A Startup Show will be held at a forum for the self-employed in Omsk

For the first time, the authors of startup projects will compete for services worth 100,000 rubles from the My Business center in Omsk at the Busy Yourself forum.

On March 30, the Omsk Regional Congress Hall will host the "Self-employed" forum for those who work for themselves and are thinking about switching to a new taxation system – the professional income tax.

The forum was organized as part of a national project to support small and medium-sized businesses by the My Business Center in Omsk (the Omsk Region Entrepreneurship Support Fund) and the regional branch of Opora Russia with the assistance of the regional Ministry of Economy and is being held in our region for the second time. The first forum for the self-employed was held in Omsk in an online format on October 15, 2020. Participation is free for everyone. 600 people have already registered for the forum. The main part of the events is focused on the offline format, but those who wish will be able to connect to the forum online. The forum events will be held simultaneously at three venues in order to comply with sanitary and epidemiological requirements and provide the most useful information not only for beginners, but also for the active self-employed. As noted in the regional Ministry of Economy, a special tax regime in the region was introduced in the Omsk region last year. Today, more than 21,000 self-employed people work in the region.

"We have tried to identify the issues that the already self-employed face. That is why the Forum will have more ready-made cases on how to build sales, use a personal brand, and keep up with everything when you work alone. We have created a separate platform for the beauty industry, because a large number of the self-employed are employed in this field. The program is very intense and will be held in three halls at once, on the one hand, it allows you to disperse participants in areas of interest to them, on the other hand, to fulfill the restrictions," said the chairman of the Omsk regional branch of OPORa Russia

At the first site, invited business experts, a representative of the My Business center, and a specialist in social media promotion, will share their experiences and useful practical information that will help them develop their business without making the same mistakes. Students will learn about why it is profitable to become self-employed in 2021. The venue will be held in the plenary hall on the fourth floor.

On the second floor, in the small hall of the Congress Hall on the third floor, there will be a mentor's lounge, which can be accessed by appointment. Aspiring entrepreneurs and the self-employed can talk with well-known Omsk entrepreneurs and industry experts and get valuable advice in a one-on-one format. Each of the eight experts (entrepreneurs Yuri Shiyan, Igor Semakin, Aizhan Azenova, Denis Moiseev, Alexander Deryabin, Maria Desenko, Anna Tarasenko, Anton Samoilov) will have four 15-minute sessions with aspiring entrepreneurs. Mentors will share their experience, knowledge, proven business tools, and answer questions.

A "Startup Show" will be held here, in the small hall, after the mentoring lounge. Aspiring Omsk entrepreneurs who decide to compete for useful prizes to start a business will present their ideas to the experts, who will select the three best startup projects.

"The winners will receive one of the services from the My Business center to choose from, equivalent in value to 100,000 rubles - trademark registration, brandbook development, or placement of the winner's product on key marketplaces in Russia - Ozon, Wild B erries," the Omsk My Business Center notes.

On the third site, in the blue hall of the Congress Hall on the third floor, the forum participants will be told about life hacks for a successful start of a new business, and the registered self-employed will share their work experience in a new status. In addition, the forum will also feature a consultation area where participants will be advised by a specialist from the My Business Center in Omsk.

The Busy Yourself Forum will end with a presentation of the club for the self-employed and the beauty industry committee at the Omsk regional branch of OPORA Russia.