Place: Hotel "Moskovskaya Gorka", 131 Moskovskaya Street, Ekaterinburg. Look at the Map.

About Ekaterinburg: http://www.ekaterinburg.com/city/004/910/article_4910.html

About Sverdlovsk Region: http://www.uralterra.com/ekaterinburg-russia/pg-sverdlovsk-region-russia/

Day One – November 17th, 2010
Applying Innovative Thinking to Improving Company Efficiency & Market Competitiveness

09:00 – 10:00 Registration, Welcoming Coffee

10:00 – 11:00 Opening Welcome & Program Introduction

• Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod, www.marchmont.ru;
• Radik Akhmetshin, Director, NO «Elite Club of Corporate Behavior», Ekaterinburg, http://elitclub.ru;
• Boris Zyryanov, Chairman of Sverdlovsk Regional Branch «Delovaya Rossiya», General Director “Multiklet”, PhD in Technical Science, Ekaterinburg, www.deloros.ru

11:00 – 12:00 Session 1: Preparing the Foundation for Russia’s 21st Century Innovation Economy
Moderator: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, www.marchmont.ru

• Assessing Russia’s Competitive Advantages in a Globally Integrated Economy – Leading Examples to Follow: Kendrick White, Founder, Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners;
• Tax Incentives to Invest into Innovation. International Experience: Irina Rusakova, Senior Tax Manager PwC, Leader in cooperation with Universities. Head of Russian Branch of International Tax Association. Cand. in Economic Science, Professor, Department of Taxes, Financial University, Moscow, www.pwc.com;
• Investments Attraction Using MICEX Mechanisms. Innovation and Investment Market: Denis Pryanichnikov, Deputy Director, Listing Department, MICEX, Moscow, www.micex.ru;
• Russian Venture Company Initiatives: Kirill Bulatov, Head of Project Analysis Department, OJSC “Russian Venture Company”, Moscow, www.rusventure.ru

Questions & Answers

Kendrick White

Irina Rusakova

Denis Pryanichnikov

Kirill Bulatov

12.00 – 13.00 Networking Break (business-lunch will be paid by participants) / Press-briefing

13:00 – 14.30 Session 2: The Role of Innovation in Industrial Modernization
Moderator: Vitaly Lazorin, CEO, Novstream Constructive Solutions, www.novstream.ru; Expert, Russian PwC Technology & Innovation Center, Moscow

• Innovation Activity of a large Scale Business in Russia. Mechanisms, Barriers, Development Prospects: Irina Rusakova, Senior Tax Manager PwC, Leader in cooperation with Universities. Head of Russian Branch of International Tax Association. Cand. in Economic Science, Professor, Department of Taxes, Financial University, Moscow, www.pwc.com;
• Technological Forecast of Technologies & Innovations Center PwC: Vitaly Lazorin, CEO, Novstream Constructive Solutions, www.novstream.ru; Expert, Russian PwC Technology & Innovation Center, Moscow, www.pwc.com;
• IP protection: Daniel Klein, Partner, Hellevig, Klein & Usov and Avenir Group Company, www.aveniraccounting.com, www.hkupartners.com;
• How to Fill in the Innovation Portfolio with Stars: Andrey Andrusov, Partner, BRANAN, Moscow, www.branan.ru;
• Innovation Projects Participation in Industrial Modernization (Autonomous Organization of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Ugra “High Technologies Techno park”): Alexander Ovcharenko, Deputy General Director, Head of Center of Development of Innovation Projects, Khanty-Mansiysk, www.sb-ugra.ru

Questions & Answers

Irina Rusakova

Vitaly Lazorin

Daniel Klein

Andrey Andrusov

Alexander Ovcharenko

14:30 – 14:45 Coffee-break (Maison Restaurant)

14:45 – 16.30 Session 3: Round Table: Innovation as a Driver for Improving Company Value & Attractiveness

Moderators: Tatiana Komissarova, Cand. Sc., Head of "Marketing Innovation" HSE, Moscow, www.marketing.hse.ru
Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod

• Maximizing Enterprise Value by Investing into Production Modernization: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod;
• Innovation Marketing: New Russian Realty:  Tatiana Komissarova, Cand. Sc., Head of "Marketing Innovation" HSE, Moscow, www.marketing.hse.ru;
• Enhancing Corporate Value Through Improved Corporate Governance and the Building of a Better Board: Michael Tappan, President & CEO, RSR Russia; Sergei S. Givotovsky, Senior Advisor, RSR Russia, Greenwich, USA, www.rsrrussia.com;
• Formation of High tech Company Holding Structure for Investments Attraction: Yulia Petukhova, Partner, ALTHAUS Consulting, Moscow, www.althausgroup.ru;
• Forming a Corporate Attractive and Investment Safety Reputation: Tatyana Peresypkina, Vice-President, OmniGrade, (Moscow, Vienne), www.omnigrade.com  

Questions & Answers

Kendrick White

Tatiana Komissarova

Michael Tappan

Sergei Givotovsky

Yulia Petukhova

Tatyana Peresypkina

16.30 – 16.45 Coffee Break (Maison Restaurant)

16.45 - 18.00 Session 4: Alternative Investment Sources – Using Innovation to Attract Strategic Partners
Moderator: Vitaly Lazorin, CEO, Novstream Constructive Solutions, www.novstream.ru; Expert, Russian PwC Technology & Innovation Center, Moscow, www.pwc.com

• Innovation Projects Financing on Early Development Stages: Vitaly Lazorin, CEO, Novstream Constructive Solutions, www.novstream.ru; Expert, Russian PwC Technology & Innovation Center, Moscow, www.pwc.com;
• Best Russian-German Practices: Bogdan Malashenko, Project Manager, EastWorld Consulting Ltd, www.eastworldconsultingltd.com, Moscow;
• Practice of Projects’ Investments: Problems & Solutions: Sergey Baigulov, Lawyer on Author and Patent Rights, Legal & Investment Advisor, Russian Invention Company, LLC and "Active Advanced Technologies" LLC, Member of Innovation Business Association, Ekaterinburg;
• Private Equity Investment Funds as a Source of Finance: Daniel Radchenko, Head of Regional Projects, Russia Partners, Moscow, www.russiapartners.com
• Can Big Companies be successful Venture Investors? Maksim Shteygervald, Head of Investment Department, Innovation Center of Sverdlovsk Region, CAIA, CFA L3 candidate, Ekaterinburg

Questions & Answers

Vitaly Lazorin

Bogdan Malashenko

Sergey Baigulov

Daniel Radchenko

Maksim Shteygervald

Day Two – November 18th, 2010
Attracting Investment Capital to Innovation Projects & Enterprise Modernization

09:00 – 10.00 Registration, Welcoming Coffee

10:00 – 12:00   Session 1: Round Table: Regional Investment Climate in Sverdlovsk Region – Elements for Success
Moderator: Maksim Godovykh, Director of Department of a Small and Middle Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Economics of Sverdlovsk Region

• Development of Innovation Activity. The Role of the Government: Maksim Godovykh, Director of Department of a Small and Middle Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Economics of Sverdlovsk Region;
• Investment Climate in Sverdlovsk Region: Denis Val’vachev, Troika Dialog, Ekaterinburg, www.troika.ru;
• Regional innovation Clusters and a Key Role of Education in Forming of an Innovation Thinking of Entrepreneurs: Larisa Guseva, CEO, USIB, Ekaterinburg, www.ursib.ru;
• Business Incubator as a Tool of Successful Business Creation: Arkady Mil’kov, President, SC Union of Techno Parks of Sverdlovsk Region, General Director, Innovation Business and Techno parks of Sverdlovsk Region, Ekaterinburg;
• Investment Climate in Sverdlovsk Region and Human Resources Development Trends: Alexey Klyuev, Director, The Institute of Management and Business of the Ural State University, http://imb.usu.ru, Head of the Department of UNESCO for the University Management and Planning – Non-Commercial Companies Management;
• Banking Sector as a Key of Investment Climate in Sverdlovsk Region - Conditions, Forecast of their Success and Buncraptcy: Alexander Shemetev, Senior lecturer at the FSEB HPE Ural state agricultural academy, Ekaterinburg
  

Maksim Godovykh

Denis Val’vachev

Larisa Guseva

Arkady Mil’kov

Alexey Klyuev

Alexander Shemetev

12:00 – 13:00 Networking Break (business-lunch will be paid by participants)

12:30 – 14:00   Session 2: Round Table: Case Studies – Modernization through Innovations
Moderator: Valentina Slavina, Executive Director, «Innovation technologies» Fund, “Multiklet”, Ekaterinburg, www.multiclet.ru

• Case Study 1: Valentina Slavina, Executive Director, «Innovation technologies» Fund, “Multiklet”, Ekaterinburg, www.multiclet.ru;
• Case Study 2: Vyacheslav Luginin, Director, Luginin Capital Partner, Ekaterinburg;
• Case Study 3: Evgeny Savin, Organizer: iCamp Competition; Founder, UNOVA Media, www.unova.ru;
• Case Study 4: Ilyas Paderin, Senior Specialist in Venture Investments, MC Ermak, Ekaterinburg

Questions & Answers

Valentina Slavina

Vyacheslav Luginin

Evgeny Savin

Ilyas Paderin

14:00 – 14:15 Coffee Break (Maison Restaurant)

14:15 – 16:15 Session 3: Round Table: Investors and IT-Companies: Key Factors for Successful Investments Attraction into IT-Cluster in Sverdlovsk Region
Moderator: Dmitry Kalaev, Councellor of Minister of Economics of Sverdlovsk Region, Ekaterinburg

• Investments Attraction into IT-Cluster in Sverdlovsk Region: Dmitry Kalaev, Counselor of Minister of Economics of Sverdlovsk Region, Ekaterinburg, www.midural.ru;
• Microsoft and Innovation Entrepreneurship: Dmitry Khalin, Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism Department of "Microsoft Russia", www.microsoft.com;
• The way of IT-startup from Idea to Success: Leonid Volkov, Managing Partner, Projector Company, Ekaterinburg;
• Elena Kulikova, Cand. of Sc., Business Trainer, Chair of Economics and Law Department, Advanced Study Institute of USU, www.usu.ru
• Daniel Silantyev, Chief Editor, it-eburg.com, Ekaterinburg

Questions & Answers

Dmitry Kalaev

Dmitry Khalin

Leonid Volkov

Elena Kulikova

Daniel Silantyev

16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break (Maison Restaurant)

16:30 - 17:45 Session 4: Investments into Technologies & Innovation – Barriers & Solutions. Business Angels Club in Russia – Practical Experience
Moderator: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod, www.marchmont.ru

• Business Angels Experience – from Silicon Valley to Present Times: Kendrick White, Founder & Managing Principal, MARCHMONT Capital Partners, Nizhny Novgorod, www.marchmont.ru;
• Business angels of Ural: Take-off Runway Must be Wide! Valentina Slavina, President, Association “Business Angels of Ural”, Ekaterinburg, www.baural.ru;
• Problems of Investment Attraction for Residents Projects Realization (Autonomous Organization of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Ugra “High Technologies Techno park”): Alexander Ovcharenko, Deputy General Director, Head of Center of Development of Innovation Projects, Khanty-Mansiysk, www.sb-ugra.ru

Questions & Answers

Kendrick White

Valentina Slavina

Leonid Volkov

Alexander Ovcharenko

Closing Remarks

18.00 – 20.00 Networking, Closing Cocktail Reception (Restaurant Maison)

Registration:
- Tel.: +7 831 419 45 65   Fax: +7 831 419 50 11
- e-mail: conference@marchmont.ru
- HERE