Russian Innovation Pavilion, an event within rAsia.com, not only introduced leading startups but also held a series of discussion sessions on the actual issues.

For two days as part of rAasia.com took place Russian Innovation Pavilion - Pavilion presenting promising Russian startups and holding a number of sessions on innovation and technological development of Russia.

At Panel discussions and round tables were discussed the following themes: functioning of industrial parks in Russia, perspective marketing models of Russian startups, models of business accelerators, the role of the state in the development of young innovative companies and, of course, success stories of the startups presented in Russian Innovation Pavilion.

Among the speakers addressed the RIP were representatives of the state institutions, foreign investors and young professionals: Andrew Shpilenko (director at "Association of techno parks in the area of high technologies"), Sergei Teplov (CEO of Technopark Strogino), Igor Ishchenko (CEO of Technopolis "Moscow"), Alexander Shulgin (composer, venture investor, founder of the netvorking platform rASiA.com), Anna Nikina (Director of external Communications at technopark "Skolkovo"), Chen Li (CEO at Hanson Robotics), Ilya Kurmyshev (program manager to promote innovation and venture activities at RVC), Craig Allen (CEO at Spark Unlimited), Shaukat Shamim (founder and CEO at Dezine), Mirko Whitfield (development manager at SXSW), Michael Tsygankov (managing partner at GTI), Ljubov Simonova-Emelyanova (expert at the Almaz Capital Partners fund), Alexei Filimonov (GVA Launch Gurus) and others.