Dmitry Fedorov: I want our jewelry to be displayed at a museum in the future

Dmitry Fedorov is the founder of the eponymous jewelry house. His main focus is the creation of Orthodox-inspired premium luxury jewelry of high artistic merit. He told Rough&Polished about his journey in the jewelry industry, about choosing the ‘Orthodox...

28 october 2024

Responsible business practices ‘no longer optional’, says WDC President Feriel Zerouki

The president of the World Diamond Council takes time out of her busy schedule to tell Rough&Polished readers about the critical work of the WDC. Zerouki, the first female present of the body, which includes all the important industry organizations among...

14 october 2024

James Campbell: Botswana Diamonds optimistic as it enters uncharted territory of using AI for mineral exploration

London-listed Botswana Diamonds has expressed optimism about the company’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the exploration database in Botswana to look for new mineralised deposits. Company managing director James Campbell told Rough...

07 october 2024

Artur Salyakayev: For me, happiness is freedom to make my ideas happen and create valuable products

Artur Salyakayev is an art entrepreneur, founder of the International Jewelry Academy (IJA) and the INCRUA jewelry company. He has initiated and developed successful projects in jewelry industry and services sector. He is also a leading expert...

30 september 2024

Paul Zimnisky: China key for sustained recovery in demand for natural diamonds, prices

The curtailing of upstream and midstream natural diamond production in the past months is starting to have an effect on prices, according to the New-York-based independent diamond and jewellery analyst and consultant, Paul Zimnisky. He told Rough & Polished’s...

23 september 2024

The conference on innovative technologies TECH WEEK-2022 to discuss new challenges for business

26 april 2022
The applied conference and exhibition on innovative technologies for business will be held in the Skolkovo Technopark from May 31 to June 2.
The largest conference of technologies for business in Russia will be attended by 250 speakers who will discuss work in the context of import substitution.
Among them: Andrey Kuzyaev, President of Er-Telecom Holding; Denis Kutergin, founder of YouDo; Vyacheslav Bocharov, co-founder of the Scooter service, as well as speakers from Yandex Cloud, VK, Roistat, Netology, Cognitive Technologies.
"We have revised the conference program to meet the main request of the business audience - how to adapt to changes in the era of turbulence and find new opportunities. We invited experts from leading companies who will replace products in different market segments with domestic analogues, worked out topics for solving practical business problems. In addition, TECH WEEK is still not only an educational event, but also a platform for professional communication and networking. For these purposes, special projects have been created: Speed Networking, Mentor Lounge, Career Consultations, Afterparty," commented Oleg Petryashev, CEO of Technocrat.

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