The Roscongress Foundation`s Social Platform

Fashion is a whole culture in and of itself and encompasses all aspects of life. It is as changeable as our rapidly developing world. Over the centuries, bright creative stars and talents have burst onto the scene and set cultural trends for decades to come. Such visionaries as Sergey Diaghilev, Felix Yusupov, Irina Yusupova, and countless other prominent names have contributed to the promotion of the Russian style. Today, young talents continue to draw inspiration from tradition and culture. Fashion trends are the future that is already with us; you just need to be able to see it. In art, design, cinema, business, and other spheres, influencers, popular culture, the economy, and society itself influence how trends take shape. This is precisely where new ideas and concepts appear that then spread throughout the world and determine how society develops further. Who is shaping the trends and becoming the main trendsetters of the future and how?

Moderator
Ksenia Sobchak, Journalist, TV presenter

Ksenia Sobchak

Journalist, TV presenter

Speakers
Alexander Akopov, Deputy CEO for Entertainment Broadcasting of National Media Group, CEO of CTC TV Channel
Konstantin Bogomolov, Art Director, Moscow Drama Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya
Dmitry Levitsky, Business hedonist, restaurateur, gastro traveler
Alexey Fursin, Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development Department of Moscow

Alexander Akopov

Director, Film Institute, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Konstantin Bogomolov

Art Director, Moscow Drama Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya

Dmitry Levitsky

Business hedonist, restaurateur, gastro traveler

Alexey Fursin

Head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development Department of Moscow

Alexey was born on December 1, 1974.
In 1997 he graduated from the State University of Land Management in Moscow.
From 1997 to 2001, he studied at The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
From 1997 to 1998, he worked as a junior specialist in the department of federal lands of the Department of Land Relations Reform of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Land Resources and Land Management.
In 1998, he moved to the position of chief specialist of the federal lands department of the Land Policy Department of the Ministry of the Russian Federation on land policy, construction, and housing and communal services.
From December 1998 to August 2000 he served as chief specialist of the department of federal lands of the Office of State and Municipal Lands, was an advisor, deputy head of the Department of State Lands of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Land Policy.
In 2000, he moved to the position of Head of the Legislative Work Division of the Land Reform Administration, worked as Deputy Head of the Land Reform Administration. Until 2004, he worked as the head of the legislative work and regulatory support section of the Land Policy Department of the Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation.
In 2004, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Office of Real and Movable Property of the Federal Agency for the Management of Federal Property and worked in this position until 2007.
From 2007 to 2008, he worked as Deputy General Director for the separation of state ownership of land and regional development in the Directorate of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Federal Computer Center for Stock and Commodity Information Technologies (FT-Center)"
In 2008, he moved to the position of head of the Department of Land Resources and Real Estate. Until October 2015, he held the position of First Deputy General Director of the Federal Housing Development Foundation (“RHD FUND”).
In September 2016, he was appointed First Deputy Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow.
In February 2017, Alexey Fursin was appointed Head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow.
On September 21, 2018, he was appointed Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development of Moscow.

Participant
Aleko Nadiryan, Stylist