21.10 – 23.10.2025 | Crocus Expo, Moscow

X THEATER FORUM

List of participating theaters and program

the THEATER FORUM SCHEDULE 2024

As part of the forum: analyses of the most interesting case studies in the renovation and re-equipment of cultural institutions, presentations of the latest equipment, meetings with potential clients, and tours of Moscow's theaters.

Program

MODERATORS:

Artur Ratke, Deputy Director for Theater Technology Development of the GA Maly Theater of Russia;
Sergey Samodov, Director of the Lomonosov Arkhangelsk Drama Theater. M.V. Lomonosov Drama Theater 

SEPTEMBER 17, TUESDAY


  • 11.00 - 11.30
  • REGISTRATION, COFFEE BREAK
  • 11.30 - 12.30
  • MV PROJECT: EXPERIENCE IN DESIGNING THEATER BUILDINGS IN TERMS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPER SELECTION OF DESIGN SOLUTIONS AT THE INITIAL STAGE OF WORK. PRELIMINARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WORK TO DETERMINE THE NEEDS OF THE CLIENT/USER AND TO DRAW UP A ROADMAP.

    DMITRY SHURYGIN AND OLEG SHURYGIN, FOUNDERS AND MANAGERS OF MV-PROJECT LTD.
  • 12.35 - 13.15
  • Theater Technological Systems: Stage. Technology. Innovations. 2024: non-standard solutions of technological equipment, review of successful re-equipment and reconstruction projects, ways of obtaining financing.

    Vitaly Yakunin, General Director of TTS
    Mikhail Vasiliev, TTS Development Director

  • 13.20 - 14.00
  • AVALON GROUP: PROFESSIONAL LINE OF EQUIPMENT FROM AVALON. "WHAT TO DO WHEN EUROPEAN EQUIPMENT STARTS TO LEAVE THE MARKET? CREATE YOUR OWN!"

    DMITRY LAKHOV, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF AVALON GROUP

  • 14.05 - 14.45
  • Sistema: How to make a stage you want to work on: 35 years of practical experience. computerized mechanical control system as an example of successful import substitution

    Alexey Levushov, Commercial Director, Firma Sistema LLC
    Alexander Shalin, Head of Control Systems Development at Firma Sistema LLC

  • 14.50 - 15.05
  • Octava: Octava professional microphones for theater equipment

    Pavel Belkov, Lead Engineer

  • 15.05 - 15.25
  • Q&A Session
  • 16.00 - 18.00
  • Technical tour
September 18, Wednesday


  • 11.00 - 11.15
  • Coffee break
  • 11.15 - 11.55
  • Doka Center: How to Reconstruct in the New Geopolitical Realities? Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, St. Petersburg.

    Alexander Fokichev, General Director of JSC Doka Center

  • 12.00 - 12.40
  • Aris: Delta method for assessing the quality of SRAM in theaters

    Evgeny Shuev, acoustic engineer, head of BAR (Bureau of Acoustic Calculations)

  • 12.45 - 13.00
  • ProTone: ProTone's theater sound solution

    Liliya Gaynutdinova, ProTone Product Manager

  • 13.05 - 13.45
  • Constage:
    1. Cases and trends of staging complex 2024 - sound
    2. Cases and trends of the production complex 2024 - light

    Nadezhda Rakhmanova, audio engineer
    ANTON POLYAKOV, CLAYPAKY Lighting Equipment Engineer
  • 13.50 - 14.05
  • LTM:Reliable solutions for theaters: Equipment and service under sanctions pressure

    Elena Kharitonova, Project Manager, LTM Music LLC
  • 14.10 - 14.25
  • Stroycirc:techno-economic problems in construction and reconstruction with cultural facilities /institutions

    TBA
  • 14.25 - 14.50
  • Q&A Session
  • 16.00 - 19.00
  • FREE TIME TO WORK ON STANDS
SEPTEMBER 19, THURSDAY
  • 11.00 - 11.15
  • Coffee break
  • 11.15 - 11.55
  • DealerCenter & TTT Group:Modern technologies in the theater. Composition of technical assignment. Examples of realization.

    Evgeny Mullin, Deputy General Director and Project Manager of JSC "Technics and Technologies of Theater"
  • 12.00 - 12.40
  • Pro Scena:
    1) The success of a performance depends on the director's skill, the actor's talent and the latest technology.
    2) Theater stage, mechanization, transformation of the hall, examples of completed works.
    3) Modern development of light DK, sound Zsound, projection, projection as a result of integration to the customer's object.

    Maxim Zaitsev, Commercial Director of Pro Scene Group of Companies
    Anton Guchenkov, Head of Moscow branch Pro Scena"

  • 12.45 - 13.00
  • MediaData: Synapse for concert halls and theaters. Hardware and software innovations

    Dmitry Slobozhaninov, Leading Engineer, Synapses Implementation and System Integration Department, Trakt Company

  • 13.05 - 13.20
  • GLOBAL EFFECTS: New GLOBAL EFFECTS equipment for special effects in the theater

    Tatiana Shubina, Marketing and Sales Director

  • 13.25 - 13.40
  • Ancomp:Theater is not just a stage. Interaction with the audience with the help of multimedia

    Maxim Glinnikov, General Director, Ancomp Company
    Mikhail Absalyamov, Leading Engineer, Ancomp Company
  • 13.45 - 14.00
  • Shadow:Novelties of lighting equipment

    Ilya Permyakov, Director of Shadow Company
  • 14.00 - 14.20
  • Q&A session
  • 15.00
  • Departure to the State Academic Mossovet Theater

TECHNICAL TOUR & ROAD EXCURSION 

SEPTEMBER 17, 16.00
TECHNICAL TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION

Tour of the exhibition for representatives of theaters with a professional guide. Acquaintance with the novelties of equipment and technologies for equipping modern theaters at the stands of the exhibitors.

Tour curator: to be announced later. 

September 19, 15.00

ROAD EXCURSIONS

Road trip to a theater that has undergone technical reconstruction and re-equipment. Familiarization with new equipment and technologies for equipping modern theaters on a real example.

Departure to the State Academic Mossovet Theater

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IN THEATER FORUM 2024

Suppliers and distributors of equipment and technologies, as well as representatives of theaters and houses of culture that participate in the State Program of Renovation of Federal Cultural Institutions are invited to the theater forum.

The list is in the process of formation.

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