BIT: How to implement Blockchain in business - free course from SKOLKOVO School of Management, training 6 weeks, Date: April 26, 2023.

Egor Krivosheya is a senior lecturer at the SKOLKOVO School of Management, head of research at the SKOLKOVO-NES Center for Research on Financial Technologies and Digital Economy. His academic interests focus on an integrated approach to the analysis of sustainable competitive advantage and organizational strategy, including value creation mechanisms and monetization methods. On the practical side, his research is aimed at understanding current phenomena, their effects and applications in areas of retail financial services, especially payments, digital economy and businesses focused on consumer. In his research, Egor tries to find ways to effectively develop and apply these phenomena in companies and society.

Egor's research has been published in leading scientific journals, including Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Promotion Management. The results of his research on the digital economy and retail payments are often cited in national business media such as RBC, Vedomosti, Kommersant and Izvestia.

Egor has also been a reviewer for leading scientific journals and conferences on management, such as the Journal of Business Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, annual conference of the Academy of Management and Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge, is an active member of Strategic Management Society. As part of his activities at the Center, he published more than 30 practical articles and consultation reports, which were used by organizations and government departments in the field of digital economy and retail payments.m

Professionally involved in blockchain since 2016. His research interests include networking, privacy, applications and data mining. Yuri is the author of more than 50 scientific publications on blockchain in the world's leading journals and conference proceedings. Since 2017, he has been teaching courses on blockchain at leading Russian universities such as Skoltech and HSE.

Yuri has industrial experience in the field: in 2016-2020, in parallel with his academic activities, he was an employee of the Bitfury company, where he became an author blockchain framework Exonum and the analytical tool Crystal blockchain, and also participated in the implementation of blockchain solutions for states and large companies.

Yuri is the winner of the Moscow Government Young Scientist Award in 2020 for “Development of high-performance and secure distributed registry systems” (blockchains).

Professional financier with over 13 years of experience in the financial sector in the field of financial instruments and digital transformation.

Sergey worked as a manager and head of business development in insurance and leasing companies, including SOGAZ, "Uralsib" and "VEB-Leasing" in Perm, headed financial departments in subsidiaries of the Gazpromneft group of companies, as well as developed the direction of digital transformation of the financial function, was responsible for the development and implementation of new financial products for group of companies.

Among the business projects implemented with the participation of Sergei Ryabov is the development and launch of Russia’s first virtual co-brand card for a gas station network Gazpromneft together with Gazprombank, implementation of the online fuel purchase function in the Gazpromneft gas station network, pilots to conduct the first documentary operation in the Russian Federation on the Masterchain platform and the issuance of an international bank guarantee based on the blockchain platform R-chain, etc.

Training. The program volume is 72 hours. This course is suitable for both those who have never heard of the digital economy and those who have been working in this field for a long time and would like to gain new knowledge.