Business programme

Since autumn 2022, Russia has been running an unprecedented road freight transport project called "Unmanned Logistics Corridors'' on the M11 motorway. The Russian project is unique. For the first time, it encompasses all aspects of the business chain, including innovative vehicles, a new transport model, digital road infrastructure, and both legal and technical regulations. The primary objective is not simply to test unmanned technologies, but rather to assess the economic viability of their implementation in transportation. To facilitate this, the government has introduced a special experimental legal regime to examine different hypotheses related to unmanned solutions, the organization of unmanned transport, and road infrastructure. The long-term challenge lies in successfully scaling up the new technologies, solutions and regulations from the 670 km stretch of the M11 motorway to the country's main road transport corridors, covering at least 19,500 km by 2030. What are the early successes and early lessons of the Unmanned Logistics Corridors project? How can a consensus be reached between safety, economics, risk, and the pace of innovation in regulating the production, certification and operation of unmanned freight vehicles? What are the macroeconomic and social development effects that this project can bring to the country?

Moderator
Polina Davidova, Director, Digital Transport and Logistics Association

Polina Davidova

Director, Digital Transport and Logistics Association

Panellists
Dmitriy Bakanov, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation
Andrey Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Albert Karimov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Sergey Kogogin, Director General, KAMAZ
Vyacheslav Petushenko, Chairman of the Board, Russian Highways State Company
Vadim Filatov, Deputy Director, PEC
Grigory Forostovsky, General Director, SberAutoTech
Artem Sheikin, Member of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Constitutional Legislation and State Building

Dmitriy Bakanov

Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

Andrey Belousov

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born March 17, 1959.

Education:
1981: Graduated with honours from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Economics.
DSc (Economics).

Experience:
1981-1986: Intern researcher, junior researcher at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute at the USSR Academy of Sciences, man-machine system modelling laboratory.
1986-2006: Junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, laboratory head at the Institute of Economics and Scientific and Technical Progress Forecasts at the USSR Academy of Sciences (later Institute of National Economy Prognostication at the Russian Academy of Sciences).
2000-2006: General director, Centre for Macroeconomic Analyses and Short-Term Prognostication.
2000-2006: External adviser to the Prime Minister.
2006-2008: Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Deputy Minister of Economic Development.
2008-May 2012: Director, Government Department of Economy and Finance.
May 21, 2012: Appointed Minister of Economic Development by Presidential Executive Order.
From 24 June 2013, Presidential Aide, appointed by executive order of the President of Russia.

Albert Karimov

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Sergey Kogogin

Director General, KAMAZ

Born on November 16, 1957 in the village of Bolshiye Klyuchi in the Zelenodolsky District, Tatarstan, Sergey Kogogin began his professional career in 1976 as a milling machine operator at the Kazan Engine Building Plant. He graduated from the Kazan Aviation Technical College in 1977 and received a degree from the Physics Department of the Kazan State University in 1982. Sergey Kogogin worked as a tuning engineer at the Era company in 1982–1985 and as a senior engineer, bureau chief, deputy chief mechanical engineer and chairman of the trade union committee at the Zelenodolsky Machine Engineering Plant from 1985 to 1990. From 1990 to 1994 he managed the Zelenodolsky Machine Engineering Plant and in 1994–1999 was head of the Zelenodolsky District Administration, before being appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Industry of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Sergey Kogogin has been a member of the Board of Directors of KAMAZ since June 1999 and General Director of KAMAZ since April 26, 2002.
Since January 2006, he has headed the Association of Russia’s Automakers non-profit partnership as its Chairman of the Board.
Sergey Kogogin has a PhD in Economics and holds numerous government and public awards and honorary titles.

Vyacheslav Petushenko

Chairman of the Board, Russian Highways State Company

Education:
Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering, Civil Engineer, 1981.
Employment History:
1983–1988: Master, foreman, senior foreman, “Lendorstroy” Trust
1988–1990: Secretary of the Party Committee, “Lendorstroy” Trust
1990–2006: Deputy Chief Engineer, Chief Builder, First Deputy CEO – Chief Engineer, and CEO of “Lendorstroy” JSC
2006–2014: First Deputy CEO for Construction, CEO, Director of the Federal State Government Institution St. Petersburg Bypass Construction Office of the Federal Road Agency
2014–2015: Deputy Transport Minister for the Republic of Crimea
2015: Advisor to the Head of the Federal Road Agency
2015–2018: Head of the Central Russia Federal Highway Administration of the Federal Road Agency Federal Budget-Funded Institution (“Tsentravtomagistral” FBFI)
February 5, 2019: Appointed Chairman of the Board of “Russian Highways” State Company.
Awards:
Merited Builder of the Russian Federation, Medal “For the Construction of Transport Facilities”, and other industry awards.

Vadim Filatov

Deputy Director, PEC

Grigory Forostovsky

General Director, SberAutoTech

Artem Sheikin

Member of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Constitutional Legislation and State Building

Representative of the legislative (representative) authority of the Amur Region
Born March 25, 1980 in Belogorsk, Amur Region, Russian Federation.
Education:
2001- Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University (teacher of Physical Education)
2004- North-West Institute of Management (economist)
2012- The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (manager)
2019 - The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (bachelor of law)
2021- The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (master of law)
Academic degrees:
PhD in Economics
Since September 2021 - Senator of the Russian Federation, Representative from the legislative (representative) authority of the Amur Region in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building
Member of the Council under the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for interaction with institutions of public society
Member of the Interim Commission of the Federation Council on Information Policy and Interaction with the Mass Media
Member of the Interparliamentary Commission of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on interregional cooperation
Member of the Working Group on Improving Legislation in the Field of Non-Commercial Organizations under the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations
Member of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy under the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.