Business programme

Several wide-ranging digital transformation projects are currently under way in Russia. Their aim is to make the economy more competitive, and improve interaction between government bodies and the public. However, open-source code is going virtually ignored. According to a Red Hat report, open source’s share stands at less than 1%. This is in stark contrast to the US, where it stands at 23%, and China, where it stands at 10%. What might be the economic benefit of a policy aiming to facilitate the spread of open-source products and platforms? Could the process of creating Russian platforms and integrating them in the global network pave the way for a breakthrough in IT and in economic leadership? How should open-source software be employed to address import substitution and import dependency challenges?

Moderator
Ilya Massukh, Director, Competence Centre for the Import Substitution of Information and Communication Technologies

Ilya Massukh

Director, Competence Centre for the Import Substitution of Information and Communication Technologies

Panellists
Marco Berkovich, Regional Manager, Europe, GitHub
Alexander Galitsky, Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital
Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman, Skolkovo Foundation
Maxim Parshin, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
Bill Poucher, ACM Fellow Professor of Computer Science, Baylor University

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.

Arkady Dvorkovich

Chairman, Skolkovo Foundation

Born on May 26, 1972 in Moscow.
In 1994 graduated from Moscow State University with a Master degree in economics.
1994-1997 – worked as an expert in the Expert Group of Russia’s Ministry of Finance.
1997-2000 - Head of the Economic Expert Group of Russia’s Ministry of Finance.
Since August of 2000 – Adviser of the Minister of Economic Development and Trade.
Since 2001 - Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade.
Since April of 2004 - Head of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate of the Presidential Executive Office.
Since May 13, 2008 - Aide to the President.
From May 13, 2008 to May, 21 2012 served as an aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
On December 31, 2009 according to the decree of the President Dmitry Medvedev entered the working group for creation of a detached territorial complex for research and development and further commercialization of the results.
On May 21, 2012 he was appointed the Deputy Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation.
May 2018 – appointed co-chair of the Skolkovo Foundation council.
In September 2018, he was appointed to a government commission on modernising Russia’s economy and innovative development.
The same month, he was appointed Chair of the Skolkovo Foundation.

Maxim Parshin

Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation

Born on July 23, 1976 in Mytishchi, Moscow Region. In 1998, Mr. Parhin graduated from Moscow State University and, in 2001, he completed a post-graduate course. In 2008, he graduated from the International Institute of International Business under the Russian Foreign Trade Academy (MBA).2002–2013: deputy division director, division director and then deputy department director at the Russian Ministry for Economic Development.2013: He was appointed Deputy General Director of FSUE Mail of Russia.2014–2015: Deputy Director, Federal Service for Labour and Employment. 2016–2018 — Head of the Department for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Competition of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Maxim Parshin was awarded the Certificate of Honour of the Government of the Russian Federation. On August 16, 2018 was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.

Front row participants
Pavel Gontarev, Managing Director, Mail.ru Digital Technologies
Alexander Krainov, Director of AI Technology Development, Yandex
Yury Maksimov, General Director, Positive Technologies

Pavel Gontarev

Managing Director, Mail.ru Digital Technologies

In September 2018, he joined the Mail.ru Group team as Head of B2B. In April 2019, he assumed responsibility for a new division of the company - "Mail.ru Digital Technologies."

Pavel Gontarev has been working in the field of information technology and management consulting for over 15 years. Since 2005, he has worked at SAP and has been responsible for industry-specific business development and supervised the digital transformation projects of major customers. Since 2016, he has acted as Director General of SAP CIS. Pavel Gontarev graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University with an academic concentration in finance and credit.

Alexander Krainov

Director of AI Technology Development, Yandex

Head of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Yandex, in charge of Pilot Products and AI Technologies Sector.
Before that, for nine years, he headed the development of computer-enabled vision products and algorithms at Yandex.
Before Yandex, he worked at SPIRIT DSP and its subsidiary SeeStorm in the position of Product Director. He was engaged in the development of audio and video compression and transmission algorithms, speech recognition, video conferencing technologies, computer-enabled vision and 3D modelling.
He worked in Port.Ru, one of the Russian Internet pioneers, where he created a cataloguing system for Russia’s first online marketplace.
The first job was a temporary scientific team Supermatrix, where he was engaged in computer-aided design of the topology of superconducting matrices.
He graduated from MIREA (Russian Technological University).
Party to the development of a national strategy for AI development.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Moscow GO Federation.