Programme

Digital technologies are transforming every aspect of the global economy, and international trade is no exception. Legal entities and individuals are buying more and more goods and services with various digital technologies, and numerous services that previously required physical interaction are now being provided remotely. For their part, online platforms are playing an increasingly important role both in correlating supply and demand and facilitating transactions between all parties. This situation is also being seen in the Eurasian Economic Union. In a broad sense, digital trade includes both the traditional digitalization of trading activities (payments, electronic documents, and document flow), e-commerce, and new areas of interaction, namely the expanded use of artificial intelligence and the active introduction of digital solutions in all areas of trade. Given that the further evolution of digital trade creates both opportunities and certain risks for the development of the economy, the EAEU needs to urgently determine the main contours and rules for how it will function. What prospects exist for the development of the digital goods market, digitalization of document flow in B2B and B2C trade, the digital settlement of trade disputes, and the use of artificial intelligence? What methods are being used in the EAEU to support the development of digital technologies?

Moderator
Vladimir Gerasimov, Deputy General Director, Interfax Information Services Group

Vladimir Gerasimov

Deputy General Director, Interfax Information Services Group

Responsible at Interfax for financial and business information and services for business, and for the operations of the Group's international partnerships. Graduated from Moscow State University's Faculty of Journalism and worked in Foreign Broadcasting before joining Interfax in 1991, where he created the news agency's first business and finance products. Head of business and finance information at Interfax, and, from 1998, became the agency's deputy head, then first deputy head. His projects include SPARK, Russia's leading risk assessment system, and the disclosure site, www.e-disclosure.ru. Oversaw the creation of SPARK Marketing procurement analysis system, and of X-Compliance, Russia's first system for ensuring fulfillment of legislation on the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Helped set up the United Credit Bureau, a Russian market leader in credit information, and oversees the operations of the joint venture that Interfax set up with Dun & Bradstreet, a market leader for information on foreign companies. Plays an active role in the Open Government, and is a member of the Open Data Council and has served on the public councils of the Federal Tax Service and Federal State Statistics Service in recent years. He is one of the leading media industry managers, according to the Russian Managers Association TOP 1000 ranking.

Panellists
Mario Apostolov, Regional Adviser, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) (online)
Igor Bailen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to the Russian Federation
Elena Baturova, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Russian Agricultural Bank
Sergey Grebennikov, Director, Russian Association for Electronic Communications
Iliya Dimitrov, Executive Director, Association of Electronic Trading Platforms (AETP); Chairman of the Board of Directors, Analytical Center
Nikolay Polyakov, General Director, SOKOLOV
Andrey Slepnev, Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission
Artem Sokolov, President, The Association of Internet Trade Companies

Mario Apostolov

Regional Adviser, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Igor Bailen

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to the Russian Federation

Elena Baturova

Deputy Chairman of the Board, Russian Agricultural Bank

Sergey Grebennikov

Director, Russian Association for Electronic Communications

Mr. Grebennikov graduated from the International Academy of Business and Management (MUBIU), faculty «Institute of Modern Communication Systems and Technologies» (2003-2008), specialization - "exhibition business and advertising".
He worked as a PR-specialist in different companies such as Rasprodaga.ru, Webalta, Retail Media - Rasprodaga.ru.
Since 2007 - Deputy Executive Director of ROCIT.
Since 2010 - Deputy Director of the Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC).
Since December 2014 - Director of the Russian Public Center for Internet Technologies (ROC-IT)
For many years Sergey has been the organizer of Russian Internet conferences, forums and awards, such as: RIF + CIB, Russian Internet Week, Runet Award, etc.
Since 2022 - Head of Russian Association for Electronic Communications.

Iliya Dimitrov

Executive Director, Association of Electronic Trading Platforms (AETP); Chairman of the Board of Directors, Analytical Center

Born June 6th, 1978 in Bashkortostan, USSR
Education: Master of economics, State Architecture and Construction Academy, Samara. Faculty of Economy and Enterprise Management, 2000

Public activity
Public Ombudsman for Digital Economy
Member of Presidium, Head of Digital Economy Committee, OPORA Russia
Head of Digital Economy Research Center

Founder&CEO, Seldon Group
Iliya Dimitrov has been leading and inspiring the development of advanced analytical and linguistic technologies as founder and CEO of Seldon Group of companies (est.2007, over 700 employees).
Author of key technologies of Seldon products family - multilingual database on all Russian companies in real time, AI-based news aggregator with smart object extraction, supply and demand analysis in electronic trade.

Competence
Iliya Dimitrov is one of the key experts in Russia in the field of AI-technologies, digital transformation, electronic trade:
Pioneering in linguistic technologies of data processing, such as big data, machine learning and eventually artificial intelligence
Expertise in digital transformation processes, one of authors of Digital economy development programme.
Contribution to AI think-tank under NeuroNet division of National Technological Initiative.
Membership in blockchain technology expert working groups.
Expert assessment of the standards of electronic trade, analysis of legislative and organizational environment for development of electronic trade.

Nikolay Polyakov

General Director, SOKOLOV

Andrey Slepnev

Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission

Born September 13, 1969 in Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region.
2005–2007: Head of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate
2007–2009: Deputy Minister of Agriculture
2009–2011: Member of the Trade Panel (Minister) of the Eurasian Economic Commission
February 26 – July, 2016: Assistant to the Prime Minister
July 5, 2016: appointed Deputy Head of the Government’s Executive Office and Director of the Projects Department of the Government of the Russian Federation. From May 2018 to February 2020, he was the CEO of JSC Russian Export Center. On March 2 2020 Andrey Slepnev took office as a member of the Board (Minister) for Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

Artem Sokolov

President, The Association of Internet Trade Companies

Candidate of Political Sciences, Attorney, Manager, RANEPA lecturer, Chair of the Academic Council of the Retail Management Master’s Programme at HSE University

Education
 Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) (2012);
 Moscow City Government University of Management (2006)

Career
 From 2006 to 2013 worked in the Moscow City Government (Control Directorate of the Mayor of Moscow; Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of the City of Moscow);
 From 2013, headed the GR block of Coca-Cola Hellenic;
 From 2015, served as the Executive Director of the Association of E-commerce Companies (AKIT);
 In 2018, elected President of AKIT;
 From 2019, Lecturer for the Digital Transformation in Business Master’s Degree Programme and the Digital Technologies in Commerce Bachelor’s Programme, Institute of Industry Management, RANEPA;
 From 2020, Chair of the Academic Council of the Retail Management Master’s Programme at HSE University.

Industry experience
 Member, Working Group on Creating a Development Strategy for Trade, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation;
 Member, Working Group on Remote Alcohol Sales, Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation;
 Member, Council on Developing the Digital Economy, Federation Council, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation;
 Member, Expert Council, State Commission for Counteracting the Trafficking of Industrial Products;
 Member, Expert Council on Increasing Retail Market Competition, Federal Anti-monopoly Service of the Russian Federation;
 Member, Expert Council on Developing the Children’s Product Industry, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation;
 Member, Expert Group on Production, Sales, and Marking of Jewellery and Other Goods Made of Precious Metals, Federal Assay Chamber;
 Member, Expert Council on the Legislative Measures Facilitating the Development of Financial Technologies in the Russian Federation, State Duma Committee on the Financial Market;
 Member, Expert Commission on Evaluating Software for Inclusion on the List of Russian Software that Must be Installed in Advance on Individual High-Tech Devices, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation;
 Expert, Regulatory Guillotine Working Group on Cash Register Regulations;
 Member, Regulatory Guillotine Working Group on Commerce and Consumer Rights Protection;
 Member, Regulatory Guillotine Working Group on Precious Metals and Stones;
 Expert, Regulatory Guillotine Working Group on Pharmaceutics and Medical Devices;
 Expert, Regulatory Guillotine Working Group on the Manufacture and Sale of Alcohol Products;
 Expert, Regulatory Guillotine Working Group on Communications and Information Technology;
 Council Member, Russian Jewellers' Guild;
 Member of the Board, NPP OPORA;
 Member, Committee on Supporting Entrepreneurship in the Extraction, Production, Processing, and Sale of Precious Metals, Precious Stones, and Resulting Products, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation;
 Member, Council on E-commerce, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation;
 Member, Council on Consumer Market Development, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation;
 Member, Council on IT and Digital Economy Development, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.


Awards
 Jubilee Medal from the Governor of Moscow Region for Contributing to the Development of Commerce (2020)
 Certificate of Honour from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation for Significant Contributions to the Development of Trade and Many Years of Diligent Work (2018)
 Letter of Acknowledgement from the Deputy Mayor of Moscow on Urban Policy and Construction for Active Participation in the Capital’s Public Life and Personal Contributions to the Urban Development of Moscow (2019)
 Federal State Statistics Service Badge for Active Participation in the Russian National Census (2002)

Front row participant
Aleksey Dukhanin, Executive Director, Wildberries

Aleksey Dukhanin

Executive Director, Wildberries

Dukhanin Alexey
CEO Wildberries
(33 y.o.)

Education:
● BA in Economics ( Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation)
● BA in International Commerce (Russian Foreign Trade Academy)
● MBA

Experience:
● 2015: Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
● 2017: Russian Embassy in Slovakia (Commerce Chamber)
● 2020:
● 2023: Deputy CO Wildberries
● 2024: CEO Wildberries