Skolkovo’s residents presented their innovative developments for the first time for the audience of the major IT expo CeBIT at the main site for startups – Open Stage.
The entrepreneurs of Skolkovo Foundation expressed their excitement by the warm attention they received from the visitors at CeBIT. Their audience included Fortune 500 companies, investors, state officials and representatives of academia.
“I really enjoyed the attention of the audience. Many people, especially in Germany, are extremely interested in data security and the source codes of our applications for further customization of mobile applications to tailor their needs. Many people are interested in our idea, because with the help of iBuildApp they will be able to create mobile apps for their business quickly and interact with their customers instantly. Thus, one of our potential clients is a large German media house Vogel Business Media,”said Rafael Soultanov, CEO of iBuildApp.
Marat Gainanov, CEO of 3D-tek, shared his impression about his experience of presenting at Open Stage:
“I have been at similar events for a few times, but it is my first time at CeBIT when I presented for such a big crowd. I was rather nervous, however, I was also pleasantly surprised by the attention to our interpolation screen. I hope to get more contracts signed while we are working at CeBIT.”
Denis Khitrov, COO of MedM, highlighted:
“Attending CeBit has reaffirmed our strategic vision that we are playing in a very hot field - Mobile Health. It’s really important for us from both emotional and pragmatic points of view. Even during the first two days of our exhibiting at Skolkovo booth we’ve got a number of interesting and feasible ideas about usage and commercialization of our technology. This great feedback will definitely help us to attract more customers to our remote health monitoring platform - MedM.”
About the Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with an objective to accelerate transformation of Russia from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center composed of companies and startups, developing innovative technologies (currently numbering over 1000), a Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech), a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together these entities will establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. 30 world’s most successful corporations, including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, Samsung etc. have already recognized the opportunity Skolkovo presents having signed R&D partnership agreements with the Foundation. For more information: http://www.sk.ru/en