Published on: 2026-09-04
Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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The XI Eastern Economic Forum concluded in Vladivostok. This year, it was attended by more than 9,000 guests from 78 countries. A total of 318 agreements were signed, amounting to nearly 7 trillion rubles.
The business program included more than 150 events. An associate professor from the Higher School of Technosphere Safety and the Higher School of Atomic and Thermal Power Engineering at SPbPU participated in two of them. Khashayar Sadeghi.
On September 4, the final day of the forum, a session titled “Technologies That Don’t Exist Yet: INTs ‘Russian’ as a Territory of First Solutions” took place. The moderator was Maria Kudryavtseva, a presenter from the Russia 24 TV channel.
The session participants discussed who should take on the initial risks in creating new technologies, how the objectives for breakthrough developments are formulated, and what is needed for scientific teams, developments, and productions capable of shaping new markets to emerge precisely in the Far East.
The discussion was opened by the Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Aleksey Chekunkov. He is confident that the proximity of the Asia-Pacific region creates demand for breakthrough developments by Russian scientists.
It is important to rely on several principles: we have world-class brains, there is demand, the market is nearby, and there are people to sell to and products to sell. We are here, in the Asia-Pacific region, right at the heart. If you consider who can be reached within three hours from here, we’re talking about billions of people and billions of dollars. But there is also extremely high competition here. And to win in this competition, very precise government decisions are needed, the minister believes.
Alexey Chekunkov is confident that Russian scientific teams can develop technologies comparable in level to those of Samsung or Novo Nordisk, but the state must create conditions for the emergence of such teams.
We will strive for three things: first, to make these teams want to come, to see a prospect here for themselves; second, to provide everything necessary for scientific and technological work; and third, to direct the full power of the Russian state to ensure that Russian business supports them, — emphasized the head of the department.
The conversation was joined by Elena Kharisova, CEO of the Development Fund for the Russian Innovative Science and Technology Center, Ekaterina Minskaia, chief research fellow at the Translational Medicine Research Center of the Sirius Science and Technology University, Andrey Tkachenko, science advisor to the Development Fund of the Russian Innovative Science and Technology Center, and Khashayar Sadeghi, associate professor at Polytech and specialist in nuclear energy.
In response to a question about what work at the INTs “Russky” can attract promising scientists or international research groups, Khashayar Sadeghi emphasized that what primarily attracts scientists is a large-scale technological challenge. Such challenges exist in the Far East: digital twins and intelligent modeling of energy facilities, artificial intelligence in energy, hybrid and hydrogen systems. All these projects can be implemented with the participation of foreign researchers. The Far East is perfectly suited for this because large energy facilities are being built here, and proximity to Asian scientific and industrial partners significantly simplifies international cooperation.
My proposal is to establish a national laboratory for artificial intelligence for advanced engineering technologies within twelve months in the near future to develop technologies and business in the region, — says Sadeghi.
The Associate Professor of the Polytechnic noted that if 20 years ago a scientist could think only about science, not business or end products, today, in 2026, scientists must simultaneously respond to both scientific and business demands. Creating technologies that can be implemented is the main task of the modern researcher, the polytechnic expert is convinced.
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