The official website of the Future Technologies Forum, which will be held in Russia for the first time, has published an extended business program. The event was launched with the closed international scientific conference ICQT-2023 on July 9-12, with open days of the program on July 13-14.
The theme of the Forum in 2023 is "Computing and Communications. Quantum World". The business program of the event consists of four main thematic parts.
The "Science and Technology: Ensuring Sovereignty and Development" block includes sessions: "Technological Sovereignty and Russia's Place in International Science: Contradiction or Synergy?", "How and What Drives Science? Instruments of Non-Financial State Support", "To Help or Not to Interfere? State Regulation of Science", "Trusted Environment as the Basis of the Digital Economy", "How to Unite Talents? Find, Develop and Retain".
The block "What Will the Technologies of Tomorrow Be Like" includes sessions: "Moore's Law: Is There a Future for Transistor Microelectronics?", "Quantum Supremacy: In Search of Practical Application", "Quantum Internet: Is It Possible to Create a Quantum Supercomputer? Will There Be Room for Artificial Intelligence?", "Quantum Communications: From R&D to Technological Business".
The block "How Technologies Change the World" includes the sessions "Quantum City of the Future", "Quantum Computers and Sensors in Industry: Is the Future Already Here?", "Medicine and the Human of the Future in the Quantum World: Fiction or Reality?" and "Blockchain: Scaling, Security, Prospects".
The discussion block "Uniting Science and Creativity" includes the sessions: "Ethics of the Digital World: Old Utopias in a New Light", "The Image of a Quantum in the Human Mind", "Modern Science: Engineering or Creativity" with questions about those transformations in human life that further digitalization inevitably brings.
"The modern economy is increasingly becoming a data-driven economy. In such conditions, computing and data transmission technologies are becoming one of the key technologies of the modern economy. And it is important for Russia to be a leader in new technologies that can be revolutionary. This means that quantum technologies and photonics are the areas that need to be given increased attention," said Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin.
Among the additional events of the Forum: a VCIOM session "Image of the Future: Public Opinion on High Technologies", an open meeting of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the roadmap for the development of the high-tech area "Quantum Communications" and a press conference dedicated to the establishment of the National Award in the field of future technologies "Challenge".
The operator of the event is the Roscongress Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Russian Quantum Center (RQC). Co-organizers: State Corporation "Rosatom" and JSC "Russian Railways". Title partners: the Government of Moscow and Gazprombank JSC. The general partner of the Forum is Sberbank PJSC. The organizer of the ICQT 2023 scientific conference is the Russian Quantum Center.