Speakers

Founder and CEO, “Sherpa S Pro”
Co-Founder, International workshop “Innovation and clusters: business opportunities” (Brazil)
Founder and Coordinator ,“RuGenerations – Generation Theory for Russia”
Advisor to Vice-Governor - Minister of Economy, Trade and Investments of Samara region (Russia)

Strategist, visionary, expert, advisor, practitioner. Dr. Shamis is an expert in 4 areas: Cluster development (regional economic development, professional communities, cross-industry synergy, innovations and technologies, life quality), Cross-generational interaction (for management, communication, marketing, strategy), Human capital development, BRICS.

In her professional experience there are over 20 years of work with executive and project teams on development, implementation of sustainable development projects for corporations, regions, cities.  Her clients include different sectors - business (GazpromOil, MTS, RUSAL, Russian Railways, PWC, KPMG, Disney, Джонсон и Джонсон, Mars, Alfa-Bank), regional and city governments (Frunzensky district of St.Petersburg, Government of Samara region, Government of Perm), institutions for innovative development (RusNano, Russian Venture Company, Open Economic Zone “Titanium Valley”, technoparks, agencies of economic development), universities (Financial Academy under the Government of Russia, Kazan Innopolis university, Tomsk State University, Samara aerospace university, MISIS). Recognized for achieved results Evgeniya is continuously invited to moderate and speak in Russia, Brazil, Sweden, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey - for Ekaterinburg, Tomsk and Samara economic forums, Cluster summit of RIA News, Asia-Pacific Economic Summit, Triple Helix International Conference, Open innovations, Ecosystem of innovations, Tallberg Forum, International Russia business forums.

Evgeniya is driven by her mission to make places where people live and work better, more comfortable and successful, of higher life-quality. She sees clusters and regions as the way to achieve this. Therefore she acts as a connector among global regions, in particular for Russia and Brazil. Dr.Shamis also promotes sharing quality solutions and methods of 21^st century, presenting “renewed regions” to the World and to their citizens.

• In 2014 her book “Clusterra, or On clusters in simple words” was published in Russian language with examples of mapping and benchmarking on Russian clusters. English version of the book will be published in 2015. Other books on this theme with global examples are expected. She is also writing a book on generations now.

Dr. Evgeniya Shamis has PhD in Psycholinguistics, she graduated from Eisenhower Fellowship Program, Moscow School of Political Studies, Swedish Institute Management Program, Program of Israel Agency for International Development. Studied in China, Germany, Denmark, Israel, Spain, USA,  UK.