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Business Programme for the Sochi International Investment Forum 2016 BUSINESS PROGRAMME for the Sochi International Investment Forum 2016 Business Programme for the Sochi International Investment Forum 2016 BUSINESS PROGRAMME For The Sochi International Investment Forum 2016 29 September-2 October 2016, Sochi Programme accurate as at September 23, 2016 September 30, 2016 10:00–11:30 Tools for Regional Growth Panel session Conference hall 3.1 Between Scylla and Charybdis: State Supervision and Oversight Reform – Balancing Business Freedom and Civic Prosperity A region’s investment climate and business prosperity depend to a large degree on the quality of its licensing, supervisory, and oversight activities. Is it possible to create an ideal system of state supervision? What progressive trends have been seen in state supervision in the twenty-first century? Can a balance be found between government supervision and civic oversight? To what extent are the monitoring and oversight reforms being introduced in different countries universal? What lessons can and should be scaled, and what practices should be treated with caution? Moderator: Alexander Bragin, Executive Director, Analytical Center "Forum", Open Government Panellists: Mikhail Abyzov, Minister of the Russian Federation Daniil Egorov, Deputy Commissioner, Federal Tax Service оf Russia Sergei Morozov, Governor of Ulyanovsk Region Savva Shipov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexander Shokhin, President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Front row participants: Viktor Evtukhov, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Pavel Gagarin, Chairman of the Board, Gradient Alpha Alexander Kalinin, President, All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Opora Russia Sergei Katyrin, President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation Elena Panina, Deputy in the State Duma of the Russian Federation; President, National Research Institute of Economic Strategy; Chairperson, Moscow Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Mikhail Pryadilnikov, Deputy Head, Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation Mariya Shklyaruk, Head of the Institution and Society Division, Center for Strategic Research Foundation Boris Titov, Presidential Commissioner of the Russian Federation for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights Maxim Topilin, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Andrey Zhulin, Vice Rector, National Research University Higher School of Economics 10:00–11:30 Sustainable Economic Development Panel session Conference hall 3.8 The National Enterprise Initiative: Continuing Progress Four years ago, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives launched the National Enterprise Initiative (NEI), which aims to radically improve conditions for doing business in Russia. For the first time in Russia’s history, entrepreneurs began to work with state bodies and the expert community to develop road maps (action plans for improving the business climate in Russia). Thanks largely to the implementation of these road maps, Russia soared from 120th to 51st place in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index. How much simpler is it to do business now? Have the adopted laws been implemented effectively? What types of monitoring tools should be employed to assess project performance? What recent progress has been made with the project, and what still remains to be done? 1 Business Programme for the Sochi International Investment Forum 2016 Moderator: Dmitry Schugorev, Anchor, Russia 24 TV Channel Panellists: Artem Avetisyan, Director of the New Business Department, Agency of Strategic Initiatives; Chairman of the Non-Governmental Organization Leaders Club Leonid Kazinets, Chairman, Barkli Corporation Sergey Pikin, Director, Energy Development Fund Pavel Romanov, General Director, OOO "UK "Land Development"; Working Group Leader, Improving the Quality of Public Services in the Sphere of State Cadastral Registration of Real Estate, Agency for Strategic Initiatives; Member of the Non-Governmental Organization Leaders Club Igor Vasiliev, Governor of Kirovsk Region Front row participants: Alexey Bakulin, Chief Executive Officer, Bakulin Motors Group Andrei Nikitin, General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives Kirill Nikitin, Partner, Government and Public Sector Leader, PwC Russia Aleksey Rybnikov, CIS Knowlegde Leader, EY Denis Spirin, Corporate Governance Director, Prosperity Capital Management Dmitry Yalov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of Leningrad region 10:00–11:30 Tools for Regional Growth Panel discussion Conference hall 3.3 The Export Potential of the Regions: from Discovery to Reality The regions of the Russian Federation lack uniform standards and a universal package of tools with which to support exporters. At the same time, there are success stories that demonstrate the effectiveness of a pro-export approach to regional development. What is the export potential of the various Russian regions? What goods are currently being exported by regional companies? What financial and non-financial support tools are available to regional export-oriented companies? What role do the administrations of Russia’s regions play in supporting Russian exporters? Moderator: Dmitry Butrin, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Kommersant Publishing House Panellists: Maxim Akimov, First Deputy Head of the Government of the Russian Federation Anton Alikhanov, Acting Chairman of the Government of the Kaliningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko, Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexey Dumin, Governor of Tula Region Petr Fradkov, Chief Executive Officer, Russian Export Center Oleg Kuvshinnikov, Governor of the Vologda Oblast Alexey Likhachev, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Veronika Nikishina, Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission Front row participants: Uliana Anufrieva, Head, Tatarstan Export Support Center Alexander Cherevko, The Trade Representative of the Russian Federation in the Netherlands Leonid Osipov, Deputy Director of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate Maxim Protasov, Head, Russian System of Quality 2 Business Programme for the Sochi International Investment Forum 2016 10:00–11:30 Sustainable Economic Development Panel session Conference hall 3.10 The Cost of Economic Restrictions: Successes and Future Prospects of an ‘About- Face’ The upgrade of key industrial assets and devaluation of the national currency have created favourable conditions for developing domestic production. In the current circumstances, the prospect that sanctions could be alleviated or even fully removed demands a search for new approaches to Russia’s economic development. The potential increase of Western investors in the Russian market could well place an additional burden on local manufacturers. How can the Russian economy remain competitive if protectionist measures are removed? How can potential new realities be reconciled with the current benchmarks of the Russian economy? How likely is an increase in investment from Europe and Northern America in the event of an end to external disputes? Moderator: Alexey Repik, President, All-Russia Public Organization Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation; Founder and Chairman, R Pharm Panellists: Paul Kadochnikov, President, The Fund "Centre for Strategic research" Alexey Meshkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Daniel Russell, President, Chief Executive Officer, US–Russia Business Council (USRBC) Ekaterina Trofimova, Chief Executive Officer, Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA) Stefanos Vafeidis, General Manager, Coca-Cola HBC Eurasia Joe Watt, Chairman of the Management Committee and Managing Partner, CIS, EY Front row participants: Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of Kaluga Region Vladimir Dmitriev, Vice President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation Erwan Dupuy, General Director, Saint-Gobain CIS Alexey Nefedov, President, Member of the Board of Directors, JUGRA Bank Philippe Pegorier, President, Alstom Russia Paul Remi, Country Director Russia, Thales Group Maksim Reshetnikov, Minister of Moscow City Government, Head, Department of Economic Policy and Development of Moscow Pavel Shinsky, General Director, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andrey Sokolov, Head of Management of Large and Medium-Sized Businesses, Sberbank Pekka Viljakainen, Advisor to the President, Skolkovo Foundation; Chairman, Aii Capital 10:00–11:30 Tools for Regional Growth Panel session Conference hall 3.5 A New Model for Heating Markets The Ministry of Energy of Russia has issued a draft bill outlining a target model for the thermal energy market. The bill proposes changes to the system for regulating prices and economic relationships on the thermal energy market. Its aim is to reduce administrative pressures on business and to create economic incentives to improve the lamentable current state of the centralized heating supply system. Firstly, the role of the Single Heat Supply Organization (ETO) is set to change. The organization will become not only the sole purchaser and supplier of thermal energy within its area of activity, but also a centralized focus of accountability for the heat supply system with respect to both consumers and the government. To deliver on this task, the ETO has taken full responsibility for optimizing and developing
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