Business programme

Fundamental changes in the structure of foreign economic relations necessitate a radical overhaul of Russia's approach to industrial development. A considerable number of foreign manufacturers specializing in high-tech industrial equipment, software, automated control systems, technology suppliers, engineering, consulting, and service providers have withdrawn from the market. These entities were previously utilized by Russian industrial enterprises as part of the international division of labour. The long-term, sustainable growth of Russian industry can only be achieved through the domestic production of its own equipment, the advancement of applied science, and increased investment in research and development (R&D). The development of industry through domestic resources should be the primary focus of the country's development, and this requires active support from the government. What adjustments are needed in Russia's current long-term industrial policy? What challenges do Russian designers and manufacturers of equipment and technological solutions face? Which links in the technological chains require priority attention from the state? What should be done to revive the innovative potential of R&D organizations? How can the conditions for acquiring modern knowledge and promoting the professional development of engineering staff be improved?

Moderator
Sergey Brilev, President, The Global Energy Association

Sergey Brilev

President, The Global Energy Association

Russian TV presenter, writer and public figure. Deputy Director of the Rossiya TV channel for special informational projects, President of the Bering-Bellingshausen Institute for Both Americas (Montevideo), member of the Praesidium of the Foreign and Defence Policy Council (Moscow), the only Russian journalist to have interviewed both the last two Presidents of the Russian Federation and the USA: Putin and Medvedev, Bush and Obama.
Born 24 July 1972 in Havana (Cuba).
Graduated from MGIMO MID RF (1995, Moscow), the Montevideo Institute of Foreign Languages (1991, Uruguay), and finished BBC courses (1995, London).
Career:
1990–1993: Komsomolskaya Pravda. Trainee, scholarship holder, correspondent-intern in the department of science and education.
1993–1995: Moscow News. International department special correspondent. In parallel, Moscow correspondent of the Uruguay El Observador Económico and the Argentinian La Razón, as well as Russian State Duma Latin America expert.
Since 1995: Rossiya (RTR) TV channel, including:
1995–1996: Vesti special correspondent (including during the First Chechen War).
1996–2001: Bureau Chief in London.
First broadcast as presenter on 11 September 2001 (day of the terrorist acts in the USA).
2001–2003: presenter of evening Vesti.
2003–2007: presenter of Vesti Nedeli, Deputy Director, Directorate of information programmes.
Since 2008: presenter of the Vesti on Saturday programme, Deputy Director of Rossiya TV channel.
Author of a multitude of documentary films: Secret of Three Oceans, Constitutional Practice, Duma Thinking, Right to Right, Heavy Oil, Another Coal, The Caribbean Crisis. An Incomprehensible Story, Nazarbayev’s Line, etc.
Author of the books: Forgotten Allies in World War II (2012) and Fidel. Football. Falklands (2008).
One of the main spheres of his professional activity is interviewing heads of state. In particular, in Latin America: Chavez (Venezuela), Ortega (Nicaragua), Correa (Ecuador), Morales (Bolivia), Sanguinetti (Uruguay), Bachelet (Chile) and so on.
By order of the Russian President, awarded the Order of Friendship, the medals 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg and 1000th Anniversary of Kazan (2005). Was the finalist and winner of the TEFI awards many times.
Speaks English and Spanish fluently.

Panellists
Vladimir Gutenev,
Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Andrey Nikipelov, Deputy General Director for Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Solutions, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom
Alexander Trembitsky, Chairman, Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service
Yan Tsenter, General Director, UZTM-KARTEX
Alevtina Chernikova, Rector, MISIS University
Alexander Shevelev, Chief Executive Officer, Severstal
Nazim Efendiev, Chief Executive Officer, Management Company METALLOINVEST

Vladimir Gutenev

Born March 27, 1966 in the city of Tambov.
1990 - Graduated from Novocherkassk Engineering and Land-reclamation Institute.
1999 - Candidate of Technical Sciences.
2004 - Doctor of Technical Sciences.
Prior to 2001 - Scientific and teaching activities and work at commercial organisations.
2001-2009 - Professor in the Social and Environmental Systems Management Department at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
2007-2009 - Assistant General Director of FSUE Rosoboronexport.
2009-2011 - Advisor to the General Director of Rosoboronexport State Corporation.
December 4, 2011 - Elected as a State Duma Deputy of the sixth convocation.
September 18, 2016 - Elected as a State Duma Deputy of the seventh convocation.
Coordinator of the Russia-Switzerland Friendship Parliamentary Deputy Group.
Member of the Central Audit Committee of the All-Russia People’s Front and Coordinator of the Public Monitoring Centre for Environmental and Forest Protection Problems of the All-Russia People’s Front. Nonpartisan.
2003 - Received the State Prize of the Russian Federation for classified work in the interests of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation for creating a new type of weapon and machinery.
2010 - Recipient of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in education for creating a cycle of textbooks and curricula.
2012 - Awarded the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in science and technology for solving a number of important environmental problems using space monitoring.
Author of more than 315 scientific and educational works, including 59 patents for inventions in the Russian Federation, 48 textbooks, teaching aids and monographs.

Denis Manturov

Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Denis Manturov was born on February 23, 1969, in Murmansk.
Education:
1994 – Lomonosov Moscow State University, major in Sociology.
1997 – Postgraduate studies at Moscow State University, PhD.
2002 – Doctoral programme at Moscow Aviation Institute.
2006 – Russian Academy of Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation, major in Law.
Professional experience:
1998 – Appointed Deputy General Director of Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant.
2000 – Appointed Commercial Director of Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant.
2001 – Appointed Deputy Chairman of State Investment Corporation (Gosincor).
2003 – Appointed General Director of OAO OPK Oboronprom.
2007 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation.
2008 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2012 – Appointed acting Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2012 – Appointed Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2022 – Appointed Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Awards:
2007 – Awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland (Second Class)”.
2008 – Awarded the Order of Friendship.
2009 – Awarded the Order of Honour.
2010 – Awarded an Honorary Certificate of the Government of the Russian Federation.
2013 – Awarded the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland (Fourth Class)”.
Additional information:
Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation (First Class).
Mr. Manturov was included in the “Golden 100” Personnel Management Reserve under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation.
He speaks multiple foreign languages.
He is married with a daughter and a son.

Andrey Nikipelov

Deputy General Director for Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Solutions, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom

Yan Tsenter

General Director, UZTM-KARTEX

Alevtina Chernikova

Rector, MISIS University

Alexander Shevelev

Chief Executive Officer, Severstal

Alexander has been CEO of SVEZA Group, a subsidiary of Severgroup, since 2016. Prior to that he held the position of CEO of Severstal-Metiz (a part of Severstal) from 2013 to 2016. He started his career at Severstal-metiz and Severstal’s Cherepovets Steel Mill as a metalworker in 1997. Alexander graduated from the Vologda Economic Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and from the National Technical University in St. Petersburg where he mastered economics and management. Alexander also holds an MBA from the Northumbria Business School, Newcastle, UK.

Nazim Efendiev

Chief Executive Officer, Management Company METALLOINVEST

Graduate of the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, the Academy of National Economy (MBA programme) and Kingston University in the UK (specialised international management programme), and completed the advanced management programme at IESE Business School of the University of Navarra.

Since April 2020 - Chief Executive Officer of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
03.2012 - 05.2020 - First Deputy CEO, Sales Director of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
2011- 2012 - Deputy CEO, Government Relations Director of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
2010 - 2011 - Managing Director at Ural Steel JSC
2009 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation JSC
2007- 2009 - CEO of Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation JSC
2007- CEO of Uralmashzavod JSC
2006- 2007 - Executive Director of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
2004- 2006 - CEO of Ural Steel JSC
2002 - 2004 – Marketing Director at NOSTA JSC (Ural Steel JSC)
1996 - 2002 – Worked at Siberian Aluminium, as the Deputy Commercial Director of the Sayan Aluminium Plant, the Director of the Trading House of Samara Metallurgical Plant, Chief of the rolling division at Russian Aluminium

Recipient of the title of Honorary Metallurgist (2014), the Badge of Honour for Labour and the Fatherland (2015), the Medal for Merit to the Fatherland 2nd Class (2017), a letter of appreciation from the Governor of the Belgorod region (2019), the medal "300 Years of the College of Mining of Russia" (2019).

Front row participants
Ivan Demchenko, Founder, Novostal-M
Oleg Zhdaneev, Deputy General Director – Head of Import Substitution in Oil and Energy Complex Competence Center, Russian Energy Agency of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
Douglas Andrew Littleton, Technical Service Operations Manager, Ford Motor Company
Alexey Rakhmanov, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, United Shipbuilding Corporation
Mikhail Yurchuk, Deputy CEO for Government Relations, Atlas Mining (JSC “UMMC”)

Ivan Demchenko

Founder, Novostal-M

The President of the Association of Electrometallurgical Enterprises (AEMP), shareholder of metallurgical holding "Novostal-M", member of the Board of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) in Krasnodar region.
Ivan Ivanovich Demchenko was born in the city of Abinsk, Krasnodar region.
He graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MSIIR) and received Bachelor’s Degree in “International Business and Business Administration”.
Ivan Demchenko began his professional activity on the construction project of the Abinsk Electric Steel Works (AESW)
in 2008. He worked in the production department of logistics and led the direction of foreign economic activity.
He became the First Deputy CEO of AESW in 2015.
Ivan Demchenko organized the largest hardware production in the south of Russia, launched two workshops in the territory of AESW.
In 2019 he headed the metallurgical holding company "Novostal-M", which core assets are Abinsk Electric Steel Works (Krasnodar region) and Steel Factory Balakovo (Saratov Oblast) and ensured the entry of the enterprise into 35 new foreign markets and the growth of export earnings by 70 percent.
2019: He was awarded the All-Russian Prize in the field of international cooperation and export in the category "Exporter of the Year in the Field of High Technologies".
2020: He was commended the gratitude of the Governor of the Krasnodar Krai for a significant contribution to the development of the industry of the Kuban.
He has an excellent command of English and Spanish.

Oleg Zhdaneev

Deputy General Director – Head of Import Substitution in Oil and Energy Complex Competence Center, Russian Energy Agency of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation

Alexey Rakhmanov

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, United Shipbuilding Corporation

Alexey Rakhmanov was born on July 18, 1964. In 1986 he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 2003 he graduated from the School of Business at the University of Chicago with a degree of Master of Business Administration. In the early stages of his career, he held various positions in the public and private entities. In 1996 he joined international auditing and consulting firm Ernst & Young where he worked until 2002. Between 2002 and 2008 he served as Director for Strategy and Business Development at JSC Severstal-Auto. In July 2008 he was appointed Director of the Department of Automotive Industry and Agricultural Machinery at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, and in March 2012 – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Since June 2014 he has been President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
Alexey Rakhmanov is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University (SPbSMTU), Chairman of the Shipbuilding Industry and Marine Equipment Committee of the Russian Engineering Union, Member of the Russian Engineering Union Management Board.

Mikhail Yurchuk

Deputy CEO for Government Relations, Atlas Mining (JSC “UMMC”)