Congress Business-Center "Petrocongress"
(5, Lodeynopolskaya Str.)

Guest Accommodation of the Forum in St. Petersburg is provided by Congress Hall. Contact person: Elena, +7 923 1212 111, bron@chsib.ru Information about Hotel: PDF. Look at the Map.

March 30, 2011 
DAY ONE
INVESTING IN INNOVATION TO ACHIEVE MARKET LEADERSHIP

09.30 – 10.00 Registration, Morning Coffee

10.00 – 10.30 Opening Plenary Session

• Elgis Idrisovich Kachaev, Chairman, Saint-Petersburg Regional Branch “Delovaya Rossiya”, www.deloros.spb.ru, President, Association “Saint-Petersburg Inter-Regional Informational Business Center”, www.spbmidc.ru;
• Kendrick Davis White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, www.marchmontnews.com;
• Louisa Leonidovna Aleksandrova, CEO, Saint-Petersburg Business-Angels Organization, St. Petersburg, www.soba.spb.ru

Elgis Kachaev

Kendrick White

Louisa Aleksandrova

10.30 – 12.00 Session 1: Round Table: Government Support of Innovation Development
Moderator: Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev, State Duma Deputy, Moscow

Topics for discussion:

• Government Support of Innovation Development
• Innovation Policy in the RF: Ways of Innovation Stimulation, Tax Policy Instruments, Normative-Legal Regulations
• Russian Venture Company Initiatives in a sphere of Innovation-Venture Ecosystem
• RUSNANO Initiatives in building Innovation Infrastructure
• “Skolkovo” Project as a Legal and Law Instrument for Business in Science
• Communication Platform as a Governmental Programme of Innovation Support in Saint-Petersburg
• The UK. 40 Years of Economic Modernization
  

Invited VIP-experts:

• Kirill Aleksandrovich Bulatov, Head, Project Analysis Department, OJSC "Russian Venture Company", Moscow, www.rusventure.ru;
• Oleg Aleksandrovich Lysak, Investment Manager, Infrastructure Programs, OJSC "RUSNANO", Moscow, www.rusnano.com;
• Kirill Aleksandrovich Solovejchik, Deputy Cahirman, Committee of Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade, Saint-Petersburg, www.cedipt.spb.ru;
• Eric Maire, Senior Project Director, the Development Economic State of Vaud agency in Switzerland (DEV), www.vaud.ch;
• Natalia Milchakova, Partner, Tax Services Technology, PwC, Moscow, www.pwc.com;
• Maksim Sergeevich Balanev, Executive Director, Euro Info Center – Saint-Petersburg, www.euro-info-center.ru;
• Elgis Idrisovich Kachaev, Chairman, Saint-Petersburg Regional Branch “Delovaya Rossiya”, www.deloros.spb.ru, President, Association “Saint-Petersburg Inter-Regional Informational Business Center”, www.spbmidc.ru;
• Kendrick Davis White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, www.marchmontnews.com;
• Sergey Voronkov, Head of Event Holding "RESTEC® Events”, Saint-Petersburg, www.restec-events.ru

Ilya Ponomarev

Kirill Bulatov

Oleg Lysak

Kirill Solovejchik

Eric Maire

Natalia Milchakova

Maksim Balanev

Elgis Kachaev

Kendrick White

Sergey Voronkov

12.00 – 12.30 Networking Coffee and Tea
     Press-conference

12.30 – 14.30 Session 2: Round Table: Attraction of Investments for Technological Projects: Finance Sources, Funding Methodologies
Moderator: Vitaly Lazorin, CEO, Novstream Constructive Solutions, www.novstream.ru; Expert, Russian PwC Technology & Innovation Center, Moscow, www.pwc.com

Topics for discussion:

• Finance Sources for Innovation Projects Overview
• Early Stage Financing: Investments Attraction in Innovation Projects
• Problems concerned with the Investments into Small Innovation Companies – Practical Experience
• European Grants for the Russian Innovations and Promotion on the European market
• Private Equity Investment Funds as a Source of Finance
• IPO of companies with a small, middle and large capitalization. Key questions on the way to listing
• Investments Attraction Using MICEX Mechanisms
• Risk Seed-Fund

Invited experts:

• Andrey Kessel, Managing Director, ATZ Management Ltd., Great Britain;
• Eduard Arkadyevich Fiyaksel, PhD in Economics, Professor, Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the State University - Higher School of Economics, Head of Venture Management Department; President, "Start Invest" Business Angels Association, Nizhny Novgorod, www.start-invest.ru;
• Natalya Starodubtseva, Senior Manager, Capital Markets Group, PwC, Moscow, www.pwc.com;
• Yuri Melnikov, Senior Consultant, Oxford Progress Ltd, Brussels, Belgium, www.oxford-progress.com;
• Sergei Gutnikov, Director, Oxford Progress Ltd, Great Britain, www.oxford-progress.com;
  
• Daniel Radchenko, Head of Regional Projects, Russia Partners, Moscow, www.russiapartners.com;
• Elena Anatolyevna Semykina, Deputy General Director, «MICEX – Nort-West», Saint-Petersburg, www.micex.ru
• Margarita Vitalyena Borodatova, General Director, MC “Dokhod”, Saint-Petersburg, http://uk.dohod.ru

Andrey Kessel

Eduard Fiyaksel

Natalya Starodubtseva

Yuri Melnikov

Sergei Gutnikov

Daniel Radchenko

Elena Semykina

Margarita Borodatova

14.30-15.30 Networking Lunch

15.30 - 17.30 Session 3: R&D practices in Corporations
Moderator: Eduard Arkadyevich Fiyaksel, PhD in Economics, Professor, Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the State University - Higher School of Economics, Head of Venture Management Department; President, "Start Invest" Business Angels Association, Nizhny Novgorod, www.start-invest.ru

Topics for discussion:

• Large-Scale Enterprise Modernization – using R&D Innovation to raise Company Valuation and attract Investment Capital: Kendrick Davis White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, www.marchmontnews.com;
• Why is it profitable to create innovation systems in corporations? Eduard Arkadyevich Fiyaksel, PhD in Economics, Professor, Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the State University - Higher School of Economics, Head of Venture Management Department; President, "Start Invest" Business Angels Association, Nizhny Novgorod, www.start-invest.ru;
• How to build Innovation Management System in Corporations: Andrey Andrusov, Partner, BRANAN, Moscow, www.branan.ru
• Powering your R&D program with cloud technologies: Vitaly Lazorin, CEO, Novstream Constructive Solutions, www.novstream.ru; Expert, Russian PwC Technology & Innovation Center, Moscow, www.pwc.com;
  
• Transnational corporations and Russian Companies Collaboration in a sphere of R&D: Pekka Koponen, M.Sc., MBA, Managing Director, Spinverse Ltd., Finland, www.spinverse.com;
• Management Training Features for realization of Innovation Corporate Development Program: Vladimir Glebovich Zinov, Doctor of Sc., Economics, Professor, Innovation-Technological Business Department, The Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, www.fitb.ane.ru;
• Why is the Russian scientific and technical Potential is interesting in the world? Valeria Terentieva, Partner, ITMO Consulting, Managing partner, WorklineGroup, Saint-Petersburg

Kendrick White

Eduard Fiyaksel

Andrey Andrusov

Vitaly Lazorin

Pekka Koponen

Vladimir Zinov

Valeriya Terentieva

17.30 - 19.00 Wine & Cheese Reception for all Participants

MARCH 31, 2011
DAY TWO
COMMERCIALIZATION OF ENTREPRENEURAL INNOVATION

09.30 – 10.00 Registration, Morning Coffee

10.00 – 11.30 Workshop: Commercialization of Entrepreneurial Innovation. Market Driven Science
Moderator: Mikhail Podgayets, Expert Council Chairman, Saint-Pete Business Angels Organization, St. Petersburg, www.soba.spb.ru

Topics for discussion:

• The role of the Modern Universities. Success stories in commercialization of innovation projects from regional Universities
• High-tech Companies’ and Universities’ Cooperation in the area of Creating Innovative Production
• Commercialization of entrepreneurial innovation. Bridging the gap between innovator and managers
• IP Protection: Global Best Practices Applied in Russia. Ways of IP protection. Patent protection strategies
• Entrepreneurship Center HSE as a bridge between Science and Business Community. Master’s Programs HSE

Invited speakers and experts:

• Kendrick Davis White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, www.marchmontnews.com;
• Denis Aleksandrovich Gorbatyuk, Founder of Optogan, Saint-Petersburg, www.optogan.ru;
  
• Eduard Arkadyevich Fiyaksel, PhD in Economics, Professor, Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the State University - Higher School of Economics, Head of Venture Management Department; President, "Start Invest" Business Angels Association, Nizhny Novgorod, www.start-invest.ru;
• Andrey Kessel, Managing Director, ATZ Management Ltd., Great Britain;
• Vladimir Glebovich Zinov, Doctor of Sc., Economics, Professor, Innovation-Technological Business Department, The Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, www.fitb.ane.ru;
• Natalia Borisovna Petrova, General Director, “Neva Patent”, The patent and law firm, St. Petersburg, www.nevapatent.ru;
• Leonid Sergeevich Chechurin, Head of  "Theoretical foundations of Innovations", Faculty of Innovation, St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University, http://www.ii.spb.ru;
• Tamila Chingizovna Zheleznyak, Business-Coach, Organizational Consultant, Strategic Development Director, Consulting Group “Gorod Masterov”, Saint-Petersburg 
• Natalia Erukhimovich, Partner, WorkLine Group, Saint-Petersburg    

Mikhail Podgayets

Kendrick White

Denis Gorbatyuk

Eduard Fiyaksel

Andrey Kessel

Vladimir Zinov

Natalia Petrova

Leonid Chechurin

Tamila Zheleznyak

Nataliya Erukhimovich

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee and Tea

12.00 – 14.00 Workshop: Best Practices in Innovation Cluster Development

Moderator: Konstantin Petrovich Fokin, President, National Business Angels Association, Moscow

Topics for discussion:

• Best Practices in Innovation Cluster Development
• Russian Venture Company Infrastructure Investment Fund (RVC InfraFund)
• Yaroslavl Roadmap 10-15-20: 10 years on way, 15 steps, 20 cautions
• Regional Innovation Systems Development
• Special Economic Zone – Infrastructure Government Project on Innovation Support and Capitalization of Effective Management Competencies and New Technologies
• Successful Practical Experience in Innovation

Invited speakers and experts:

• Kendrick Davis White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, www.marchmontnews.com;
• Kirill Aleksandrovich Bulatov, Head, Project Analysis Department, OJSC "Russian Venture Company", Moscow, www.rusventure.ru;
• Rakhimdzhan Akhmetzhanovich Roziev, Director, Innovation Company “Medbiopharm”, Obninsk, www.medbiopharm.ru;
• Yuliya Vadimovna Aseikina, PR-manager, “REO  “Sevice” – Managing Company of the First City Business-Incubator in Saint-Petersburg, http://en.start-business.ru;
• Aleksander Temkin, Deputy general director, Joint-Stock Company “Special Economic Zone” in Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, http://spb.oao-oez.ru;
• Louisa Leonidovna Aleksandrova, CEO, Saint-Petersburg Business-Angels Organization, St. Petersburg, www.soba.spb.ru

Konstantin Fokin

Kendrick White

Kirill Bulatov

Rakhimdzhan Roziev

Yuliya Aseikina

Aleksander Temkin

Louisa Aleksandrova

14.00 – 15.00 Networking Lunch

15.00 – 17.30 Workshops: Innovators Support Programs
Moderator: Igor Vsevolodovich Rozhdestvensky, Director, Business-Incubator of the Technoopark “Ingrya”, Saint-Petersburg, www.ingria-park.ru/incubator

• Futurussia Programs
• Zvorykinsky Project
• Innovation Project: how can the tender for European grant help the investor 
• SOBA Business Angels
• Proof of Concept Centers Operations. How can they work in Russia?

Invited experts:

• Sergei Gutnikov, Director, Oxford Progress Ltd, Great Britain; 
• Yuri Melnikov, Senior Consultant, Oxford Progress Ltd, Brussels, Belgium, www.oxford-progress.com;
• Oleg Davidov, Managing Partner, Business Park "ARTISHKINO", St. Petersburg, www.bpm.linstek.ru;
• Louisa Leonidovna Aleksandrova, CEO, Saint-Petersburg Business-Angels Organization, St. Petersburg, www.soba.spb.ru;
• Elgis Idrisovich Kachaev, Chairman, Saint-Petersburg Regional Branch “Delovaya Rossiya”, www.deloros.spb.ru, President, Association “Saint-Petersburg Inter-Regional Informational Business Center”, www.spbmidc.ru;
• Kendrick Davis White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, www.marchmontnews.com

Igor Rozhdestvensky

Sergei Gutnikov

Yuri Melnikov

Oleg Davidov

Louisa Aleksandrova

Elgis Kachaev

Kendrick White

An exhibition of innovation projects was organized during two days of a Forum

(For more information, please contact Medvedeva M.G., tel./fax + 7 (812) 712 51 34, mob. + 7 (921) 933 44 52)

Contacts:

Golubeva Svetlana, Events and PR Director, +7 831 419-45-65 (120), s.golubeva@marchmont.ru

Zakharova Irina, Senior Communications Manager, +7 831 419-45-65 (125), i.zakharova@marchmont.ru