Programme

The market is already offering out-of-the-box solutions for immediate implementation of augmented reality in business applications ranging from healthcare, space, manufacturing, and logistics to education and behavioural modelling. It is projected that augmented reality will generate USD 120 billion in purchases by 2020, changing the entire experience of retail and how customers engage with products. In the US, retailers have already found that 61% of responding shoppers prefer to shop at stores that offer augmented reality. How are big consumer and luxury brands pioneering augmented reality advertising strategies? And how will this change expectations and demands for retailers all over the world?

Moderator:
Dmitry Peskov , Director, Young Professionals Department, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects (Agency for Strategic Initiatives)

Dmitry Peskov

Director, Young Professionals Department, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects (Agency for Strategic Initiatives)

Dmitry Peskov was born in Voronezh in 1975. In 1998 graduated from Voronezh State University. In 1999 received an MA in political science from the University of Manchester. Since 2000 worked at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, was responsible for university development strategy. Left the university at the position of the Innovations Director, Deputy Vice-President on science. In 2008 created Metaver, a company that designs new education forms on the suture of education and venture economics. In 2009 became head of Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy. In 2011 became the Director on Young Professionals Direction at Agency for Strategic Initiatives. Member-Expert Council of Government of Russia. Member of the board of trustees of the agency on professional development WorldSkills Russia. Member of the council of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on development of young, innovative and small entrepreneurial activity. Head of the work group on Best Professional Practices Support at the Presidential Professional Qualifications Council. Member of the commission on 2020 Innovation Strategy implementation. He is on the Board of Directors at Aeroflot-Russian Airlines PJSC, RVK PSC, boards of trustees for Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics and Support Foundation for Visually and Hearing Impaired. Holds various state awards, including the Order ”For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd Degree.

Panellists
Evgeny Dankevich , Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Supervisory Board, Bank Otkritie Financial Corporation
Alexey Katkov , President, Sistema Venture Capital
Brett King , Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Movencorp Inc.
Christian Morales , Vice President, Intel Corporation
Michael Robinson , Partner, Head of Engineering, UK Digital, Deloitte
Sergey Solonin , General Director, FINTECH Association

Evgeny Dankevich

Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Supervisory Board, Bank Otkritie Financial Corporation

Mr. Dankevich chairs the Management Board of Otkritie Financial Corporation Bank, and also is a member of the Boards of Directors of Khanty- Mansiysk Otkritie Bank, TRUST Bank, Otkritie Broker, LUKOIL-GARANT Non-state Pension Fund, Kineshma City Power Network, Northern River Shipping Company, FINSTROY, and a member of the Moscow Exchange Counsil. During his career, Mr. Dankevich worked at GUTA-BANK, Otkritie Brokerage House, and Osnovaniye Investment Company. In 1990, Mr. Dankevich graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronics. In 1993, he received his degree in Financial Management from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Alexey Katkov

President, Sistema Venture Capital

Alexey is one of the leading Russian experts in Internet projects. A former senior executive of Mail.Ru Group, he has been in charge of the holding revenues, launch and development of vertical products, expansion to international markets since it was founded 15 years ago. He has a wealth of experience in the development of new Internet services and maximizing company growth and profitability.

Brett King

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Movencorp Inc.

Brett King is a bestselling author, a renowned commentator and globally respected speaker on the future of business. He has spoken in over 50 countries, to a million people, on how technology is disrupting business, changing behavior and influencing society. He has advised the White House, FED and the National Economic Council on the Future of Banking in the USA and meets regularly with regulators from London, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Russia, Canada, the EU and the World Bank. He appears regularly as a commentator on CNBC, Fox, ABC, Bloomberg and others. King hosts the world's first and #1 ranked global Fintech radio show called Breaking Banks (140 countries, 3.5 million listeners). He is also the founder of Moven, a globally recognized mobile start-up, which has raised over US$30 million to date, with the world's first mobile-first, downloadable bank account. Named “King of the Disruptors” by Banking Exchange magazine, King was also voted American Banker's Innovator of the Year in 2012, voted the world's #1 Financial Services Influencer by The Financial Brand and was nominated by Bank Innovation as one of the top 10 "coolest brands in banking". He was shortlisted for the 2015 Advance Global Australian of the Year Award for being one of the most influential Australians living offshore. His fifth bestselling book is Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane has topped Amazon bestseller lists in Robotics, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Banking in UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, and Japan

Christian Morales

Vice President, Intel Corporation

Christian Morales is an Intel vice president and general manager of Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for Intel product sales and marketing in the EMEA region. Morales has held senior international management roles in sales, channel operations and general management. He brings extensive experience in marketing and building brand awareness for new product segments, as well as a strong background in expanding and driving Intel's business into new and emerging markets. Prior to this role, Morales was Intel's vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and co-general manager of Asia Pacific responsible for implementing Intel's strategies in Asia. He was also responsible for championing Intel's worldwide emerging markets strategy. Before that, he was general manager of Latin America and was instrumental in helping to establish a new regional headquarters and expand the company's regional presence throughout the continent. He joined the company in 1980 in Paris as an Intel field sales engineer and in 1983 became director for Spain and Portugal, and then moved back to Paris in senior positions to manage Western Europe channels and OEMs. He has been based in Paris, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Hong Kong. Morales graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the Electricity, Mechanics and Electronics Engineering School in Paris. In 1990, he completed the Young Managers Program in the MBA program at INSEAD.

Michael Robinson

Partner, Head of Engineering, UK Digital, Deloitte

Michael is the Head of Engineering in Deloitte Digital UK. He is responsible for the continual development, growth and on-going operation of Deloitte’s engineering capability. Michael has over ten years’ experience delivering innovative digital solutions that not only excite millions of customers but are underpinned by the right technologies choices, integrations, and operational processes. While at Deloitte he has led the setup of Engineering Centres in London and Belfast and he has worked with clients across to a range of industries to help them deliver innovative solutions and setup and improve their own engineering capability. Michael has been a leading advocate of innovative approaches to delivering application development projects. He is a subject matter expert in the areas of application development, web and mobile technologies, collaborative working, and Agile processes. Michael has written a number of papers and represented Deloitte’s views speaking at a number of universities and conferences around the world.

Sergey Solonin

General Director, FINTECH Association

Sergey Solonin was born on November 28, 1973 in Moscow. Currently he holds positions of CEO of The FinTech Association, co-head of the working group FINNET (Agency for Strategic Initiatives), CEO of QIWI Group. Mr. Solonin has been actively participating in the financial and technological development of Russia, occupying key positions in organizations whose activities are aimed at creating and maintaining a high-tech environment for the functioning of business and government institutions. Also his activity focuses on the development of new educational initiatives and institutions in Russia, providing systematic investment support for federal projects in the development of modern alternative education. For example, Mr. Solonin is a co-investor of the Creative Thinking School of ICRA, the British Higher School of Design, the Moscow Film School, the School of computer technologies — Scream School, the MARCH Architectural School, and the founder of the Center for the Promotion of Innovations in Education. Education: 1996 - Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation, majoring in Finance and Credit. 2012 - certificate of completion of the Stanford Executive Program. Career: 1998 - Chairman of the Board of Directors, shareholder of the Investment and Banking Group "Russian Investment Club". 2004 to present - shareholder, member of the Board of Directors of QIWI Group. 2012 to present - CEO of QIWI Group, shareholder. 2017 to present - General Director of the FinTech Association. He is married with 5 children.