Crowdcult 2013: The Year of Crowdfunding in Russia
During Russian Internet Week (RIW), on October 19th, 2013, the first ever professional crowdfunding conference will take place in Moscow, Russia. Titled Crowdcult 2013 the seminal event is being sponsored by leading Russian crowdfunding platform Planeta.ru and the Russian Association of Crowdfunders (RAC).
Some of the topics of discussion for the conference include challenges regarding encouraging a crowdfunding culture, the current Russian crowdfunding market, financial aspects of crowdfunding, new approaches for crowdfunding along with a discussion on investment crowdfunding.
Speakers and participants include:
- RVC
- Yandex.Money
- Mail.RU.Group
- Boomstarter,
- Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
- Venture Kitchen
- HSE Innovation and Enterprise Office (INEO)
- RUSNANO
- Likeandpay.ru
- and many others
A special video conference and roundtable on “Media and Crowdfunding” will include the participation of Scott McIntyre from the CfPA.
The event will be held at the Expocenter in Moscow. More information is available on the RIW site.