The digitalization of regions in Russia is uneven, the difference between large and small municipalities is especially noticeable. How to avoid "patchwork" digitalization and transform regions in a comprehensive way? Experts will analyze the case of the Digital Primorye project and discuss three main aspects of launching such projects: legal, financial, and technological. The following topics will be covered:

- funding and new PPP formats in digitalization projects,
- features of the implementation of the "smart region" projects in the Far East,
- "life after digitalization": where do new points of growth of the regional economy arise?

Moderator:
Olga Surikova — Director, Tax and legal, KPMG in the CIS

Speakers:
Vyacheslav Alenkov — Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Sakhalin Region
Oleg Badera — Chair of the Board of Directors, VessoLink
Ruslan Sarkisov — Chief Executive Officer, Far East High Technologies Fund
Anatoly Semenov — Minister of Innovations, Digital Development and Communication Technologies of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Denis Yudin — Deputy Director of the Department for Investment Development of the Far East and the Arctic

In recent years, the international and regional situation has repeatedly undergone significant changes. Despite this, Russia and China managed to work out a common position on many issues of world politics. Our countries have always maintained relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation, a high level of mutual trust and reliability of bilateral ties.

Currently, the leaders of our countries assess the level of bilateral relations as unprecedented. The points of further growth, which need to be guided by, are the economy and finance, interregional and cultural interaction.

In the new realities, the deepening of Russian-Chinese relations should follow the path of expanding the space of trust in all spheres. Trust is an indicator of the quality of relations, and one of the effective mechanisms for strengthening trust between countries, expanding the space of trust is the form of the Russian-Chinese business union. The most optimal mechanism for implementing trust is the business cooperation platforms that accumulate trust signals both vertically-from state authorities to business circles and private individuals and legal entities, and horizontally – from public organizations and private foundations to the country's top leadership. All this contributes to the expansion of the space of mutual trust for the prosperity of the peoples of the two countries.

Why is it necessary to focus on expanding the space of trust between the two countries? How can we constantly maintain a high degree of trust at all levels of relations between our countries? What role does Russian-Chinese business cooperation play in the formation of a modern space of trust between the two world powers?

Moderator:
Oleg Remyga — Head of the "China" direction of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Speakers:
Evgeny Kalabin — CEO, SKA Arena LLC, member of the Board of Directors of PharmEco LLC
Savely Karpukhin — First Deputy General Director of Russian Fishery Company, LLC
Alexander Kulish — Deputy CEO for the Construction of Medical Facilities of Stroytransgaz JSC
Vladimir Lavlentsev — General Director of JSC Stroytransgaz
Zhou Liqun — President, Elus Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs
Eugeny Markin — Executive Director, Member of the Governing Board, NP “Russian-Chinese Business Council”
Xu Tengfeng — Business Development Director for Greater China and the Asia-Pacific Region, Investment Department, Sberbank PJSC
Lu Hao — General Director, KitayStroy LLC
Vladlen Shorin — General Director, RT-Tekhpriemka

Robot developers in the Far East will talk about their development plans and their vision of the future of robotics in Russia and the Asia-Pacific region. Motorika will conduct the first invasive prosthetics operations in Russia together with the FEFU Medical Center. The company "Robocenter" from Vladivostok will present its underwater robot. Promobot will teach androids from Vladivostok to walk. Working in an emergency: how can a robot help?

Moderator:
Andrey Selitsky — Director, The Far East High Technology Fund

Speakers:
Andrey Davidyuk — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Motorica
Alexandr Dremin — General director BIOSMART
Sergey Moon — Director, Robotics Development Center LLC
Yaroslav Shikolev — Commercial Director, Laboratory of the Future LLC
Aleksei Iuzhakov — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Promobot

Moderators:
Alexey Petrov — General Director ANO "DMTK"
Tigran Sargsyan — Deputy Chairman of the Board, Eurasian Development Bank

The Republic of Kalmykia is located close to the large industrial centers of the Volga region with a developed processing industry, outlets to the Caspian Sea and the Volga River. Key transport communications pass through the territory of Kalmykia (gas and oil pipelines, international transport corridor "North-South"). The region has a high potential as a transport and logistics hub in the field of road and air transportation both within the country and as a "transcontinental bridge" in the North-South and East-West directions. The region has wide opportunities for creating territorial production complexes for the extraction and processing of natural resources, the development of production and marketing of agricultural products (Kalmykia is one of the leaders of the country's agro-industrial complex), attracting transit cargo flows. The spheres of tourism, alternative energy, processing and light industry also have a high potential for development.

What investment projects are being implemented on the territory of the Republic? How can Kalmykia offer support measures and subsidies? How can Kalmykia offer support measures and subsidies? What opportunities have been created for investors?

Moderator:
Andrey Sangadgi-Goryaev — Director of the Development Fund of the Republic of Kalmykia

Speaker:
Dmitry Troitsky — Minister of Economy and Trade of the Republic of Kalmykia

Cooperation between Russia and China in the field of pharmacology is one of the priority areas nowadays. The experience of the pandemic has shown how important joint work in the field of healthcare is. Today Russia and China are ready to actively cooperate in the field of biotechnology. And the synergetic effect that can be observed in this cooperation suggests that it is the cross-border cooperation, the unification of all the opportunities that our countries have, that will give great background for a serious change of the healthcare system.

The agreement between FarmEco (Group of Companies) and the Chinese Entrepreneurs Union in Russia on cooperation in the field of pharmacology and medical facilities is designed to expand the horizons of cooperation between the two states, remove barriers that hinder the effective development of business and trade and economic ties. The agreement will allow obtaining a significant synergistic effect in terms of creating modern healthcare facilities and managing them, as well as in the field of creating medical drugs and medical devices within the framework of partnership with Chinese manufacturers and investors.

Moderators:
Vladimir Babiy — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Pharmeco Group
Zhou Liqun — President, Elus Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs

Cooperation Agreement between the Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of mutually beneficial Relations "International Association for Economic Development," the RK-Investment Foundation and V-Tell Company

Moderators:
Anastasia Barna — CEO of the Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Mutually Beneficial Relations “International association for Economic Development”
Alexander Shatirov — CEO of the Fund "RK-Investments"