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Volodymyr Panchenko is a video game and technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience, Founder and CEO of DMarket. Vlad is now building new gaming and esports metaverses, and is focused on the future of the in-game items industry — one that covers the needs of 2.9 billion gamers worldwide. His cosmopolitan life views have formed his business approach of a world without borders through gaming and interactive entertainment companies.

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Sofya Danko Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, teacher of logic and philosophy. Interests - the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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Andrey Movchan is a well-known economist, financier, investment manager and managing partner of Movchan’s Group, an investment management group of companies focused on managing of conservative liquid investments. Andrey is experienced researcher and author of multiple articles researches and papers in the field of investments, macroeconomy, strategy, geo-economics. 

Former Executive Director of Russia's largest investment Bank «Troika Dialog», the founder and Chairman of the Board of the group «Renaissance Investment Management» with assets under management of $7 billion, the founder of «Third Rome». Expert of the Carnegie Foundation Economic program. Winner of many awards and honors, in particular, «Best asset manager» according to Russian Forbes, «Best CEO of the asset management company» according to RBC, «Legend of the industry» according to SPEAR's, «Manager of the year» according to RBC, etc. Author of the book «Russia in the era of post-truth», many articles and lectures on Economics and Finance. He was twice given «Presszvanie» award for his contribution to business journalism. Graduate of Moscow State University of Lomonosov, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and University of Chicago (Booth School of Business).

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Alibek Junisbayev is a one of the few who can claim to have built multiple banks in multiple countries. He has spent 25 years building banks across Middle East, Africa, Europe and the US. He is now partnering with a century-old financial institution and is on a mission to build 1000 more banks in the next few years.

Alibek is a CEO of AWSM bank, the socially responsible U.S. challenger bank, is a technology company that teaches teens, as well as their parents, financial literacy by intertwining theoretical content with full-service banking. No boring textbooks, no boring videos.

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Igor Kochetkov is a Russian public figure, human rights activist, publicist, LGBT activist, one of the founders of the Russian LGBT Network. In 2013, he was included in the list of "100 global thinkers of our time" by Foreign Policy magazine. In 2014, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2018, Igor Kochetkov, together with Novaya Gazeta's special correspondent Elena Milashina, received an award from the American organization Freedom House for their work for the benefit of people who suffered during the persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya. On November 12, 2021, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Igor Kochetkov in the register of media outlets as “foreign agents”.

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Alexander Ratakhin was born in Vladivostok in 1978. He graduated from the Academic Lyceum in the city of Tomsk. He was especially fond of mathematics (he was the winner of city and regional Olympiads, participated in the international one). In 2000 he graduated from Tomsk State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics. He taught mathematics and business disciplines at TSU and in the MBA program. From 2003 to 2014, he worked for a large company in the field of process control systems, the last 4 years as a group managing director. Since 2014, he has gone into entrepreneurial activity. Today it is a co-owner of 4 companies: AWT is the Russian leader in the B2B water treatment market (exporter to 7 countries), Infomatix is one of the leading companies in the market of digital services for public transport passengers, PROFITEROLE is the development of software in the field of NFT marketplaces, WORCH is a mobile application for conducting surveys, owned BANDLINK - a platform for services for musicians, at the beginning of 2022, this project was sold to Yandex. Receives an EMBA degree in HKUST/SK (EURASIA).

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Oleg Zhuravlev is a sociologist, member of the Public Sociology Laboratory at the Center for Independent Sociological Research (Russia). Oleg was a postgraduate student at the European University Institute (Italy), where he successfully defended his dissertation and received a PhD degree. Member of the Russian Socialist Movement.

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