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TAdviser summIT 2026: presenting as evidence for the talent visa

Conference

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2026: Tadviser Conferences (IT, AI, digitalization)tadvisersummit.ru

From the organiser's official site

What the organisation itself states on its site tadvisersummit.ru. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.

Organiser
The summit organiser is TAdviser.ru, which the site describes as a knowledge base and publication on corporate IT.
Date and venue
At the time of reading the site announces the summit on November 26 (2026) in Moscow, themed "Results of the Year and Plans for 2027"; the spring 2026 summit is in the archive as "TAdviser SummIT 2026 (May)".
Frequency
TAdviser SummIT is held twice a year (spring or early summer, and November); the summit site archive lists editions from 2016.
Format
A plenary where, per the announcement, CIOs of large companies and government bodies speak, then themed sessions (IT in industry, banking, retail, etc.), an exhibition and the TAdviser IT Prize ceremony.
Audience
According to the site: 1,500+ participants, 120+ speakers, 10 themed sessions, 50+ partners.
How speakers are selected
The site has a "talk application" form (session, talk title and abstract); talks and sponsorship share one contact address. No talk selection or programme committee is described.
Entry fee
Free for customer representatives (subject to confirmation); IT company staff pay 30,000 roubles per delegate (incl. 5% VAT), 10% off for 3 delegates, a free ticket when paying for 4 or more.
Proceedings
The page read mentions no proceedings; it has video and photo report sections.
  • The site describes the summit as a venue for a select circle of IT customers and suppliers.
  • The partner block lists general partners, session partners, exhibition partners and media partners.
  • The page numbers the TAdviser IT Prize ceremony at the summit inconsistently: "fourteenth" in the description and "ninth" in the prize section.
  • Main announced themes: digitalisation under sanctions, the largest state and business IT projects, replacing foreign solutions, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI in business processes.
  • Announced speakers include the Digital Development Minister, executives and CIOs of banks (VTB, Sovcombank, BCS Bank), industrial and retail companies (UEC, VSMPO-AVISMA, RUSAL, M.Video) and government bodies (the Federal Treasury).
  • The page lists IT company exhibition stands (Lukomorye, BASIS, RTK-DC, 1C-Rarus, TrueConf, etc.).

Source: the organiser's site tadvisersummit.ru (pages /), 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

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2005 [© notice on the site]

Collected automatically from the sources shown, checked 2026-09-09; not a USCIS assessment.

A talk at TAdviser summIT 2026 can support the original-contribution criterion and its proceedings the authorship criterion, if speakers at TAdviser summIT 2026 are selected and you presented your own significant work.

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