Partners 2023


Communications Partner
Telecommunications Partner
Strategic Multimedia Partner
Partners
Official Partner of the Champion Sports and Business Awards
Partner of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum’s Social Lab
Media holding MAER
Communications Partner

MAER was founded in 2003 as an advertising agency specialized in image promotion and customized format of outdoor advertising. 18 years later the company has grown into a high-tech media holding with headquarters in Moscow and representative offices in 11 regions of Russia. Today MAER provides brand building services on the large-format digital media, such as media facades and supersites, for medium to large businesses, corporate entities and public institutions.

According to AdMetrix MAER is ranked as the largest company in Russia in terms of the square area of media facades. In 2020 MAER has also become #1 outdoor advertising operator in accordance with the Real Estate Market Records awards. MAER has developed O2O (offline-to-online) technology, which allows retarget advertising campaigns online. MAER’s advertising constructures are connected to programmatic platforms for the self-placement of outdoor advertising campaigns by companies and agencies.


KONSTANTIN MAYOR

PJSC “MegaFon”
Telecommunications Partner

MegaFon is a pan-Russian provider of digital opportunities, a five-time winner of the Ookla Awards for the fastest mobile Internet in Russia. MegaFon offers mobile and fixed-line communication services, mobile and broadband Internet access, as well as high-tech solutions for subscribers, state-owned companies and businesses of varying scale.

Bringing together all IT and telecommunication business lines, MegaFon creates highly popular digital services based on cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, as well as solutions for reliable and secure telecommunication and cybersecurity. The company’s portfolio includes over 75 products and services, many of which are based on Russian software, thereby ensuring stable operation under any conditions.

In Russia, 74.4 million subscribers use the company's services.


Khachatur Pombukhchan - CEO of MegaFon

PJSC LUKOIL
Partner

LUKOIL is one of the largest international private vertically-integrated energy companies, accounting for over 2% of global oil production and about 1% of proved hydrocarbon reserves.

With exploration, production and marketing of oil, gas, petroleum and petrochemical products being LUKOIL Group’s core businesses, the company plays a key role on Russia’s fuel and energy market. One of the largest taxpayers in this country, LUKOIL produces 15% and refines about 17% of oil in Russia.

Operating in six federal districts (64 regions) of the Russian Federation and over thirty countries worldwide, LUKOIL provides jobs for more than 105 thousand employees.

Since its foundation, LUKOIL has been conducting its business in a sustainable way, seeking to strike a balance between environmental sustainability and social and economic development.


PJSC Promsvyazbank
Partner

PJSC Promsvyazbank (PSB) is a universal bank founded in 1995.

PSB is included in the TOP-5 Russian largest banks and in the list of systemically important credit institutions, approved by the Central Bank, legally defined as a pivotal bank for carrying out operations under the state defense order and large state contracts.

PSB offers a wide range of services for retail and corporate clients, including defense industry enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, including settlement and cash services, various lending and savings programs, brokerage and investment services in the financial markets, leasing and factoring operations, payroll projects and remote services.


The Bank of Non-Core Assets TRUST
Partner

The Bank of Non-Core Assets TRUST is a majority state-owned Russian financial institution. It was founded in July, 2018 on the basis of the bank TRUST (PJSC) through consolidation of non-core assets of the financial institutions being restored. The Bank TRUST acts to effectively manage the assets for the purpose of their restoration and value appreciation with subsequent sale on the market at the highest possible price. Through sale of assets the state will be able to recover costs for resolution of the largest banks. The strategy of the Bank TRUST is to get 482 billion rubles until the end of 2023. The assets of the Bank TRUST include: Baltic Leasing JSC, Tochka JSC, a leader of innovative car-building within the 1520 gauge railway track zone. The total balance cost of assets of the bank is 233 billion rubles.


Aleksandr Sokolov - President-Chairman of the Management Board of the Bank TRUST (PJSC)

Uralchem JSC
Partner

Established in 2007, Uralchem JSC is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of nitrogen, complex and phosphate fertilisers. The Company’s production assets are located in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region (GEO NPK LLC), Kirov Region (KCKK branch), Moscow Region (VMF branch) and Perm Region (Azot branch and PMF branch).

Uralchem JSC, together with Uralkali PJSC and TOAZ PJSC, is a part of Uralchem Group – a leading producer of mineral fertilisers in Russia.

The production range of the company is based on the latest agrichemical research and was designed to match customer needs for efficient application in the agricultural, chemical, mining, metals, construction and other sectors.


Dmitry Konyaev - CEO of Uralchem JSC

Uralkali PJSC
Partner

Uralkali PJSC is a leading global producer and exporter of potash, which is an essential element for the growth and development of all living organisms and which does not have any natural or artificial substitutes. The company has an effective supply chain, which covers the whole scope of operations, from the mining of potash ore to the delivery of finished products to customers across the world.

The production assets of the company are located in the Perm Region of Russia, at the Verkhnekamskoye deposit of potassium and magnesium salts, the world’s second-largest deposit in terms of ore reserves.

Uralkali PJSC, together with Uralchem JSC and TOAZ PJSC, is a part of Uralchem Group – a leading producer of mineral fertilisers in Russia.

The company also owns assets to store, transport, and tranship raw materials and finished products. These assets include the Baltic Bulk Terminal in St. Petersburg and a fleet o


Vitaly Lauk - CEO of Uralkali PJSC

FESCO
Partner

FESCO is one of the leading transportation and logistics companies in Russia operating a variety of assets including ports, terminals, vessel fleet, rolling stock and more. The company provides door-to-door services and controls all steps of the intermodal transportation chain. FESCO actively works in the Far East and contributing to the growing trade between Russia and Asian countries.

FESCO is the leader of container transportation through the Russian Far East to/from Asian countries as well as domestic sea and rail transportation. The company is one of the largest Russian private rail operators that provides services via its subsidiaries. FESCO controls the Commercial Port of Vladivostok, the major port in the Russian Far East.


Andrey Severilov

PM Vent
Partner

РМ Vent is an engineering company founded in St. Petersburg in 1998.

For the first time in the industry, the company’s business idea was centered around energy saving.

Since 2009, the specialists of our company have been developing and successfully implementing the VSM® (Versatile System Management) software and hardware package intended for managing the utility infrastructure of different purpose buildings.

Since 2019, our company has been developing and supplying the SCOM VSM® (System of Control, Optimization and Monitoring) software package designed to control utility systems of both single and multiple buildings.

VSM® and SCOM VSM® are ready-to-use solutions developed in Russia to substitute for the imported BMS and SCADA systems, while meeting the highest standards of their products and moving away from foreign-made software.

PM Vent develops, manufactures and supplies building utility systems such as ventilation, refrigeration, heating and other systems.

The solutions of PM Vent have been implemented at thousands of sites from Kaliningrad to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.


Sergey Kholmkvist - Chief Executive Officer of PM Vent

1C LLC
Partner

1C Company specializes in software development, distribution, publishing, and support. 1C Company serves customers through an extensive partnership network in 30 countries, including over 8 000 1C:Franchisee partners. These partners are certified by 1C to provide integration services for business automation. Among the software developed by 1C Company, the best known is 1C:Enterprise, a system of business automation products. It includes ERP-class business solutions, which improve the efficiency of enterprises and organizations and are built based on an innovative technological platform. Famous with outstanding flexibility, using on premise, cloud and mobile environment, 1C:Enterprise successfully automates enterprise resource planning, operations, accounting, finance, HR and management activities in more than 1 500 000 companies, including major corporations and government institutions. The system holds a leading position on the Russian ERP market by the number of automated workplaces and have high export potential.


Boris Nuraliev - Born in Moscow, July 18, 1958, married, 3 children.

PJSC “MMC “Norilsk Nickel”
Official Partner of the Champion Sports and Business Awards

«Nornickel» is the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium, and one of the world’s leading producers of platinum and copper. The Company produces cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium and sulfur.

The main Russian production units of «Nornickel» are vertically integrated and include: the Polar Division of MMC Norilsk Nickel and Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company.

Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta belonging to the Group is the only nickel refining plant in Finland.

«Nornickel» also includes Gipronickel Institute, a research and development facility located in Saint Petersburg (Russia), with branches in the cities of Norilsk and Monchegorsk.

Norilsk Nickel has its own global network of representative and sales offices in Russia, the UK, China, USA and Switzerland.

When determining the strategy for its global operations and future development, «Nornickel» is focused on compliance with all social and environmental responsibility principles in the various countries in which it operates, which is essential for ensuring sustainable and efficient business development.


Vladimir Potanin - President and Chairman of the Management Board of MMC Norilsk Nickel

PJSC “MMC “Norilsk Nickel”
Partner of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum’s Social Lab

«Nornickel» is the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium, and one of the world’s leading producers of platinum and copper. The Company produces cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium and sulfur.

The main Russian production units of «Nornickel» are vertically integrated and include: the Polar Division of MMC Norilsk Nickel and Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company.

Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta belonging to the Group is the only nickel refining plant in Finland.

«Nornickel» also includes Gipronickel Institute, a research and development facility located in Saint Petersburg (Russia), with branches in the cities of Norilsk and Monchegorsk.

Norilsk Nickel has its own global network of representative and sales offices in Russia, the UK, China, USA and Switzerland.

When determining the strategy for its global operations and future development, «Nornickel» is focused on compliance with all social and environmental responsibility principles in the various countries in which it operates, which is essential for ensuring sustainable and efficient business development.


Vladimir Potanin - President and Chairman of the Management Board of MMC Norilsk Nickel