Agenda of the XVIII International Forum «Partnership of State authorities, civil society and the business community in ensuring international information security»

Assembly Hall of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow, 53/2 Ostozhenka St.)

«Cooperation of states in ensuring international information security. Current Challenges»

The Forum is organized by the National Association for International Information Security (NAIIS).

The goal of the Forum is to discuss current challenges in advancement of cooperation in ensuring the security of use of the global ICT environment and formation of the system of international information security in the new geopolitical realities.

September 16, Monday

09.00 – 09.30 – Registration of participants

09.30 – 12.00 – Plenary session (by a special program)

Opened and moderated by the President of NAIIS Boris N. Miroshnikov

12.00 – 13.00 – Lunch

13.00 – 15.00 – Round Table №1

Cooperation of SCO and BRICS states in the formation
of regional and transregional systems of international information security.

Moderator: Principal Counsellor, Department of International Information Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Andrei A. Akulchev

Questions for Discussion:

• current issues of ensuring information security of the SCO and BRICS countries;
• Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes;
• issues of international information security in the SCO and BRICS: new forms and directions of cooperation;
• expanding borders: promising areas of interaction between the SCO and BRICS with external partners.

№	Name	Position/Organization	Title of the presentation	Format
1.	Artur R. Lyukmanov	Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international cooperation in information security, Director of the Department of International Information Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation	Dynamics of the agenda on international information security in 2024
2.	Rashid R. Ismailov	Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Softline, member of the Presidium of NAIIS	Cooperation of the SCO and BRICS states in the field of formation of regional and trans-regional IIS systems
3.	Ekaterina E. Bardina	Chief expert-specialist of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation	On international cooperation within the framework of a comprehensive international convention on countering crimes in the information sphere
4.	John Mallery	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cyber-attack against Critical Infrastructure: Anarchy, Instability, or Cooperative Risk Reduction	Online
5.	Sanjay Goel	State University of New York, Director of Research at the New York State Center for Information Forensics and Assurance	Cooperation and Competition Among BRICS Nations on AI and Cybersecurity in a Polarized Geopolitical World	Online
6.	Natalya P. Romashkina	Head of the Information Security Issues Unit at the Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS	Latest ICT Products: BRICS Cooperation
7.	Tatiana V. Kant	Expert of the Secretariat of the Business Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization	“Anti-Soft Power” in International Information Security and Solutions at the SCO and BRICS Platforms
8.	Yan A. Burlyai	Director of the Center for Ibero-American Programs, Moscow State Linguistic University	Prospects for the inclusion of Latin American countries in cooperation with the SCO and BRICS states in the field of forming an international information security system
9.	Farlina Said	Fellow, Cyber and Technology Policy, ISIS Malaysia	Digital sovereignty and competing priorities: a view from Southeast Asia	Online

15.00 – 15.30 –Coffee break

15.30 – 17.30 – Round Table №2

Digital sovereignty as the basis for the formation
of an international information security system.

Moderator: Vice-President of NAIIS, D.J.S., D.Eng.S, Professor at Moscow State University, Anatoly A. Streltsov

Questions for Discussion:

• sovereignty of states in the ICT environment (digital sovereignty);
• security and resilience of the ICT environment for the sustainable development of sovereign states;
• application of norms and principles of International Law for cooperation of sovereign states in the ICT environment for the purpose of their sustainable development, maintenance of peace and security;
• threats to the information security of BRICS states and directions of international cooperation for countering these threats.

№	Name	Position/Organization	Title of the presentation	Format
1.	Anatoly A. Streltsov	Vice-President of NAIIS	Digital sovereignty and information security
2.	Anatoly Y. Kapustin	Head of the International Law Department of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation	State sovereignty as a factor in ensuring international information security
3.	Nikolay N. Silin	Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Softline Group of Companies	Digital feudalism is the bright (?) future of humanity!
4.	Igor V. Goroshko	Head of the Department of Legal Statistics and Information Support for Prosecutor’s Activities of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation	Digital Sovereignty and Artificial Intelligence: Is Symbiosis Possible?
5.	Sergey A. Komov	Expert of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation	On possible prospects for further advancement of the Russian initiative in the field of international information security
6.	Tatyana A. Polyakova	Head of the Sector of Information Law and International Information Security, IGP RAS	The Role of State Sovereignty in the Development of the Theory of International Information Law
7.	Maria A. Egorova	Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy named after O.E. Kutafin, Chairman of the Commission on International Affairs and Scientific Cooperation of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Association of Lawyers of Russia	Legal regulation of artificial intelligence in the context of ensuring information security
8.	Petr U. Kuznetsov	Head of the Department of Information Law, Yakovlev Ural State Law University	Challenges of legal support for international information security
9.	Natalia N. Kovaleva	Head of the Department of Digital Law and Biolaw at the National Research University Higher School of Economics	Interstate control over the use of artificial intelligence technologies
10.	Viktor B. Naumov	Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law, RAS	Digital preservation of cultural heritage as a necessary condition for ensuring digital sovereignty
11.	Sergey N. Fedorchenko	Associate Professor of the Department of History and Theory of Politics, Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University	Digital sovereignty of a modern state: challenges and main directions in the context of development of artificial intelligence technologies	Online
12.	Vladimir A. Gorzhaltsan	First Deputy Director of the Coordination Center for domains .RU/.РФ	Cooperation in a Multipolar Digital World
13.	Andrey K. Duben’	Scientific Secretary, Institute of State and Law, RAS	Legal basis for youth information security: theoretical problems and prospects for development
14.	Andrey V. Morozov	Professor of the Department of Computer Law and Information Security, Higher School of Public Audit, Lomonosov Moscow State University	Training of highly qualified personnel in the field of legal support for the IIS
15.	Alexey S. Markov	President of JSC NPO Echelon	Challenges of international certification of information security specialists	Online
16.	Alexander A. Kartshiya	Professor of the Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University) named after I.M. Gubkin	Legal aspects of interaction between public and private law regulation in the field of information security
17.	Alevtina V. Shevchenko	Professor of RANEPA	Systems Engineering Approaches to the Challenge of Maintaining Digital Sovereignty
18.	Anna K. Zharova	Senior Researcher at IGP RAS	Digital Sovereignty in Cloud Technologies
19.	Alexander V. Fedorov	Associate Professor of Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Program of Action. What Hinders Development?
20.	Vladimir A. Pedanov	General Director of Transport Safety Technologies LLC, representative of the Group of Companies “Engineering Technologies in ASEAN”	Transformation of International Information Security Threats in the Context of Global Digital Confrontation. The ASEAN Case
21.	Kirill A. Ermakov	Researcher at APEK-CONSULTING LLC	Improving the work of international organizations in the field of information security in the context of formation of new challenges and threats by the use of ICTs
22.	Arevik Z. Martirosyan	Researcher at the Institute of Current International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation	Global Digital Compact: Specific Positions of States

September 17, Tuesday

09.00 – 09.30 – Registration of participants

09.30 – 12.30 – Round Table № 3

Development of public-private partnership in the formation of an international information security system in the context of development of the market for trusted ICT products of friendly states, including the SCO and BRICS.

Moderator: Vice-President of NAIIS,
Director General of ANO “KOMIB” Dmitry I. Grigoriev

Questions for Discussion:

• goals, formats and priority tasks of business participation in political processes of forming the international information security system at various venues: UN, BRICS, SCO, bilateral interaction at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with partner states, etc.;
• issues of legal regulation of foreign economic activity in the field of information security at the national and international levels;
• challenges of forming a trusted system for the development, implementation and support of information security products and services that ensure the sovereignty of friendly states in the information space;
• the place, role and priority tasks of autonomous non-profit organizations and development institutions in matters of increasing the effectiveness of PPP in the field of information security;
• potential interest of partner states and prospects for creating joint information security centers, including personnel training, implementation of R&D projects in the field of information security, cooperation in countering computer attacks, etc.;
• topical issues of regional cooperation on information security in the current political conditions.

№	Name	Position/Organization	Title of the presentation	Format
1.	Dmitry I. Grigoriev	Vice-President of NAIIS, Director General of ANO “KOMIB”	Welcome and opening remarks
2.	Elena A. Antipina	Director General of the Institute of Public-Private Planning, Head of the Interdepartmental Working Group for the Creation and Coordination of Activities of Regional Management Centers, Head of the Interdepartmental Working Group for Dual-Use Scientific and Industrial Clusters under the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation	Dual-use scientific and industrial clusters as a PPP mechanism for creating trusted PACs of the CIIS
3.	Mikhail A. Adoniev	Director for Relations with Government Authorities and Strategic Projects, Solar Group of Companies	Solar’s vision for the development of PPPs in the IIS
4.	Sergey G. Andreev	Managing Partner of the Cyberus Foundation	Export of competencies as a means of long-term success for business and interstate relations
5.	Alexander N. Kurbatsky	Professor, Head of the Department of the Belarusian State University	Expert environment of the Union State for the formation of trusted ICT products	Online
6.	Nikita S. Leushin Alexey A. Salnikov	ANO “KOMIB”	Issues of creating an interstate integrated system for ensuring and monitoring the safe development of ICT solutions
7.	Oleg V. Kravchuk	Director for strategic and international projects, Security Code LLC	Use of PPP in complex projects involving information security with foreign partners. Case of the Smart City projects
8.	Egor A. Bogomolov	CEO CyberED, CEO Singleton	Creation and training of cybersecurity teams
9.	Evgeny V. Kandzyuba	Project Manager of the Research Center for Digital Technologies (RCDT)	Implementation of Hybrid Clusters on the E2K Platform (Elbrus) as a Mechanism for Strengthening the Digital Sovereignty of the SCO and BRICS Countries
10.	Boris A. Vasiliev	Head of Sector at the Department of International Information Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation	Prospects for public-private partnership in the field of international information security in the foreign policy context
11.	Ruslan G. Rakhmetov	Director General, Security Vision	Presentation with comments
12.	Sergey P. Sherstobitov	Director General, Angara Security	Presentation with comments

Participants of the discussion:

Lieutenant-colonel Sawadogo Yasnemanegre	Military attaché of Burkina Faso
Mohamed Yongawo	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sierra Leone
Mun Ho	Minister-counselor of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Augusto Da Silva Cunha	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Angola
Anton I. Zykov	Director General Techdivision LLC
Vladimir P. Stasevich	Managing partner Techdivision LLC
Andrey A. Kulpin	Executive Director of ANO “KOMIB”
Gadzhi M. Akhmedov	Director for International Relations, ANO “KOMIB”
Pavel V. Kuznetsov	Director for Strategic Alliances and Relations with Government Authorities, Garda Group of Companies

13.30 – 17.30 – Round Table № 4 (15.30 – 16.00 – Coffee break)

Ensuring equality and independence of states in the global network of mass information distribution, countering the threat of information wars.

Moderators: Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the International Affairs magazine, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia Mikhail B. Kurakin and Assistant to the President of NAIIS, D.Hist.S., Professor of MGIMO Anatoly I. Smirnov

Questions for Discussion:

• cooperation of states on an equal basis in the use of ICTs and their products to disseminate information in the global information space that promotes the strengthening of international peace and mutual understanding, development and strengthening of traditional spiritual and moral values as a unifying principle for all of humanity;
• countering the use of ICTs and their products in information wars as a means to undermine (infringe) sovereignty, for extremist purposes, as well as for interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states;
• ensuring safe and stable functioning and development of the Internet based on equal participation of states in the management of this network and preventing foreign control over the national segments;
• countering the falsification of history, disinformation, incitement of xenophobia, the spread of the ideology of neo-Nazism, racial and national exclusivity, aggressive nationalism. Strengthening of the moral, legal and institutional foundations of modern international relations;
• improvement of international frameworks and standards for regulation and protection of the media and mass communications, ensuring equal and free access to them.

№	Name	Position/Organization	Title of the presentation	Format
1.	Maria V. Zakharova	Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation	in record
2.	Anatoly I. Smirnov	Assistant to the President of NAIIS, Professor of MGIMO	The latest ICTs and their products in the arsenal of NATO information and hybrid wars
3.	Vladimir K. Mamontov	Director General of the radio station “Moscow Speaks”	Presentation with comments
4.	Dmitry B. Frolov	Advisor, Information Security Department of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network	Current issues of ensuring the security of ICT use and prospects for cooperation of BRICS countries in the media sphere
5.	Viktor V. Minin	Chairman of the Board of the Association of Chief Information Security Officers	Cyber games as a tool for strengthening traditional spiritual and moral values
6.	Anna V. Ignatova	Representative of the National Computer Incident Response and Coordination Center	On the importance of raising awareness among Russian users about current threats and providing recommendations on how to neutralize them. Portal “User Security on the Internet”
7.	Karine Bechet-Golovko	Professor of Faculty of Law at Lomonosov Moscow State University	Functions of Media Discourse in Wartime
8.	Alexandra S. Vanichkina	Acting Director of the Institute of Information Sciences, Moscow State Linguistic University	Countering social engineering methods as a basis for ensuring sustainability of international information security
9.	Leonid V. Golovko	Head of the Department of Criminal Procedure, Justice and Prosecutor’s Supervision of the Faculty of Law at Lomonosov Moscow State University	Are equality and independence of states possible in the context of globalized information dissemination?
10.	Vitaly R. Grigoriev	Associate Professor of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Member of the Information and Analytical Legal Center of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly	Cognitive tools of destructive influences as the core of the hybrid war against Russia
11.	Egor S. Kholmogorov	Russia Today columnist	ICTs and historical falsification
12.	Dmitry V. Gordienko	Professor of RANEPA	Methodology for assessing the effectiveness of intervention in the internal affairs of the state using ICT
13.	Yajie Bai (China)	MGIMO Expert	Experience of countering NATO member states’ interference using ICTs to destabilize the situation in Hong Kong	Online
14.	Allison Pytlak James Siebens	Stimson Center (USA)	Advancing Accountability in Cyberspace: Models, Mechanisms, and Multistakeholder Approaches	in record
15.	Inna Y. Tarasova	Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation	Modern ICTs for the protection of national identity in the information space as a way to counter destructive processes in the migration sphere
16.	Ivan V. Surma	NAIIS, Vice President of NIRGlobS	The role of the latest ICTs in strengthening spiritual and moral immunity
17.	AL-Sahel Suzanne (Jordan)	MGIMO Expert	Latest ICTs in Israeli-Arab information warfare
18.	Oleg I. Lyakhovenko	Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Political Science at Lomonosov Moscow State University	Countering the spread of fake information: humanitarian and political aspects
19.	Anastasiya R. Popkova	Department of Computer Law and Information Security, Higher School of Public Audit at Lomonosov Moscow State University	The Illusion of Reality: how Deepfakes and AI are changing the way we experience online content
20.	Andrey N. Pekshev	Director of the Institute of Conflictology	Presentation with comments

September 18, Wednesday

09.00 – 09.30 – Registration of participants

09.30 – 13.00 – Round Table № 5 (11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break)

Challenges of advancing cooperation between states in the field of combating the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.

Moderator: Head of the Solar Security Group Alexander A. Vurasko

Questions for Discussion:

• trends and vectors of progression of modern cybercrime;
• advanced expertise of combating crimes in the sphere of information and telecommunications;
• current challenges of cross-border information exchange in the context of countering modern threats;
• the influence of the foreign policy situation on key vectors of cyber threats;
• cooperation between states in the field of combating the use of ICTs for criminal purposes.

№	Name	Position/Organization	Title of the presentation	Format
1.	Alexander A. Vurasko	Head of the Solar Security Group	Welcome remarks
2.	Andrey O. Vikhlyaev	Member of the interdepartmental working group of the Russian Federation on combating information crime	Presentation with comments
3.	Artur Z. Zavalunov	Head of the Legal Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation
4.	Yuri A. Kruglov	Senior Prosecutor of the Department of Legal Assistance and Law Enforcement Assistance of the Main Directorate of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation	International cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation: problematic issues of providing legal assistance and law enforcement assistance in combating information crime
5.	Dr.Li Yan	Executive Director of the Institute of Sci-Tech and Cyber Secutiry Studies, CICIR	Challenges of Cyber Security Cooperation In the New Era	Online
6.	Maxim S. Burov	Representative of the National Computer Incident Response and Coordination Center	On approaches to organizing cooperation in the field of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks, as well as response to computer incidents
7.	Maksim A. Tolkachov	Deputy Head of the Department for Countering the Illegal Use of Information and Communication Technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation	The modern spectrum of ICT-crime in Russia
8.	Maria S. Fil’	Director General of the Research Institute of Sociology LLC, member of the Public Council under the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow	Cyberattacks as a means to destabilize the domestic political situation in Russia in 2024
9.	Yuliya V. Berladir	Head of the Situation Analysis Group of the CIS ATC	Spread of Extremist Ideology with the use of ICTs: challenges of counteraction
10.	Andrey I. Masalovich	President of the Inforus Consortium	Latest ICT in Cybercrime
11.	Alexander A. Smirnov	Leading researcher of the 3rd department of the Research Center #4, All-Russian Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation	Legal Analysis of the Draft UN Convention on Cybercrime
12.	Marina L. Ogurtsova	Leading researcher of the Department of Scientific Support for Prosecutor’s Supervision and Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Sphere of Protection of the Rights of Minors at the Research Institute of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation	Ensuring information security of minors in the Russian Federation
13.	Alexander V. Zinchenko	Professor of the Department of International Cooperation of RANEPA	Potential to combat the use of ICTs for criminal purposes	Online

13.00 – Closing of the Forum