April 24-27, 2006, Russia, Moscow, “Expocentr”, Krasnaya Presnya Fairgrounds

The Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry invites representatives of international high technology, innovation and business society to participate in the Seventh International Forum and Exhibition «High technology of XXI» to be held in Moscow at Krasnaya Presnya Fairground from the 24^th until the 27^th of April 2006.

The Forum is organised at the initiative of the Moscow Government and run under the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation patronage. Varied Forum activities are meaningfully backed up by the Government of the Russian Federation with relevant inputs in building up and running assorted functions coming from the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies, Ministry for Nuclear Power Engineering, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense and disparate government agencies responsible for aerospace, management systems, shipbuilding, ammunition, conventional weapons and other matters. Committed contributors also include State Committee for Standards and Russian Academy of Science.

Principal objectives run as follows: promoting innovative high-tech-based growth of domestic industries, defining priorities in the area of new technologies, perfecting the mechanism for domestic knowledge-intensive products and technologies to effectively break into international markets, upgrading the national system for backing up innovative solutions and applications, attracting investments to help put into effect prospective high-tech projects, bolstering region-to-region and international collaboration links, etc.

Within the frame of the Forum following events are to be held:

April, 24, pav. №1 of “Expocentr” – The official ceremony of opening the International Exhibition and Forum “High technology of XXI”
April 24, Moscow city hall - The official ceremony of opening International Conference. The plenary session “Strategy of development of companies engaged in high-tech area: on the way to develop the market of high technology and science-intensive products.” .
April, 24 - 27, pav. №1 of “Expocentr” – The International Exhibition “High technology of XXI century” showing achievements of enterprises of high-tech complex of Moscow, Russian regions, the CIS and foreign countries in different fields of science and industry:

aviation and aerospace	medicine and biotechnology
radio-electronics and communication	information technology
nanotechnology	laser technology
chemistry and new materials	security
power supplies systems, ecology and nature protection	machinery building
nuclear energy	high-tech consumer goods
consulting and licences services	small innovation business
high technological commodities	special publications and literature

April 25 - 27, pavilion No. 1 of “Expocentr” – The International Conference - sessions, “round tables”, seminars.

A program of the Conference including themes of seminars, sessions, “round tables”, time and place of conducting will be sent additionally.

25 - 27 April, pavilion № 1 «Expocentr»
 - Presentations of exhibitors, high-tech investment projects, specialized projects of inter-regional cooperation and others.  

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Obligatory registration fee is 250 EUR (including taxes) per attendee. The registration fee includes:

• Full accreditation and one badge;
• printed materials and documents of the Forum including specialties;
• attendance of all events of the Forum;
• one ticket for the official reception and the plenary session;
• assistance in organizing talks, visiting enterprises and companies subject to pre-request is received;
• Expenses of organizers.

The Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry also can provide foreign attendee of the Forum with the following services: hotel reservation, transfer (airport - hotel – airport ), cultural program, etc.

In case of your interest to visit the Forum the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry will send "Invitation", "Application" and conditions of participation in the Seventh International Forum "High technology of XXI».

• Aapplications form duly completed is to be sent to the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry by April 1st, 2006.
• TERMS OF PARTICIPATION for foreign representatives
• The International Conference ”High-tech companies' DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY: COVERING NEW MARKETS”

For more information regarding the participation in the Forum, please contact the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry:
22, Ak.Pilugina str., Moscow, 117393
tel./fax (+7-495) 132-74-29, (+7-495) 913-23-44
E-mail: extrade@mtpp.org

March 17, 2006