‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’

Moderator
Roman Yakovlev,

Speakers
Natalia Vyahireva,
Vadim Glushchenko, Director, Center for Global IT-Cooperation
Maxim Dankin,
Alexei Zabrodin,
Sergey Masalov,
Anatoly Semenov, Minister of Innovations, Digital Development and Communication Technologies of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Maksut Shadaev, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation

Vadim Glushchenko

Director, Center for Global IT-Cooperation

Maxim Dankin

Deputy Director for Regional Development at the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development, an autonomous non-profit organization.
Born on 28 May 1989 in Bryansk, Bryansk Region.
Graduated from Bryansk State Technical University in 2011 with two degrees in economics and management, and engineering.
From 2011 to 2013, he worked as an engineer at Bryanskenergo, a branch of MRSK Centre (Rosseti).
Since 2013, he has been involved in regional development in various positions: in the civil service of the Bryansk Region, in the non-profit Monotowns Development Fund (MONOGORODA.RF of the VEB.RF Group), and in the JSC Corporation for Development of the Far East and the Arctic. Since 2020, he has been the Deputy Director for Regional Development of the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development.
He participated in the preparation of several strategic planning documents at the municipal, regional and federal levels, including the preparation of the priority programme of the Russian government’s project “Integrated Development of Monotowns”, the Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic until 2035, the Strategy of Development and National Security of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation until 2035, and the Russian state programme “Social and Economic Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”.

Anatoly Semenov

Minister of Innovations, Digital Development and Communication Technologies of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Maksut Shadaev

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

Born in 1979 in Moscow

2004: Graduated from Moscow State Social University, now Russian State Social University

1999-2004: Held managerial positions in the IT and communications sector, including at IBC Group where he headed the internet solutions division’s business development department and also worked as Director for Business Development.

2004: Advisor to the Minister and Director of the Department of State Programmes, Infrastructure Development and Use of Constrained Resources at the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications of the Russian Federation.

2008: Assistant to the Head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation. Oversaw the organisation of the work of the Russian Presidential Council for Information Society Development.

February 2009: Listed among the top 100 members of the Management Personnel Pool under the Russian President’s Patronage.

2012: Advisor to the Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

2014: Minister of Public Administration, Information Technology and Communications of the Moscow Region.

2016: Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region.

September 2018: Vice President for Digital Platforms at Rostelecom.

February 2019: Combined this position with that of RT Labs Director General.

21 January 2020: Appointed Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation by Presidential Executive Order.