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CEO at VisionLabs, creator of face recognition technology.
In 2011, graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University with a degree in Robotics. Since 2008, has been deeply engaged in the systems of computer vision.
During 2011-2014, pursued a PhD in Robotics and Robotic Systems at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
During 2010-2012, was Head of Department at the All-Russian Scientific & Research Institute for Management Automation in the Noncommercial Sphere named after V.V. Solomatin.
In April 2012, became a founder and CEO at VisionLabs.
Rostislav Plankin graduated from the Economics Department of the Russian New University. He is a co-founder of Time-promo as well as CEO and founder of MarketingBot. He has developed and integrated more than 20 loyalty programs and multifaceted BTL campaigns for such brands as Miele, Bosch and Siemens, Candy, Haier, Pioneer, Delonghi and others. He has also implemented projects related to marketing chatbots and sales tunnels on messengers.
Head of user acquisition of Vezet Group. More than 8 years in Internet marketing. He was engaged in creating advertising campaigns for more than 20 branches of Russian business. He took part in the promotion of products on the international market. Ilya is a speaker at conferences and round tables, regularly conducts trainings and master classes on Internet marketing. Since 2017, he is a co-founder of Addi, a chatbot and virtual assistant development platform; he is also in charge of the project marketing.
Dmitry Korobchenko graduated with honors from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. During studying, his research interest was computer vision. Dmitry Korobchenko was a software engineer at IBM, then worked at Samsung for 5 years where he undertook various research tasks in the sphere of machine learning (deep learning, in particular), computer vision, and signal processing as well as held a position of a project manager. Currently, he is a Deep Learning R&D Engineer at NVIDIA, continuing research and development in these areas. Sometimes he gives open popular science lectures on deep learning (review of the technology and latest results).
Futurist, entrepreneur. Organized a dozen businesses from scratch. Since 2015 – founder and CEO of Endurance robots startup.
Participant of the largest international conferences on robotics, lasers, artificial intelligence and chatbots. George is regularly invited to speak at many American universities and colleges such as FGCU (Florida Gulf Coast University), FSU (Florida State University), MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and others.
He writes articles for more than 40 Internet magazines.
Dmitry Babaev
Sberbank
Dmitry Babaev
Researcher at Sberbank’s Artificial Intelligence Lab
Sberbank
Dmitry Babaev is a researcher at Artificial Intelligence Lab, specializing in the application of new machine learning techniques in classic business tasks. Prior to Sberbank, Babaev was the head of Data Science at MTS, where he was developing Data Science as part of Big Data. Previous places of work also include Tinkoff Bank, Yandex. Babaev developed the first version of autocomplete search suggestion mechanism for Yandex.
Mikhail Belyaev
Skoltech
Mikhail Belyaev
Research Scientist, Head of Algorithm Development Group of CoBrain-Analytics project
Skoltech
In 2010, Mikhail Belyaev received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. His Master’s thesis addressed various aspects of training shallow neural networks, including parameters initialization, automatic selection of network size, and a special optimization algorithm for accelerated learning.
After graduation, Mikhail applied the developed method to various problems in aerospace engineering as Researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems. In 2011, Mikhail joined DATADVANCE, a resident company of Skolkovo Innovation Center, as Senior Researcher. Mikhail developed and implemented several machine learning algorithms in the context of an industrial data analysis library intended primarily for the aerospace and automotive industry.
In 2015, Mikhail headed a small research group at IITP, which became an individual scientific department of IITP in January 2016. The team contributes to data analysis in neuroscience, focusing its research on the analysis of neuroimaging data (various modality of MRI), algorithms for EEG analysis and mining of large databases of clinical information related to neurodegenerative diseases.
Dmitry Soshnikov is a technical evangelist at Microsoft; he works in popularization of modern software development technologies. Specializes in the field of artificial intelligence, Internet of things, development of universal Windows apps and .NET platforms (F#, Roslyn). He held several dozen hackathons all over Russia.
Dmitry is an ideological curator of the Imagine Cup student projects competition in Russia. Associate Professor, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, lecturer at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, National Research University Higher School of Economics of Russia and Moscow Aviation Institute.
Author of a number of online courses on the Microsoft Virtual Academy platform and Intuit.ru, a course on chat bots and Coursera AI is also being prepared for release. He has more than 60 scientific publications, author of the books Functional Programming using F#, Logic Programming Paradigm, co-author of books on developing applications on the Windows platform.
Dmitry is a member of the Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence and the F# Software Foundation.
Alexander Berenov
Inspector Cloud
Alexander Berenov
CEO
Inspector Cloud
He graduated from Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs. In 2010–2012, he worked on new projects at foreign trade representative offices of the Republic of Korea and Taiwan. In 2012–2013, the speaker was a representative of Hyundai Electric equipment in Moscow. He was a Business Development Director at Ranberry in 2013-2016. The author of two scientific publications dedicated to international economy. Alexander Berenov has about 10 years of experience in B2B sales: successful deals in Russia, the USA, India, France, Germany, Singapore, Israel, Kazakhstan, and Latin America. He is the founder and CEO at Inspector Cloud since 2016.
Stanislav Kladov
IBM
Stanislav Kladov
Architect at IBM Client Center in Moscow
IBM
Stanislav Kladov started his career at IBM as a trainee in 2014. Currently, he is an architect at IBM Client Center in Russia and the CIS countries and focuses on deep learning, artificial intelligence, and computer vision. The speaker graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Computer Software and Information Technology). After graduating, he went out on work experience at IBM’s Moscow office and was engaged in solving integration and architectural tasks.
Andrey Oberemok
PJSC Sberbank
Andrey Oberemok
Managing Director for data and development of Big Data and AI technologies at Corporate Business
PJSC Sberbank
The range of his responsibilities includes building analytical solutions for Big Data, development of artificial intelligence technologies, building analytical profile of customers, development of corporate customer relations management system, and corporate data management.
Previously, Andrey Oberemok was developing customer intelligence systems and customer relations management systems at Citibank.
Eugene Kolesnikov
Jet Infosystems
Eugene Kolesnikov
Head of the Big data and machine learning focus area
Jet Infosystems
Prior to joining Jet Infosystems, Eugene worked at Contact24, a company that provides e-commerce services. As the CIO, he organized and headed the technical department, built the development process from square one and brought a product that ensures acceptance of bankcard payments via mobile POS terminals to the market.
In July of 2015, he joined Jet Infosystems as a Business Development Manager. Since September 2016, he has been heading the Big data and machine learning focus area. Its main direction is developing software solutions based on machine learning methods using elements of artificial intelligence. During its existence, this focus area has created an anti-fraud solution Jet Detective, based on the Apache Spark ecosystem. Eugene's portfolio includes more than 25 projects of introducing methods of machine learning in retail, banks, insurance, leasing, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, mechanical engineering and other business sectors.
PhD in Mathematics, Master of Business Administration.
He has been engaged in the banking sector for more than 11 years. The speaker has a vast experience in managing digital transformation programs and projects, business process reengineering, service standards, methodology, and retail sale management in major retail banks: UralSib Bank, Nomos Bank, Otkritie, and VTB Bank. Currently, he is highly focusing on projects of digital transformation based on such technologies as DTL, AI, VR/AR, and biometric identity.
Investment banker, practitioner in corporate finance, an expert in social entrepreneurship and impact investment. He also has successful experience in implementing a number of startup projects in large corporations, where he was engaged in the creation, production and development of new brands in FMCG markets in Russia and Europe. He often publishes articles in media on impact investing impact investing, asset & wealth management.
Oleg Danilchenko
PwC, Russia
Oleg Danilchenko
Head of competence center for applied data analysis
PwC, Russia
Oleg has more than 10 years of experience working with the newest analytical applications and system architecture and specializes in providing assistance to organizations in improving data usage efficiency. Oleg has profound knowledge of data analysis systems and data science coupled with business qualities and dynamic leadership skills. He has been applying methods of econometric, statistical, and mathematical modeling for 7 years.
Aleksander Belousov
SOLUT
Aleksander Belousov
СЕО, founder
SOLUT
Graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Special Engineering Faculty, with a degree in Aerospace Systems in 2004. Constructor engineer.
The founder of SOLUT, author of the concept of improving efficiency using motion recognition technology.
Has more than 12 years of management experience in various industries: mining and metallurgical complex, construction.
Kirill Petrov
Just AI
Kirill Petrov
Founder and Managing Director
Just AI
PhD in economics, wrote more than 20 contributions on innovation, entrepreneurship and information technology, speaker and expert at AI conferences. Co-founder of the AINL (Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Conference), a key professional event for experts of the linguistic community.
Alexey Redozubov
Alexey Redozubov
Member of Presidium of the Support foundation of scientific research on mechanisms of brain function, therapy, neuromodelling named after Academician N.P. Bekhtereva.
He is a mathematician by training. Study of the brain is his main activity. Follower of Natalia Bekhtereva school. Creator of the concept of context-meaning calculations and the model of the application of combinatorial spaces in machine learning. The author of Logic of Emotions, Logic of Thinking and Logic of Consciousness books.
Sergey Kuryan
Sergey Kuryan
Founder of PR-STORY
In 2016, Sergey Kuryan launched PR STORY, the unique marketing channel intended to form the company’s positive image. It relies on the technologies of neural networks, artificial intelligence, and computer vision.
Currently, the company has offices in Minsk, Moscow, Kazan, Krasnodar, Varna, Riga, Kyiv, Nicosia. The company employs 70 people and has its own team of developers.
The company has the following motto: “We are where relevant video information is required for activity, security, and development!”
PR STORY is an innovative IT solution of intellectual video streaming:
with the guarantee that the video message will be watched;
you receive data about the user and interactive cooperation with the user in real time.
Neurofeedback technology uses the camera of the device for establishing a double-sided connection with the viewer.
Apart from guaranteed watching, software automatically collects the following data about the user:
- Gender.
- Age.
- Mood.
- Attentiveness while watching.
- Place and time of watching.
Basing on the technology, the company’s specialists developed the following products for the real economy sector: PR-Marketing, PR-EDUCATION, and PR CONSTRUCTION.
Irina Cherepanova
Irina Cherepanova
CPO uKit Group
Angelika Sheshunova
Angelika Sheshunova
Co-Founder and CEO of akselerator.ru at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Co-Founder and CEO of izzz.io blockchain platform
Co-Founder of several blockchain-based projects. Advisor on blockchain technology integration to a range of companies: bitcoen.io, sbsplatform.io, baikalika.io, sharpay.io, faceter.io, evenfound.org etc.
She has 15 years of experience in operations management and business development at international companies engaged in various sectors (crocus-exspo.ru, ostrovok.ru, Life-pay.ru, flatora.ru, flat.me, topexpert.pro, artskills.ru, justbefit.ru, enki.com, vchain.tech).
Co-author of the patent: decentralized storage of blockchain-based data.
Anzhelika Sheshunova has a Master’s degree in marketing, 4 higher educations; PM Expert, PMI PMBOK.
Speaker: General Assembly «The future of Blockchain» (London, UK); Oxford Entrepreneurs (Oxford, UK) etc.
Vladimir Klimontovich
Vladimir Klimontovich
Founder of the international programmatic platform Getintent
He studied at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Since 2004, he has been engaged in the high-tech developments. Repeatedly spoke at industry conferences, including HighLoad++ and RIT++.
When studying on the third course of the university, Vladimir began his professional career. He worked both in early stage startups and in more mature technology companies, such as IIKO, JnetX. Vladimir is a pioneer of the RTB market in Russia. For more than 2 years he worked with RTB at ContextWeb (current name: PulsePoint) and IPONWEB, the market leader in RTB platforms, where he headed the development team and was in charge of creating the RTB infrastructure.
In 2013, together with his classmate George Levin created the company Getintent. Now Vladimir runs the R&D department in Moscow and is responsible for technology, product strategy and operations.
Kirill Sokolov
Kirill Sokolov
Co-founder of LLC Tahix
Vasily Mazin
Vasily Mazin
Chief Research Officer at Mind Simulation
Pavel Osadchuk
Pavel Osadchuk
Founder and CEO at ChatFirst
Yuriy Posokhov
Yuriy Posokhov
Lab chief at Coal-coke Scientific Production Association
Alexander Abazovik
Alexander Abazovik
СТО of LookApp Fashion Shopping project
Nikita Kalashnikov
Nikita Kalashnikov
Founder at DataFuel
Andrey Zavorin
Andrey Zavorin
CEO Ivoice Technology
Alexandr Vorontsov
Alexandr Vorontsov
Co-founder and development director at Jetlex
Ilya Skorobogatov
Ilya Skorobogatov
Founder of Laeneco LLC
Dmitry Savichev
Dmitry Savichev
CEO at Orion Labs
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