KBSU presented its innovative projects at the Open Innovations Forum in Skolkovo

The IX Moscow International Forum «Open Innovations» has started, which will be held for the first time in an online format from 19 to 21 October. At the only full-time site — an exhibition of innovative developments Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H. M. Berbekov presented superconstructive polymeric materials and technologies for their production.

The transformation of perceptions of technological priorities under the influence of the pandemic became the main topic of the Open Innovation Forum. Online speakers will discuss how the attitude to digitalization of business, government, public institutions has changed, what technologies will be key for the «post-like» world order.

It will be possible to visit the business and exhibition program of the forum on its official website, participation in all events this year will be free for everyone. Both foreign and Russian experts will connect to the program remotely, and session moderators will work in the studios.

“Technologically and visually, the broadcast of the sessions of the forum’s business program will be more like a teleconference than a conference in Zoom with a large number of windows. It will be possible to ask questions to speakers directly during their speeches in special chats. The translation of the forum into the online format once again confirms that the norm of our life has really changed, that we are all already in a “new digital normality,” said Ekaterina Inozemtseva, General Director of the Skolkovo Forum ANO.
Among the key speakers of Open Innovations this year are Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, Co-founder and Rector of the Singularity University Ray Kurzweil, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Severstal Alexey Mordashov, General Director of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel Shai-Li Shpigelman, Director of sustainable development of The Coca-Cola Company in the European Region Teresa Noorlander and other experts.

The first day of the forum will be devoted to the problems of the Humancentric Society. Participants will discuss how people and their living environment are changing, gaining more and more opportunities from technology.

The second day — «Survival Economy» — will become a platform for discussing new scenarios and platforms for interaction between business, governments and society on a global scale.

And on the third day of the forum, which will be dedicated to Futuristic Technology, the participants will discuss the laws of technology development in the «post-like» world, the emerging demands and priorities.

Several sessions of the forum’s business program will be devoted to the modernization of healthcare in the new conditions. Among them “Revolutionary innovations in medicine. How to create a vaccine against a pandemic? «,» The digital path to health «,» Phardemic. Impact of technological progress and external challenges on the development of health care. » It is noted that the pandemic demanded from medicine the prompt implementation of modern technologies, but the main incentive for its digitalization is the human demand for the quality and availability of medical care. The development of the biotechnology market in Russia and the “rebirth” of telemedicine, provoked by the pandemic this year, will also be considered.

The exhibition exposition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation «Research and Development in Priority Areas of Development of the Scientific and Technological Complex of Russia for 2014–2020» featured stands of 100 academic institutes, research institutes and higher educational institutions engaged in breakthrough innovative developments. Among them, KBSU, which presented the products of the Center for Advanced Materials and Additive Technologies «Polimat»: samples and technologies for the production of superconstructive polymers for 3D printing intended for the aviation and automotive industries, additive technologies in medicine, oil and gas production.

“Due to the pandemic, there were not many visitors to the exhibition this year. Strictly with sanitary preventive measures. But I can say that this weeded out visitors walking around the exposition out of idle curiosity. Everyone who approached us had a specific professional or business interest. By the middle of the day we had finished the information brochures of our center and about a dozen contacts to continue a constructive dialogue at the level of the university leadership, «said Khasan Musov, a laboratory researcher at the Polymat Center for Progressive Materials and Additive Technologies at the KBSU.