Startup Village will take place on 28–29 May at the Technopark of Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation Centre and Technosad. For the first time, the event will be held in the format of a technology festival. Major companies will publicly formulate tasks and define budgets, while developers will offer ready-made solutions tailored to their needs.
The organisers expect more than 8,000 participants and around 3,000 start-ups. The programme includes over 2,000 targeted business meetings and more than 100 sessions. Registration for the event is open on the official
website.
The first day of the festival will focus on the open formulation of technological demand. Representatives of corporations will present specific requests for pilot projects, implementation, or direct sales. The second day will be devoted to presentations of solutions from technology companies.
The substantive programme is divided into six demand tracks: products, new markets, science, talents, the creative agenda, and infrastructure. The main discussion platform will be the “Technological Leadership Stage”, where participants will discuss the transition from one-off deals to systemic mechanisms – the creation of R&D consortia (associations of scientific and educational organisations and companies for joint research and development activities), industry standards, workforce training programmes, and infrastructure alliances.
Among the key topics of the business programme are industrial artificial intelligence, digital twins, fintech, cybersecurity, space technologies, and robotics. The event will also feature the first presentation of a pilot version of the annual analytical product, the “Demand Index”. It will demonstrate which technologies are in corporate demand based on direct requests from Russia’s largest companies. The index is expected to become fully operational in 2027. The pilot review based on the results of 2025 will demonstrate the methodology and logic behind the future product.
TV BRICS is acting as the international media partner of Startup Village 2026. The International Media Network consistently contributes to the coverage and promotion of technological innovation in the information space. Thus, TV BRICS released the Laboratorium series dedicated to advanced developments and scientific discoveries by Russian researchers. In the first season of the television project, viewers explored topics ranging from phytotron chambers for accelerated crop growth to black holes in the Universe. In the second season, audiences saw a 3D printer for constructing houses, a nanosatellite capable of detecting forest fires through smoke and clouds, and much more. The programme is produced using artificial intelligence.