Business programme

Russia’s competitive mining advantage stems from the country’s surplus of electricity and its trained workforce. Available generating capacity with a high share of HPP and NPP generation in the energy balance, an abundance of low-carbon generation, space for the development of the domestic power grid and, as a result, inexpensive, predominantly green electric power all work together to create highly favorable conditions for investment projects in cryptocurrency mining and other types of energy-intensive blockchain computations. In fact, energy advantages of this kind are already attracting domestic and foreign investment in projects to build super-modern data centres for mining, and through them to related segments of the Russian digital economy: software and hardware development for new digital financial platforms, the creation of programmes for exchanging and circulating digital currencies, personnel and software training to meet security and data protection requirements, customer identification, and transaction control. What other ways are there to drive investment in these sectors? What do we need to do occupy a leading position in the global digital economy in spite of external constraints?

Moderator
Ekaterina Litova, Head of Finance Department, Vedomosti

Ekaterina Litova

Head of Finance Department, Vedomosti

Panellists
Alexander Brazhnikov, Executive Director, Russian Association of the Crypto Industry and Blockworkers (RACIB)
Oleg Evtushenko, Executive Director, Russian Technologies State Corporation
Andrey Lugovoi, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Security and Anti-Corruption
Igor Runets, Founder, General Director, BitRiver
Pavel Snikkars, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Denis Terekhov, General Director, Social Networks Agency
Anton Tkachev, Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Informational Policy, Information Technology, and Communications
Aleksandr Shoitov, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation

Alexander Brazhnikov

Executive Director, Russian Association of the Crypto Industry and Blockworkers (RACIB)

Oleg Evtushenko

Executive Director, Russian Technologies State Corporation

Born on November 9, 1975.

Education
1998 - Graduated from the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

2009 - graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation.

2014 - completed professional retraining under the program of training the highest level of managerial staff at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.

2017-2018 - had professional retraining under the program of development of the managerial personnel reserve at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.
Professional activities
1993-2002 - service in the Armed Forces of Russia.

2003-2010 - held various positions in FSUE Rosoboronexport.

2011-2012 - he worked in commercial structures.

2012-2013 - Assistant Minister, Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.

2013-2016 - Head of the Office of the CEO of Rostec State Corporation.

2016 - present. - Executive Director of Rostec State Corporation.
Public activities
Member of the Board of the Union of Machine-Builders of Russia.
Awards
Order of Honour.

Medal of the FSMTC of Russia "For Distinction".

Distinction Badge of the FSMTC of Russia "For Merits in the Field of Military-Technical Cooperation".

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd Class.

Title "Honorary Machine Builder".

Certificate of Merit of the President of the Russian Federation for great contribution to the development of the country's defense industry complex and military-technical cooperation between the Russian Federation and foreign countries, as well as for many years of conscientious work.

Andrey Lugovoi

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Security and Anti-Corruption

Igor Runets

Founder, General Director, BitRiver

Pavel Snikkars

Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

Denis Terekhov

General Director, Social Networks Agency

Anton Tkachev

Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Informational Policy, Information Technology, and Communications

Aleksandr Shoitov

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

Front row participants
Alexey Nazarov, Vice President - Director of Non-Banking Services Development, Promsvyazbank; Director General, PSB Innovations and Investments
Valery Seleznev, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Alexey Nazarov

Vice President - Director of Non-Banking Services Development, Promsvyazbank; Director General, PSB Innovations and Investments

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.

Valery Seleznev

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation