TEDS'23

TECHNOLOGY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
IN DIGITAL SOCIETY

Make your contribution to the field of technology and entrepreneurship in the digital era.
About our place and mission
The technological advancements have a crucial impact on economic systems and how economic values will be created. Among constant rethinking of strategies, managerial practices and environments to address existing challenges, researchers and practitioners look at the variety and diversity of new trends emerged due to globalization and technological breakthroughs.

The Technology & Entrepreneurship in Digital Society Conference is an opportunity to bring together researchers and experts in emerging technologies from both public and private sectors to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, use, and management of emerging technologies and the move to the digital economy.

The mission of the Conference is to promote innovative research that highlights the impact of emerging technologies of the digital economy on the business models and entrepreneurship. The Conference committee welcomes submissions from researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of fields, particularly those that probe the relationships and interdependencies among innovation, economic development, and the intersection of technology and entrepreneurship.


The conference takes place annually since 2018.

The working language of the Conference is English.

All materials of the TEDS conference are published by Publishing house «Real economy» LLC


New reality requires new approaches
During the plenary session, experts shared their vision of the current situation, commented on the risks and opportunities that have arisen, and presented the results of the study.

Opening the session, the head and professor of the Department of Strategic and Innovative Development of the Faculty of the Higher School of Management of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Arkady Trachuk emphasized that every year the conference arouses great interest among the audience – representatives of higher education institutions, government agencies, research organizations, and companies in the real sector of the economy. This year, more than 350 people, including 180 students, took part in the event.

The topic of the plenary session was designated as follows: “Re:start – How business is rebuilding innovation and investment strategies of companies in the era of global change.”

“Russia has faced an absolutely amazing set of macro- and microeconomic challenges, but today we are talking about their management aspects. They are unique because, on the one hand, we see the disappearance of individual markets, individual opportunities that companies have become accustomed to over the past decades, as well as the investment sources that they used, - says Arkady Trachuk. - On the other hand, new opportunities and markets are emerging. These markets can be both less and more marginal. Serious efforts are required to enter and consolidate the latter."

Professor Trachuk noted that the labor market within Russia is also changing, and these changes look different in the regions: somewhere there is a shortage of IT specialists, and somewhere there is a shortage of highly skilled workers and "blue collars".

"There are distortions in the wage system and the motivation system. All these factors need to be understood and methodological approaches developed, thanks to which the leadership of the country, industries and companies will have new views and points of reference that will help manage the processes occurring in the Russian economy," Arkady Trachuk emphasized.

Vladimir Korovkin, Senior Lecturer in Business Practice at the SKOLKOVO School of Management, spoke about how management science is transforming in Russia.

“We are truly in an unprecedented economic situation from all points of view, but this also opens up unprecedented opportunities for management science in the country,” the expert is convinced. “People at the level of functional and general directors who are directly responsible for the company’s work in the real sector of the economy are coming to Skolkovo. We see a completely different request from them - they want to learn how to work in new conditions. And they don’t expect us to give them some ready-made recipes, but expect that we will think together, research, and look for options that will be adequate for the current situation. Everything used to be simple: we had a set of classic management textbooks, we took the necessary book off the shelf, opened a set of cases, and carried out business education.”

Now this approach does not work, since the new reality requires at least the development or rethinking of everything that management theory has developed to date.

"Considering the requests of our clients, we understand that we have very little room for error. We cannot afford to offer them solutions that will not work or be effective based on some high-level conceptual considerations. They expect research and facts from us, not some ideologically loaded constructs. This is also a huge opportunity, because until now, research in the field of management sciences conducted in Russia has not formed a single, holistic picture," says Vladimir Korovkin.

The report by Alexander Nevsky, Chief Advisor of the Department for Analytical Support of Legislation and Parliamentary Programs of the Expert and Analytical Department of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, discussed investment management to ensure economic growth.

"As we understand, economic growth is the basis for prosperity for everyone: the state, business, and citizens. Its driver is effective investment. In today's conditions, this topic is becoming extremely relevant," the expert notes.

During his speech, relying on Rosstat data from 2017 to 2022 and the Forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia for the budget for 2024-2025, he considered the current and projected growth rates of investments in the domestic economy and their volume. Thus, economic growth in 2023 is expected to be at the level of 2.8% of GDP. According to the forecast, the volume of investments for 2024 is planned at 34.0 trillion rubles (+ 2.4 trillion rubles compared to the previous year), in 2025 - 36.7 trillion rubles (+ 2.7 trillion rubles) in 2026 - 39.6 trillion rubles (+ 2.9 trillion rubles)
"Technological sovereignty is most effectively ensured in industries that are sufficiently remote from the technological border: the pipe industry, the furniture industry, woodworking," says Natalia Linder. "In industries close to the technological border (aircraft manufacturing, pharmaceuticals), the possibilities for borrowing technologies have proven to be limited, and subcontracting networks are not sufficiently developed for localization. Sustainable technological sovereignty in industrial industries requires our own research, development, and key components."

THE PLENARY SESSION

The main topic of the Plenary Session:
«Growth and development in the era of black swans»

The conference will cover the following issues:

• Crisis – a possibility space for entrepreneurs
• Changing currency configurations and their impact on business
• How leadership changes during a crisis
• The new value of human relations
• Strategy: solutions for choosing new business areas and determining the growth zone
• New geographical markets: new opportunities and covert threats

CONFERENCE TRACKS

Kupreev Daniil Andreevich
Topic of the speech: "Measures of state support for foreign economic activity in the new reality"
Vice-Rector for Commercialization and Director of the AlmaU Technology Commercialization Center at the Almaty University of Management
Founder and CEO of Marchmont Capital Partners, expert in venture capital investment

Kendrick Davis White
Topic of the speech: "Modernizing Kazakhstan's Universities - Opening up Central Asia as a Gateway into the Global Supply Chain"
Key speakers
Head of the project on state export support of JSC "Russian Export Center", Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Work experience - more than 10 years in various organizations of the real sector and development institutions: Russian Export Center JSC, United Grain Company JSC, TD Agrotorg LLC (Rosselkhoznadzor). Professional and scientific interests: export support, venture investments, innovations in various sectors of the economy, cryptocurrencies.
Jean-Eric Pele
Dr. Pele works on topics related to consumer behavior when using the website and other digital systems (e-learning, knowledge management, e-commerce platforms) and how the interface can change this behavior. His current research interests are focused on social networks, interface design, mobile devices and device usability. Dr. Pele is also actively involved in national research projects.
Topic of the speech: "Considering the importance of the convenience of last-mile home delivery with cargo bikes"
Kolobov Alexander Vladimirovich
Director for the Development of the Severgroup Business System, Candidate of Technical Sciences (Russia)
Topic of the speech: "Strategic management of organization development of diversified industrial companies in modern conditions"
Arkady Vladimirovich Trachuk
Head of the Department of Strategic and Innovative Development, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Financial University
Topic of the presentation: "Imitation strategies of Russian industrial companies"
IMPORTANT DATES
Registration Deadline
November, 08
Abstract acceptance notification
November, 15
Conference Day
November, 30

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Conference proceedings are indexed in Google Scholar, Crossref and RSCI.
Selected Papers will be published in the Strategic Decisions and Risk Management Journal
CONTACTS
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Moscow, Verkhnaya Maslovka st. 15
Tel: +7 (495) 249 52 68
E-mail: conf@fa.ru

Publishing house «Real economy» LLC
190020, Saint-Petersburg, Staro-Petergofsky PR., 43-45, lit. B, of. 4n
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