June 11, 2013. The agenda of the forum and the concept of Sverdlovsk Region stand are almost ready for the 4th Ural International Industry & Innovations Forum & Exhibition Innoprom 2013 that will be held in Yekaterinburg on July 11-14. All of Sverdlovsk Region ministries, departments, and municipalities are taking part in drawing up the agenda, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s Press Service & Information Administration reports.

According to Formica Group Marketing Director Anton Atrashkin, ‘the business agenda of the exhibition is 90% complete’. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev’s meeting with the business community representatives and experts will be the major event scheduled for the opening day of Innoprom. A forecasting session on technological breakthroughs that is also scheduled for this day will be attended by globally recognized scientists and moderated by a well-known TV presenter Leonid Parfenov.

On July 12, 30 round table discussions, conferences, and business forums will take place, including an international conference on global cooperation as the basis for introducing high technologies to the industrial sector. This event will be attended by directors-general of large Western companies. A round table discussion on re-industrialization through IT will become another big event, to be attended by Vyacheslav Inozemtsev. Finally, a round table discussion on Russia’s major project will also be held during the forum, with a well-known film director Yuri Grymov presenting one of such projects.