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"

Presentation of the project "Global B2B online trading platform Aensof.com for polymers, petrochemicals and chemicals

Speaker:
Roman Mataru — Co-founder of Aensof.com

The Government of the Russian Federation pays special attention to attracting foreign investment, and investors are provided with support at the state level from benefits and subsidies to protection from changes in legislation. However, it is necessary to improve the mechanisms of working with foreign investors. For Russian initiators of investment projects and regional governments, the issues of cultural differences and business ethics of representatives of different countries are serious issues. The financing of projects by Russian financial institutions is complicated by ignorance of foreign specifics, the complexity of evaluating projects with the participation of foreign investors. At the session, it is proposed to discuss what needs to be done to improve the efficiency of working with foreign investors.

Moderator:
Alexander Ikonnikov — Chairman, Supervisory Board, Independent Directors Association

Speakers:
Igor Danilenko — Managing director of Fosun Eurasia Capital LLC
Eugeny Markin — Executive Director, Member of the Governing Board, NP “Russian-Chinese Business Council”
Oskar Racin — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sberbank Investments
Dmitry Savenkov — General Director, Legendagro Primomorye LLC
Lei Teng — Senior Vice President, Russia-China Investment Fund (RCIF)
Lu Hao — General Director, KitayStroy LLC

Russian companies, like international ones, are affected by COVID factors, digitalization, changes in consumer behavior and changing business models. The personal strategies of the owners are also being transformed under the pressure of new challenges, the growth of the complexity of the business and the search for their optimal role in the company.

Collective forms of management are increasingly used in world practice. This applies not only to the operational, but also to the strategic level of management - the Board of Directors, which provides a more complete understanding of what is happening and sets the necessary development vectors. At the same time, Russia has its own specifics – culture and traditions, in which sole management prevails.

The participants of the session will discuss whether modern forms of collective management are applicable for Russian business. What are the barriers? Can the Board of Directors give more stability, increase the potential for attracting investment and ensure the long-term development of private companies?

Moderator:
Alexander Ikonnikov — Chairman, Supervisory Board, Independent Directors Association

Speakers:
Anna Bamburova — Chairman of the Board of Directors of TH "Yarmarka"
Dimitrios Velanis — Member of the Supervisory Board of the RK-Investments Fund
Sergey Kapustin — Director for Development, E-Commerce and Marketing of Open Technologies (TM e2e4)
Alexandr Mischenko — Shareholder in PLANET Group

The signing of the Agreement on cooperation in the construction of residential real estate in Vladivostok between KitayStroy LLC and SZ Zeleny Boulevard LLC

Moderators:
Elena Veretelnik — Co-founder SZ Zeleny Boulevard LLC
Lu Hao — General Director, KitayStroy LLC

Signing of an agreement between the Roscongress Foundation and the Russian-Chinese Business Council

Moderators:
Eugeny Markin — Executive Director, Member of the Governing Board, NP “Russian-Chinese Business Council”
Alexander Stuglev — Chief Executive Officer, The Roscongress Foundation
Alexander Shatirov — CEO of the Fund "RK-Investments"

Stroytransgaz JSC, the largest development company in Russia, and China State Construction (Ru.) Co., the Russian office of the leading development company in China and one of the most significant construction contractors in the world, the China State Construction Engineering Corporation, will conclude an agreement on cooperation in the implementation of the project of the Cultural and Educational Complex in Vladivostok.

In 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin set the task to form four new cultural centers outside Central Russia in his Address to the Federal Assembly. Later it was concretized in the executive Order «On national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation through to 2024». The construction project owner is the National Cultural Heritage Foundation for Social and Cultural Projects.

The large-scale complex will be located on two sites in Vladivostok. An educational campus will be located on Russky Island, and a large-scale museum and a theater center will be built on the Eagle's Nest Hill. The branches of the country's largest museums – the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, as well as a branch of the Mariinsky Theater will be open there.

The construction of the Complex will not only reveal the cultural and educational potential of the region and secure the status of the tourist and cultural center of the region for Vladivostok, but also expand cultural ties with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, introduce residents of the Far East and foreign tourists to the best examples of Russian culture.

Moderators:
Vladimir Lavlentsev — General Director of JSC Stroytransgaz
Lu Hao — General Director, KitayStroy LLC

Nowadays, there is a strong demand for digitalization in all sectors of the economy and in all spheres of business activity. Investment activity is no exception. The regions of Russia have a significant number of potentially attractive investment projects in various industries that are in search of external equity or debt financing. Undoubtedly, many of them are supported by regional development institutions, some are placed on the corresponding digital information resources. However, over time, there is a need to create and utilize a single centralized resource, where information on key investment opportunities from all corners of the country would be collected in a unified format. However, over time, there is a need to create and utilize a single centralized resource, where information on key investment opportunities from all over the country would be collected in a unified format. This idea is the basis of the Investment Portal of the regions of Russia investinregions.ru, which is a unique digital space that unites the interests of regions, investors and project initiators. The project is a joint initiative of the Roscongress Foundation and the RС-Investments Fund and is being implemented with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

During the session, a selection of top projects posted on investinregions.ru will be presented: initiators from different regions will tell about their initiatives in various industries, share their experience and answer questions. The discussion will be held in the traditional format of a pitch session.

Moderator:
Alexandra Beloshitskaya — executive Director of the Fund RC-Investments

Speakers:
Igor Drabiazg — Head of the peasant (farmer) economy (IP GKFH Drabiazg I. A.), the project "Wine-making production and tourist complex "Partizanskaya Valley"
Sergey Kolyadko — CEO of LLC "UK TOR "Chukotka", the project "Construction of a modern recreation center with an ethno-patriotic, landscape solution in the Anadyr city of the Chukotka Autonomous district"
Sergey Lazarev — Founder, EcoStar Tehnology
Dmitry Lisnevsky — Acting Head of the Moscow Division of the Sakhalin Region Development Corporation
Alexander Pashkevich — Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecomett-Luch LLC, project "Complex processing of ash and slag waste from coal burning at the Primorskaya DWP"
Olga Plotnikova — Director, Economic and Direct Investments Development Fund of the Chukotka Autonomous region
Dmitry Rybakov — Director of the Derzhavinsky Technopark of the Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavin, the project "Creation of an autonomous network infrastructure for the operation of unmanned aircraft systems and mobile robotic complexes on the territory of the Chukotka Autonomous district"
Yelena Stafeyeva — CEO of LLC "CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE SECURITY SOLUTIONS", project "Hotel and shop "Put'Inn"

The documentary tells about the first year of the life of brown bears according to a script written by nature itself. For seven months, the film crew watched several bear families on the territory of the South Kamchatka Federal Reserve named after T. I. Shpilenka to capture the secrets of growing up one of the largest predators in Russia.

This is a special picture that takes the viewer to the world of volcanoes, rivers and wild animals — a world where a person is assigned the role of an observer. The goal of the creators is to immerse the audience in the atmosphere of natural balance, which is still preserved in the protected areas.

Award for the best cinematography of the International Festival of Films about Ecology "Eco Fest", Craiova, Romania, Award for the best director of the Russian Film Festival for Children "Guro Kids International Film Festival", Seoul, Republic of Korea, Winner of the Golden Eagle Award for 2018 in the category "Best non-fiction Film" (Moscow, Russia), Winner of the Russian Geographical Society Award in the category "Best Media Project" (Moscow, Russia).

Speaker:
Tatyana Gulbina — Deputy Director for Environmental Education and Public Relations of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Kronotsky State Reserve"