Petr Makarenko , Chief Executive Officer, TeleSport
The most important question today isn’t what to show, but how to show it, and all results will be tied to this.
Mikhail Oseevskiy , President, Rostelecom
We must create a new type of infrastructure that takes on the creation of a whole range of digital platforms.
Alexandr Kalinin ,
Business does intend to invest.
Dmitry Azarov , Chairperson, Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Committee on the Federal Structure, Regional Policies, Local Self-Governance, and Affairs of the North
Today, we are at the stage of elaborating a socioeconomic development strategy; its framework will determine the regions’ sectoral specifics so that they might gain a new impetus and development vector.
Natalia Smirnova , Director, Globus Film Ltd.
As to why foreign films are being made in Russia – first of all, they want the locations.
Jan-Olof Jacke , President, AstraZeneca AB
Russia is a market with a good growth and we definitely see there a further potential for us.
Stanislav Kuznetsov , Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank
I think we should be more courageous about discussing our issues, avoid sweeping them under the rug, and raise them before the decision-makers.
Sergey Alexeev , President, Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs; Executive President (Outgoing President), UFI The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry
Exhibitions as a face-to-face industry rank second in the product promotion system after the internet. We cannot get by without the face-to-face industry and we will develop it.
James Anderson , Chair, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Network; Head of Corporate Government Affairs, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline)
We need to make sure that we use antibiotics more carefully and in lower volumes, that we don’t pollute environment and invest in developing new antibiotics.
Alexey Borovkov , Vice Rector for Innovative Projects, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Car manufacturing is the most competitive and dynamic sector in all hi-tech economies, on that lays the foundations for complex cybertechnical systems; this is why it is crucial for the Russian car industry to play a key role.
