Draft program

Plenary session participants:

• Alexander Beglov, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District
• Igor Slyunyayev, Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation
• Sergey Katyrin, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
• Alexander Mikhailov, Governor of Kursk region
• Higher executive officials of Russia’s federal subjects
  
• State Duma of the Russian Federation
• Ministry of Development of the Russian Federation
• Vnesheconombank
• World Bank
• Agency for Strategic Initiatives
• Center of Strategic Research
• Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

• Presentation of 15 investment projects prepared by Central Russia’s regions (3 minutes for each presentation). Digests to be provided to all the session participants in the print format.
• Assessment of the projects by the session participants (electronic voting).
• Extended presentation of the ballot winners (4-5 projects, 15 minutes each). Presidium to ask questions in follow-up of each presentation to each company’s representative.
• Comments of presidium members on the projects presented.
• Presidium to choose the race winner (electronic voting).
• Assessment of the projects presented by all the Forum participants (electronic voting).
• Winner award ceremony (1-2 projects, subject to the presidium decision and general voting results).

• Recognized experts from the investment community

• Food security factor in Russia, the Customs Union, and the Common Economic Space member countries in the modern world: issues and risks.
• Objectives and capabilities of Central Russia’s agricultural sector in terms of Russia and the EurAsEc countries’ food security concept.
• Development strategy of Russia’s agricultural sector and the contribution of the Central Federal District regions.
• WTO and food security, WTO and the domestic market: balancing interests.
• Relationship between the retail sector and agricultural enterprises. What prevents companies from buying goods of local production?
• Integrated on-site processing of agricultural goods, as a protection mechanism against the impact of the agricultural products exchange market. Improving the sector’s efficiency with advanced processing solutions.
• Fusion of agricultural capital and trade capital. Setting up own food retail chains.
• Research achievements of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in vegetable production and ways to cut dependence on imports.
• Investment capacities of Central Russia’s regions for locating food manufacturing and processing enterprises.
• Activity of foreign investors in Central Russia’s agricultural sector.
• Existing and prospective mechanisms of public assistance to agricultural producers.
• Production of environmentally sound products: a call of the time. Capabilities of the agricultural sector and requirements of the retail sector.
• Efficient quality assessment and management system applying to domestic and foreign food suppliers, to ensure safe, high-quality agricultural and food products.
• Investment projects in agriculture. Successful practical experience.

• the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
• the Federal service on customers' rights protection and human well-being surveillance (Rospotrebnadzor)
• the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor)
  
• the Intergovernmental Council for the Agricultural Sector of the CIS
  
• the Agro-industrial Policy Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission
  
• the relevant ministries and agencies of Central Russia’s regions and CIS countries
  
• the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  
• Kursk State Agricultural Academy named after Prof. I.I. Ivanov
  
• the food safety monitoring agency FOODCONTROL
  
• the National Genetic Safety Association
  
• the leading agricultural enterprises of the Central Russian macroregion
  
• the investment community implementing agricultural projects

• Small business of Central Russia’s regions in figures: the past, present and future.
• Public small business stimulation and assistance policy.
• Unified control mechanisms and a stable fiscal system: key sustainable development drivers for small business.
• A sharp increase in pension contributions for sole proprietors in 2013. What will be the business community’s reaction? Possible solutions.
• Protection of legal entities and sole proprietors’ rights while exercising state / municipal control.
• Licensing of specific kinds of business activities. Plans to remove excessive administrative barriers.
• Regional small business support tools: what is done, what is to be done.
• Modern standards of lending to small businesses: state and market lending programs.
• Startup support and development of youth businesses in Central Russia.
• Prospects of teaching fundamentals of entrepreneurship at schools. Pilot programs and their results.
• Insurance and small businesses. Business risk management mechanisms.

• Relevant committees of Russia’s State Duma and Federation Council
  
• Department of Small and Medium Business and Competition, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
  
• State Governance Department, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
  
• Agency for Strategic Initiatives
  
• OPORA RUSSIA All Russian Non-governmental organization of small and medium business and other professional associations of business entities
  
• Relevant ministries and agencies of Central Russia’s regions
  
• Guarantee funds, microfinance institutions
  
• Leading banks, insurance companies
  
• Scientific institutes, educational institutions
  
• Small business representatives

• Best projects of young scientists of the Central Russian macroregion addressing the main innovation trends: biotechnology, nanomaterials, medicine, robotics, IT.
• Professional experts’ opinions on prospects of implementing the young scientists’ projects.
• Basic estimation criteria for innovative projects: investors’ look.
• Balance between youth’s scientific initiatives vs. stringent market requirements.
• Commercialization of research developments. Market entry principles.

• Using private and public capital for physical training and sports development purposes. Construction of sports and fitness centers employing PPP schemes.
• Elite sport projects, their contribution to the youth education and national health improvement. Sports club financing issues.
• Business projects in sports: construction of new fitness and wellness clubs, tennis centers, golf courses. Potential of the Central Russian macroregion.
• Sponsorship in sports. Support of mass sports projects vs. financing of professional teams: opinions of investors.
• Role of SME businesses in physical training and sports.