On the week of June 21 during his visit to the United States, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is going to visit the Silicon Valley.
For those who follows recent developments at the Russian technology sector, this visit echoes with one of the most daring and talked about projects in Russian Federation right now – building Russian version of the Silicon Valley, “Skolkovo”, just 12 miles outside of Moscow. Being very clear on importance of technology development in Russia, President Medvedev pays a special attention to this project.
Naming technology innovation as one of his key priorities, Medvedev plans to meet several prominent companies in the Bay Area and have a better “first hand” view on their technological and commercial advancement and the dynamics of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.
At the first glance these political news seem far from being of interest to eMazeU, a company which is dear to my heart and soul. However, presidential news brought an interesting twist to our recent development.
Prior to Medvedev’s trip to the USA, Russian television networks are doing a wide coverage of the planned trip and different topics of it are being discussed in the news. In particular, since technology agenda is very high on the President’s list, the networks show many items related to this subject.
Last week the crew from NTV, one of the major Russian TV channels with an audience of more than 100 million people, visited the Valley to create a report about Silicon Valley innovation and entrepreneurship.
During their 3 days tour of the Bay Area they visited several famous companies, such as Google. But also they wanted to meet some startups too and eMazeU made it to their list.
We were told that the report will be part of the weekly prime time news commentary program Itogi ("Summing up") and planned to be aired on Sunday June 20 at 7pm Moscow time. If you do not have a Russian NTV channel, you would be able to watch it online at http://www.ntv.ru/.
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