The delegation of the support university visited the international startup conference «Startup Village»
Delegation of BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov attended the startup conference for technology entrepreneurs «Startup Village», which is the largest in Russia and CIS countries.
The Skolkovo Foundation together with its partners acted as the organizer. The conference was held at the Skolkovo Innovation Center and gathered about 20 000 participants, including young scientists, innovators and technology entrepreneurs from 80 countries.
Students and young scientists from the flagship university took part in the events, and presented their projects.
The Startup Village business program included about 150 interactive sessions that focused on researching technology trends, establishing new markets, transforming business models and integrating breakthrough technologies into business practices - from dealing with incurable diseases to virtual reality. Members of the student delegation learned how to create their own chat-bot, why the artificial intelligence will soon replace a lot of jobs, how to start work in a large innovative company and much more.
Innovators of the flagship university presented an energy-efficient crushing and grinding complex for grinding construction materials at the «Competition of Companies» held in the framework of the conference. Unique equipment allows you to reduce energy costs by 40%. 30 patents have been received for development. The crushing and grinding complex was introduced at the enterprises «Roscement», «EcoCement» and «Building materials». Five Moscow investors were interested in the project At Startup Village.
The results of the participation in the event were discussed with vice-rector for innovation Tatyana Davydenko. During the meeting, proposals were put forward to develop innovative youth activities in BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov and the Belgorod region.