Programme

This time the traditional Saturday IT Breakfast will be dedicated to the topic of developing the Russian digital economy, its mobile components, and the economy of data. Representatives of several industries (Internet, software development, telecoms, media, IT) and the government will share their experience of collaboration and discuss worldwide and Russian digital transformation trends and digital economy development forecasts. They will also talk over the influence of the mobile economy/technology/services on the digital economy and traditional sectors of the Russian economy, including the results of the Russian Mobile Economy survey and the mobile component’s contribution to the Russian economy. What areas of digitalization can develop at an accelerated pace in Russia? Let us try and dip into the future, into ‘tomorrow’ and, more importantly, ‘the day after tomorrow’. What is the potential for the economy of data? Is it capable of becoming ‘new blood’ for the Russian economy? What hidden reserves does the mobile economy offer? What should we focus on in the first place in order to ensure a successful digital transformation of the Russian economy?

Moderators
Valentin Makarov , President, Russoft Association
Sergei Plugotarenko , Director, Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC)

Valentin Makarov

President, Russoft Association

Makarov Valentin was born 16.04.1955 in Leningrad, Russia. Graduated from the Leningrad Aircraft Instrumentation Institute in 1978, in 1978-1985 he had been working in the Defense Industry. In 1985 entered the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Since “perestroika” time he has got good experience of organizing international cooperation (1988-1992 – secretary in the Russian Delegation to UNESCO, in 1996-2000 as deputy Chairman of International relations’ Committee of Administration of St Petersburg). He has also got extended managerial experience in private business (1992-1996 – in Interprivatization Foundation and in the EuroConseil Rusian-French JV consulting company). President of RUSSOFT Association (earlier Fort Ross) since its foundation on 9.9.99, he has been organizer of lobbying campaigns in the Government and Chairman of numerous IT-events in Russia and abroad (RUSSOFT Forum, Software Outsourcing Summit, Mobile Software Forum, Russian IT-seasons). Chief-editor of the annual Russian export software industry survey since its beginning in 2003. Representative of Russian IT Association (APKIT) in WITSA in 2004-2006, 2012. Invited speaker at numerous international conferences and author of dozens of articles on IT in Russia.

Sergei Plugotarenko

Director, Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC)

Mr. Plugotarenko graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Department of Physical and Quantum Electronics (1993–1996) and Department of Control and Applied Mathematics (1996–1999), certified as Physical Engineer specializing in Applied Mathematics and Physics.From 2002, he was leading ICT specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE UNESCO – http://ru.iite.unesco.org).In 2004–2006, he was executive director and, from 2007, director of the Runet Awards competition. Since 2005, he has served as coordinator of programme committees for some high-profile sectoral conference events, including the Russian Internet Forum (RIF), Russian Interactive Week (RIW) and others.In 2005–2007, he served as deputy executive director of the Regional Non-government Centre for Internet Technologies (ROCIT – www.rocit.ru) – the oldest NGO engaged in expert evaluation, promotion and development of the ICT segment in the Russian Federation, upholding the interests of Internet users. In 2007, he was elected executive director of ROCIT.From 2005 he was ideologue and founder of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (NP RAEC – www.raec.ru), promoting the interests of Russian Internet players. From 2006, he was deputy general manager of NP RAEC.In 2011–2013, Mr. Plugotarenko was member of the Council of Coordination Centre for National Top Level Domains RU/RF – www.cttld.ru. Since 2010, he has been director of The Russian Association for Electronic Communications (NP RAEC).

Panellists
Kirill Varlamov , Head, Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
Alexander Galitsky , Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital
Alexey Goreslavsky , Executive Director for Media, Rambler&Co
Vartan Dilanian , Country Managing Director, Accenture in Russia
Dmitry Dyrmovsky , General Director, Member of the Board of Directors, Speech Technology Center
Oleg Zolotykh , Managing Director, Luxoft Russia
Karen Kazaryan , Director, Institute for Internet Research
Anatoly Karachinsky , President, IBS Group
Andrey Kuzyaev , President, Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors, ER-Telecom Holding
Boris Nuraliev , Founder, Director, 1C
Mikhail Oseevskiy , President, Rostelecom
Dmitry Peskov , Director, Young Professionals Department, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects (Agency for Strategic Initiatives)
Alexander Povalko , Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board, RVC
Stanislav Protassov , Co-Founder, Senior Vice-President of Engineering, Acronis
Ekaterina Rudykh , Director, Institute for the Development of the Internet (IRI)
Ekaterina Solntseva , Vice-President of Business Development, ABBYY
Kirill Filippov , General Director, SPB TV
Jong-lok Yoon , President, National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA)

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.

Alexander Galitsky

Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital

Alexander Galitsky is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Almaz Capital Partners. Almaz Capital Partners has offices in Moscow, Russia and Menlo Park, CA, and is backed by Cisco Systems, EBRD and IFC. He is a well-known innovator, entrepreneur and investor in Russia/CIS, Europe and the USA. Prior to Almaz, Alexander formed the ICT investment practice at Russian Technologies, one of the first venture capital funds in Russia, and made a several private successful investments. His past and current investments include: Parallels, Yandex, QIK (sold to Skype), Vyatta (sold to Brocade), Acumatica, Jelastic, NavMaps (sold to TeleAtlas), 2Can, Alawar, AlterGeo, SJLabs (sold to VocalTec), EverNote, GridGain, WikiMart, etc.Prior to his investment career, he founded and headed five successful high-tech companies as CEO, including ELVIS+, TrustWorks Systems (sold to Hamsard), EzWIM (sold to TMT Ventures), ELVIS Telecom (sold to Telenor), NPC ELVIS. He specialized in WiFi, Virtual Private Network technology and product development on the Global market in partnership with Sun Microsystems and was a pioneer of the Russian Internet industry in 90s.

Alexey Goreslavsky

Executive Director for Media, Rambler&Co

Alexey Goreslavsky was born in Moscow in 1977. He graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1999 and from the postgraduate school of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002. He worked for Moskovsky Komsomolets and Sovershenno Sekretno. Versia newspapers starting 1995. He served as editor-in-chief of the Internet newspaper Vzglyad from 2005 to 2007, director of online projects at the Interfax news service from 2007 to 2010, and as head of communications of AgencyOne from 2011 to 2013. He became deputy general director of Rambler&Co in 2013. Alexei Goreslavsky was appointed editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru in March 2014. He is married and has a daughter.

Vartan Dilanian

Country Managing Director, Accenture in Russia

Vartan Dilanian is the Country Managing Director for Accenture in Russia. He is responsible for Accenture business development in Russia and CIS, for development and implementation of the company development strategy, as well as for operations management of the company. Vartan also leads the Financial Services practice of Accenture Russia. Prior to Accenture, Vartan Dilanian was the Advisor to Chairman of the Board of TransCreditBank. Before that, he was the President of Binbank. Previously Vartan spent over 15 years holding senior positions with major consulting companies and financial organizations – in particular, he was the Head of Financial Markets Department for Russia and CIS at Ernst & Young and the Head of Financial Markets Department at Arthur Andersen. Vartan has international work experience: in 1999 – 2001 he worked at the Arthur Andersen offices in Almaty, Tashkent, and Bishkek as the Head of Financial Markets Department. Having graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Vartan Dilanian holds an Executive MBA degree.

Dmitry Dyrmovsky

General Director, Member of the Board of Directors, Speech Technology Center

Dmitry Dyrmovskiy graduated from the Specialized Educational Scientific Centre (SESC) at Novosibirsk State University (NSU) in 1996 and from the Zhukovsky Air force engineering Academy (VVIA) in 2001 and had been working in The Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation as a scientific engineer until 2004. In 2004 he started working in a Russian company engaged in development of speech technology and multimodal biometrics called STC as a project leader. In 2007 he became Head of the Moscow branch. Since 2012 Mr.Dyrmovskiy is Member of the STCs’ Board of Directors and in 2014 he was named General Director of the company. In 2014 he successfully completed Executive course at IMD Business School (Switzerland). In 2014 Dmitry Dyrmovskiy was elected Vice-President of the National Association of contact centers. In 2015 he became Board Member of RUSSOFT Association. In 2015 Mr.Dyrmovskiy joined Special Expert Council on Russian Software under the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. In 2016 he became Board Member of Russian Software Products Association "Russian Software".

Oleg Zolotykh

Managing Director, Luxoft Russia

Oleg has over 20 years of experience in IT field. His career path has started in one of the American IT companies where Oleg worked in R&D and was responsible for consulting a number of New York governmental institutions. In 2003 Oleg has joined Luxoft and during his first years in the company he was responsible for a big international project with Dell. In 2009 he started managing Dell CoE within Luxoft what resulted in establishing corporate ERP practice. Then there was a successful experience of managing Luxoft St. Petersburg marked by Branch steady growth and attracting a number of new customers. Since 2015 Oleg is responsible for managing Luxoft Russia. Oleg has Master degree with distinction in Engineering and Technology from Tula State University.

Karen Kazaryan

Director, Institute for Internet Research

CEO of the Internet Research Institute, Chief Analyst of the Electronic Communications Association. Editor in chief of the Internet in Numbers magazine, author of hundreds of publications in business and technology media. Over the past 8 years, took part and directed several projects and studies such as "The Economy of Runet 2011-2016" (in cooperation with the Higher School of Economics) "Internet in Russia 2010-2016" "Transformation of Copyright in the Internet "," Various aspects of identification on the Internet" and others. Consultant, as member of the Communications and IT Advisory Council of the Russian Government participated in the development of the "Strategy for the development of the Internet industry in Russia until 2020", "Long-term program for the development of the Internet and related industries of Russia", Road maps for IT development in various areas of the Russian economy. Organizer and participant of numerous conferences, member of the program committee of the Russian Internet Forum, Russian Internet Week.

Anatoly Karachinsky

President, IBS Group

Born July 12, 1959 in Moscow. In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, Computer Science, Technical Cybernetics Department, specialising in System Engineering. 1981–1986: Computer Centre at the All-Union Research Institute for Railways. 1986–1988: Director, Prosystem (an Austrian company). 1988–1992: Technical Director, Intermicro Joint Venture. 1992–1997: President, IBS. Since 1997: President, IBS Group. Anatoly Karachinsky develops strategies and investment policy for the IBS Group. He is actively involved in establishing a new information society in Russia and contributes a lot to the development of Russia’s economic IT potential. Member of the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship attached to the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Government Commission on High Technology and Innovation. Member of the Interdepartmental Commission on Science and Innovation Policy. Member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Union’s Committee on Professional Development and Professional Qualifications. Member of the Public-State Council on the System of Independent Appraisal of the Quality of Professional Education. Member of the Public Council attached to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Member of the Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on Federal State Educational Standards. Member of the Expert Council attached to the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications. Member of the Expert Council on Electronic Education attached to the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly on Education and Science. Member of the Expert Council on Information Technology attached to the Minister of Information Technology and Communications of the Russian Federation. Member of the Supervisory Council of Moscow Exchange public company. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Luxoft, an NYSE traded public company. Married, with two sons.

Andrey Kuzyaev

President, Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors, ER-Telecom Holding

Andrey Kuzyaev, born on October 6, 1965, in Perm, Russia. In 1987, he graduated from the Perm State University with a degree in Economics. In 1991, founded and took the lead of one of the first exchanges in Russia, Perm Commodity Exchange, later reorganized to become Perm Financial and Industrial Group (PFIG) of which he is Chairman of the Board and owner. One of the main assets of PFIG since 2005 is ER Telecom Holding. The Group also holds assets in oilfield services, financial sector, and real estate. PFIG consists of 50 companies that employ over 20 000 people. Since its establishment in 1995 and until 2003, Andrey Kuzyaev was General Director of LUKOIL-Perm, a subsidiary of LUKOIL Oil Company. In 2000, he was appointed President of LUKOIL Overseas, operator of LUKOIL's international upstream projects, and in 2005, Vice President of LUKOIL Oil Company. In December 2014, he was elected Chairman of the Board of ER-Telecom Holding, and in July 2015, he was appointed as President of the company. Andrey Kuzyaev is also Chairman of the Board of the Far East and Baikal Region Development Fund and Chairman of the Supervisory Council of the Perm State University.

Boris Nuraliev

Founder, Director, 1C

Born in Moscow in 1958. Married with three children. Graduated with honours from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics (MESI) with a degree in Automated Control System in 1980. Holds a PhD in Economics, dissertation on the automation of system design for computer processing of economic information. Worked at MESI as an engineer since 1980, then started working as a junior researcher. Worked at the Scientific Research and Design Institute for Industrial Technology of the Central Statistical Administration of the USSR (now Statinform of the Federal State Statistics Service) as a senior researcher, sector manager, department manager and head engineer since 1987. Headed up 1C Company, which specialized in the development, distribution and support for computer programs, in 1991. 1C is most famous for 1C:Enterprise programs, which are used by millions of employees in commercial and public organizations every day in order to increase management and accounting. The company is also famous for products developed for home computers and the sphere of education. 1C:Enterprise includes integrated ERP-class solutions for asset management of industrial, commercial and service organizations; products for financial management and accounting of holding companies and individual organizations; products for the organization of electronic document management, electronic document exchange between organizations and delivery of electronic reporting to regulatory authorities; payroll and personnel management; for the automation of state and municipal agencies; and a variety of industry-specific solutions developed by 1C, its partners and independent organizations. Since 2013, 1C has been included in the Forbes Russia’s 200 largest private companies rating.

Mikhail Oseevskiy

President, Rostelecom

2012 till present - Deputy President, Deputy Chairman of Executive Board, VTB Bank. 2011-2012 – Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. 2003-2011 – Deputy Governor of Saint Petersburg, Governor’s Chief of Staff. 2001-2003 – First Deputy Chairman of Executive Board, Industrial and Construction Bank. 1999-2001 – Deputy Chairman of Executive Board, Industrial and Construction Bank. 1993-1999 – Deputy managing Director and then Managing Director, Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange. 1986-1993 – worked in Efremov Electrophysical Equipment Research Institute. 1983 – graduated from Kalinin Polytechnical University in Leningrad. 1960 – born in Leningrad. Mikhail Oseevsky has a Doctor’s degree in economics. Awards: Medal, 2nd degree Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”; Order of Friendship.

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.

Alexander Povalko

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board, RVC

Mr. Aleksandr B. Povalko was born in Lyubertsy, Moscow Region, on May 16, 1970. He graduated from Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute majoring in Radio Engineering (1992) and Maymonid State University majoring in Applied Mathematics (1996). From 1994 to 2007, Mr. Aleksandr B. Povalko worked as Senior Consultant of Valuation Department, Project Director, and Director of Business Development of PACC. From 2007 to 2008 — Director of Strategic Planning, RENOVA Stroy Group CJSC. From 2008 to 2012 — Deputy Head of the State Committee for Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation and Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. From 2012 to 2016 — Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. 2016 — CEO of RVC. Information on membership and participation in commissions, committees, advisory councils, and other public agencies: — Member of the Working Group of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for monitoring achievement of targets of social and economic development of the Russian Federation; — Member of the interdepartmental commission for monitoring efficiency of educational institutions of higher education; — Member of the interdepartmental working group on implementation of pilot projects at leading engineering and technical universities to build engineering centers and companies; — Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Fund for Social and Economic Support of Russian Cinematography; — Member of the interdepartmental working group for development of the National Technology Initiative.

Stanislav Protassov

Co-Founder, Senior Vice-President of Engineering, Acronis

Born in 1970 in Tashkent, in a family of scientists. Holds a B.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), where he studied from the age of 15. In 1996 Protassov joined Standard & Western Software IT company as a technical specialist and relocated to Singapore. In 2000 Protassov, together with his friends from MIPT, founded a new company, SWsoft. Under his leadership, SWsoft opened a new R&D center in MIPT to begin developing new products. SWsoft grew into two separate companies, Parallels and Acronis, with Protassov being a co-founder of both. Today, these companies are respected market leaders in the field of data protection and server virtualization, with millions of customers worldwide. Up until 2013, Protassov held a position of Senior Vice President of SWsoft (and later, Parallels, when the company was renamed from SWsoft in 2007), supervising R&D, product development, and technological processes within the business.In 2013, Protassov re-focused on Acronis and became a Senior Vice President, responsible for the technical side of business development, product line, and software updates.Protassov holds 71 patents in the area of computer science and server virtualization, and co-authored the container virtualization technology, which has become an integral part of the global cloud today, currently powering over 10 million servers around the world.

Ekaterina Rudykh

Director, Institute for the Development of the Internet (IRI)

Ekaterina Solntseva

Vice-President of Business Development, ABBYY

Ekaterina Solntseva has been working in IT since 1999. She is currently in charge of ABBYY business development all over the world. Ekaterina came to ABBYY in January 2008, to the position of Marketing Advisor to CEO ABBYY Russia. Before July 2008, she had worked at the Russian office as Advisor to the CEO for marketing and then took the position of Director of Mobile Platform Products Department, in charge of developing applications for mobile platforms, marketing and sale of mobile products on the world market. In 2013, ABBYY was included in the TOP 5 developers of mobile apps in Russia in revenue terms (according to the analytical company App Annie). Prior to joining ABBYY, Ekaterina held executive positions in marketing and business development at Yandex, IBS and Medialogy. Ms. Solntseva graduated from the Moscow State University, Physics Department. She holds Master’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. Ekaterina’s hobbies include skiing and exotic travel and she is also engaged in charity projects. She has a daughter.

Kirill Filippov

General Director, SPB TV

Kirill is the General Director of SPB TV. He founded the company together with Sebastian-Justus Schmidt in 2007. Today, the company is one of the world's leading providers of end-to-end OTT TV, IP TV and mobile TV solutions for video content delivery to multiscreen devices. The company's user application, SPB TV, is available on all mobile operating systems and its viewing audience has reached 30 million people worldwide. Previously, Kirill was Director of the Economics and Finance Directorate for the independent non-profit organization, TV-Novosti. Prior to TV-Novosti, he was Deputy Minister of Press Radio and Television Broadcasting, Deputy General Director for Sales at Lenenergo and Deputy Chairman of All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Kirill worked and studied in the UK within an intergovernmental programme (corporate governance and finance) and holds a PhD in Physics and Mathematics in Mathematical Cybernetics from St. Petersburg State University.

Jong-lok Yoon

President, National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA)

Mr. Jong Lok Yoon is president of National IT Industry Promotion Agency of Korea since 2015. Prior to this position, he served as the vice minister of Korean government at the ministry of Science ICT and Future Planning. He was a professor of Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea as of September 2011. He was senior executive consultant to the Bell Labs in New Jersey since December of 2009-2011. He was a board of director and senior executive vice president of KT and has been leading the Growing Business Group until 2009. Prior to that, he had served as the head of R&D Group, New Business Planning Group, Marketing Group, and e-Biz Group. He also served as the president of KT America Inc.