Connected Car Conference

Ivan Zapolsky is a co-founder and deputy CEO at Rightech. The company was established in 2016. Its product, RIC, is the first IoT platform registered in Russia.     

Rightech's mission is to make Internet of Things technology available for everyone. The company has developed a platform with a graphics interface that allows users to manage a project without knowing programming languages and technical details of IoT system operations.    

Roman Fershter is an International Business Development Executive with over 25 years of expertise in the High Tech Industry, IT and Automotive.
Together with RGRAUTO Team and Mobileye, An Intel Company as well as with a network of Authorized Partners in Russia and CIS, Roman leads the combat against road crashes in the region while improving the safety and the efficiency of governmental, municipal and commercial fleets and the global road safety in general.
Prior to joining Mobileye and RGRAUTO, Roman held different Managerial positions at several world-leading corporations such as Cellcom, ECI Telecom, RAD Data and Axerra in Europe and the CIS.
Roman has Hebrew as Mother tongue and good Russian and English.
Roman is known for His un compromising professionalism and constant passion for excellence.

Since 2013 – founder of Jcomm LLC that specializes in the organization of business events for the Russian Ministry of Transport, Federal Road Agency, the Russian Highways State Company, and IT companies.

Since 2016 – initiator, organizer, director of Intelligent Transport Systems of Russia International Forum and Exhibition.

In 2017 – became one of the initiators of the Digital Era of Transport Association.

Since 2018 – CEO of the Digital Era of Transport Association.

Since 2019 – President of the Digital Era of Transport Association.

Ph.D. in Law.
Founder and head of Research center for problems of robotics and AI regulation ROBOLAW.  
Advisor to Moscow office of Dentons international law firm.
Deputy Head of the State Duma's Workgroup on the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence technologies.
Member of Expert Council on Digital Economy and Blockchain Technology of the State Duma of Russian Federation.
Expert of several technical workgroups of the Digital Economy program.
Member of the Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence, member of the Association of Antimonopoly Experts.
Chief Editor of 'ROBOLAW digest', news digest focusing on the regulation of new technologies.
Co-author of Model Convention on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and a number of bills and conceptions on regulation in the field of cyber-physical systems.
Author of monography, over 50 scientific articles and publications including on the regulation of robotics and artificial intelligence.

Has been working for Skolkovo for more than 5 years, leading the development of transport infrastructure and services. Participates in the integration of transport technologies, including infrastructure ones. Focused on the launch of Yandex self-driving taxi in the territory of Skolkovo Innovation Center.

Member of Autonet team, a working group on the improvement of legislation and elimination of administrative barriers for the implementation of the action plan (roadmap) of Autonet National Technology Initiative and a working subgroup on international cooperation for the promotion on forming global markets of advanced technologies, products, and services of Russian companies of the Autonet market.   

Member of the Association for the Development of Electromobile, Unmanned and Connected Transport and Infrastructure.