TAdviser summIT 2026: 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
- 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
- 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 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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