Business programme

Given the sharp polarization in the global community caused by the sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and EU countries, an entirely new situation has emerged in various fields, including in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT). Russia's steadfast position in ensuring import-independence in the field of ICT has shown all developing countries an example of building an alternative technological platform of the New Technological Way, in which these countries can a priori get an equal starting position with countries of the so-called "democratic world". As a result, Russia and China have a unique opportunity to lead the movement of technological advance in the developing world, including the countries of the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. ICT plays a major role in the New Technological Way, ensuring convergence with all other sectors of the economy. In this regard, the discussion at the IT breakfast should focus on how Russia can become one of the technological leaders in the field of ICT. It is equally important to talk about the necessary set of measures of state support for the IT industry so that it can successfully play the role of an ICT leader. What are the possibilities and limitations of cooperation between Russia and developing countries in the field of ICT today, at the stage of New Technological Way formation? What are the promising areas of cooperation, interaction formats and regulation methods? How to minimize risks of counteraction to cooperation between Russia and developing countries in the field of ICT? What administrative barriers stand in the way of international cooperation of Russia and developing countries in ICT? How to find ways to eliminate them? How can the state support promotion of Russian ICTs in developing countries?

Moderators
Valentin Makarov, President, RUSSOFT Association
Sergei Plugotarenko, Director, Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC)

Valentin Makarov

President, RUSSOFT Association

Makarov Valentin was born 16.04.1955 in Leningrad, Russia. Graduated from the Leningrad Aircraft Instrumentation Institute in 1978, in 1978-1985 he had been working in the Defense Industry. In 1985 entered the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Since “perestroika” time he has got good experience of organizing international cooperation (1988-1992 – secretary in the Russian Delegation to UNESCO, in 1996-2000 as deputy Chairman of International relations’ Committee of Administration of St Petersburg). He has also got extended managerial experience in private business (1992-1996 – in Interprivatization Foundation and in the EuroConseil Rusian-French JV consulting company).
President of RUSSOFT Association (earlier Fort Ross) since its foundation on 9.9.99, he has been organizer of lobbying campaigns in the Government and Chairman of numerous IT-events in Russia and abroad (RUSSOFT Forum, Software Outsourcing Summit, Mobile Software Forum, Russian IT-seasons). Chief-editor of the annual Russian export software industry survey since its beginning in 2003. Representative of Russian IT Association (APKIT) in WITSA in 2004-2006, 2012. Invited speaker at numerous international conferences and author of dozens of articles on IT in Russia.

Sergei Plugotarenko

Director, Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC)

Mr. Plugotarenko graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Department of Physical and Quantum Electronics (1993–1996) and Department of Control and Applied Mathematics (1996–1999), certified as Physical Engineer specializing in Applied Mathematics and Physics.From 2002, he was leading ICT specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE UNESCO – http://ru.iite.unesco.org).In 2004–2006, he was executive director and, from 2007, director of the Runet Awards competition. Since 2005, he has served as coordinator of programme committees for some high-profile sectoral conference events, including the Russian Internet Forum (RIF), Russian Interactive Week (RIW) and others.In 2005–2007, he served as deputy executive director of the Regional Non-government Centre for Internet Technologies (ROCIT – www.rocit.ru) – the oldest NGO engaged in expert evaluation, promotion and development of the ICT segment in the Russian Federation, upholding the interests of Internet users. In 2007, he was elected executive director of ROCIT.From 2005 he was ideologue and founder of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (NP RAEC – www.raec.ru), promoting the interests of Russian Internet players. From 2006, he was deputy general manager of NP RAEC.In 2011–2013, Mr. Plugotarenko was member of the Council of Coordination Centre for National Top Level Domains RU/RF – www.cttld.ru. Since 2010, he has been director of The Russian Association for Electronic Communications (NP RAEC).

Panellists
Marina Amelina, Government Relations Director, Baring Vostok
Andrey Bezrukov, President, Technological Sovereignty Exports Association; Professor, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University
Ruslan Vagizov, Director, ICL Services
Vadim Glushchenko, Director, Center for Global IT-Cooperation
Alexey Goreslavsky, Director General, ANO "Internet Development Institute" (IRI)
Dmitry Dyrmovsky, Chief Executive Officer, Speech Technology Center
Igor Kalganov, CEO, T1 Group
Igor Kirichenko, Executive Director, Member of the Board of Directors, NAUMEN
Dmitry Krutov, General Director, Skillbox
Lev Matveev, Chairman of the Board of Directors, SearchInform
Kirill Menshov, Senior Vice President for Information Technology, Rostelekom
Anna Nesterova, Founder, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Global Rus Trade; Chairperson of the Russian Chapter, BRICS Women's Business Alliance
Aleksandr Pavlov, General Director, Russian Information Technology Development Foundation
Ilya Sivtsev, Chief Executive Officer, Astra Linux Group
Alexander Tobol, Technical director, VKontakte
Vladimir Troyanovsky, Deputy General Director, National Payment Card System
Valery Tumin, Member of the Expert Council for the Development of the Digital Economy, Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Economic Policy
Skannd Tyagi, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Starshot Ventures
Aleksandr Khinshtein, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications
Maksut Shadaev, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
Roman Shaykhutdinov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan; Member of the Supervisory Board, Innopolis University

Marina Amelina

Government Relations Director, Baring Vostok

Andrey Bezrukov

President, Technological Sovereignty Exports Association; Professor, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Andrey Bezrukov currently serves as Professor at MGIMO - the preeminent Russian school of Foreign Service. He is also an Advisor to the CEO of “Rosneft” – the largest public oil company in terms of reserves and production.
Among his areas of focus are geopolitics, information security, future studies and international corporate strategy, with particular interest in USA and Eurasia.
Prior to working for “Rosneft” Andrey Bezrukov had a career with Russian government and international consulting companies. He has lived and worked in the USA, Canada and France.
Andrey holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, an MBA from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in France, a degree in International Economics from Canada and a degree in History from Tomsk University.
Andrey Bezrukov is an author of books and articles on strategy, international relations and future studies. He is a Member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and an expert of the Valdai Club. He regularly appears on the most watched Russian news programs.

Vadim Glushchenko

Director, Center for Global IT-Cooperation

Alexey Goreslavsky

Director General, ANO "Internet Development Institute" (IRI)

Alexey Goreslavsky was born in Moscow in 1977.
He graduated from the History Department of Moscow State University in 1999 and from the postgraduate school of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002.
He worked for Moskovsky Komsomolets and Sovershenno Sekretno. Versia newspapers starting 1995.
He served as editor-in-chief of the Internet newspaper Vzglyad from 2005 to 2007, director of online projects at the Interfax news service from 2007 to 2010, and as head of communications of AgencyOne from 2011 to 2013.
He became deputy general director of Rambler&Co in 2013.
Alexei Goreslavsky was appointed editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru in March 2014.
He is married and has a daughter.

Dmitry Dyrmovsky

Chief Executive Officer, Speech Technology Center

Was born in 1979 in Mirny, Arkhangelsk Region. In 1996, he graduated from the Specialized Educational Scientific Centre at Novosibirsk State University. Then studied at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy under the program of training engineers in high-tech areas. He graduated in 2001, received a diploma with honors and a gold medal.
Dmitry Dyrmovsky has been working at Speech Technology Center since 2004. In 2007, he was appointed the head of the company’s Moscow branch. Since 2013, he is Chief Executive Officer of the Speech Technology Center. In 2014, he graduated from the Executive course at the IMD Business School (Switzerland).
Vice-President of the National Association of Contact Centers. Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Software Products Association «Russian Software». Member of the Expert Council on software of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation.

Igor Kalganov

CEO, T1 Group

Born in Tomsk, a major educational centre in Siberia. He has a degree in applied computer science in economics, diploma with distinction, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University.
2010–2012: Technical Director, Klerk.ru information agency.
2012–2014: Executive Director, Workle.ru, remote jobs startup.
Founded the 33 Elephants startup in 2014, which was later acquired by Mail.Ru Group, a leading Russian internet company.
Founded the Orbita Centre for the Practical Application of Blockchain Technologies in 2017, which was acquired by ICS Holding in 2019.
January 2019 – present: Vice President and Technical Director, ICS Holding LLC

Igor Kirichenko

Executive Director, Member of the Board of Directors, NAUMEN

Dmitry Krutov

General Director, Skillbox

Lev Matveev

Chairman of the Board of Directors, SearchInform

LEV MATVEEV:
Mr. Matveev graduated from Minsk Radio Engineering Institute in 1993 as a software engineer. He authored a number of patents in unstructured information processing. At different stages of his career, he headed IT companies with 30 to 500 employees. In 1995, he founded his own company. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors at SearchInform.
He is a speaker at IS events and founder of the annual SearchInform Road Show, a series of educational conferences for IS professionals.
Lev Matveev is a member of the Board of RUSSOFT and founder of the IS Committee within RUSSOFT. He is also a member of the General Council of the all-Russian public organization Delovaya Rossiya, Domestic Software, and ISDEF (Independent Software Developers Forum).

Anna Nesterova

Founder, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Global Rus Trade; Chairperson of the Russian Chapter, BRICS Women's Business Alliance

Chairperson of the Board of directors Global Rus Trade.
Born 25 of April 1983 in Moscow.
In 2006 Anna finished Academy of Labor and Social Relations, majoring in finance and credit.
Ph.D. in Economics.
In 2017 Anna enrolled in Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs, majoring in international economic relations.
Before 2015 Anna was engaged in the implementation of projects in the field of finance. Since 2008 was CEO and founder of the investment company Center Capital with an aggregate turnover of more than 40 billion rubles a year.
In 2015 Anna founded Global Rus Trade - the leading Russian platform for cross-border e-commerce.
Anna represents Russian federation in the working group on the digital economy of the BRICS Business Council.
She is a member of the Coordination Council and Chairman of the Committee on transfrontier e-commerce "Business Russia".
In 2015 Anna was nominated from Russia as a Woman Icon for achievements in the field of business at the APEC Gender Forum "Women as an engine of inclusive growth".
Since 2018 she represents Russia in the CICA Business Council.
She has acknowledgments for contribution to the development of SMEs from the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and for active public activities from the President of the Russian Federation.
Speaks English and French.

Alexander Tobol

Technical director, VKontakte

Skannd Tyagi

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Starshot Ventures

Mr. Tyagi is the Managing Director of Tyagi Corporation, which comprises companies in the domains of Technology, Digital Advertising, 3D Printed Construction, eCommerce, Education and Real Estate.
He has Bachelors degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, Graphic Design and Aviation from Pittburg State University, He has a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with an emphasis on Robotics and Human Computer Interaction from Iowa State University. He also has a post graduate specialisation in Sustainable Energy and Fuel Cell Storage from Stanford University.

He is a serial entrepreneur, a value-added investor, and an active mentor in the startup ecosystem, He has built startups in software, marketing, robotics, and AI. He has recently set up the first Deep Technology incubator in India. He is also a two-time TED speaker and is passionate about empowering startup founders with the right kind of Technology, Design, Marketing, and Strategy mentorship. Mr. Tyagi has expertise in, Business Strategy, Business Development, Software and Product Development, Graphics and User Interface Design.
He is the Founder of Global Council of Innovation and Industry, the World’s first ‘phygitally’ distributed chamber of commerce.
He is also the founder of Starshot Ventures, the first Deep Technology Startup incubator in the Indian Subcontinent.

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.

Roman Shaykhutdinov

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan; Member of the Supervisory Board, Innopolis University

Roman Shaykhutdinov was born 28 August 1974 in Kazan. Graduated from the Kazan State University named after V.I.Ulyanov-Lenin major in “Jurisprudence” (1996), finished postgraduate study of the Legal faculty of the Kazan State University named after V.I.Ulyanov-Lenin major in “Jurisprudence” (2000), advanced training at the Russian Academy of national economy and state service under the President of the Russian Federation on the supplementary professional program "Management skill: development of regional teams" (2016). In 2017 have been trained in the joint program of Moscow school of Management "SKOLKOVO" and Kazan (Volga) Federal University "Model of management of strategic projects of the Republic of Tatarstan". Speaks English.
From May 2012 - Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Acting Minister of informatization and communications of the Republic of Tatarstan
While in the capacity of Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Information and Communication of the Republic of Tatarstan, Roman Shaykhutdinov has made a substantial contribution to the development of the information society and promotion of the Republic of Tatarstan as a leader in IT development.