Forum Programme

Discussion agenda:

• Prospective model of public administration at the federal, regional and municipal levels, amidst accelerating digitalization.
• Existing electronic systems of public administration and their development patterns for the coming years.
• Digital complexes of public services as an important element of integrating citizens and businesses into the digital environment. Open data portal, portal of public services, multifunctional public services centers.
• Creation of a network of situation centers integrated with information analysis systems.
• Ensuring immediate inter-agency cooperation as a factor of increasing effectiveness of activities and decision-making of all the system participants.
• Electronic services provided by public companies. Digital interaction between natural monopolies and the population.
• Telecom space of Russia and its regions: formation experience, problems and prospects of development.
• Electronic lifestyle: an important factor of the territory appeal
• Access to the Internet for all. Infrastructure development, increasing digital literacy of the population.
• Ensuring data transmission and storage security as a prerequisite for digital economy development
• Data sharing. Creation of public digital archives.

Discussion agenda:

• Substance of the new public administration system development stage in the sphere of support and development of small and medium-sized businesses.
• Target model as an incentive for the development of small and medium-sized businesses. Analysis of prospects and weaknesses.
• Adjustment of targets. A differentiated approach to assessing regions.
• Mechanisms and measures for a breakthrough in the key target model indicators. Experience of regions.
• Small business drivers. Replication of best regional practices.
• Training opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses: an effective form of support to SME - a myth or real assistance to business?
• Financial support to small and medium-sized businesses: a focus on the real sector.
• Stimulation of demand for products of small and medium-sized businesses. The government authorities and the business community allying against corruption in the sphere of procurement and tenders.
• Development of an information services system. Use of Information technology in eliminating “market ignorance” of novice entrepreneurs.
• Development trends for multifunctional public services centers in the Central Federal District.

Discussion agenda:

APPLICATION OF IT SOLUTIONS IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE.

•         Best projects for implementing digital technologies in industry and agriculture.
•         Economic feasibility and effectiveness of IT in industrial applications.
•         Automation and robotization as the key instruments for improving efficiency of industrial production. Existing practices.
•         The age of “lean production”. Dealing with basic risks: unemployment and cyber threats.
•         IT security in the manufacturing industry.
•         Big data management at enterprises.

"PRECISION FARMING" IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF RUSSIA'S BLACK EARTH BELT.

• Precision farming: an innovation in the system of sustainable environmentally friendly agriculture.
• New technology: the use of space-based (GLONASS) and unmanned aircraft technologies for precision farmland mapping, the use of mobile soil laboratories, fertilization in the on-line system, harvest forecasting system.
• The cost of implementing the precision farming system and its economic feasibility: what is more profitable for an agricultural producer?
• Safety of new technologies in agriculture. Dealing with a system failure.

E-COMMERCE FOR THE REAL SECTOR

• Electronic trading platforms for businesses. Special features of B2B electronic trading in the Central Russian region.
• What can Kursk region offer in the sphere of electronic trading?
• Specifics of infrastructure support and electronic trading logistics.
• E-trading as a direct link between the manufacturer and the consumer. Commerce without warehousing.
• New competitive environment. Price transparency as a trigger for tougher competition among producers.
• Integration of electronic trading systems with the production and supply accounting complex at enterprises
• A Russian equivalent of Alibaba. A domestic service for domestic goods. Are there domestic options? What can Kursk region and other Central Russian regions offer?
• The quality of goods and services supplied via digital mercantile systems. Control and consumer protection mechanisms.
• New development priorities for the Korenskaya Fair. Opportunities for digital exhibition activities. Virtual exhibition activities. The use of 3D technologies at exhibitions.

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Discussion agenda:

• Fusion of banking and information technologies. Arrival of a new financial and technology industry.
• Security of banking systems. Protection against technical hacking attacks, cyber-attacks and fraud.
• Serving clients remotely (e.g. via web clients, mobile banking, payment kiosks, ATMs, mobile phones).
• The role of call centers in remote banking services. Automation of client support services.
• New means of customer identification. Biometric recognition.
• Integration and unification of financial technological platforms.
• Personal marketing in the financial sector.
• Effects of the technological revolution in the banking sector: fewer financial institutions, consolidation of existing financial organizations. Impact of the banking sector monopolization on the economy.
• A cashless city.

Discussion agenda:

• Problems in the implementation and development of IT projects of young scientists and technology business owners.
• Integration of modern information technologies and systems into the real economy: manufacturing industry, power generation, agriculture, housing and utility services.
• Prospects and problems of development of information technologies in education.
• Prospects and problems of development of information technologies in the medical industry and social sphere.
• Telecom space of Russia and its regions: formation experience, problems and prospects of development.
• Digital marketing and business promotion on the Internet: management of sales and trading services on the Internet.

Discussion agenda:

• Interaction between businesses and the civilian sector in the web space.
• Positioning regions in the digital information space.
• The use of social networks in the positioning of a region.
• Transition of social projects from offline to online. Regional projects affecting the image of the region.
• The use of IT solutions in assessing the performance of government authorities.
• Models of government activities in the digital space: “Forum” (a straight line), “Petition of citizens”, “Open data”, “Public debates”, “Involvement of citizens in budget processes”). Dialogue models (Journalism of civil initiatives).
• Internet monitoring methods.

Discussion agenda:

• Comprehensive approach to building a project activity management system in a region
• Connection between project management and the region development strategy, procedure of selecting projects for strategy implementation
• Creation of an industry-specific project office in a region
• Assessing competencies of project activity participants. Problems, impediments
• Psychology of project managementImplementation of project management in the public sector (as exemplified by the “Project Olympus” competition)

Discussion agenda:

• Prospects for the use of results of space activities to ensure information support of decision-making on the social, economic and investment development of Russian regions.
• Information exchange between Russia’s National Defense Management Center and the regional governing bodies in federal subjects.
• System of providing satellite imagery of territories to federal subjects of Russia in different modes of operation.
• The system of multi-purpose application of results of space activities in Kursk region, development experience and prospects.
• Capabilities of basic hardware and software for focused processing of space images of territories.
• The need to create an integrated space of geodata on processes, objects and events on the territories and in economic sectors of federal subjects of Russia.
• Pilot projects for the use of space activities results to support decision-making on the social, economic development of Russian regions.
• Problems of personnel training and retraining, formation of a scientific and methodological complex for the application of results of space activities to support managerial decision-making.