Business programme

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly employed in music, art, publishing and other creative sectors. Recent developments in creative AI have fundamentally challenged our ideas as to the capabilities of artificial intelligence. These include GPT-3, a global language model that is not only able to create texts of any kind, but also correct grammatical mistakes and engage in dialogue. Meanwhile, art created by AI is growing in demand, with one portrait selling for USD 432,500 at a Christie’s auction. As well as being able to produce work unaided, creative AI can also be used to help people, and creative collaborations between man and machine are becoming increasingly common. There is little doubt that creative AI opens up incredible possibilities; however, it also raises questions that need to be addressed, including: what approach should be taken to regulating the creation and dissemination of works of art, texts, and music created by AI? Who retains the authors’ rights in these cases? Will AI be used as a creative aid, or will it ultimately create work independently? Is AI truly capable of creativity, or is creativity solely the domain of people? How will AI shape our understanding of art? Will people’s creativity suffer with the arrival of automation in the arts? What challenges does the emergence of artificially generated content pose? Who should bear responsibility for potentially unacceptable AI-generated content, and who should be considered the author of work created by AI – the machine itself, or the people who developed its neural network, taught it, etc.? Should developers pay royalties to people whose intellectual property was used to train machines? Could work created by artificial intelligence find demand on the market, and what artistic value do these works have?

Moderator
Andrey Kurpatov, President, Higher School of Methodology

Andrey Kurpatov

President, Higher School of Methodology

Panellists
Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank
Alexander Krainov, Director of AI Technology Development, Yandex
Ilya Naishuller, Director, Producer, Writer
Dmitriy Ozerkov, Director of Contemporary Art Departament, State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Director of «Hermitage 20/21», Project for Contemporary Art, Director of musicAeterna, Russia
Julia Solovieva, Managing Director, Google Russia
Olga Uskova, Founder, President, Cognitive Technologies
Jurgen Schmidhuber, Chief Scientific Advisor, AIRI (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) (online)

Alexander Vedyakhin

First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Graduate degree (with honors) in Economics and Global Economy from Volgograd State Technical University
Candidate of Economic Sciences (PhD)
Between 1999 and 2008, Alexander Vedyakhin worked in a Volgograd branch of Sberbank of Russia, where he advanced from senior cashier-controller to deputy branch manager
2008-2012 – First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank in Ukraine
In 2012-2015, Alexander Vedyakhin was a member of the Executive Board and Chief Risk Officer (CRO) in Sberbank-owned DenizBank (Turkey)
In 2015-2018, he held the position of Senior Vice President of Sberbank, CRO of Sberbank Group
Since June 2018 — member of the Executive Board, First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, responsible for Retail Business, Corporate and Investment Business, Wealth Management (Insurance), Sales Network, Problem Assets
Besides core business, Mr Vedyakhin supervises and coordinates the work of Sberbank’s AI Lab, various data science units, and a number of other innovation-related activities

Alexander Krainov

Director of AI Technology Development, Yandex

Head of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Yandex, in charge of Pilot Products and AI Technologies Sector.
Before that, for nine years, he headed the development of computer-enabled vision products and algorithms at Yandex.
Before Yandex, he worked at SPIRIT DSP and its subsidiary SeeStorm in the position of Product Director. He was engaged in the development of audio and video compression and transmission algorithms, speech recognition, video conferencing technologies, computer-enabled vision and 3D modelling.
He worked in Port.Ru, one of the Russian Internet pioneers, where he created a cataloguing system for Russia’s first online marketplace.
The first job was a temporary scientific team Supermatrix, where he was engaged in computer-aided design of the topology of superconducting matrices.
He graduated from MIREA (Russian Technological University).
Party to the development of a national strategy for AI development.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Moscow GO Federation.

Ilya Naishuller

Director, Producer, Writer

International film director («Hardcore Henry», «Nobody»), clip maker («Leningrad», «The Weekend», «Biting Elbows»), producer, screenwriter, frontman of the music band «Biting Ebows»

Dmitriy Ozerkov

Director of Contemporary Art Departament, State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Director of «Hermitage 20/21», Project for Contemporary Art, Director of musicAeterna, Russia

Julia Solovieva

Managing Director, Google Russia

Director of Business Operations, EMEA Emerging Markets, Google Russia.

Julia joined Google Russia in January 2013.

She oversees countrywide commercial operations, setting the long-term strategy and overall growth.

Prior to joining Google, Julia Solovieva was Executive Vice President and President, Russian media holding ProfMedia (2007–2012), where she was responsible for asset management, corporate governance and overall strategy and management of the holding.

From 2003 to 2006 she was Corporate Development Director, Mobile TeleSystems OJSC.

From 2001 to 2003 she lived in the Netherlands and was an Associate at the strategic consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

Julia Solovieva is an honoured graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (Boston, USA).

She is a member of the High-Potential Management Personnel Reserve, a programme announced by the president of Russia which brings together thousands of the most talented Russian managers.

Olga Uskova

Founder, President, Cognitive Technologies

Olga Uskova - President and Founder of Cognitive Technologies group, CEO of Cognitive Pilot.

Olga is a famous Tech entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in Software Development and Artificial Intelligence. She is also known as one of the Russia's top IT visionaries.

In the beginning of 1990s she was the one to facilitate the agreement on OCR and ECM solutions development between Cognitive Technologies and the world’s top IT-giants such as HP, Canon, Epson, IBM, Oracle and others.

Being a CEO of Cognitive Pilot, an autonomous driving technology joint venture of Sberbank and Cognitive Technologies group, she manages AI business in the sphere of autonomous transport in Russia, Europe, United States, Asia and Latin America.

In 2019 she was named as one of the most influential tech-entrepreneurs in Russia, whose technologies change the world, according to Forbes, as well as one of the TOP-3 newsmakers in Russia on the topic of Artificial Intelligence.

Jurgen Schmidhuber

Chief Scientific Advisor, AIRI (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute)