Program

 

10:00 - 10:20 Opening Ceremony. Start of plenary session
Albert Yefimov, Head of Skolkovo Robotics Center
Alexander Kuleshov, RAS member, Skoltech President
Alexander Tormasov, Rector of Innopolis University
Grigory Bubnov, Rector Moscow Technological Institute

Dmitriy Peskov, Director of "Young Professionals" direction at ASI

10:25-10:45 Overview of the Modern Robotics Market
Gudrun Litzenberger, General Secretary and Head of the Statistical Department at the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) (Germany)
10:50-11:10 Robotics Worldwide: an Overview of Robotics in Korea
Jong-Oh Park, head of robotics research program in South Korea, IFR executive board member (Republic of Korea)
11:15 - 11:35

Collaborative Robots: Research Technologies and Their Business Application
Michael HofbaurInstitute Director ROBOTICS at JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Austria)

Helmut Wiedenhofer, The director of the strategic planning office at JOANNEUM RESEARCH

11:40 - 12:25 Discussion panel: Robots and Society
Ekaterina Shulmann, political scientist, associate of Professor in The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Ivan Begtin, Director of ANO "Infokultura" director "Bureau contract information"
Alexandr Krainov, Head of Service of computer vision "Yandex“
Olga Uskova, President of Cognitive Technologies
Moderator: Marina Efendieva, IT-journalist, chief editor of the resource TechFusion.ru

12:30 - 12:50

The Use of Unmanned Systems for Detecting and Controlling Emergencies
Frank E. Schneider, Head of Mobile Cognitive Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute

Oleg A.Katorgin, Fraunhofer Institute

12:55 - 13:15 Prospects and Limits of Using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems on the German and European Market
Uwe Meinberg, Head of the German center of competence CURPAS
13:20 - 13:40 Applying Anthropomorphic Robots Technology
Abderrahmane Kheddar, Director of Research at CNRS
13:45 - 14:05
Latest developments from the Innopolis Robotics Institute and beyond!

Nikolaos Mavridis, Head of the Cognitive Robotic Systems Laboratory
14:10 - 14:55 Discussion panel: Robots and Human

Nadezhda Zilberman, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Humanitarian Problems of Informatics Faculty of Philosophy of the National Research Tomsk State University, an expert on social robotics.
Andrey Ivashenko, Chairman of the Board of the Center of High Technologies "KhimRar", member of the Supervisory Board of MIPT, head of the working group NeyroNet
Evgeny Kuznetsov, member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation

Eugene Chereshnev, CEO, Founder Biolink Technologies

Moderator: Aleksander Baulin, journalist

15:00 - 15:20


Application of AI in health care

Hans-Aloys Wischmann, head of innovation program Philips Research 

15:25 - 15:45 Current State and Prospects of the Development of Machine Vision Technologies in Robotic Systems
Yuri Vizilter, Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics, RAS Professor, Chief of lab GosNIIAS, head of the task team "Technical Vision", Vice Chair of the Expert Council at the National Center of Technology Development and the Basic Elements of Robotics
15:50 - 16:10 Facial expression recognition
Adil Khan, an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Innopolis University
16:15 - 16:35

The Race for AI: What Do VCs Expect from AI startups?
Dmitry Filatov, VP Technology, Sistema Venture Capital 

16:40 - 17:20 Discussion panel. Robots and Laws.

Alexander Tyulkanov, Senior Lawyer, Lex Borealis
Nikolay Averchenko, Senior Vice President for Legal and Administrative Issues at Skolkovo Foundation

Victor Naumov, Managing partner in Dentons' St. Petersburg office and the head of the Russian IP, IT and Telecommunications Practice.

Moderator: Nikita Kulikov, Executive Director HEADS Consulting

17:25 - 17:45 Autonomous driving : Context and technical challenges of an industry revolution
Guillaume Trehard, Deputy head of innovation autonomous driving AKKA Technologies
17:50 - 18:10 Analyzing Tasks and Solutions for Modular, Swarm, and Cloud Robotics

Andrey Ronzhin, Deputy Scientific Director at Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation

18:15 - 18:35

Combat robots: A Danger Recognized or Unexpected?
Vadim Kozyulin, Senior Research Fellow at PIR-Center

18:40 - 19:00

The Assistive Robots Market. Herсule Exoskeleton
Serge Grygorowicz, founder and CEO of RB3D (France)

19:05 - 19:50

Discussion panel. Robots and national security

Evgeny Dudorov, CTO, Android Technology
Oleg Martyanov, member of Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation
Moderator: Vadim Kozyulin, Senior Research Fellow at PIR-Center

20:00 - 22:00

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Director: Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.