Business Priority

In the modern world, smart cities aren’t just cities filled with digital technological solutions, but innovative centres that use modern smart technologies to enhance the efficiency of a city’s administration and improve the quality of life of its citizens on a daily basis by creating conditions for comfortable interaction with the urban environment. Smart technologies are integrated into the transport network, telecommunications, the electricity, gas, and water supply, medicine as well as public and road safety services, and allow for the more efficient allocation of resources and management of urban spaces.
However, the development of cities of the future is not only influenced by technology, but also by the transformation of people’s needs and demands. The concept of a smart city, in
addition to the intellectual membrane, should create conditions for people to develop, create, and build a business in a comfortable, safe, and eco-friendly environment.

In focus:

— What should a city of the future look like?
— What smart city technologies can fundamentally change the quality of life?
— What impact will the transformation of a person of the future have on shaping the
concept of a smart city?
— Can Russia become a trendsetter in the development of urban innovations?

Moderators
Vladislav Boutenko, Managing Director, Senior Partner, BCG Henderson Institute Fellow; Head of "The Future of Cities" Global Expert Practice
Lana Samarina, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russian News Agency TASS

Vladislav Boutenko

Managing Director, Senior Partner, BCG Henderson Institute Fellow; Head of "The Future of Cities" Global Expert Practice

Vladislav Boutenko joined BCG in 1999 and has since spent time at the company’s offices in Paris, San Francisco and Moscow. He has provided consulting services to the management of several Fortune 500 companies. Mr Boutenko is the co-director of the company’s Intellectual Property division and also oversees the Russian Education, Organisation and Human Capital practice. Before joining BCG, Vladislav worked at General Electric Healthcare (GE), where he was in charge of introducing digital technologies in medical diagnostics devices. At GE, Mr Boutenko became the first holder of the Six Sigma Black Belt in the R&D department and co-developed the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodology for the effective innovation. He has registered ten inventions in the United States and Europe. In 2013, Mr Boutenko was elected First Vice President of the Russian Book Union (RBU) and Chairman of the Board of the RBU “Education” Chamber. Mr Boutenko graduated with honours from the Faculty of Optoelectronics of Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation and also obtained a Master’s degree in mathematics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, where he was a French government scholar.

Lana Samarina

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russian News Agency TASS

Speakers
Dirk Ahlborn, Chief Executive Officer, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
Vladislav Boutenko, Managing Director, Senior Partner, BCG Henderson Institute Fellow; Head of "The Future of Cities" Global Expert Practice
Veniamin Golubitsky, President, KORTROS
Dmitry Peskov, special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for digital and Technological Development
Jean Pistr, co-founder of the architectural firm Valode&Pistre

Dirk Ahlborn

Chief Executive Officer, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Dirk Ahlborn is a German-born entrepreneur. In the 1990s he founded several companies in the alternative energy and interior design sphere. He co-founded and became CEO of Jumpstarter in 2013, the company that developed the crowdsourcing platform JumpStartFund in El Segundo, California. He is also the CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a project initiated and incubated using JumpstartFund's crowd collaboration process.
Dirk Ahlborn is known worldwide for his outside-the- box approach to giving paradigm-shifting businesses life, leveraging the full power of crowd-collaboration, the Internet, and exponential technologies at the vanguard of the global sharing economy. Dirk Ahlborn’s two decades as a serial entrepreneur serve him well as CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. As CEO and Founder of JumpStarter, Inc., a California-based, crowd-powered online business incubator.
Mr. Ahlborn used JumpStartFund’s crowdfunding and crowd collaboration platform to greatest effect in co-founding HyperloopTT, considered to be the largest and most successful crowd-sourced startup in history.

Vladislav Boutenko

Managing Director, Senior Partner, BCG Henderson Institute Fellow; Head of "The Future of Cities" Global Expert Practice

Vladislav Boutenko joined BCG in 1999 and has since spent time at the company’s offices in Paris, San Francisco and Moscow. He has provided consulting services to the management of several Fortune 500 companies. Mr Boutenko is the co-director of the company’s Intellectual Property division and also oversees the Russian Education, Organisation and Human Capital practice. Before joining BCG, Vladislav worked at General Electric Healthcare (GE), where he was in charge of introducing digital technologies in medical diagnostics devices. At GE, Mr Boutenko became the first holder of the Six Sigma Black Belt in the R&D department and co-developed the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodology for the effective innovation. He has registered ten inventions in the United States and Europe. In 2013, Mr Boutenko was elected First Vice President of the Russian Book Union (RBU) and Chairman of the Board of the RBU “Education” Chamber. Mr Boutenko graduated with honours from the Faculty of Optoelectronics of Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation and also obtained a Master’s degree in mathematics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, where he was a French government scholar.

Veniamin Golubitsky

President, KORTROS

Veniamin Golubitsky is President of KORTROS (former RENOVA StroyGroup) – a development company that implements large-scale projects in the sphere of residential and commercial real estate.
Prior to joining RENOVA StroyGroup, Mr Golubitsky worked for nine years in the authorities of the Sverdlovsk Region of Russia, where his responsibilities at different times included social issues and state property management.
From October 2003 till May 2005 Mr Golubitsky was Head of Administration of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region. Other positions held in the regional authorities include: First Deputy to the Chairman of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region, Minister of the State Property Management of the Sverdlovsk Region, Member of the Duma of the Sverdlovsk Region.
In addition to his work as an official, Veniamin Golubitsky made a convincing academic career: having started as a PhD student at the Department of Administrative Law, Moscow State Lomonosov University, he later became Head of the Law Department at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Mr Golubitsky graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Moscow State Lomonosov University and is a Candidate of Legal Sciences.

Participants
Aleksandr Vysokinskiy, Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region
Alexey Yuzhakov, co-founder of the company «Unicorn»