World’s digitalization to be discussed during major international forum in Russia

MOSCOW, Dec 1, 2021, Pan Pacific Agency. The digitalization of the industry, the show business, the labor market and other areas of human life is not a subject for futurological forecasts any more. On December 7 at the Nobel Vision. Open Innovations 2.0 forum at the Skolkovo Innovation Center, the participants will discuss the fields and areas that are quickly changing due to digital technologies, the event’s press service told Pan Pacific Agency.

Encountering modern technologies every day, ordinary people do not notice how much these transform their everyday lives. The panel Metaverse – a new strategy for digital products? How AR/VR will change our lives will be dedicated to the use of interactive formats, including those in the field of education. At the Entertainment industry. New formats of digital leisure panel the participants will talk about the changes in the fields of art and popular culture, where digitalization keeps making the major products virtual, remote, streaming and customized.

The panels HR and competencies. Digital employees of the future labor market and Popular industry. The industry is ready for digital transformation will be held during the Forum with the support of VEB Ventures (VEB.RF Group). The problems of implementing digitalization in the manufacturing industry as well as the lack of experts with sufficient skills for working in the new world were attracting attention even before the pandemic. The coronavirus made the digitalization of economies faster and changed whole industries, which made these issues even more important.

Top managers of most companies understand that using AI, neural networks, internet of things, cloud services and other technologies for their business processes not only improves their efficiency but basically is already inevitable. However, many still aren’t ready to think in new ways – for example, the switch to remote work due to the lockdown was difficult for a lot of companies. The speakers at the panel «Remote everything. How is the business to develop in the digital reality? will talk about the mental, corporate and cultural changes required from the business by the new reality.

The list of participants in the discussions of the Forum dedicated to digital transformations includes the chairman of the board of directors of Skolkovo Ventures Pekka Viljakainen, the general director of VEB Ventures Oleg Teplov, the managing partner of the international venture fund Almaz Capital Alexander Galitsky, the global director of digital readiness programs of Intel Anshul Sonak, the founder and president of Superjob Aleksey Zakharov, the CEO of the consulting agency Futuremade Tracey Follows, the professor of communication, journalism, cinematic arts and education at the University of Southern California Henry Jenkins, the chief knowledge officer of Times Higher Education Phil Baty and other experts.

Nobel Vision. Open Innovations 2.0 will be held on December 7 in a hybrid format – offline in Skolkovo and online on the website openinnovations.ru. The streams from all the sessions will be available to all participants of the Forum after registering at the website. The offline events will be held at the Skolkovo Technopark, taking into account all the recommendations of the WHO and Rospotrebnadzor.

The organizers of Nobel Vision. Open Innovations 2.0 are the Skolkovo Foundation (VEB.RF Group), the Government of Moscow and VEB Ventures (VEB.RF Group). The official partner of the Forum is OJSC Russian Railways.

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