Ildar Khalikov met with officials of «OtterBox» company
27 October 2010, Wednesday
Today Head of Tatarstan government Ildar Khalikov met with officials of American company «OtterBox» in RT Cabinet. The company specializes in production of protective covers and cases for mobile telephones and other portable units of leading world producers.
USA delegation consisted of Director General of «OtterBox» company Kurt Richardson, President of the company Brian Tomas, COO Mathew Klark, Deputy Dean of State university of Colorado John Hawks Maier.
The parties discussed perspectives of cooperation. «OtterBox» company is interested in Russian market and Tatarstan market in particular.
Officials of «OtterBox» company are going to visit JSC “KMIZ”, Technopolis “Himgrad”, Technopark “Idea”, “IT-park”. Head of Tatarstan government advised to visit the Kazan Kremlin.
For information: «OtterBox» company (with headquarters in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) is a private company founded by Kurt Richardson in 1998.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
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On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.