13.30-15.00Plenary Hall, 5th floorProgramme LeaderInterium
Session partnersThe RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Eurasian rating agency
Main topics- Anti-crisis shaping of Russia and Russian business image in a changing world
- Transforming the PR international market to adapt to new trends and needs of the industry and clients
- Systemic interaction of Russian specialists with foreign communicators
- Strategic expertise and professional interaction with the near abroad, South-East Asia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Latin America and Africa
- Platforms and opportunities for exchanging experience and knowledge, technologies and personnel with international PR communities
- Mutual enrichment of ideas and innovative solutions to meet main international relations challenges
- Establishing long-term relations with relevant international associations
- Communications inside and outside BRICS, SCO, EAEU, CIS: have anything changed?
- PR in China today - future of communications in Russia tomorrow?
ModeratorAndrey Ermoshkin, Interium executive director, head of AKOS international relations committee.
Speakers (* - invited/expected)1.
Agee Robert, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, president, CEO*
2.
Kirill Babaev, Institute of China and Modern Asia at the Russian Academy of Sciences, director, National coordination centre for international business cooperation (NCC), president*
3.
Stepan Kovalchuk, VK senior vice president on media strategy and service development*
4.
Nikita Kondratiev, the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, department of multisided economic cooperation and special projects, head
5.
Liqun Zhou, Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia, chairman*
6.
Yulia Maksutova, Centre for Strategic Research, deputy director
7.
Svetlana Malinina, CIS Executive Committee, head of press service*
8.
Olga Pavlikova, Trend Fox, co-founder and CEO
9.
Victoria Panova, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” vice rector, Centre ‘Expert council on the RF participation in BRICS, director*
10.
Polikanov Dmitry, Federal Agency on CIS, compatriots living abroad, international humanitarian cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), deputy head
11.
Timofeev Ivan, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), general director*
12.
Timur Shafir, Russian Union of Journalists, head of international department, secretary