TAdviser summIT 2024: presenting as evidence for the talent visa
Conference
A reference card from our catalog.
From the organiser's official site
What the organisation itself states on its site tadvisersummit.ru. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.
- Organiser
- Organised by TAdviser, which the summit site describes as a knowledge base and the No. 1 Russian outlet on corporate IT.
- Date and venue
- November 28, 2024, Moscow ("Results of the year and plans 2025").
- Format
- A plenary and sessions: cloud, IT in industry, banking, retail/e-commerce and government, "Digitalisation 4.0", business-process digitalisation and import substitution.
- How speakers are selected
- Talks are proposed through the site's "Talk proposal" form (section, title and abstract); the site does not say how proposals are selected.
- Fees for speakers
- The summit site states no price for speaking or sponsorship packages; talks and sponsorship are to be discussed with the organiser.
- Entry fee
- Attendance is free for customer representatives (subject to the organisers' confirmation); for ICT companies it is 29,000 roubles per person.
- Proceedings
- The summit site pages read mention no proceedings; the menu has photo and video reports.
- This edition had a separate session on cloud technology (what Russian cloud providers and SaaS developers offer); the other themes were sanctions, import substitution, infrastructure and cybersecurity.
- The speaker list has more than 100 people; it opens with the chair of the relevant State Duma committee and IT heads of Rosneft, Sibur, VSMPO-AVISMA, the Federal Treasury, Russian Post, Polyus and the Moscow Exchange.
- The summit included the tenth TAdviser IT Prize award ceremony.
- According to the site, IT directors of Russia's largest companies and government agencies speak in the plenary, followed by industry sections.
Source: the organiser's site tadvisersummit.ru (pages /a/2024-2), checked Oct 2, 2026; the version on the site applies.
What officers look at: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(v) - own work and how speakers were selected
What officers look at: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(vi) - scholarly article, peer review, readers, indexing
Facts from open sources
- Active since
- 2005 [© notice on the site]
Collected automatically from the sources shown, checked 2026-09-09; not a USCIS assessment.
A talk at TAdviser summIT 2024 can support the original-contribution criterion and its proceedings the authorship criterion, if speakers at TAdviser summIT 2024 are selected and you presented your own significant work.
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