Press event programme

Tinkoff will present its new telephone secretary, Oleg, who can protect users from spam and fraud. This is an open voice assistant - it is available free of charge to any resident of Russia.
The new assistant, Oleg, will be presented at the session "Talk to me: AI and voice technologies in business" by the chairman of the board of JSC Tinkoff Bank Stanislav Bliznyuk.
Also during the session, leading Russian and international experts will discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) and voice technologies can be used in various business areas, and talk about the development of the AI ​​sphere.
As part of the presentation, visitors to the forum will be able to visit the interactive area at the Tinkoff stand, where they can evaluate the new appearance of Oleg's voice assistant, conduct a test drive of the telephone secretary, and also talk with him on any topic in real-time.

Participants
Stanislav Bliznyuk, Chairman of the Management Board, Tinkoff Bank
Elena Ivashentseva, Senior Partner, Baring Vostok Capital Partners
Nicolas Miailhe, Co-Founder, President, Future Society
Kirill Petrov, Co-Founder, Managing Director, Just AI Limited
Vladimir Salakhutdinov, Strategy Director, X5 Retail Group
Olga Uskova, Founder, President, Cognitive Technologies

Stanislav Bliznyuk

Chairman of the Management Board, Tinkoff Bank

Elena Ivashentseva

Senior Partner, Baring Vostok Capital Partners

Elena Ivashentseva is a Senior Partner at Baring Vostok Capital Partners and has led investments by the Baring Vostok funds in the mass media, telecommunications and information technology sectors, including Yandex, Ozon.ru, Avito, 1C, CFT, Itransition, ER Telecom, Ivi.ru, CTC Media and others. Elena graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master’s Degree in Finance and Accounting. She also has a diploma with honors in Economics from Novosibirsk State University.

Olga Uskova

Founder, President, Cognitive Technologies

Olga Uskova - President and Founder of Cognitive Technologies group, CEO of Cognitive Pilot.

Olga is a famous Tech entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in Software Development and Artificial Intelligence. She is also known as one of the Russia's top IT visionaries.

In the beginning of 1990s she was the one to facilitate the agreement on OCR and ECM solutions development between Cognitive Technologies and the world’s top IT-giants such as HP, Canon, Epson, IBM, Oracle and others.

Being a CEO of Cognitive Pilot, an autonomous driving technology joint venture of Sberbank and Cognitive Technologies group, she manages AI business in the sphere of autonomous transport in Russia, Europe, United States, Asia and Latin America.

In 2019 she was named as one of the most influential tech-entrepreneurs in Russia, whose technologies change the world, according to Forbes, as well as one of the TOP-3 newsmakers in Russia on the topic of Artificial Intelligence.

Moderator
Ryan Chilcote, TV Host, Special Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

Ryan Chilcote

TV Host, Special Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

With two decades of journalism under his belt at Bloomberg Television and CNN, Ryan Chilcote's been an eyewitness to many of the biggest stories of our time. Thanks to his unique background spanning general and financial news, Chilcote is as at home interviewing world leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum in Davos as he is reporting from the world's front lines. Ryan has received several awards for his work. Among them: an Emmy nomination for Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast from the National Academy for Television Arts & Sciences, a New York Film Festival World Medal, a Clarion Award, and a nomination at the Prix Bayeux Competition for War Correspondents. Chilcote's relentless reporting has taken him from the United States throughout the whole of Europe, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, South Africa, Sudan, Kenya and Iceland. After graduating from the University of California in 1995, Chilcote moved to Russia where he worked for CNN and traveled extensively throughout the former Soviet Union. In 2007, he moved to the United Kingdom to join Bloomberg. Since March 2017, he joined the PBS NewsHour team.