Creative Business Forum

Import substitution is based not only on materials and technologies used in products but also high quality original design. Design solutions provide an impetus to development of sectors and, consequently, Russia’s economic security and sovereignty. What are the industrial design trends today? How to ensure effective collaboration between manufacturers and designers? How design tools make it possible to create competitive advantages for Russia-made goods? Can design facilitate import substitution? How to realize the potential of the best design schools in projects for the real sector of the economy?

Moderator
Aleksandra Bobretsova, Member of the Union of Designers of Russia; founder, INRU

Panellists
Gulnara Agamova, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Industries Agency
Kosta Kadzov, Deputy General Director for Development "Sistema-crypto" (PJSC AFK "Sistema")
Maksim Kuzin, Head of Industrial Design at Sber Automotive Technologies, Sberbank
Olga Samovarova, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Network, Managing Partner, RUKON Audit
Sergey Smirnov, Director, Scientific and Education Center for Research and Innovation, MGHPA Named after Stroganov; Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Smirnov Design
Vitaly Stavitsky, President, Union of Designers of Russia

Gulnara Agamova

Chief Executive Officer, Creative Industries Agency

Olga Samovarova

Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Network, Managing Partner, RUKON Audit

Sergey Smirnov

Director, Scientific and Education Center for Research and Innovation, MGHPA Named after Stroganov; Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Smirnov Design

Vitaly Stavitsky

President, Union of Designers of Russia