Business program (Provisional)
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31 May
09.00 – Registration, Welcome coffee.
09.30 – Ceremonial opening of the Congress. Greetings of the organizers and participants.
PLENARY SESSION
09:30 – 11:30
Strategic development of Physical Culture and Sport in the Russian Federation.
- Implementation of Federal Target Program “Development of Physical Culture and Sport in the Russian Federation in 2016-2020”;
- Work and priorities of Olympic Committee up to 2020;
- Status and the development prospects of winter sports in regions of Russia (Sheregesh, Kemerovo Oblast);
- Investments in the domestic ski industry development.
- Ski Industry in People’s Republic of China: perspectives for business cooperation and development vector (representative of PRC);
- High-performance sports as instrument of global politics: new challenges and forecasts;
- North Caucasus resorts as tourism cluster for development tourism potential of Russia;
- Government and business investment in development of tourist infrastructure of winter sports;
- Mass sports development program «Sport for everyone»;
- How national Russian teams prepare for the new winter season? What challenges are facing the teams in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea?
11:30
The International Congress of Winter Sports, Tourism, and Active Recreation «Sports Industry Leaders» Award Ceremony. Part One.
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break.
12:00-14:00
Topical issues of winter sports development.
Questions for discussion (to be confirmed):
- Logistical base of figure skating in Russia;
- Training programs for hockey players of different age groups. Experience and peculiarity of training in Finland, Canada, Sweden, and other countries;
- The 2018 European Figure Skating Championships: forecasts and phases of training;
- The movement towards Canadian model hockey rinks: opportunities and negative factors;
- Establishment of training centers for hockey players in Russia: Yaroslavl, far East, Siberia, the Urals;
- Development of the Russian snowboarding: plans and prospects;
- The main aspects of Russian national freestyle skiing team training;
- Organization of curling training process and competitions for it;
- Organization of lessons of Physical Education based on hockey;
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch, time for free communication.
SESSION MEETINGS
15:00 – 17:00
Hall 1. Economics and management of sports facilities: efficient commercial exploitation of sports facilities.
Questions for discussion:
- The evolution of sports facilities into universal parks and recreation zones;
- Self-sufficiency of an ice arena;
- Marketing as a management tool;
- Sales management and determination of optimal pricing policies;
- Alternative sources of income: the unusual events at sports venues;
- Promotion in social networks and trend management;
- Management of the facility at the design stage;
- Sport as a profitable project;
- Stadium automated control system as a mean of cost ownership reducing.
15:00 – 17:00
Hall 2. Modern technologies in the equipment of sports facilities.
Questions for discussion:
- Providing sports facilities with GIS;
- Application of advanced technologies for dubbing sports events and online broadcasting;
- Cyber-defense of major championships online broadcasts;
- Experience of innovative technologies application for sports facilities;
- Implementation of intelligent management systems;
- Sports facilities and stadiums management;
- Innovative technologies based on modern multiservice network;
- Building automated systems for large sports facilities;
- Operating costs reduction through the implementation of energy efficient technologies.
15:00 – 17:00
Hall 3. Sports facilities security provision.
Questions for discussion:
- Specifics of sports facilities security provision during major sporting events;
- IT-technologies for sports facilities security provision;
- Security systems, means of visualization, and video monitoring of sports facilities;
- Protection of the external and internal perimeter of the sports facility;
- Automatic access control systems;
- The integrated management system of sports facility: control of access and monitoring.
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break.
17:30 – 19:00
Hall 1. Education and training of sports reserve.
Questions for discussion:
- Successful experience of sports preparation center management;
- System of sport education and sports professionals training during the period of the economic crisis;
- System of trainings for coaches, qualification upgrade of the coaching staff;
- System of trainings for athletes. Psychological preparation of athletes;
- Children transportation. Specifics of the new law, the implementation in practice;
- The technology of forming of efficient teams.
17:30 – 19:00
Hall 2. Development of mass amateur sports.
Questions for discussion:
- How has increased the interest in winter sports?
- What sports competitions and mass event in sphere of different sports are being prepared by Federations?
- Deficiency of volume in mass sports. Will there be funding?
- Ski schools for adults.
19:30 – 20:00
Gathering of guests for the Award Ceremony «Sports Industry Leaders»
20:00 – 23:00
The gala dinner. International Congress of Winter Sports, Tourism, and Active Recreation «Sports Industry Leaders» award ceremony. Part Two.
1 June
09:30 – 10:00 — Welcome coffee.
10:00 – 12:00
Зал 1. Hall 1. Round table: Ski Industry in Russia: Developments and prospects
Questions for discussion:
- Improving of the ski resorts investment attractiveness
- Increasing of the business profitability, ensuring maximum all year round occupancy of the ski resorts.
- MICE as a direction of business tourism, cooperation of the ski resorts with the tourist community.
- Development of the ski resorts on Kamchatka(Ski resorts: «Avachinsky» and «Sedlo-Moroznaya»
- New resorts entering market difficulties (Ski resort «Dmitrovskie Alpy»)
- Creation of the economic model of the projected ski complexes or model of economic development of the existing one.
- Ski resorts exploitation problems
- Development of the ski resorts in regions (describing examples of some resorts). Problems and ways of solving.
10:00 – 12:00
Hall 2. Round table: Ice arenas.
Questions for discussion:
- Advanced technologies in production and exploitation of sport ice in arenas.
- Exploitation of Ice Arena in modern conditions
- Occupancy of Ice Arenas
- Preparation of the ice arenas for high-level competitions
- And so on
12:00 – 12:30 – Coffee break.
12:30 – 14:30
Hall 1. Round table: promotion and popularization of ski tourism. Development of the event-based and sports tourism of ski complexes.
Questions for discussion:
- Program for Youth Engagement
- Successful example of ski complex
- Development of the amateur sports and freestyle
- Sport holidays at ski resort
- And so on
12:30 – 14:30
Hall 1. Round table: Development of the domestic manufacturing of the ski equipment.
Questions for discussion:
- Background of the question, current status and prospects
- Development of the real business projects(2-3 examples): major problems and possible solutions
- Support measures for Russian manufacturers.
- Production localization and Technology transfer.
- And so on
14:30 – 15:30 Lunch, time for free communication.
15:30 – 17:30
Legislative and normative issues of regulation activities of winter sports industry.
Questions for discussion:
- GOST 55881-2016. Tourism services, general requirements requirements for ski complexes activities.
- Certification of the ski complexes for compliance with GOST.
- Professional standards for guide-instructor
- Safety measures on mountain slopes
- New approach to inspection of the commercial organization.
- Timely taxation of sports institutions
17:30 – 18:30
Hall 2. Master-class. (Topic is clarifying).
18:30
End of the Congress sessions, cocktail party.
2 июня.
Visiting sports objects. Excursion program.