Andrey Usenko.

Lawmakers, representatives of relevant ministries, major industry companies and leading medical universities - Leonid Ogul, First Deputy of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, Ekaterina Kharchenko, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, Igor Korobko, Director of the Department of Science and Innovative Development of Health Care of the Russian Ministry of Health Care, Mikhail Paltsev, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kirill Mayorov, CEO of BEBIG, representative of the Gamaleya Research Centre for Ecology and Epidemiology under the Russian Ministry of Health Care, Pavel Vandyshev, and other experts spoke at the session.

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