ACIG Experts Participate in St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015

The city of St. Petersburg hosted the namesake International Economic Forum 2015 on 18 to 20 June. The motto of this year’s forum was Time to Act: Joint Efforts for Stability and Growth.

The Forum has once again become the meeting place of heads of states and governments, political leaders, directors and senior managers of major Russian and international companies, leading experts from business communities of the world, federal and regional authorities of Russia. Aleksey Shipov, Member of the Board at ACIG and Managing Director of the Sustainable Future of Russia platform; Yury Fedyukin, Member of the Board at ACIG; Anton Chuklin, Member of the Supervisory Board at ACIG; Dmitry Mikhaylov, Director for Marketing at ACIG, as well as employees of the publishing business of ACIG Group of Companies participated in the Forum.

The peculiarity of this year’s forum is the variety of international events and formats of discussion in the business agenda. “This year, many topics related to the competences of the Management of Change Practice and the Public Sector Practice at ACIG were considered at the Forum, specifically, international cooperation, industrial and territorial branding, territorial development, reformation of public administration, and professional training. All these issues were discussed at the sections attended by top figures from Russia and countries, its economic partners, and large-scale businesses,” Mr. Shipov says.

SPIEF Review, the official information publication of the Forum in Russian and English, was developed by ACIG publishing business. The publication is dedicated to four key topics, namely, prospects for development of the world economy, analysis of business processes across the world, and regional cooperation. It also includes announcements of 2015 Forum events and activities. SPIEF Review to include major issues and head-notes of the Forum, comments and opinions of the experts who participated in the event will be published following the Forum.

“Cooperation with St. Petersburg International Economic Forum offers new interesting opportunities for ACIG Group of Companies in implementation of new projects such as SPIEF Review that received significant positive feedback, which we are grateful for to all those who committed to the project,” Mr. Mikhaylov says.