Programme

During this session, a new concept for a large, nationwide project designed to find and support talented high-tech entrepreneurs will be presented. How can young people make the most of their skills and knowledge? Where can one find the knowledge and resources to turn one’s idea into a competitive product? How can one build a high-tech ‘unicorn’ startup in Russia for the global market? Expert investors and heads of development institutes, winners of the first season of One in a Million, and the St. Petersburg startups that have been shortlisted for the second season will discuss these and other questions. One in a Million is a national educational TV and digital project on tech entrepreneurship initiated by Vnesheconombank in partnership with NTV, Skolkovo, the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). Participants of the 2017 season received grants and support in the form of investment, business acceleration, and mentoring from major funds, corporations, and development institutes.

Moderator
Sergey Malozemov, Anchor, Million-Dollar Idea, NTV Broadcasting Company

Panellists
Timur Vaynshteyn, General Producer, NTV Broadcasting Company
Kirill Varlamov, Head, Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
Evgeniy Gavrilin, Co-Founder, Boomstarter
Aleksey Ivanchenko, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Management Board, State Corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)"
Jim Rogers, Chairman, Rogers Holding Company
Ruslan Tugushev, Co-Founder, Boomstarter

Kirill Varlamov

Head, Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)

Kirill Varlamov is a head of Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), created by the current President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. IIDF was established in March 2013. IIDF main goals are financial and consulting support of internet projects at all stages of development, searching and selecting startups and growing them to a highly valuable business.
Kirill is also a CEO at Naumen, company cofounded with Аleksandr Davydov in 2001. Naumen is one of the leading companies in software development in Russia.
Born in 1974 in a city of Sverdlovsk, Kirill graduated Ural State Technical University in 1996, attended classes at Bradley University, Peoria, IL. In 2012 Kirill graduated Moscow management school Skolkovo as Executive MBA. In November 2012 Kirill became a winner at national finals of Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur Of The Year” in IT section. That contest is being held for 27 years in 140 cities of 50 countries around the world.

Aleksey Ivanchenko

Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Management Board, State Corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)"

Arkanzas Tech University (ATU), Russellville, Arkansas, United States, 2000
Degree: Bachelor
Major in economics
University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), United States, 2002
Degree: Master of Business Administration
Major in economics
2003 – 2004: Senior Expert; Leading Expert, Audit Department, ZAO Deloitte and Touche CIS;
2004 – 2008: Chief Officer; Deputy Chief of Section; Chief of Analytics Section; Deputy Director of Investment Policy Department, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation;
2008 – 2010: Advisor to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Government;
2010 – 2016: Business Manager; Director of Administrative Department; Senior Managing Director; Director of Administrative Department, PJSC Sberbank of Russia;
Since May 2016: Advisor to Chairman of Vnesheconombank, Acting Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank – Head of Chairman’s Office;
Since October 2016: Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank.
Since March 2017 — Management Board Member, State Corporation ‘Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)’ — First Deputy Chairman, Vnesheconombank.
Second-class medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland.

Jim Rogers

Chairman, Rogers Holding Company

Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor.
After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure in 1999. He traveled for 3 years on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. It was his 3rd Guinness Record. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His latest memoir Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets was published in February 2013.