Discussion context:
Over the last year and a half the world has struggled with the pandemic. Despite the emergence of a vaccine, the influence of the virus is not weakening and the world's elites cannot fully engage in the search for tools for post-crisis recovery, without looking at the statistics of infections. Meanwhile, the challenges of the future are determined by two multidirectional factors. On the one hand, the pandemic pointed out the gaps in global development to the world community, on the other hand, it launched powerful processes of transformation of individual elements of the economic paradigm. During the plenary session, the main emphasis of public dialogue will be highlighted and the forks for finding long-term solutions to new problems will be identified.

Moderator – Victor Koksharov,  Rector of Ural Federal University

Agenda: 

• Strategic challenges of the Russian economy in a global context
• The main changes in the labor market launched by COVID-19
• Socio-demographic challenges of modern society
• Role of Tech business in the economic agenda
• Business response to external factors caused by the pandemic
• Russian regions: the impact of the pandemic on the budget system of the regions, priorities of the economic policy of the authorities

• Sergey Afontsev, Deputy Director for Research of IMEMO RAS *
• Vladimir Gimpelson, Director of Centre for Labour Market Studies NRU HSE *
• Oleg Itskhoki, Professor of Economics and International Relations at Princeton University (USA)
• Dmitry Tolmachev, Director, Graduate school of Economics and Management UrFU
  
• Andrey Klepach, Chief Economist of VEB RF *
• Nikita Mkrtchyan,  Leading Research Fellow of Center for Demographical Studies NRU HSE *
• Sergey Negodyaev, Director of The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
• Vladimir Salnikov, Deputy Director General, Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-term Forecasting *
• Yuri Simachev Director for Economic Policy NRU HSE *
• Artem Shadrin, Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Designing NRU HSE *
• Andrey Yakovlev, Director of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies NRU HSE *
• Vladimir Yakushev, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Ural Federal District
• Natalia Zubarevich, Professor, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University
  
• Experts from regional and federal authorities
  
• Business representatives
  

Target audience - representatives of executive authorities, the real sector, financial organizations, development institutions, public associations of entrepreneurs, scientific community and other institutions. Offline participation of representatives of regional executive bodies and regional subdivisions of federal executive bodies (up to 7 participants), the real sector (up to 15 participants), the financial sector (up to 7 participants) and online participation of the rest of the audience is expected.
The total number of participants  (In-person and online) is up to 500 people.

Moderator – Rustem Mardanov, Head of the Ural Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

Agenda:

•  The decision on the key rate. October 2021
•  Current issues of the monetary policy of the Bank of Russia.The role of regional business information
•  Discussion with representatives of enterprises
•  Presentations from the expert community
  

• Kirill Tremasov, Director of the Bank of Russia’s Monetary Policy Department
• Oleg Buklemishev, President of Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks, Director of the Economic Policy Research Center, Moscow State University
• Business and expert community representatives
  

Discussion context:
The sector of small and medium-sized businesses focused on providing offline services has been most affected by the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. However, not all industries have responded in the same way to demand constraints. Entrepreneurs find new management solutions for existing business models and their transformation. There is a significant regional differentiation of business conditions during the period of restrictions and after their removal.

Agenda:

• Response of small- and medium-sized enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region to the crisis caused by the coronavirus: new solutions found by companies and recovery conditions.
• Industry reactions of Russian companies to the challenges of the New Normal.
• Expectations and recovery opportunities of regional business.
• Changes in the operating business models of companies
• Features of interaction with public authorities during the crisis and post-crisis period

• Stepan Zemtsov, Senior Researcher of Innovation Economics Department, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
• Yuri Simachev Director for Economic Policy NRU HSE*
• Liudmila Ruzhanskaya, Head of Academic Department on International Economics and Management GSEM UrFU *
  presentation of the report "The response of SMEs in the Sverdlovsk region to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic"
  
• Andrey Yakovlev, Director of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies NRU HSE *
• Sergey Afontsev, Deputy Director for Research of IMEMO RAS*
• Valery Pilichev, Director of Sverdlovsk Regional Entrepreneurship Support Fund
• Elena Terebenina, General Director of "Sinara Center"
• Sergey Zavyalov, Director of Ramada LLC
• Evgeniy Kremko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Baltym Agrocomplex
• Elena Motchanaya, Director for development of the network of beauty salons "MOTCHANY"
• Pavel Bezborodov, Director of Hulk LLC
• Alexey Romanov, CEO of the Bright Fit network
  
• Andrey Bril, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Korin Holding, Vice President of Non-profit Partnership "Russian Guild of Managers and Developers"

Discussion context:

The Russian labor market is facing new challenges. The pandemic has significantly exacerbated the problem of previously pre-existing imbalances in the labor market. If in all previous crises the Russian economy faced mainly demand shocks, then in the era of COVID-19 it faced a double blow — also a powerful supply shock caused by the forced lockdown of entire industries. The result: layoffs, underemployment, unpaid vacations, "remote work ", salary reduction. At the same time, the demand for workers in industries that have benefited from the pandemic has sharply increased: delivery of goods, logisticians and IT specialists. In addition, the pandemic has affected the change in migration flows, both internal and external. Specialists who worked on a shift basis preferred to return home, while labor migrants from CIS countries remained in their countries due to sanitary and epidemiological restrictions. A demographic problem is also mixed in with this: over the past decade, the age cohort of young people aged 20-24 and 25-29 has halved to 6 million people, which affects professions where mainly young people and novice specialists are involved. How does the Russian labor market adapt to the covid realities and solve the classic questions for itself?

Speakers:

• Igor Baranov, Vice-Dean Education and Research of Sberbank Corporate University *
• Nikita Mkrtchyan, Leading Research Fellow of Center for Demographical Studies NRU HSE *
• Vladimir Gimpelson, Director of Centre for Labour Market Studies NRU HSE *
• Natalia Evtikhieva, General Director of RABE, Deputy Director of IPACS RANEPA.*
• Evgeny Kaganer, Dean for Academic Affairs, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
• Sergey Myasoedov, Director of Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA, President of Russian Association of Business Education*
• Alexander Puzanov, Director General of the Fund «The Institute for Urban Economics»*
• Sergey Roshchin, Vice Rector of NRU HSE *
• Mark Thomas, Associate Dean & Director of Graduate Programmes (MBA - MIB - MSc), Grenoble Ecole de Management *
• Artem Shadrin, Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Designing NRU HSE *
• Representatives of companies from the position of key employers
  

Following the results of the conference, the EDP Sciences (France) will publish a collection in the SHS Web of Conferences.

Thematic areas:

• National low-carbon development strategies: international experience
• Oil and Gas industry: problems and development prospects in the context of a low-carbon transition
• World Oil and Gas markets: trends, forecasts, price shocks and its consequences
• The role of digitalization in stimulating a low-carbon transition
• Structural transformations of the economy and International trade of commodity-producing countries and regions
• Cities and Regions: Forms and Mechanisms of Participation in the Implementation of National Low-Carbon Transition Strategies
• Territory economy in low-carbon transition: risks vs benefits of raw materials specialization
• Smart cities and regions: the role of digitalization in developing a green economy and stimulating a low-carbon transition
• Tools to support the green economy development and low carbon transition. The Role of Tax and Fiscal Policy 

The decision on publication is made based on the results of an external review.

Articles must be submitted by November 28!