The development of technologies that use modern IT solutions, quantum technologies and artificial intelligence for their functioning will make it possible to form an advanced economy in Russia - the data economy. In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, the Government of the Russian Federation is finalizing the development of a new national project "Data Economy", which is becoming one of the most important resources for strengthening scientific, educational, technological and industrial potential, outstripping the growth of citizens' incomes and improving the quality of people's lives.

The transfer of the traditional economy, social sphere, education, business, industry and authorities to qualitatively new principles of work, taking into account the global vector of the IT industry development, will solve the tasks of strengthening the country's technological sovereignty, ensure the presence of the Russian Federation among the leading countries in the world in terms of volume and quality of scientific research and development. The introduction of management technologies based on big data and artificial intelligence will make it possible to launch effective digital services for ordinary citizens and businesses, ensure the creation of a single digital platform in all spheres of the economy and society, provide for strengthening the security measures of the national digital and critical infrastructure.

The national education system, academic and business communities are faced with the task of providing systematic advanced personnel training to create a domestic computing and data storage infrastructure using domestic equipment, technologies and software, including cloud platforms, data centers, quantum communications and encryption technologies.

The VI International Scientific Forum "Step into the Future: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy" will be one of the platforms for discussing the national project "Data Economy".

Key issues:

• The image of a specialist of the future: what competencies are needed in the context of continuous renewal of IT technologies?
• What is the role of business in training IT personnel? How can educational organizations and businesses interact to train high-quality IT personnel? What are the main problems and barriers in the integration of science and business?
• What is the need of the economy for IT personnel and how to fill it? How to stop the "brain drain"?
• How to eliminate the labor market imbalance in the field of demand for IT specialists?
• How to ensure continuous training of IT staff starting from secondary school?
• What is the role of the Code of the Future project, the federal project "Professionalism" and the strategic academic leadership programme "Priority-2030" in ensuring continuous training for IT staff?
• How to increase the role of scientific organisations in order to ensure the tasks related to achieving technological sovereignty in the IT sphere?
• In what way should educational programmes be transformed to provide the real sector of the economy with highly qualified IT specialists in a timely and efficient manner?
• What advanced educational experience of friendly countries in the field of training in-demand specialists for the data economy is applicable in Russia? Is it possible to apply this experience within the framework of the national Data Economy project?
• How will the system of state and municipal governance change and what competences of specialists will be required in the conditions of digitalisation?
• What are the key objectives and challenges to be reached by the new national Data Economy project?
• The National Programme "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" and the federal project "Human Resources for the Digital Economy" - what are the main results? How can they be used to implement the the national Data Economy project?
• What legislation changes in the Russian Federation will be required to support the development of the IT sphere, information security and IT specialist training?

Moderators:

Ivan Vasilyevich LOBANOV, Rector of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Ilya Alekseevich DORONOV, Managing Director of the RBC TV channel

Welcome speech:

Dmitry Nikolaevich CHERNYSHENKO, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation
Maxim Andreevich KOLESNIKOV, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Speakers:

Alexander Yevseevich KHINSHTEIN, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications
Darya Borisovna KIRYANOVA, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Eduard Mikhailovich SHEREMETSEV, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
Evgeny Alexandrovich DANCHIKOV, Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Main Control Department of the City of Moscow
Sergey Yuryevich NAKVASIN, Director of the National Center for the Development of Artificial Intelligence under the Government of the Russian Federation, Deputy Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in the Scientific and Educational Fields under the Presidential Council for Science and Education
Valery Vasilyevich KOZLOV, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vadim Viktorovich MEDVEDEV, Rector of the ANO "University of the National Technological Initiative 2035", General Director of the Fund for Project Support of the National Technological Initiative
Ilya Alexandrovich DEMENTIEV, Rector of the Gazprom Neft Corporate University
Nikolay Vasilyevich KOMLEV, Chairman of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation for the Development of Information Technologies and the Digital Economy, Executive Director of the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises
Natalia Vladimirovna TRETYAK, General Director, Group of companies "Prosveshchenie"
Pavel Gennadievich GUDKOV, Vice President for Financial Support and Technological Expertise, Managing Director, Skolkovo Foundation
Sergey Valeryevich POPKOV, Co-founder, Director of Business Development of Skillbox
Tatyana Vladimirovna SVIDUNOVICH, First Vice President of Gazprombank JSC
Wan Tsi, Director of the Institute for Strategic Cooperation between China and Russia, Tsinghua University, China (online)
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