Programme

Personal data is becoming an economic unit, which means we need to find a balance between scaling digital solutions and protecting fundamental rights. It is particularly important to maintain a balance between aggregating personal data into super services and ensuring confidentiality in the face of constantly growing digital threats. The scale of personal data leaks, the steady increase in the volume of online thefts, and damaging attacks on the digital infrastructure of governments and businesses, including from the outside, make it crucial to search for and introduce optimal solutions to protect the rights of citizens online. Russia has already adopted a number of key laws that aim to protect citizens and their interests, including laws that limit the spread of destructive content and fake news, as well as solutions that protect people’s savings against fraudsters, defend their honour, dignity, and business reputation, and enhance liability for personal data processors. However, existing risks and threats still continue to grow and take on new forms. To this end, do conceptual decisions need to be adopted that can radically change the current situation. What should the legal policy be for protecting citizens online? How can we maintain a happy medium between ensuring digital human rights and introducing digital security measures? What are the most effective approaches to establishing digital security standards? How can we find a balance between developing super services and the confidentiality of personal data? And how should Russia build its digital agenda at the international level to ensure it plays a leading role in creating a common digital economic space?

Moderator
Elina Sidorenko, Director of the Center for Digital Economy and Financial Innovation, MGIMO University; General Director, Platform for Business.RF

Elina Sidorenko

Director of the Center for Digital Economy and Financial Innovation, MGIMO University; General Director, Platform for Business.RF

Sidorenko Elina - Doctor of Law, Professor of MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations under Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia), Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
A graduate of the Stavropol State University (now — The North-Caucasus Federal University) in 2001. In 2002 she successfully defended her thesis and in 2013 she successfully defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law. Since 2013 she is Professor of MGIMO University, since 2017 she is the Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
Research interests: financial security, digital economy, anti-corruption policy, laundering of the proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism.
She is the author of 150 scientific works.
Sidorenko Elina is actively working as an expert. She is a member of the Expert Council of the RF President's Administration on anti-corruption, the Head of the Working Group of the State Duma of RF Federal Gathering on cryptocurrency circulation risk assessment, the Head of the new digital technologies Expert Council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Participates in the development of legislation on cryptocurrency circulation regulation in Russia.

Panellists
Georgiy Gorshkov, Deputy President - Chairman of the Board, VTB Bank
Sergey Lebed, Vice President of Cyber Security, Sberbank
Igor Lyapunov, Senior Vice President for Information Security, Rostelecom; General Director, Solar
Valentin Tataritsky, Member of the Board (Minister) for Technical Regulation, Eurasian Economic Commission
Vladislav Fedulov, Managing Director for Government Relations, Avito
Danil Filippov, Deputy Head of the Investigation Department, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation
Alexander Shenderyuk-Zhidkov, Senator of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Budget and Financial Markets

Georgiy Gorshkov

Deputy President - Chairman of the Board, VTB Bank

Georgy Gorshkov was born in 1975. In 1997, he graduated from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, and in 1999, he received an MBA from Imperial College Management School in London. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences. From 1994 to 2002, he worked as Deputy General Director of LLC Creative Marketing Group; from 2002 to 2004 as General Director of LLC CMG Strategy; from 2004 to 2008 as Senior Vice President, Director of Marketing Department, and Director of Card Development Department of Russian Standard Bank. From 2008 to 2012 he worked as Senior Vice President, Director of Retail Business Department of VTB24. From 2012 to 2016, he was First Deputy President-Chairman of the Board of Leto Bank and became First Deputy President-Chairman of the Board of Post Bank in March 2016.

Sergey Lebed

Vice President of Cyber Security, Sberbank

Igor Lyapunov

Senior Vice President for Information Security, Rostelecom; General Director, Solar

Valentin Tataritsky

Member of the Board (Minister) for Technical Regulation, Eurasian Economic Commission

Vladislav Fedulov

Managing Director for Government Relations, Avito

In 2023, he was appointed Managing Director of Avito. Mr. Fedulov oversees the company’s partnership with government authorities.
He has 30 years’ governmental experience.
Between 2020 and 2023, he served as Deputy Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
From 2009 to 2020, Mr. Fedulov worked in the RF Government Office, where he rose from Deputy Director to Director of the Government Department of Information Technologies and Communications.
Between 2006 and 2009, he held senior positions in the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, the Center for Strategic Research - Region Foundation, the Russian Accounts Chamber and the Russian Government Office.
Between 1993 and 2006 he held various positions in commercial companies and government agencies.
Mr. Fedulov graduated from the Moscow University of Consumer Cooperation with a major in Finance and Credit.

Danil Filippov

Deputy Head of the Investigation Department, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Alexander Shenderyuk-Zhidkov

Senator of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Budget and Financial Markets