Outstanding quotes from SPIEF 2021: Forum participants on journalism and freedom of speech

Ipsos experts present a study of the role of various cultural traditions in shaping the society behavior during the dangerous situation. The study also studies the impact of the pandemic on various aspects of consumer behavior.

The topic of artificial intelligence has come under focus on numerous occasions at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. One particular highlight was the session «Media in the Artificial Intelligence Era: A Survival Guide», which took place in 2018. Guests included Martin Ford, futurist, author of The New York Times Company, and writer of the bestselling «Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future».

One of the highest profile participants at SPIEF 2018 was of course Sadhguru, a yogi and mystic and the founder of the Isha Foundation. He captivated the audience with his distinctive traditional attire and his thinking, which he presented at two sessions, ‘From Ambition to Vision’ and ‘Forecast 2100: Technologies of the Future’.

The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation presents the Report on the state of civil society in the Russian Federation for 2017. Civil society is the aggregate of caring and active citizens engaged in the shaping of their common future. No country can develop without a civil society. Even less so a country of Russia’s scale and complexity that spans so many diverse regions.