Speech of Trade representative of the Russian Federation in Sweden Alexander Katasov The Third Annual Russian-Swedish Investment Forum was held on November 20th and 21st 2013 at the Trade Representation of the Russian Federation in Sweden. The main subject of the Forum this year became investments into energy efficiency and clean-tech, and it is no coincidence: on the one hand, Sweden has a reputation as one of the world leaders in clean-tech development and adoption. On the other hand, Russian participants express growing interest in the subject.
Speech of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Sweden Besides the main event of the Forum — its plenary session, arranged at the Trade Representation on November 21st, the Russian participants took part in a series of introductory visits, seminars and negotiations with Swedish partners involved into clean-tech and energy efficiency.
Presentation by Deputy Director of the Department of Special Economic Zones and Regional Development Projects Vadim Tretyakov. Particularly, the Russian delegation visited office of Norra Djurgårdstaden Innovation Company and took part in the seminar devoted to construction project of new district of residential settlement and business quarter “Royal Sea Port of Stockholm”. This new Stockholm district is designed in the spirit of sustainable cities concept where cutting-edge technologies of energy efficiency and resource-saving are applied.
Presentation by Deputy Director of Export Financing Department of Vnesheconombank Daniil Algulyan. Energy company Fortum made a presentation of Intelligent Networks. During the meeting at the engineering and consulting company Sweco the Russian participants became familiar with a successful project of renovation of an old office building. During the Forum a visit to Lidingö municipality — one of the leading local governments in the field of resource-saving and environmental policy — was arranged. From the seminar arranged by Lidingö city hall the Russian participants learned about municipal efforts to increase energy efficiency and implementation of sustainable development solutions of municipal services.
During the Forum the Russian Trade Representation in Sweden organized and arranged several business missions, particularly, business mission of State Corporation — Fund of Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reforms, Technopromimport (Federal State Unitary Enterprise), agricultural enterprises from Rostov region, meeting of the Russian-Swedish Business Council members.
Presentation by Ericsson Vice-President Ulf Pehrsson The plenary session gathered about 80 participants including Deputy Director of the Department of Special Economic Zones and Regional Development Projects Vadim Tretyakov, Deputy Director of Export Financing Department of Vnesheconombank Daniil Algulyan, Executive Secretary of the Russian-Swedish Business Council Dmitry Suchkov, Vice-President of Ericsson Group Ulf Pehrsson, President of SveBio Association Gustav Melin, representatives of State Corporation — Fund of Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reforms, representatives of Russian and Swedish companies, associations and mass-media. The plenary session included more than 20 presentations and speeches as well as a series of separate negotiations between Russian and Swedish participants.
Presentation by the Area Manager of Sweco Company Ann-Charlotte Andersson The Third Russian-Swedish Investment Forum and events related to the Forum will further the development of successful Russian-Swedish cooperation in the field of energy efficiency and clean-tech.
Christofer Rhén, Strategic Development Director of Opcon Company
Bengt Malmberg, Business Development Director of Sustainable Business Hub
Presentation by “StroyTransKomplekt” LLC
Presentation of agricultural projects in Rostov region
Tatyana Malakhova, representative of “Region of Development” Company
Viktor Afanasenko, President of Pushkin and Pavlovsk Chamber of Industry and Commerce