Programme

We live in an era of global digital transformation. Along with the widespread digitalization of processes across all sectors of the economy, new technological challenges and threats are emerging. Information becomes the most valuable and vulnerable asset, and not only governments, but also major corporations bear responsibility for the security of their customers in the digital environment. Along with the expansion of free Internet, more and more digital boundaries are being set to protect users in cyberspace. What awaits us in the future – segmented Internet or the complete freedom of action? What defines a safe and transparent digital world and is it possible to achieve it?

Moderator
Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Stanislav Kuznetsov

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Stanislav K. Kuznetsov was born on July 25, 1962, in Leipzig (GDR).
In 1984, he graduated from the Military Institute with a Military and Political Specialization including the study of foreign languages (German and Czech), and in 2002 he graduated from the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a specialty in Law. PhD in Law.
In 1979-2002, he served in the Russian Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.
In 2002-2004, he was the head of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
In 2004-2007, he was appointed head of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
From April 2007 to December 2008, he was Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
In January 2008, he became the Senior Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of Sberbank.
Since October 2010, he has been a Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank. Supervises the work of the Administrative Unit, the Administrative Support Centre, and the Moscow Regional Directorate of the Cashflow Management Centre. Coordinates the work of the Bank's security subdivisions.
Awarded the Order of Merit for Service to the Fatherland, 4th Class, the Order of Honour, the Order of Friendship, and the Order of Alexander Nevsky. Honoured with the acknowledgement of the President of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Certificate of Honour of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation.

Panellists
Gregory Abovsky, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Yandex
Esko Aho, Prime Minister of Finland (1991–1995); Senior Adviser, East Office of Finnish Industries
Eugene Kaspersky, Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab
Brett King, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Movencorp Inc.
Alexey Kornya, President, MTS
Mika Lauhde, Vice-President of Cyber Security & Privacy, Global Public Affairs, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Gregory Abovsky

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Yandex

Greg Abovsky joined Yandex as Vice President of Investor Relations in January 2013, assuming the extra duty of Vice President for Corporate Development in October 2013. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2014, and Chief Operating Officer of Yandex in 2017.
He started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and has over 17 years of experience in a variety of finance and investment management roles in the media and technology sectors. He holds a B.A. degree in Business Economics and Russian Literature from Brown University and an MBA. with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School.

Esko Aho

Prime Minister of Finland (1991–1995); Senior Adviser, East Office of Finnish Industries

Born 1954, M.Sc. (Soc.Sc.).
In April 2013 Mr. Aho was appointed as an Executive Chairman of East Office of Finnish Industries representing the leading Finnish corporations in Russia. He was also appointed to head the Business Team for Russia – the cooperation venture of the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce, East Office and the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK’s Russia functions.
Mr. Aho enjoyed a long and distinguished career in government service. He served as a member of Finnish parliament for 20 years, from 1983. He was elected to the Prime Minister’s Office in 1991 at the age of 36, making him the youngest prime minister in Finland’s history. During his premiership, Mr. Aho chaired the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland. Under his leadership, he also brought Finland into the European Union.
After leaving office in 1995, Mr. Aho spent one year as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 2000. He then served as the president of Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, from 2004-2008.
Currently Mr. Aho serves as elected member of the Executive Board at the International Chamber of Commerce. He is also an invited member of Club de Madrid, an independent organization of former heads of state and government dedicated to strengthening democracy. Since founded in 2010, Mr. Aho has been a board member at Skolkovo Foundation, a non-profit organization charged with creating a new science and technology development centre in the Moscow suburb of Skolkovo. In May 2016 Mr. Aho was elected to the Supervisory Board of Sberbank.
In March 2015, he was named as Executive in Residence at Aalto University, where he works at the Department of Management Studies at the School of Business. Mr. Aho holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Vaasa, Finland, and the University of Alberta, Canada.

Eugene Kaspersky

Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab

Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and successful entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held vendor of endpoint protection and cybersecurity solutions.
Eugene began his career in cybersecurity accidentally when his computer became infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus in 1989. Eugene’s specialized education in cryptography helped him analyze the encrypted virus, understand its behavior, and then develop a removal tool for it. After successfully removing the virus, Eugene’s curiosity and passion for computer technology drove him to start analyzing more malicious programs and developing disinfection modules for them. This exotic collection of antivirus modules would eventually become the foundation for Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus database. Today the database is one of the most comprehensive and complete collections in cybersecurity, used in detecting and preventing systems from being infected by more than 500 million malicious programs.
Further pursuing his passion for defensive technologies, in 1990 Eugene started gathering a team of like-minded enthusiast researchers to create the AVP Toolkit Pro antivirus program, which four years later was recognized by the University of Hamburg as the most effective antivirus software in the world.
Wishing to combine their successful track record of antivirus programming with their entrepreneurial vision, Eugene and his colleagues decided to establish their own independent company. In 1997 Kaspersky Lab was founded, with Eugene heading the company’s antivirus research. In 2007 he was named Kaspersky Lab’s CEO.
Today Kaspersky Lab is one of the fastest growing IT security vendors worldwide, operating in almost 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company employs more than 3,800 professionals and IT security specialists in 35 dedicated regional offices across 31 countries, and its cybersecurity technologies protect over 400 million users worldwide.
Kaspersky Lab’s globally renowned team of experts has investigated some of the most complex and sophisticated cyberattacks ever known, including Stuxnet, Flame, and Red October. The company also cooperates extensively with INTERPOL, Europol, and national police bodies to actively assist them in their fight against cybercrime.
Eugene has an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the UK’s Plymouth University. He regularly gives both lectures on cybersecurity at universities around the globe, and keynotes at leading conferences and industry events.
Eugene is both a passionate traveler and dedicated devotee of wild nature and adventure-tourism. He is also a talented photographer, which assists in his prolific chronicling of his exploits in his blog – from polar expeditions and glacier crossings to volcano scaling and jungle trekking.

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

Alexey Kornya

President, MTS

In March 2018, Alexey Kornya was appointed CEO and President of MTS. PJSC. Since 2008 Mr. Kornya was appointed Acting Vice President and in 2010 began his tenure as Vice President, Finance and Investment, at MTS PJSC. Since June 2016, he has been Vice President for Finance, Investments, Mergers & Acquisitions.
Mr. Kornya joined the Company in 2004 as the Chief Financial Officer of MTS Ural macroregion. Between 2004 and 2007, he was Director of MTS Group for Business Planning. In March 2007, he was appointed Chief Financial Controller of MTS Group.
Prior to joining MTS, Alexey worked for North-West Telecom and PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit.
Alexey is a member of the Budget Committee of the MTS PJSC Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board of MTS Ukraine PrJSC, member of the Board of Directors of Mobile TeleSystems JLLC (MTS Belarus) and RTC JSC. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Strategy and Risk Management Committee of the Board of Directors of MTS Bank PJSC.
Alexey was born in 1975. In 1998, he graduated with honors from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.

Front row participants
Jack Lau, Adjunct Professor of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology​; Visiting Professor, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Nikolai Legkodimov, Partner, Head of Emerging Technologies, KPMG in Russia and the CIS
Luca Tagliaretti, Senior Security Expert, European Central Bank (ECB)

Nikolai Legkodimov

Partner, Head of Emerging Technologies, KPMG in Russia and the CIS

Nikolay joined KPMG from the oil & gas sector, where he held various senior positions in IT, project management, business process optimisation and engineering for major Russian oil & gas companies. Prior to that, he worked for the New York and Moscow offices of KPMG, advising finance and oil & gas clients on IT security and corporate fraud prevention issues. Now, Nikolay is the head of KPMG’s Emerging Technologies Group that offers finance and commodity clients various solutions related to the corporate distributed register (blockchain), AI and ML, IIoT, advanced Big Data analysis methods, technology brokerage, startup and technology scouting, as well as the development of digitization strategies.

Luca Tagliaretti

Senior Security Expert, European Central Bank (ECB)

Luca Tagliaretti joined the European Central Bank (ECB) in 1999. During the course of his career in central banking he was involved in a range of activities and with different roles. From 2011 to 2019 he lead the International Counterfeit Deterrence Centre at the ECB that provides technical support and assistance to more than 50 National Central Banks around the world. From the beginning of 2019 he is responsible for the establishment of a joint cyber-monitoring initiative which will bring together and reinforce synergies between Central Banks and Law Enforcement Community.
Luca holds an engineering degree from the Polytechnic of Milan, two MBAs from MIP and Oxford Brookes University, a Post Graduate Master from Oxford University -Saïd Business School- and completed the PON at Harvard University.
For his activities he was awarded the knighthood of the Order of The Star of Italy, by the Italian President of Republic.