Culture of the Future

Speakers

• Andrey BetinGeneral Director, Presidential platform "Russia – Land of Opportunity"

  Andrey Anatolyevich Betin was born on May 15, 1980, in the city of Tashkent. In 2001, he graduated from the State Institute of Physical Culture with a degree in "Swimming." In 2014, he completed the MBA program "Management of Innovative Development of a Company with State Participation" at the Plekhanov Russian Economic University. In 2017, he completed a master's degree at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation in the specialty "State and Municipal Management." Employment 2002–2013 — worked in various positions in commercial structures. 2013—2015 — Deputy General Director of JSC "Stankoprom," a holding company of Rostec Group in the field of machine tool manufacturing and tool production. 2015—2016 — General Director of JSC "Innovative Scientific and Production Center of Textile and Light Industry." 2016—2017 — Deputy General Director of the engineering company JSC "Transengineering". 2017—2017 — First Vice-Rector for Innovations and Interaction with Industrial Partners of MSTU "STANKIN". On January 10, 2018, he was appointed as the Head of the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. On December 20, 2018, he was appointed Deputy Governor, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. From May 15, 2024, Andrey Betin was appointed executive director of the ANO "Russia – Country of Opportunities," and on December 17, 2024, he was appointed its general director.

• Daria FilippovaChief Executive Officer, Zotov Center
• Olga GalaktionovaGeneral Director, The State Tretyakov Gallery

  General Director, State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO (since 2021).

  Previously, she managed major cultural projects and or-ganized various events - from exhibitions to theater festi-vals. Author and producer of over 50 documentaries.

  From 2009 to 2021 - General Director of the Galaktika company.
  From 2012 to 2015 - an Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of the A.L.Kudrin Foundation for Support of Civil Initiatives.

  Olga Galaktionova also participated in the implementa-tion of such exhibitions and theater projects as the photo exhibition in the Media center of Zaryadye Park "The Year of the Theatre. Curtain!" (2019), theater festival on modern Russian drama "Playing Together" (2019), Rus-sian-German theater project based on the "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol (2018), "We, the Under-signed" (2016).

  General producer and Director of large scale ROSIZO projects and joint exhibitions with the country's leading museum institutions such as: “Pavel Filonov. Artist of the World's Heyday", "Mark Zakharov. Master’s Formu-la”, “DK USSR”, “Vek Erte”, “17/37. Soviet sculpture. Takeoff”, “Family - the Soul of Russia”, “Viktor Tsoi. The Hero's Path", "First Position. Russian Ballet”, “Hero City Leningrad” and others.

  Education:

  • 1994-1995 – The Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
  (Faculty of Art History);

  • 1995-1999 — Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS), Directing department (acting group),
  Professor M.A. Zakharov workshop

• Nikita KobelevArtistic Director, National Drama Theater of Russia (Alexandrinsky Theater)

  Nikita Kobelev is the Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.

  Education:
  2007–2011 — Directing Department, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), workshop of Oleg Kudryashov.

  Professional Activities and Achievements:

  From 2012 to 2020, he served as a Staff Stage Director at the Vladimir Mayakovsky Moscow Academic Theatre. From 2016 to 2020, he also held the position of Deputy Artistic Director.
  From 2017 to 2021, he taught acting at the workshop of Mindaugas Karbauskis at the Acting Department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).
  He has directed productions at the Moscow Art Theatre (Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre), the Theatre of Nations, the Pskov Drama Theatre, the Latvian National Theatre, the Moscow Satire Theatre, and Praktika Theatre.
  Since June 2023, he has served as Chief Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre. In July 2024, he was appointed Artistic Director of the theatre.
  At the Alexandrinsky Theatre, he has directed the productions Creature, Resurrection, Catherine and Voltaire, The Lower Depths, and Kozintsev. Gogoliad.

• Vitaly ZotovDirector, Museum and Exhibition Center of the Russian Art Gallery