The Future Technologies Forum will be held for the first time on July 9–14 in Moscow, at the World Trade Center Congress Center. It will be dedicated to quantum technologies and will open a series of annual events. The event’s business program is divided into thematic blocks covering various aspects of human life that affect quantum technologies: "Science and Technology: Ensuring Sovereignty and Development," "What Technologies Will Look Like Tomorrow," "Uniting Science and Creativity," and "How Technologies Are Changing the World."
The agenda of the "Science and Technology: Ensuring Sovereignty and Development" program block includes issues of in-demand government support tools. At one of the key sessions, "Technological Sovereignty and Russia's Place in International Science: Contradiction or Synergy?" experts will address geopolitical issues and their impact on science, scientists, and engineers.
As part of the thematic area "What Technologies Will Look Like Tomorrow," Forum participants will discuss future computing systems, quantum communications, and cybersecurity.
At the sessions of the "How Technologies Are Changing the World" block, participants will analyze the impact of technologies on the quality, duration of life, and the environment, and will also present their vision of the "Quantum City of the Future." In addition, experts will talk about the "brain-computer" interface and the use of quantum technologies in medicine.
A separate discussion will be dedicated to uniting science and creativity.
As part of the Russian Railways business breakfast, the use of quantum communications to ensure the cybersecurity of Russian companies will be discussed. Also among the special events of the Forum are the VCIOM session "Image of the Future: Public Opinion on High Technologies" and a press conference dedicated to the establishment of the National Award in the field of future technologies "Challenge."
On July 9-12, the closed scientific conference ICQT 2023 will be held, where scientists will analyze current achievements in quantum physics and trends in the development of quantum technologies. July 13–14 – open days of the Forum, during which a plenary session, 18 sessions and special events will take place.
It is expected that the Forum will be attended by more than 1,500 Russian and foreign guests. The speakers will include more than 100 researchers, engineers, and experts specializing in this field of science and technology.
The operator of the Forum is the Roscongress Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The co-organizers of the event are Rosatom and Russian Railways. The Russian Quantum Center is the organizer of the ICQT 2023 scientific conference.
Online registration of media representatives for the Future Technologies Forum was launched on June 29 . Representatives of Russian and foreign media, as well as bloggers, can apply to participate in the event.
