“Leading specialists and experts involved in the stand’s events will discuss regional economic development, environmental and tourism issues, creative industries, the development of the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic’s human resources, including Northern indigenous peoples. A number of agreements will also be signed at the stand,” said Anton Kobyakov, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation and executive secretary of the organizing committee in charge of preparing for and supporting Russia’s Arctic Council chairmanship.
A conference on the development of the Arctic telecommunications and digitalization will become one of the stand’s main sessions. Its participants will discuss the introduction of digital technologies in the region, the use of telemedicine and unmanned transport systems, as well as other subjects. Those attending a seminar on Arctic shipbuilding and ship-repair projects will talk about expanded ship-repair services in the Arctic and efforts to build more ice-resistant ships. Participants in the PIEF’s creative business forum will discuss the prospects of creative industries in northern territories.
Those involved in the Think Arctic project at a session on international cooperation for sustainable Arctic development will discuss the region’s significance for international politics and the global economy, now that the Arctic is becoming more accessible, as well as its role in the context of the global energy transition.
Participants of The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue Forum will talk about the Arctic’s investment potential as a separate subject. The leaders of nine Russian Arctic territories will organize presentations for investors. Those attending a session on Arctic investment projects and preferential treatment will review the operation of the world’s largest special economic zone, climatic features of Arctic regions, as well as regional investment specifics.
Source: https://arctic.ru/economics/20220608/1001837.html.
