About 100 people attended the conference: heads of enterprises, representatives of public organizations, financial and expert communities.

Deputy Head of the City Administration for Economics, Dmitriy Chernyshov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Rostov Region, Andrey Atamantsev, and Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Rostov Region, Evgeniy Doroshenko, addressed the participants with a welcoming speech.

Dmitriy Chernyshov thanked the entrepreneurs for the active cooperation, which brings practical results.

Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Rostov Region, Svetlana Abdulazizova, noted in her speech that the development of innovative industrial enterprises remains one of the priority area that allows representing the Rostov projects all over Russia.

Within the framework of the Conference, the subcontract exchange involving leading Don industrial enterprises and holdings took place. The exchange represents prepared direct negotiations between potential partners in the field of industrial production and engineering.

For the first time, foreign enterprises – representatives of the India’s leading Corporation “Price Pump Private Limited” – attended the subcontract exchange. Indian colleagues proposed Rostov entrepreneurs to participate in the industrial cooperation in the field of paint, chemical, oil, and pharmaceutical production.

Also, high-tech research and technology projects were presented to the participants of the technology fair.