Programme

An individual trajectory is a personal path to realizing an individual’s personal potential. Artificial intelligence technologies require huge amounts of data collected by the governments and companies. With the help of machine analytics, individual development paths, including for business, can be created. How can the culture of proactivity be nurtured and individual desires predicted? What are the ethical, organizational, and financial issues?

Moderator
Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Digital and Technological Development

Dmitry Peskov

Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Digital and Technological Development

Panellists
Igor Ashmanov, General Director, Kribrum; Managing Partner, Ashmanov and Partners
Artem Gladkih, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Teona.ai
Aleksandr Laryanovskiy, Business Development Director, Managing Partner, Skyeng
Eduard Lysenko, Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Department of Information Technologies of Moscow
Wolfgang Maass, Head of Research Department of Smart Service Engineering Unit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Aysen Nikolaev, Head of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Svetlana Chupsheva, General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)
Dmitry Shushkin, Chief Executive Officer, ABBYY Russia

Igor Ashmanov

General Director, Kribrum; Managing Partner, Ashmanov and Partners

Born on 9 January 1962. Graduated from Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University with PhD in technical sciences.
Among dozens of products released under his management are Spamtest spam filter (later rebranded as Kaspersky Antispam), ORFO multifunctional spelling checking system (used in Microsoft Office), and a large collection of Medialingua e-dictionaries.
Since 1999, chief research and development officer, then CEO at Rambler. Directed development and release of Rambler’s search engine and most of the services by the company (until their update in 2012).
Since 2001, managing partner (and CEO – till 2015) at Ashmanov and Partners. The company provides integrated Internet marketing services, develops various search and advertising technologies and services.
Igor Ashmanov founded and co-founded startups that make a heavy use of big data technologies, applied linguistics, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
In 2005, he founded Nanosemantics, a company that develops technologies and services based on direct man-machine verbal interaction. In 2010, he founded Metahouse, a startup that develops vertical search engines that involve collecting, storing, and analyzing big data. In 2010, he co-founded Kribrum, a company that provides online service for reputation management and information security.
In 2011, he founded RIWW, a startup that creates mobile apps searching in the content of other mobile apps. In 2012, he founded A&P Media, a company that develops mobile apps based on game mechanics. In 2012, he co-founded Wicron, an applied robotics company that is currently working on a low-budget 3D printer made entirely in Russia, remotely controlled robots, and robots that maintain interaction with users using natural language.
Igor Ashmanov is active participant in multiple government working groups: a Presidential Executive Office based working group on digital economy (“Internet + society” and “Internet + sovereignty” subgroups, led by Igor Schyogolev), a State Duma based Digital Economy Council (led by Vyacheslav Volodin), and the Ministry of Communications based working group on digital economy (“Information security” subgroup).
He is also Skolkovo Foundation expert and lecturer at the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Troops and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, where he delivers lectures on big data, social networks, and information warfare.
Awards: “Man of the year” award in ROTOR contests in 2004 and 2006. Listed by Forbes Russia among TOP30 most influential people on Russian Internet.

Artem Gladkih

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Teona.ai

In 2014 he graduated from Lipetsk State Technical University. He has been an entrepreneur for over seven years and founded several Internet projects. The first project was a platform searching for similar products on Internet sites based on user images. After selling the project, he launched a platform for finding work abroad talentboard.me. He is a co-owner of the NeatBe marketing agency and develops the Teona.ai project. The project based on artificial intelligence technology Teona.ai was founded in 2019. This solution, using people analytics and the power of artificial intelligence, analyses the activity of employees and helps predict abrupt quitting and burnout.

Aleksandr Laryanovskiy

Business Development Director, Managing Partner, Skyeng

Eduard Lysenko

Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Department of Information Technologies of Moscow

Wolfgang Maass

Head of Research Department of Smart Service Engineering Unit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Wolfgang Maass is professor in Business Informatics and in Computer Science (co-opted) at Saarland University, scientific director at the “German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence“ (DFKI), and adjunct professor at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, NY. He studied Computer Science at RWTH Aachen and Saarland University before he was senior researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is co-director of the Cognitive Manufacturing Lab of DFKI and WZL RWTH Aachen. In his research he investigates the transformation of industries by applying methods of Artificial Intelligence.

Aysen Nikolaev

Head of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Born on January 22, 1972 in Leningrad
1994 - graduated from the physics department of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Started his career in finance corporation «SAPI»
1995 – Deputy Chairman of the Board of «Almazergienbank»
1998 – The Chairman of «Almazergienbank»
2004 – Minister of Finance of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2007 – Chief of the Presidential and Government Administration of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2011 – First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2012 - 2017 – Mayor of the city of Yakutsk
May 2018 – appointed as acting Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
The Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) since September 2018
He was elected to the State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
Granted title of honor «Honored Worker of National Economy of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)». Decorated with diplomas of the Federation Council, The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Svetlana Chupsheva

General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)

Svetlana Chupsheva was born in Prague. In 2001 she graduated from Samara State Academy of Economics with Honors.Commencing from 2000 Svetlana Chupsheva worked at the Central Department of the Bank of Russia for Samara Region, then at the Government of Samara Region.From 2004 she held position of the Director General of the Rating Agency of the Government of Samara Region, and was the head of the State Institution Agency for Economic Development of Samara Region.From 2009 – adviser to the Deputy Chairmen of the Government of Samara Region – Ministry of Economic Development, Investment and Trade of Samara Region, then adviser to the Chairman of the Board of the CB Regional Credit, LLC.From 2011 – corporate director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). On August 10, 2015 she was appointed as the line director of the Social Projects of the ASI.From 2017 – Director General of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.She is awarded with the Certificate of Merit issued by the President of the Russian Federation, she has the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the President of the Russian Federation and the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the Mayor of Moscow.She brings up four children.

Dmitry Shushkin

Chief Executive Officer, ABBYY Russia