Business programme

Supplementary education development is of special emphasis and experimentation sphere in a state educational policy of Russian Federation. National project ojective is to get 80% supplementary education coverage for 5-18 years preschoolers and students by 2024. Meanwhile, despite rapid growth of commercial educational market, the share of state and municipal organizations in this sector totals about 97%. Available and newly built school facilities evidently will require funding, relevant content and teaching methods, providing high quality services. Growing households demand and successful scalable non-governmental projects create background for private financing in the sphere including investing in new educational technologies. Which new opportunities for supplementary education market players emerge in course of new schools building project? What are perspective areas in supplementary education? Which innovations and technologies will be in demand? What will be the development model for supplementary education? How can be quality of services provided? How new digital skills and competences of teachers and students can be developed? What is the balance between offline and online learning? Is there a risk of full rejection for offline activities? Can larger companies play meaningful role in school equipment and development?

Moderator
Konstantin Parshin, Vice President and IT cluster CEO, Skolkovo Foundation

Konstantin Parshin

Vice President and IT cluster CEO, Skolkovo Foundation

Professional Experience

Before his tenure at Skolkovo, Parshin worked as the Deputy General Director and Director of New Business Development at ITAR-TASS News Agency, where he was responsible for the agency’s development strategy with respect to government agencies, social organizations, and large businesses. He also organized the ground-up development and successful launch of the startup TASS-Business, an information and analysis product.
Earlier, in 2012–2014 Parshin worked at ITAR-TASS as a manager of key projects related to comprehensive reforms and the ‘re-launch’ of TASS, which allowed the agency to grow and become a market leader.
Before working at TASS, from 1996 to 2012, Parshin occupied various positions in the Xerox corporation, including: head of Xerox Eurasia in Moscow, Vice-President of Industry Marketing in Developing Markets (Great Britain), and General Director of Xerox Isreal.

Education

Parshin graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1994 and received an MBA from the American Institute of Business and Economics in 2002.

Panellists
Julia Vorotnikova, Head of Youth Work Practice, SIBUR Corporate University (online)
Alisa Denisova, Head of “Modern Educational Environment” Block, VEB.RF
Pavel Zenkovich, Vice President for Development, Prosveshchenie Group of Companies
Valery Karezin, Director of Educational Programmes, Human Resources Management Department, Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation
Irina Leontyeva, Chief Executive Officer, Kidsdev Academy
Irina Potekhina, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg
Svetlana Reshetnikova, Director, Development of Continuing Education for Children and Teachers, Rusnano

Pavel Zenkovich

Vice President for Development, Prosveshchenie Group of Companies

Irina Potekhina

Vice Governor of St. Petersburg