SPIEF Youth Program

Digital transformation changes our life regardless of our geography: we face new challenges and the need for new professions. The rate of change in the national training pipeline can become both a driver and a bottleneck for the economy. At the same time, new professionals emerge faster than colleges update their training programmes. As a consequence, we witness the situation when “we have professionals, but we do not have this profession”: for a number of years, people have been performing complex functions without any professional or educational standard. Training is driven by existing practices. But can we say that our education system is on par with them? It is the education that must ensure proper training of new professionals and the growth of existing ones. In this new reality, education facilities are supposed to provide enough workforce and simultaneously update today’s training programmes for tomorrow’s needs. What drives the new training programmes and the changes in the old ones? No-title professions, pseudoprofessions and transprofessionalism: what is the right way to understand today’s job market? Can one equate blogging to a real profession? What makes a career a true profession? What is the right way for students to choose an in-demand profession when colleges are lagging behind the market needs? Training, research, and hands-on learning: what do students need to acquire marketable skills? What are global best practices to address the employment challenge?

Moderator
Julia Poletaeva, Deputy Director General, Dialogue Autonomous Nonprofit Organization

Julia Poletaeva

Deputy Director General, Dialogue Autonomous Nonprofit Organization

Graduate of the HSE Faculty of Law and the Reputation Management program of the Moscow Advanced Communications School. From 2012 to 2014 she worked in the control department of the Federal Accreditation Service. She was an expert in the department of corporate relations and legal support of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. From 2014 to 2017, she was Assistant Secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. Supervised the direction of work with citizens' appeals. In 2017, she accepted the post of adviser to the head of the Udmurt Republic on interaction with authorities and the public and curator of the media block of the head and government of Udmurtia.
In 2020, she joined the Dialogue team. In 2022, she was appointed Deputy General Director of ANPO Dialogue

Panellists
Yulia Ablets, Founder, New Media Workshop
Alexey Agafonov, First Deputy General Director, Russia – Land of Opportunity
Natalya Beloborodova, Executive Director, Rostec Academy
Aleksandr Vaino, Head of Youth Initiatives Center, Agency of Strategic Initiatives (ASI)
Evgeniy Ivashkevich, Rector, Central University
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Vice-President for International Affairs, Professor of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tehran State University (online)
Alexey Nazarov, Vice President – Director of Non-Banking Services Development, Promsvyazbank
Olga Petrova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Anna Tyshetskaya, Director, Saint-Petersburg Branch of National Research University Higher School of Economics
Julia Uzhakina, Director General, Rosatom Corporate Academy

Yulia Ablets

Founder, New Media Workshop

Graduate of the Department of Law of St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University. In 2005, she was responsible for the settlement of labor disputes and interaction with the trade union at LLC North-Western Shipping Company. Since 2007, she has worked with the Karusel hypermarket chain, led the company's merger with X5 Retail Group. In 2011, she headed the Human Resources Department of the Perekryostok network in the North Volga Division. From 2015 to 2018, she managed the HR department at Delovye Linii LLC. From 2019 to 2020 - Chairman of the Committee for Youth Policy and Interaction with Public Organizations of the Government of St. Petersburg. Winner of the first season of the Leaders of Russia contest.
In 2020, she joined the team of ANO Dialogue Regions as Deputy General Director.

Alexey Agafonov

First Deputy General Director, Russia – Land of Opportunity

Natalya Beloborodova

Executive Director, Rostec Academy

Aleksandr Vaino

Head of Youth Initiatives Center, Agency of Strategic Initiatives (ASI)

From 2017 to present, International Law student at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).
From 2017 to 2018 business analyst at Dialogue.
From 2018 to 2019, Head of Project Development and Implementation at the Project Development Department for Industrial Human Resource Development at the Russian Foundation for Technological Development
From March 2019 to November 2019, Project Manager of the Digital Development Centre at the Agency of Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.
Since November 2019, he has been Head of the Youth Initiatives Centre at the Agency of Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.

Evgeniy Ivashkevich

Rector, Central University

Seyed Mohammad Marandi

Vice-President for International Affairs, Professor of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tehran State University

Alexey Nazarov

Vice President – Director of Non-Banking Services Development, Promsvyazbank

Qualification: Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, MBA; MIT Sloan School of Management: Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, majors in “Financial Management” (with honors). Experience: Alexey has international experience as a head of strategy consulting projects, M&A support and operations consulting projects. Recent projects: Strategy development for a leading bridge construction engineering company; Strategic diagnostics for a leading bridge construction engineering company; Management model for an engineering company; Development of organizational structure and KPI system for a major construction company; Development strategy elaboration for a leading machine-building holding; Financial block development for the SME 2030 strategy (received gratitude awards from the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation); Universal banking strategy development; Development of innovation KPIs for the leading pipeline company; Strategy development for a postal operator; Analysis of market strategy, distribution system and market position for the construction of a copper wire rod-manufacturing plant in the RF; Strategy and business model development and fundraising assistance to the agricultural cluster in one of the RF regions; Supermarket chain (Beijing, China): market research to optimize the price strategy. Development of the price strategy implementation plan; Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation: preparation of M3 Federal Highway development and reconstruction strategy; Power generating company (Moscow): advising on the optimization of procurement, personnel incentivization and assessment systems; Business concept development for the Olympic technological cluster on the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, including the rationale of the business plan components, best practice benchmarking and financial model development.

Olga Petrova

Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Anna Tyshetskaya

Director, Saint-Petersburg Branch of National Research University Higher School of Economics

Julia Uzhakina

Director General, Rosatom Corporate Academy

Education:
1994: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Major: Geophysical Methods of Prospecting and Exploration
2010: Executive MBA from the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the Government of the Russian Federation

Career and achievements:
Yulia Uzhakina has been working in HR for more than 15 years (director of the Trainings.ru portal, managing partner of Amplua and Malakut HR Solutions and Research)
2013: Joined Rosatom State Corporation as Deputy Director of Department - Head of Personnel Evaluation and Development
April 2015: Appointed Director General of Rosatom Academy

Professional expertise: Building corporate training systems, design and evaluation of training and personnel development systems, development of programs for developing leadership potential and management training