SKOLKOVO IEMS together with the SKOLKOVO Chair for Finance and Payments developed a framework for analyzing innovations in financial services. The framework includes three key elements - Digitalization, Availability and Repackaging - that describe processes leading to creation of new markets and services, new customers and market players. The framework was presented by Vladimir Korovkin and Evgeny Plaksenkov at the Banking Innovation Summit in Sochi on May 22, 2015. IEMS also annouced development of the "Atlas of financial services of the future" based on market evolution scenarios.

Association of Russian Banks held an open discussion at the SKOLKOVO Campus on innovations in financial services. Among the participants of the event were SKOLKOVO Dean Andrei Sharonov and Vladimir Korovkin, Head of IEMS Innovations and Digital Research. Expert panel included representatives of leading Russian banks and the Central Bank, the discussion was moderated by Elman Mehdiyev, Advisor to the President of ARB. The event was broadcasted on the ARB website, and 58 banking and research institutions participated online.

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Vladimir Korovkin, Head of IEMS Innovations and Digital Research, presented IEMS analytical report "Microcredit in Russia: on the eve of the boom or crisis?" on an annual conference "Urgent issues of Microfinance: survival and development strategies in the current economic realities." The conference was organized by the National Partnership of Microfinance Market Stakeholders (NAMMS) and Russian Microfinance Center (RMC) on May 18, 2015.

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Alexey Kalinin, Director of SKOLKOVO IEMS, spoke on IEMS flagship report "Selected 15: Winning Strategies of Russian Entrepreneurial Champions" to the VII meeting of participants of the German-Russian talks in Baden-Baden, who met in Saint-Petersburg on May 15-17, 2015.

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On May 15, 2015, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and Unilever hosted the roundtable discussion “Embedding sustainability strategies in Russia” which took place at the Campus of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. The roundtable discussion brought together more than 100 guests, including industry leaders, NGOs, authorities and academic community to discuss the real cases of global corporations implementing sustainable practices in Russia, define major institutional, infrastructural and information barriers hampering full-scale sustainability implementation, and identify approaches to address those challenges. Representatives from the industry leading companies such as Unilever, International Paper, Novartis and Panasonic shared their best practices and unique perspective on implementing sustainability strategies in Russia, SKOLKOVO Sustainable Business Lab contributed with analyses of Russia’s positions in global sustainability rankings and invited experts provided their vision on major obstacles and crucial initiatives required to make Russian business environment more ‘sustainable friendly’.