Alexey Karpov, Head of the Laboratory of Speech and Multimodal Interfaces of SPC RAS, General Chairman of the international conference" Speech and Computer " SPECOM, gave an interview to the analytical magazine about holding congresses and business events CongressTime:
"We do not treat conferences as business or advertising. This is neither our objective nor a key source of our income. We hold them for the sake of professional and personal interest, to find out what is happening in the world around, and this is the main, even the principal, difference between major scientific conferences and most business events."
The interview is published in the main article of the New Issue (No. 2 (15) 2021) of the CongressTime magazine.