Programme

Local brands have enormous potential to become part of the international market. However, to achieve this, they need a collective strategy that aims to increase mutual trade turnover and not just export products. In world practice, successful infrastructure for small businesses has been created thanks to active support from the government, banks, incubators, and accelerators. Such resources help small and medium-sized entrepreneurs develop, take part in international exhibitions and fairs, and establish business contacts abroad. Can local brands become global ones? What partners does Russia need to increase mutual trade turnover? What support measures could support this growth? How should we design effective chains to produce and sell a fashion product based on partnership strategies with BRICS countries?

Moderator
Aleksey Bazhenov, Fouder, Beinopen Institute for the Development of the Fashion Industry, Leading Expert; Head, Fashion System Project, Faculty of Creative Industries, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Panellists
Николай Богданович,
Kristina Kostroma, Head, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the City of Moscow
Svetlana Nerushai, Chairperson, Committee for the development of small and medium business and the consumer market of Leningrad Region
Artem Orlov, Fouder, ORLOVPRAV, lawyer
Andrey Razbrodin, President, Russian Union of Entrepreneurs of Textile & Light Industry
Sergey Revyakin, Director of the Centre for Strategic Forecasting, Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Afanasiy Savvin, General Director, Sakha Republic Development Corporation
Kirill Soloveychik, Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Policy, Innovation and Trade of St. Petersburg
Dmitrii Timurshin, General Director, Freedom Concept
Elena Tishenko, associate professor, MSU
Alina Tsutsu, Founder of Horizon
Ekaterina Cherkes-zade, Director of the Center for the Development of Creative Economy, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects

Kristina Kostroma

Head, Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the City of Moscow

Afanasiy Savvin

General Director, Sakha Republic Development Corporation

Afanasiy Savvin was born on May 7th, 1986 in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In 2004 he graduated from the Institute of Mathematics and Information Science of M.K. Ammosov Yakut State University. From 2017 to 2019, he studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology via Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as an assistant of the Department of computer and mathematical modeling at the Institute of Mathematics and Information Science of M.K. Ammosov Yakut State University. From 2005 to 2008 - Holding the position of the Head of system integration and telecommunication department Display Ltd, he successfully managed the implementation of more than 50 IT projects into the public sector, energy, telecommunications and banking. Further, Afanasiy Savvin joined Sakhaenergo JSC as the Head of information technology, automation and communications Department, as well as the Deputy chief engineer. His work included but was not limited to the development and implementation of the system project of complex company automation. From 2013 to 2017 - Vice-rector for innovative development and commercialization of scientific developments of M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. His responsibilities included the development of the innovation ecosystem of the university and support of the technological entrepreneurship among students and staff of the university. In 2017, he founded the startup company "Replio Technologies", which attracted venture capital investments from large South Korean funds, namely SparkLabs and Mirae Asset Venture Investment. In 2018, Afanasiy Savvin was appointed as CEO of Sakha Republic Development Corporation.

Kirill Soloveychik

Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Policy, Innovation and Trade of St. Petersburg

Dmitrii Timurshin

General Director, Freedom Concept

Ekaterina Cherkes-zade

Director of the Center for the Development of Creative Economy, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects

Ekaterina Cherkes-zade is a head of Universal University, which joint leading educational institutions representing first-class education in the creative industries sphere: British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow Film School, Scream School, MARCH Architectural School, Moscow Advanced Communications School, Moscow Music School and other projects.Graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts (the faculty for publishing and journalism), and International Visitor Leadership Program from Graduate School USA. Worked on various projects in the media and publishing industries. Since 2009 Ekaterina Cherkes-zade has engaged in the education in the field of creative industries.