Kirill Komarov, First Deputy CEO for Corporate Development and International Business, Rosatom State Corporation
Today, Rosatom is a global technology corporation with a broad range of expertise and high-end solutions capable of becoming the foundation of innovative development for the domestic market of products and services and ensuring Russia’s foothold in the global market in the future.
First of all, I am speaking about the development of Rosatom’s new business segments, the so-called nuclear non-energy and non-nuclear segments. These segments include nuclear medicine, radiation technology in agriculture, sterilization of medical instruments, technologies for water treatment and desalination, additive technologies, “new energy” technologies, information technology, service/production of equipment for gas petrochemistry, solutions for security systems and others.
Rosatom believes its proactive attitude to new sectors to be a way of ensuring the emergence of new commercially successful fields of business through the resources of the traditional nuclear energy business. The State Corporation’s activities in the area of new businesses correspond with Russia’s national strategy and global technology trends and are capable of making a significant contribution to ensuring national security and a high standard of living, along with (as well as) developing industries within the new technological framework.
The core message of the forum: “High Technology for Sustainable Development”. Maintaining the eco-friendly energy balance is the only way for the sustainable development and conservation of global ecosystems. Green power is what can make the transition to the model of environmentally sustainable development possible. In addition to cutting-edge projects in the field of nuclear energy which has rightly earned a place in the series of “green” types of energy, our company is engaged in the development of non-nuclear power generation. In 2016, Rosatom was awarded a contract for the construction of three wind parks in southern Russia, with a scope of investment totaled EUR 1 billion. Another “green” area of Rosatom’s energy business is the projects in the field of small-scale hydroelectric engineering. Thus, nowadays, Rosatom is one of the world's major low-carbon energy producers.
It is by no accident that, in 2017, the Forum will be jointly organized with the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects and the Russian Venture Company. What connects the State Corporation with the activities of the ASI and RVC is the implementation of the National Technology Initiative (NTI), which is aimed at integrating Russia into the process of shaping future global markets and allowing Russian companies to gain a significant share of those markets. Today, out of the ten NTIs that have been developed, intersections with the State Corporation’s strategic development areas are present in the following initiatives: Energynet, Technet, Healthnet, Marinet, Safenet.
The joint organization of NDExpo 2017 will promote the NTI ideology along with projects both in the nuclear industry and among Russian partners of the Corporation (Gazprom, Rosneft, Rosseti, Russian Railways, United Shipbuilding Corporation, United Aircraft Corporation, etc.). The platform itself has the potential to become one of the principal platforms for discussing key challenges, prospects and areas of Russia’s innovative and technical development, as well as the building site for professional NTI communities.
I am positive that NDExpo 2017 will identify the points of mutually beneficial cooperation, promote deeper involvement of large state-owned companies in the implementation of the global NTI agenda, search for high-quality projects for the implementation of the NTI roadmaps, expand the pool of experts for the development of “common” products and promote the achievement of first-priority project objectives.
I wish for interesting meetings, bright discussions, and successful and fruitful work for our participants!