Business programme
19.05.2025
16:00–17:30

Artificial Intelligence and Its Limits in the Legal Sphere

Congress Centre, conference hall B2 (2nd floor)
Digitalization in Law
Broadcast
When discussing the legal status of creative objects made using neural networks, we must not forget that the neural network itself is also the result of the intellectual work of developers who have made a professional and creative contribution to it. What is hidden inside neural networks, and how does this affect their position from a legal standpoint? What measures should an AI system developer take to protect their intellectual rights? Can users of artificial intelligence make changes to it that are not envisaged by its basic functionality?

Moderator

Vladislav Arkhipov
Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, St. Petersburg State University; Senior Counsel, Denuo Law Firm

Panellists

Elena Avakyan
Head of Digital Transformation of the Bar, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Svetlana Alekseeva
Deputy Head, Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor)
Igor Baranov
Partner, Law Firm Aveks Ust City Moscow
Anton Gorelkin
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications; Chairman of the Board, Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies
Anna Gushchina
Head of the Department of Special Projects and Academic Programs of the Scientific and Technical Center, General Radio Frequency Centre
Maria Egorova
Partner, B1 Group of Companies
Alexander Zhuravlev
Chairman of the Commission on Legal Support for the Digital Economy of the Moscow Branch, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Co-founder, Moscow Digital School
Alexander Saveliev
Academic Supervisor of the "Digital Law" Educational Program, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Front row participant

Elina Sidorenko
Professor, MGIMO University; Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights

Broadcast

Vladislav Arkhipov
Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, St. Petersburg State University; Senior Counsel, Denuo Law Firm
Elena Avakyan
Head of Digital Transformation of the Bar, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Elena Avakyan is the Executive Director of the Non-Profit Partnership for Advancement of Corporate Law.
Since 2019, Elena has been a member of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers Council. Since 2018, she served on the Expert Council on Legislative Support for the Development of the Securities Market and Derivative Financial Instruments under the Committee of the State Duma for Financial Markets.
From 2006 to 2014, Elena served as the head of Control and Analytic Directorate at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. She was one of the ideologists of the e-justice project in Russia and one of its managers.
In 2004–2005, Elena was the chairwoman of the board of the National Association of Securities Market Participants. In 1999–2004, she was the head of Legal Control Service and vice president of Renaissance-Capital. Before that, she worked as a general counsel of the board of the St Petersburg Stock Exchange.
At various times, Elena served as a financial market legislation expert for the FAS of Russia and Ministry of Finance, corporate governance expert for the Ministry of Economic Development, expert for the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets and Council of the Federation Committee on Financial Markets and Money Circulation as well as an expert of the Property Committee of the RF State Duma, an assistant to the Committee chairperson and assistant to a deputy of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building. Since 2011, she is a member of the working group on multi-purpose centers. She took part in the drafting of a concept of new civil legislation.
Elena is a member of all working groups at the Skolkovo competence centres in each of the focus areas of the Digital Economy national programme; she leads a small working group on the concept of an ‘electronic document’ within the Skolkovo working groups.
From 2021 to 2025 – Vice-President of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation.
Svetlana Alekseeva
Deputy Head, Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (Rosselkhoznadzor)
Igor Baranov
Partner, Law Firm Aveks Ust City Moscow
Lawyer, member of the Moscow Bar Association. Holds a higher legal education, with advanced training at the Academy of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Institute under the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Has over 20 years of legal experience, an attorney since 2013. Previously held senior positions in the Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee.
Expert of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, actively participates in anti-corruption projects. Teaches at the Academy of Information Systems, conducts authorial courses and seminars at RANEPA, the Higher School of Economics, and the Moscow State Law Academy. Specializes in criminal proceedings, economic and corruption crimes, and information security. Awarded departmental honors and certificates, actively collaborates with expert organizations and media on legal and security issues.
Anton Gorelkin
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications; Chairman of the Board, Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies
Anna Gushchina
Head of the Department of Special Projects and Academic Programs of the Scientific and Technical Center, General Radio Frequency Centre
Maria Egorova
Partner, B1 Group of Companies
Alexander Zhuravlev
Chairman of the Commission on Legal Support for the Digital Economy of the Moscow Branch, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Co-founder, Moscow Digital School
Alexander Saveliev
Academic Supervisor of the "Digital Law" Educational Program, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Elina Sidorenko
Professor, MGIMO University; Member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
Sidorenko Elina - Doctor of Law, Professor of MGIMO University (Moscow State Institute of International Relations under Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia), Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
A graduate of the Stavropol State University (now — The North-Caucasus Federal University) in 2001. In 2002 she successfully defended her thesis and in 2013 she successfully defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Law. Since 2013 she is Professor of MGIMO University, since 2017 she is the Head of MGIMO Digital economy centre.
Research interests: financial security, digital economy, anti-corruption policy, laundering of the proceeds from crime and financing of terrorism.
She is the author of 150 scientific works.
Sidorenko Elina is actively working as an expert. She is a member of the Expert Council of the RF President's Administration on anti-corruption, the Head of the Working Group of the State Duma of RF Federal Gathering on cryptocurrency circulation risk assessment, the Head of the new digital technologies Expert Council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Participates in the development of legislation on cryptocurrency circulation regulation in Russia.
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