The Regional Congress Hall became the main business venue in 2019.

The Omsk Region Development and Investment Agency has conducted more than 200 events in the field of exhibition, fair and congress activities.

"Convention and exhibition activities play a significant role in the region, because this area is so important for the business community. Conferences, forums, seminars, and training sessions promote entrepreneurship, expand access of SMEs to financial resources, including concessional financing, and improve business conditions in the Omsk Region," said Evgeny Kovtun, Director General of the Agency for Development and Investment.

The list of annual events includes the Omsk IT Forum, the entrepreneurship Forum Svoe Delo – Your Success, the International Forum of Social Entrepreneurs and Investors INNOSIB, as well as the traditional Siberian agrotechnical exhibition-fair AgroOmsk.

It should be noted that in 2019, the Agency implemented three new projects - the Open Innovations Startup Tour "Digital Region"'19, the International Exhibition "Sport and Active Recreation" and the workshop "ZaZelo" - shock marketing.

Thus, the Agency became a co-organizer of the Open Innovations Startup Tour "Digital Region"'19, a competition aimed at developing technological entrepreneurship and identifying promising innovative projects and startups in the region. Also, as the main exhibition operator, the Agency organized the international exhibition "Sports and Active Recreation", which was held as part of the XXX Siberian International Marathon. In November 2019, the Agency's team held the first workshop in Omsk, "Zaelo" - impact marketing, which brought together about 500 entrepreneurs on one site. Well-known practitioners, Roman Pivovarov, Denis Batalin and Sergey Shushin, performed at the regional Congress Hall as part of the workshop. It should be noted that this event was held within the framework of the national project "Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support for individual Entrepreneurial initiative" and the federal project "My Business", which are aimed at comprehensively improving the business climate in Russia.

This year, the site of the regional Congress Hall became the place of honor for the business part of the XVI Forum of Interregional Cooperation of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan with the participation of the Heads of State. The Agency for Development and Investment provided not only conference rooms, but also acted as an exhibition operator. For example, in the exhibition "High Technologies: opportunities for the regions of Russia and Kazakhstan", which was held as part of the Forum. 38 exhibitors took part in the exhibition: 17 companies from the Republic of Kazakhstan and 21 representatives of the Russian Federation. Omsk Region and 4 other border regions: Altai Territory, Chelyabinsk, Saratov and Orenburg presented export and investment opportunities.

"In July, the traditional 17th Siberian Agrotechnical Exhibition and Fair AgroOmsk was held, which was attended by more than 400 enterprises and resulted in more than 100 contracts for the supply of agricultural machinery, food and equipment. The event brought together about 120,000 Omsk residents and guests of our city, who were able to get acquainted with the latest Russian and foreign-made equipment, evaluate the development of the livestock industry, and purchase fresh products from agricultural producers. Representatives from 32 regions of Russia and entrepreneurs from the Republic of Kazakhstan took part in the agrotechnical exhibition. This indicates the popularity of the exhibition, and most importantly, it leads to an increase in contracts between agricultural enterprises and manufacturers of machinery and the food industry," said Evgeny Kovtun, General Director of the Agency.

The Regional Congress Hall is a platform for the active activity of the Omsk business community, where there is everything necessary to hold business and exhibition events of any level. Our mission is to help businessmen develop their businesses, promote their products to the sales markets and gain commercial benefits. Our goal is to provide a range of high—quality services to participants and visitors of business events that will help them solve key tasks: finding partners, market research, concluding trade deals and signing cooperation agreements.

We invite interested companies to cooperate in the implementation of their own exhibition and congress projects. We are confident that such events will become an effective tool for Omsk entrepreneurs in their professional activities, a path to success and a platform for the implementation of the most ambitious creative plans and ideas.