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Russian Week of High Technologies is an important event in the field of IT, telecommunications and navigation. The Week brings together trade shows and supporting events under the common concept of Digital Transformation.

Dates: 23–26 April 2019

Venue: Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia

Floor space occupied: 30,996 sq m  

Organised by Expocentre AO

Supported by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, Rossvyaz – the Federal Agency of Communications, the Russian State Duma Committee on Education and Science, the GLONASS Union

Under auspices of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Exhibitors (total): 448 companies

Countries: 15

Russian exhibitors: 197 companies

Total attendance: 18,126 people from 79 regions of Russia and 64 countries

The Russian Week of High Technologies brought together 

• the 31^st edition of the Sviaz International Exhibition for Information and Communications Technology  
• the 11^th edition of the Navitech International Exhibition for Navigation Systems, Technologies and Services
• the 13^th edition of the International Navigation Forum 
• the Forum on Russian Software: Effective Solutions. National Cyber Security: Sovereignty Vs Globalisation
• Conference on Digital Transformation of Telecom Industry: Strategy 2024

Konstantin Noskov, Russian Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media

"The ministry supports the Week and sees it as an effective professional networking platform for IT companies, developers of software, new technologies and telecom equipment and their clients and customers."

Oleg Ivanov, Russian Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media

"A key part of the Digital Economy programme is creation and development of the information infrastructure which includes telecom systems, telecom networks, data centers, and secure Internet access. All these aspects are covered by the Week’s events."

Right after the opening ceremony, there was a special ceremony of cancellation of a postal card devoted to Sviaz 2019 and a postal envelope with the original stamp issued by the Federal Communications Agency and Marka AO to mark the 60^th anniversary of Expocentre.

Sviaz 2019

The 31^st edition of the International Exhibition for Information and Communications Technology

Sviaz is the central event of Russian Week of High Technologies. It is the largest IT and telecom exhibition in Russia, its neighboring countries and Eastern Europe.

Organised by Expocentre AO

Supported by the the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade

Under auspice of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

With participation of Rossvyaz – the Federal Agency of Communications, the Competence Center of Import Substitution in the ICT Sector

Exhibitors: 409 companies

Foreign exhibitors: 3CX (Cyprus), Saft (France), Satel OY (Finland), Vissem Electronics (South Korea), Riedel Communications (Germany), Ama Xperteye (Romania), Belden (the USA), etc.

Russian exhibitors (161 companies): Gazprom Space Systems, Ruselectronics, Sozvezdie Concern, Т8, Nateks, Intersputnik, Angstrem-Telecom,  Pulsar-Telecom, Corning CIS, Irtysh OMPO, Progress MRI, Energomera, Saranskkabel-Optica (Mordovia), Incab, Morion, Telta Perm Telephone Plant (Perm), Cable Alliance Holding (Ekaterinburg), Polimet (Rostov region), Pulsar-Telecom (Penza), Samara Optical Cable Company,  Smarts, Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics (Samara), Micran Research & Production Company (Tomsk), Supertel, Astra-Intercom, Izmerkon, Radian (Saint-Petersburg), Vega-Absolute (Novosibirsk), Phoenix Engineering Bureau (Krasnoyarsk), Rostov-on-Don Radiocommunication Research Institute (Rostov-on-Don), etc.

National pavilion: China (organised by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), exhibitors included Hengtong optic-electric co., ltd, Yunke China Information Technology Limited, Beijing dynamic Power Ac-Union, etc.

Products on display: equipment and technology for mobile, satellite, radio, fiber-optic communications, TV and radio broadcasting, data networks, data centers, information security, solutions for IoT (IoT Tech Spring), Smart City, Russian software

The international showcase of consumer electronics occupied 1,440 sq m to accommodate 95 Chinese exhibitors.

Growing figures were shown by the Cables, Satellite Communication, Radio Communication, IP Technology sectors.  

Oleg Ivanov, Russian Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media

"Today, Sviaz showcases all developments and products in different sectors of the digital economy. We realise that it is the combination of various IT sectors, telecom, education, research and breakthrough developments in related fields that gives a real synergistic effect.  This exhibition is the very place where manufacturers find their customers and vice versa."

Navitech 2019

The 11^th edition of the International Exhibition for Navigation Systems, Technologies and Services

Navitech is the main platform to showcase the latest technological solutions for the navigation industry. As usual Navitech was co-located with the International Navigation Forum.

Organised by Expocentre AO

Supported by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade

Under auspices of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Exhibitors: 39 companies including Queclink Wireless Solutions Co., Shenzhen Concox Information Technology Co., Streamax Technology Co., Ltd., GLONASS Union, Vega-Absolute, Gonets Satellite System, Goodline, Module, Fort-Telecom, Gaz Group Commercial Vehicles, etc. 

GAZ Group Commercial Vehicles, a top producer of commercial and special vehicles, presented a unique platform GAZ Connect for access to digital services.

KAMAZ Innovation Center showcased the ITIS KAMAZ system of satellite monitoring and vehicle maintenance control.

GLONASS Union traditionally presented the latest innovative projects including Autonet National Technology Initiative. 

Alexander Gurko, President of GLONASS Union

"The use of navigation technology boosts the development of new innovative digital services, contributes to security and the society's well-being, and increases business opportunities in different sectors of economy such as agriculture, transportation, power industry, defense industry, surveying and mapping, and many others."

You can read feedback of Sviaz and Navitech exhibitors and visitors here.

Supporting events

• The Conference on Digital Transformation of Telecom Industry: Strategy 2024 was organised by Expocentre jointly with the RBC media holding. Some of the covered topics included diversification of the telecom business, 5G, IoT, cloud services, Big Data and content monetization.  
  

  The topic of Smart City solutions and technology got a great response from the professional audience.

• The Forum on Russian Software: Effective Solutions. National Cyber Security: Sovereignty Vs Globalisation was organised by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media and supported by the Russian State Duma Committee on Education and Science, the Competence Center of Import Substitution in the ICT Sector, the Russian Software Products Association "Russian Software", and Expocentre AO.
  

  The main topic was Russian made solutions for national information security.  
  

  The section on Virtual Technology in E-Commerce: Cybersecurity was devoted to protection of personal data when using virtual technology in e-commerce, government regulations of e-commerce using virtual technology, and international standards in this field.

•  The Federal Communications Agency (Rossvyaz) held its enlarged meeting.

• The 13^th edition of the International Navigation Forum welcomed more than 900 delegates from Russia, the EU, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India and China.  The plenary discussion was devoted to the satellite navigation, new business models, navigation and digital technologies in logistics.  
  

  The forum featured the first meeting of the working group on development of unmanned transport and robotic systems – the pool of Roscosmos friends. The second day was devoted to NTI Autonet, its development, regulations and financing.

• The IoT Tech Spring 2019 included a showcase and a conference, which in its turn featured a plenary meeting, a panel on LPWAN and sessions on Smart City, Smart Industry, and Smart Housing and Public Utilities and Smart Power.
  

  More than 20 participants of these events included such companies as MTS, ER-Telecom, EuroMobile, Orange, СРТ, WAVIoT and others. Representatives of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, the Internet of Things Association, the Russian Venture Company, the Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, etc., offered more than 30 reports on various topics. 
  

  Overall, the conference welcomed more than 800 professional visitors. More than 200,000 people watched it online.  
  

  The award ceremony of Russia's first national IoT related award, IoT Awards 2019, was held on the last day of the conference. ER-Telecom was named the best IoT company. MTS won the IoT operator nomination. 

• Other interesting events included
• the Conference on Digitalization of Industrial Enterprises
• the International Forum of the International Telecommunication Academy
• the Conference for Service Providers "GPON and Access Networks 2019: Expert Level"

You can learn more about the event of Russian Week of High Technologies here >>.

Join us at the 32^nd edition of the Sviaz exhibition and the 12^th edition of the Navitech exhibition which will run as part of Russian Week of High Technologies 2020 at Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow, Russia, on 21–24 April 2020. 

 Press Service, Expocentre AO