Business programme

Business, state institutions, and corporations will have to undergo a quick digital transformation if the economy is to develop. The political situation has left no alternative but to use Russian solutions – the use of foreign software at critical information infrastructure facilities will no longer be possible after 2025. Will companies succeed in maintaining and even possibly be able to increase the pace of digital transformation by using domestic products? What support will have to come from the government?

Moderator
Mikhail Petrov, Editor-in-Chief, Russian News Agency TASS

Panellists
Boris Glazkov, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Rostelekom
Eugene Kaspersky, Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab
Ilya Massukh, Director, Competence Centre for the Import Substitution of Information and Communication Technologies
Alexey Mordashov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal
Svyatoslav Ostrovskiy, Member of the Management Board, VTB Bank
Maxim Parshin, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
Tigran Sargsyan, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Eurasian Development Bank

Boris Glazkov

Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Rostelekom

Eugene Kaspersky

Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab

Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and successful entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held vendor of endpoint protection and cybersecurity solutions.
Eugene began his career in cybersecurity accidentally when his computer became infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus in 1989. Eugene’s specialized education in cryptography helped him analyze the encrypted virus, understand its behavior, and then develop a removal tool for it. After successfully removing the virus, Eugene’s curiosity and passion for computer technology drove him to start analyzing more malicious programs and developing disinfection modules for them. This exotic collection of antivirus modules would eventually become the foundation for Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus database. Today the database is one of the most comprehensive and complete collections in cybersecurity, used in detecting and preventing systems from being infected by more than 500 million malicious programs.
Further pursuing his passion for defensive technologies, in 1990 Eugene started gathering a team of like-minded enthusiast researchers to create the AVP Toolkit Pro antivirus program, which four years later was recognized by the University of Hamburg as the most effective antivirus software in the world.
Wishing to combine their successful track record of antivirus programming with their entrepreneurial vision, Eugene and his colleagues decided to establish their own independent company. In 1997 Kaspersky Lab was founded, with Eugene heading the company’s antivirus research. In 2007 he was named Kaspersky Lab’s CEO.
Today Kaspersky Lab is one of the fastest growing IT security vendors worldwide, operating in almost 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company employs more than 3,800 professionals and IT security specialists in 35 dedicated regional offices across 31 countries, and its cybersecurity technologies protect over 400 million users worldwide.
Kaspersky Lab’s globally renowned team of experts has investigated some of the most complex and sophisticated cyberattacks ever known, including Stuxnet, Flame, and Red October. The company also cooperates extensively with INTERPOL, Europol, and national police bodies to actively assist them in their fight against cybercrime.
Eugene has an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the UK’s Plymouth University. He regularly gives both lectures on cybersecurity at universities around the globe, and keynotes at leading conferences and industry events.
Eugene is both a passionate traveler and dedicated devotee of wild nature and adventure-tourism. He is also a talented photographer, which assists in his prolific chronicling of his exploits in his blog – from polar expeditions and glacier crossings to volcano scaling and jungle trekking.

Ilya Massukh

Director, Competence Centre for the Import Substitution of Information and Communication Technologies

Alexey Mordashov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal

Born in 1965, Alexey Mordashov has been working for Severstal since 1988. He started his career as a senior economist, becoming Chief Financial Officer in 1992. In December 1996, he was appointed as Severstal’s Chief Executive Officer. Between 2002 and 2006 he served as CEO of Severstal Group and was Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors. Since the introduction of the new structure of corporate governance in December 2006 Mr. Mordashov has been CEO of Severstal. From December 2014 till June 2015 Alexey served as CEO of AO "Severstal Management" - managing organization of PAO Severstal. In May he was elected as Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors.
Vice-Chairman of World Steel Association. Head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ Committee on Integration, Trade and Customs Policy and WTO. Serves on the Entrepreneurial Council of the Government of Russian Federation. Co-chairman of the “Trade as a Global Driver” Taskforce of the “Business 20” of “Group of Twenty”. Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council. Vice-President of Russian-German chamber of commerce, member of the Russian-German workgroup responsible for strategic economic and finance issues. Member of the EU-Russia Business Cooperation Council. Alexey earned his undergraduate degree from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics. He also holds an MBA degree from Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University (UK).

Maxim Parshin

Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation

Born on July 23, 1976 in Mytishchi, Moscow Region. In 1998, Mr. Parhin graduated from Moscow State University and, in 2001, he completed a post-graduate course. In 2008, he graduated from the International Institute of International Business under the Russian Foreign Trade Academy (MBA).2002–2013: deputy division director, division director and then deputy department director at the Russian Ministry for Economic Development.2013: He was appointed Deputy General Director of FSUE Mail of Russia.2014–2015: Deputy Director, Federal Service for Labour and Employment. 2016–2018 — Head of the Department for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Competition of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Maxim Parshin was awarded the Certificate of Honour of the Government of the Russian Federation. On August 16, 2018 was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.

Tigran Sargsyan

Deputy Chairman of the Board, Eurasian Development Bank

He was born on January 29, 1960.
In 1978, he graduated from Yerevan Technical School No.14 and went to Yerevan Institute of National Economy.
In 1980, he transferred to Leningrad Institute of Economics and Finance named after N. A. Voznesenski, where in 1983 he graduated with an honours degree.
In 1987, he completed his postgraduate studies and defended his thesis on the topic "Planning Regional Socio-Economic Development with Armenia as a Case Study".
He has earned a Ph.D In Economics.From 1987 to 1990, he worked as senior researcher, head of the international economic relations group in the Scientific Research Institute of Economy and Planning.
From 1990 to 1995, he served as Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Financial, Credit and Budgetary Affairs of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia, and Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council.
From 1995 to 1998, he was the President of the Association of Banks of Armenia.From 1998 to 2008, he held the position of the Chairman of the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia.
From 2008 to 2014, he was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia.
From 2014 to 2016, he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the United States.
From 2016 to 2020 - Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
From February 2020 to March 2020 - Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Development Bank.
On March 23, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Chairman of the EBR.

By the Presidential Decree of the Republic of Armenia, he was awarded the Medal for Service to the Fatherland, 1st class. He was awarded the Anania Shirakatsi Medal. He holds the title of honorary doctor of the Armenian State University of Economics.

Front row participant
Dmitry Komissarov, Founder, Director for Product Development, MyOffice