The complete event programme for
Russia House, organized by the Roscongress Foundation during the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has now been published. From 20 to 24 January,
Russia’s official residence will open its doors to participants of the World
Economic Forum and Davos guests. The event will be broadcast online on the
official Foundation website (roscongress.org) and the Russia House website (houserussia.com).
The programme includes 10 sessions
and discussions, over 20 speakers, and a traditional Foreign Investment
Advisory Council members’ meeting.
The business programme will kick off
with an International Cybersecurity Congress discussion on 21 January. The
session will discuss various approaches to ensuring cyber resilience at the
local, regional, and global levels. The discussion will be moderated by Deputy
Chairman of the Board of PAO Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov and BI.ZONE
Director Dmitry Samartsev.
The crypto economy will also be a
topic of discussion on the first day of the business programme. The session
will consider regulatory instruments and approaches for the industry, its
development prospects, the stability of digital assets, and tokenization of
real assets. Discussion participants include Senior Advisor to the Board of
Directors of Turicum Private Bank Raymond Bisang, Managing Director of CORUM
Vermögensverwaltung AG Stephan Bucher, General Director and Chairman of
the Management Board of Rosgeologia Sergey Gorkov, ‘Astana’
International Financial Centre Manager Kairat Kelimbetov, Director of
Institutional Sales OK Group Kevin Liu, BitForex Cofounder and Head of
Business Development Jason Luo, Director General of Labuan FSA
(Malaysia) Danial Mah, SMC Family Office SA Partner Luca Moretti,
and Huobi Global Vice President of Global Business David Chen. The
discussion will be moderated by the President of the Crypto Valley Association
(Switzerland) Daniel Haudenschild.
On 22 January, the Russia House will
host the session ‘Inequality: A Barrier to Economic Growth’, which will
consider the distribution of profits and wealth among various subsections of
the population. Participants will also discuss access to basic social goods
such as healthcare, education, and housing, as well as inequality’s effect on
the efficacy of social elevators. The discussion will focus on ways to increase
the inclusivity of economic growth, such as national and international taxation
systems, social and regional policies, labour market regulation, and
digitalization.
The central day of the Russia House
business programme will continue with a session dedicated to ESG (Ecology,
Social, and Governance) issues. Today, ESG issues are one of the key elements
of the global business sustainability agenda. Certainly, ESG issues have gone
far beyond cooperation between investors and shareholders to affect employees,
business partners, regulators, governments, and consumers. Participants will
include Yandex’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Gregory
Abovsky, PhosAgro’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management
Board Andrey Guryev, CIS Managing Partner and Deputy Regional Accounts
Leader for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia at EY Alexander
Ivlev, SIBUR Managing Director Aleksey Kozlov, Founder, Chairman of
the Management Board, and Chief Executive Officer of Opportunity Network Brian
Pallas, BCG Managing Director & Senior Partner and Chairman for Central
& Eastern Europe and Middle East Christoph Schweizer, and VTB
Capital’s Global Chief Executive Officer Alexei Yakovitsky. Together
with moderator EM Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Thomas Blackwell,
they will discuss what Russia has to offer the global business community in
terms of experience and new ideas with respect to recent international business
trends.
The subsequent Russia House
discussion will touch on cultural ties between Russia and the West.
Participants will discuss whether culture can help restore good relations
between Russia and the West as a whole and how business can stand to benefit.
The discussion will be moderated by journalist, radio and television host, and
Deputy Development Director of the Leo Tolstoy State Museum Fekla Tolstoy.
The panel will include the participation of Associate Professor at Saint
Petersburg State University (Graduate School of Management of Saint Petersburg
State University), Vice President for Development, Golden Mile GmbH, and ESNU
Professor Natalia Kovalevskaya, President, Chairman of the Management
Board, and Member of the Board of Directors of ER-Telecom Holding Andrey
Kuzyaev, and Minister and Head of the Department for Foreign Economic
Activity and International Relations of Moscow within the Moscow City
Government Sergey Cheryomin.
A separate session will focus on the
development of a strategic dialogue between Europe and Russia and cooperation
prospects in innovation, technology, science, research, healthcare, and
education. The session will be moderated by Nadezhda Sikorskaya,
Editor-In-Chief of Nasha Gazeta, a Russian language publication in
Switzerland. Panellists will include Minister of Foreign and
European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Miroslav Lajčák, Research
Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion
Club and Chief Editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs Fyodor
Lukyanov, and P&P Advisory Group President Mauro Pantaleo.
The second day of the Russia House
business programme will round off with the session ‘National AI Strategies in
Russia and the World’.
On 23 January, Russia House will
host the session ‘Quantum Challenge for the Future’, dedicated to one of the
most promising areas in the development of quantum technologies — quantum
computing. The final session of the Russia House 2020 business programme will
feature the participation of Full Professor of Philosophy of Nature and of
Science at Lateran University in Rome Gianfranco Basti and Rector of the
New Economic School Ruben Enikolopov. The session will be moderated by
Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Quantum Center Ruslan Yunusov.
Russia House is a platform for
promoting Russian initiatives among international business and political
circles. World Economic Forum participants and Davos guests will have daily
access to Russia House’s modern, multifunctional spaces for official and
informal discussions.
The full version of the official
Russian residency’s programme can be found on the official Russia House
website: www.houserussia.com.
