Business programme

Over the past year, high-tech companies have encountered a number of significant barriers caused by international tensions, ranging from a shortage of components to greater competition for highly qualified specialists. At the same time, numerous tech companies managed to quickly reshape their export strategies to include the fast-growing markets of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. In addition, several companies were also able to start implementing investment projects that aim to fill vacant niches on the domestic market. In response to the challenges, Russia has created a number of brand-new support tools for tech companies that aim to stimulate business development in Russia and successfully improve domestic products to the level of their foreign analogues. One of the priorities of this support was to ensure that its recipients maintain high growth rates and take part in the implementation of priority import-substituting projects. What are the main factors for enhancing a jurisdiction’s appeal for the tech business? Which of them can Russia utilize in a short time? What are the key risks and opportunities for the development of startups, gazelle companies, and digital ecosystems in Russia? How can we coordinate work to achieve the country’s technological sovereignty with new models of the supplier, customer, and regulator? What tools for promoting Russian innovative products abroad could be essential amidst the current tensions?

Moderator
Dan Medovnikov, Director of the Innovation Management Institute, Graduate School of Business, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Dan Medovnikov

Director of the Innovation Management Institute, Graduate School of Business, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Dan Medovnikov is a renowned Russian expert in the field of innovation.
Dan is the creator and head of the science and innovation department of the Expert magazine (1998-2015), deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Expert magazine (2008-2015).
Since 2012 - Director of the Institute of Innovation Management of the Higher School of Economics.
Since 2017 – Editor-in-Chief of the online magazine "Stimul".
Under Dan’s supervision, a number of applied research has been carried out on the subject of the innovative potential of the Russian economy, the innovative activity of Russian corporations, and the development of the medium-sized technological business.
Dan's articles in the Russian media constituted a significant part of Russian media analytics on the science, entrepreneurship and innovation development in the 1990s-2010s.
Dan is a member of the Expert Council of the Chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of Russia; member of the Committee on Industrial Policy of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
In 2016, the head of the working group "Science and the State" developing Scientific and Technological Development Strategy of the Russian Federation.

Panellists
Anatoly Braverman, General Director, RVC
Maxim Kolesnikov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Nikolay Kolpakov, Chief Executive Officer, Innovative Engineering Center
Alexey Miroshnichenko, First Deputy Chairman - Member of the Board, VEB.RF
Natalya Popova, First Deputy General Director, Innopraktika
Alexander Chernoshchekin, Senior Vice President, Head of the Digital Business Unit, Promsvyazbank
Dmitry Shcherbinin, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation; Member, Interdepartmental Working Group on Implementation of the National Technological Initiative

Anatoly Braverman

General Director, RVC

Maxim Kolesnikov

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Nikolay Kolpakov

Chief Executive Officer, Innovative Engineering Center

Alexey Miroshnichenko

First Deputy Chairman - Member of the Board, VEB.RF

Born on 05 March 1982 in Moscow.

Information About Vocational Education:
Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2003,

Degree: Mathematician, Major in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, 2008, Degree: Candidate of Science (Economics), Major in Mathematical and Instrumental Methods in Economics

TRIUM (NYU Stern, LSE and HEC (Paris)), 2015 г. Executive MBA

Professional Background:
2002–2003, Informcontract Consulting Company, Assistant at Consulting Unit;
2003–2005, AlfaStrakhovanie, Lead Specialist at Business Process Improvement and Modeling Group, Operations Department;
2005–2006, Triangle, Consultant at Management Consulting Unit;
2006–2010, PwC Russia, Senior Consultant, Assistant Manager, Manager, Senior Manager at Consultancy Services Unit, Business Consulting Division;
2010–2018, Gazprombank (Joint Stock Company), Head of Department, Vice President — Head of Transaction Risks in Financial Markets Department, Vice President, Executive Vice President, First Vice President;
Since July 2018, Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank.

Natalya Popova

First Deputy General Director, Innopraktika

Natalia Popova, First Deputy СEO of the Non-State Development Institute “Innopraktika”, President of Vision Media Center LLC, graduated from Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation and the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies of Moscow State University. Natalia is a member of the Boards of Directors of ITECMA LLC, VEB Ventures LLC, also the Supervisory Boards of the INTC Composite Valley Foundation and MSP Bank JSC, as well as the Board of Trustees of the School Unit of the “Phystech XXI” cluster and the autonomous non-profit educational organization “Phystech-lyceum” named after P.L. Kapitsa. In addition, she is the chairman of the board of directors of IAC OJSC, the co-chairman of the Coordinating Council for the introduction of innovative Russian products into the production and economic activities of Gazprom. Natalia is a member of the Council for the Implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Agriculture for 2017-2025; the working group which provide support to small and medium businesses in high-tech sectors of the economy, including those introducing innovations, implementing projects in the field of import substitution and (or) producing export products and services; to the Expert council for the development of financial instruments and non-financial measures to support enterprises of Russia's defense industry under the Commission of the State Duma on legal support for the development of organizations in the defense industry of Russia. Natalia is the originator and the host of Innopraktika media projects, including such projects as “Dom uchenyh” (lit.: The House of Scientists) in cooperation with “Kultura” TV channel, “Nauka” (lit.: Science) in cooperation with “Russia-24” TV channel, also a member of the committee for preparation and implementation of the global project "Russian Seasons". Since December 2019, Natalia Popova has been holding the position of the Ombudsman representing interests of high-tech leading companies, established on the Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights at the President of the Russian Federation institution basis.

Alexander Chernoshchekin

Senior Vice President, Head of the Digital Business Unit, Promsvyazbank

Education:
Alexander Chernoshchekin graduated from Belgorod State Technological University with honours, specializing in economics and construction materials management.
He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, EMBA for PSB executives.
Professional experience:
Previously, Mr. Chernoshchekin was employed at Raiffeisenbank as Assistant Director of the Belgorod Branch starting in May 2008.
Joined PSB Bank in 2009 as director of the corporate sales department. In 2013, he was named Vice President – managing director for medium-sized and regional business development. From 2015, appointed Vice President – deputy head of the Middle and Small Business Unit, becoming the head of the Unit in 2016.
August 2016.

Dmitry Shcherbinin

Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation; Member, Interdepartmental Working Group on Implementation of the National Technological Initiative

Front row participants
Mikhail Aronson, Deputy General Director, Zyfra
Sanat Akhanov, Chairman of the Board, Qazinnovations National Agency for the Development of Innovations
Alexey Semenov, Chairman of the Management Board, Geoscan Group
Aleksey Filimonov, Executive Director of the National Association for Technology Transfer

Mikhail Aronson

Deputy General Director, Zyfra

Sanat Akhanov

Chairman of the Board, Qazinnovations National Agency for the Development of Innovations

Alexey Semenov

Chairman of the Management Board, Geoscan Group

Aleksey Filimonov

Executive Director of the National Association for Technology Transfer