Representatives of seven foreign countries will take part in the INNOSIB International Forum.

Omsk will host guests from Egypt and Kazakhstan, and representatives from India, Greece, Great Britain, Morocco and the Republic of Korea will join the forum via video link.

The electronic registration of delegates of the X International Forum of Social Entrepreneurs and Investors INNOSIB has been completed, which will allow organizing work in a remote and face-to-face format.

Trained volunteers will monitor compliance with sanitary standards. They will perform thermometry, distribute masks, distribute the flows of participants, ensure safe seating for guests, ventilate the premises and treat them after each event.

A plenary session of the Forum dedicated to the national development goals of the country will be held in the Congress Hall on October 22. Representatives of more than 20 Russian regions and experts from Egypt and Kazakhstan will participate in the business program of the key day of the forum. Experts from India, Greece, Great Britain, Morocco and the Republic of Korea will participate in the online discussion.

A panel discussion dedicated to overcoming the quarantine crisis by social entrepreneurs aroused great interest among the participants. It will begin at 12 o'clock in the White Hall on the third floor and will be led by Olga Shchedrina, Program Director of ANO New Development Technologies (Moscow). At the same time, issues related to the development of women's social entrepreneurship will be discussed in the assembly hall with the participation of the delegation of the Union of Women of Russia headed by Ekaterina Lakhova and representatives of the Alliance of Women's Forces of Kazakhstan. Satyajit Magumdar, a professor from India who studies the labor market, will speak online on the anti-crisis agenda, and Aziza Shuzheeva, PhD in Economics, head of the Digital Transformation Public Foundation from the Republic of Kazakhstan, will talk about the women's association in person.

After lunch, Philip Clegg, Dean of the Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship at the University of Huddersfield from Great Britain, and Manolis Tsouvelekas, an expert on social innovation from Greece, will participate in an online discussion on improving the effectiveness of social entrepreneurship.

At the official closing of the forum on October 22 at 16.20 in the Great Hall (4th floor), the results will be summed up, and a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the regional stage of the competition "Best Social Project-2021" will be held.

All anti-bullying rules will be observed on the first "information and educational" day of the Forum on October 21. The Omsk Union of Journalists will hold the main events of the Media Festival at the Regional Public Relations Center. Programs for students and aspiring journalists will be concentrated in the classrooms of Omsk State University and the House of Journalists at 34 Lenin Street. Taking into account the exhibitions, 8 thematic platforms dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Omsk press have been organized.

In parallel, on the same day, starting at 12 o'clock, the Omsk CISS organizes master classes for social entrepreneurs in the Business Incubator (111 Chapaeva St.).

All key INNOSIB events will be broadcast on the Internet, and thousands of residents of Russian regions and foreign countries will attend the Omsk Forum virtually.