I welcome all the participants of Russian International Energy Forum (RIEF), Municipal Housing Complex of Russia International Exhibition, Corrosion Protection International Exhibition & Congress and Svarka/Welding International Exhibition!
In compliance with the tradition, in April Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre holds major events related to the fuel and energy industry and the municipal housing sector. All the mentioned events arranged in the same place contribute to effective build-up of inter-industry cooperation and help the participants join efforts in finding answers to the current challenges.
RIEF 2025, one of the biggest projects in the fuel and energy sphere, is powered by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation and the Government of St. Petersburg. It will cover every problem that the Russian fuel and energy sector is currently dealing with.
The convention program includes over 18 events, but the key one is going to be the Energy of the Future: Sustainable Development, Innovations and Global Challenges plenary session.
Municipal Housing Complex of Russia Exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation and the Government of St. Petersburg. Its convention program comprises 16 events, although the focus will be on the matters associated with implementation of Infrastructure for Live new national project, as well as federal programs aimed at upgrade of the municipal housing infrastructure and territories beautification.
Svarka/Welding Exhibition will bring together top specialists of the industry in the world’s welding capital. It is in St. Petersburg that Russian engineer Nikolay Benardos invented electric arc welding and upgraded other welding technologies. His followers will perform some demonstration welding right in the pavilion.
The agenda for Corrosion Protection Exhibition & Congress embraces 7 topic-based events, two of them being the seminar-meeting on corrosion protection and monitoring in gas distribution networks and the Closed meeting of the Working Group of SC 4 Pipes with corrosion-proof coatings. Moreover, zinc-coating workshops will be arranged as part of the Exhibition.
The joint exposition of the Power & Electrical Engineering Exhibition as part of RIEF, Municipal Housing Complex of Russia Exhibition, Corrosion Protection Exhibition & Congress, Svarka/Welding Exhibition, HI-TECH Innovation Exhibition, as well as St. Petersburg Technical Fair, will occupy an area of 8,000 sq. m and will be participated by 200 companies from Russia, Belarus, China, India and Iran.
Energy of Victory: Restoration exposition will take place during RIEF 2025. There, unique archived materials and exhibits from the times of the Siege of Leningrad and the period of its restoration that followed will be showcased.
For the first time during RIEF, BIZON Exhibition Companies Group is organising Integrated Protection Systems for Fuel and Energy Facilities Specialised Exhibition. There, technologies meant to protect critical facilities from UAV attacks and unauthorized access, monitoring and fire-fighting systems will be displayed.
The Business Matchmaking Centre will once again open at the venue. Over 1,000 face-to-face meetings have already been registered to take place between suppliers of advanced solutions for the fuel & energy and the municipal housing sectors, and their major Russian customers.
In total, all the events will be attended by more than 8,000 specialists from 12 countries.
I wish all of you yielding work, useful meetings and energetic mood!
Sergey Voronkov,
CEO, ExpoForum International,
President, Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs