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Eugene Shakhnovich is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. Head of Shakhnovich Biophysics Lab . The research of Professor Eugene Shakhnovich and his group is directed towards understanding the basic principles of protein folding and structural and dynamical properties of other complex polymer systems. Some of the questio...

Arkady Sandler is a Managing Partner of DOCET TI - an investment and management company based in Israel announced its launch in Moscow. DOCET TI provides a platform to ensure growth with a focus on getting the fastest MVP, maintaining a general focus on product’s value delivery to its customers. Arkady is one of the leading experts in Russia in the development and implementation of systems based o...

Alexander Gorban is a Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis and Modelling ( AIDAM ) and Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leicester. He worked for the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), and ETH Zürich (Switzerland), was a visiting professor and research scholar at Clay Mathematics Institute (Cambridge, MA), IHES (Bure...

Arnis Ritups holds a Ph. D. in philosophy from KULeuven (Belgium), he specializes in Aristotle and his Greek commentators. He is also a Latvian translator of Descartes’ “Meditations on the First Philosophy”; a part-time lecturer at Latvian University, KU Leuven, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and Latvian Academy of Fine Arts. He is a publisher of an intellectual magazine “ Rigas Laiks ”, p...

Dr. Pavel Luksha is a founder and a director of the Global Education Futures initiative, aimed at catalyzing the transformation of educational ecosystems at a global scale, and a co-founder of the Global Change Leaders movement of educational & social innovators. He is also a Professor of Practice at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, where works primarily on the transformation of the highe...

Valeri Potchekailov is the co-founder and CEO of StoryChief , a content marketing software from Ghent, Belgium. StoryChief helps businesses to have control over all their multi-channel content campaigns: articles, press releases, social media, video, podcasts, and more — StoryChief increases digital footprint, brings in new leads and increases sales. The company was founded in late 2017, tripling...

Gregory Ryslik is a data science and machine learning executive experienced in leading AI and engineering initiatives ranging across the biotech, healthtech and fintech domains. As senior vice president at COMPASS Pathways (NASDAQ: CMPS), his work focuses on developing technology to improve the therapeutic journey for patients with treatment-resistant depression. Concurrently, Gregory is an assist...

Olga Grigorieva is a certified TRIZ teacher (practitioner). Author of the book for teenagers " Hotel for Monarchs ". Author of articles. Co-developer of exercises for the development of creative thinking in the Creatime project. In 2006 she graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Faculty of State and Municipal Administration. For 12 years she successfully built a career in the...

Ilya Budraitskis is a political theorist, who teaches at Shaninka (MSSES) and the HSE School of Design . Member of the editorial board of the " Moscow Art Magazine ". His book “ Dissidents Among Dissidents ” was awarded the Andrey Bely Prize-2017 in the Humanitarian Research category. FIND ILYA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook  |   VKontakte ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT...

Fyodor Kondrashov , scientist and educator. Ph. D. from the University of California at San Diego. Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria. Scientific director of the School of Molecular and Theoretical Biology . How did living organisms become the way we know them today? The Kondrashov lab is focused on understanding the natural world in an evolutionary context, typica...

Oleg Shibanov is Academic Director of the SKOLKOVO-NES , Centre for Research in Financial Technologies and Digital Economy, professor of finance at the New Economic School (NES). Oleg’s research interests include mutual funds and ETFs, macroeconomics, and financial markets. Until 2017, he was the academic director of programs in economics at the Sberbank Corporate University, was an assistant prof...

George Surovtsev is the co-founder and CEO of Makini - the universal API gateway for Enterprise Asset Management. It is a part of a new wave of companies broadly referred to as the “API economy”. Together with the team, in less than a year, he has grown Makini to over $1.5M in revenue, expanding the team to over 50 people. Makini is backed by top Silicon Valley investors behind companies like Spac...

Pavel Guzhikov is the Founder and CEO of Dengi Vpered , the first service in Russia with which employees can receive a salary any day: worked today - get paid today! The company was founded by Pavel Guzhikov, founder of Worki (now owned by Mail.ru Group), and Konstantin Stiskin (venture investor, member of the board of directors of Genotek) in 2019. To this day more than 500 companies with over 90...

Edward Hirsch is working at Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg now heading the Laboratory of Mathematical Logic. He also holds a part-time professor position in the new department of Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Petersburg State University. Edward's research interests include algorithms and computational complexity. He is a co-founder of the theoretical computer science...

Dmitry Kalaev is a partner of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF): 400+ investments in companies, including VisionLabs, Promobot, Playkey, TalkBank, PimPay, Agrosignal and others. Director of the IIDF accelerator : 1500+ startups that have passed acceleration programs since 2013. Naumen : from 6 to 700 employees and from zero 2+ billion rubles in revenue. Today - a shareholder, member...

Prof. Dr. Natalia Artemenko , Ph. D. in Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University, Institute of Philosophy; Editor-in-chief: " HORIZON. Studies in Phenomenology ", St. Petersburg; Head of the Master's Program of the Russian State Pedagogical University "Phenomenological Philosophy and Contemporary Human Sciences". Natalia Visited Professor at HEPI (Birštonas, Lithuania); phenomenologist, histori...

Dilyara Saetova is a product manager, co-founder of the PM community working in IT (PM Lunch), administrative coordinator of Women in Tech in Russia. She lived in St. Petersburg for many years and managed to work both in outsourcing and product IT companies. Now she lives in Prague and works at Microsoft, at the moment she devotes all her working time to an interesting task - updating and improvin...

Nina Yanykina , General Director, Rector of ANO University 20.35 . In 2007 she graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in Economics and Enterprise Management. She went through a career path from the manager of the department of intellectual property and technology transfer at St. Petersburg State University to the general director of ANO "University 20.35". Previously, she hel...

Alexey Strygin is a longevity enthusiast and bio-entrepreneur, co-founder of Gray Matter (part of Lactocore Group ), a company focused on the development of therapeutic peptides vs. mild cognitive impairment, other age-related CNS diseases, and aging. Alexey teaches a course on Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology in Masters Program at Moscow State University. Alexey is a fellow in 1st cohort of On D...

Yuri Slezkine is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley; Senior Research Fellow, St. Edmund College, University of Oxford, Senior Research Associate, the  Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a fellow at the Hoover Institution, the International Insti...

Dr. Alexandra Borissova Saleh is an award-winning journalist and science communicator. She is currently a scientific director of Master in Science Communication at the ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg). Co-founder and immediate past president of the Russian Association of Science Communication ( AKSON ), board member of associations SWIM Science Writers in Italy and Public Communication of Scienc...

Varvara Mironova is a senior researcher at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, Candidate of Sciences in Geography. Specialist in medical geography and biogeography, her main area of interest is the geography of natural diseases and ecological parasitology. She is currently working on the impact of climate change on the areas of infectious and parasitic diseases, as well as on othe...

Jin Kolesnikov is an expert in Future Studies, an expert at the Philtech Initiative, a co-founder of the Moscow branch of the Singularity University , a visionary of artificial intelligence, robotics, and technological singularity, a guest lecturer at the British Higher School of Design (BHDS). FIND JIN ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn  |   Instagram  |   Facebook  |   Twitte...

Vladimir Efremov is an experienced business consultant, a business tracker, an expert on precise actions in the development and the implementation of changes into the business processes. Vladimir helps entrepreneurs find the best solutions for their business while teaching them not to overthink but to act based on facts and solid meanings. Vladimir combines the properties of a business psychologis...

Andrey Sheshenin is the founder of the dtown.city startup, a framework for building virtual and augmented worlds. Serial Entrepreneur, Visionary, founder of one of the first metaverse projects in the World. The creator of two businesses with a turnover of over $ 3 million per year. Cognitive systems and interactive media of the University of Pompeu Fabra Barcelona. MBA ANKH Moscow. Valencia Art Sc...