On February 4, 2011 Sergey Chirikov and Alexander Ratakhin, top
executives of EleSy, took part in a round table discussion on on
the topic "Training Staff for an Innovative Economy", which
included a Moscow-Tomsk video conference. The event was associated
with an opening ceremony of RIA Novosti's Regional Media Center in
Tomsk. Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko,
RusNano and Skolkovo top executives gathered in a Moscow studio to
take part in the video conference. Joining the conference from the
studio in Tomsk were top officials from Tomsk and the Tomsk Region,
including Governor Viktor Kress and speakers of the Tomsk regional
and city legislatures, rectors of Tomsk universities and heads of
innovative companies.