May 20 – deadline for application to Startup Village

On June 6-7, the Startup Village 2017 conference will be held at the Skolkovo Innovations Center. The key topic of Startup Village 2017 – Highway to Tech, Money & Skills. It is expected that 20000 participants, 4000 startups, 1500 investors from over 30 countries will take part this year.

The business program includes approximately over 150 interactive sessions by startup leaders that cover all business areas: from financial technologies to drones, from personalized medicine to smart energy, from new materials to biological technologies. The event format provides for open communication of startups with the legends of technology entrepreneurship.

Traditionally, as part of the conference there will the Startup competition. Young entrepreneurs have the unique opportunity to win from 1 to 5 mln rubles.

We remind you that this year Pitch Competition consists of two tracks for different types of companies and teams: Ideas Competition and Companies’ Competition.

Startup Village is the most large-scale startup conference in Russia and the CIS countries for technology entrepreneurs, organized by the Skolkovo Foundation in collaboration with the Foundation’s partners. Startup Village is a unique site where startup founders and innovators meet successful entrepreneurs, investors, large technology corporations and representatives of the authorities for discussion of technology trends, ideas and nurturing of a new generation of Russian entrepreneurs. This is a global event that annually brings together representatives of over 20 countries. Startup Village has special live communications atmosphere: no division into VIP guests, no closed sessions, no restricted areas, no dress code. In 2017, the conference will be held for the fifth time.