Global Exhibitions Day is a gift to the world's MICE industry. ExpoForum International decided to hold the best workshop in Russia on effective participation in exhibitions by Nikolay Karasev as a gift to the convention and the exhibition community as a whole.

Solids Russia is a major event in this business sector and will be attended by more than 40 companies from 10 countries. Current issues concerning the processing, storage and transportation of bulk materials will be discussed at the event

On April 22, the biggest competitions in St. Petersburg in sport ballroom dancing – the Governor’s Cup in Dance Sport – began in the Expoforum, in pavilion F. More than 2,000 couples from 13 countries will dance on the premises during the three days. The organizer of the competitions is the St. Petersburg Dance Sport Federation

The festival of comic books, cosplay, merry-making and nostalgia for cartoons and characters from various years – “The Big Festival” – took place in the Expoforum from April 16 to 17. More than 12,000 people assembled for the event

More than 100 companies from Russia, the Republic of Belarus, Lithuania and Japan presented a wide choice of products and services for children at the 15th Specialist Exhibition “The Planet of Childhood”. This is the most large-scale thematic event in St. Petersburg – the exhibition is visited by more than 12,000 parents and children every year.

On 15 March, Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre launched the 10th St. Petersburg Partneriat for Small- and Medium-Sized Business – “St. Petersburg – Russian Regions and Abroad – one of the largest events in the Russian Northwest devoted to economic cooperation and the furtherance of interregional and international ties

On 14 March, the St. Petersburg Import-Substitution and Localisation Centre hosted the official opening of the Export Centre. The platform is intended to facilitate Russian exports to the foreign markets – and to increase the revenue generated from the sale of Russian products abroad