Chair’sWelcome Address

Alex Lyamin,
Account Manager,
MICROSOFT

Successful Strategies For Working With information from LOB-Systems using Microsoft Office

Artur Kontrabaev,
Account Manager,
MICROSOFT

Automotive industry trends and customer feedback indicate the following needs:

• Information workers must be empowered with timely access to relevant, contextual business information that is not dependent upon expensive manual processes and multiple, complex systems.
• Wide user adoption and rapid implementation is critical to maximizing the ROI and time to value of enterprise systems. Organizations need to deploy software with familiar user interfaces that require minimal training and allow them to do their jobs more quickly and efficiently, without increasing the workloads of their colleagues.
• To successfully compete in today’s global marketplace organizations need to ensure superior decision making. Information workers require immediate access to the right information at the right time using preferred interfaces.

Find out how you can resolve these issues through easy and quick interaction with your customers and partners, ERP and CRM Systems business processes and data via Microsoft Office.

Opening Keynote Address: Assessing The Role Of Russia In The Global Automotive Industry:What Does The Future Hold?

Carl H.Hahn served as Volkswagen's chief executive officer from 1982 to 1993. During his tenure as chairman of VWAG, he expanded the firm's car production from two million units in 1982 to 3.5 million a decade later. He has been applauded by colleagues and competitors for making Volkswagen into the most popular car in Europe. Carl H.Hahn is also recognised by the automotive industry for being the pioneer of Eastern European car manufacturing. Post “Cold War” Carl H.Hahn was the first to lead his company into Eastern Europe with the purchase of Skoda Auto. Join Prof. Hahn to hear his vision of Russia’s success in the automotive world around the globe.

Carl H. Hahn,
Chairman Emeritus,
VOLKSWAGEN

Plans For Future Development & Automotive Industry Support In The City of St Petersburg & The Leningrad Region

Maxim Sokolov,
Chairman, Committee For Strategic Projects & Investments,
CITY OF ST PETERSBURG

Discover why dozens of automotive producers have chosen St Petersburg as their investment destination. What does the local government do to attract and retain investment from multinational OEMs and their suppliers. Find out how you can benefit from the latest infrastructure developments and tax incentives.

• Latest investments in the region: success stories and growth
• Outlining infrastructure developments in St Petersburg and the region
• Future plans to attract even more automotive investors
• Tax incentives, investor development and protection strategies and plans
• Governments future role in the automotive industry of St Petersburg

Meeting the Challenges ofOEMs in Russia: Key Differences & Supply Service Strategies For AutomotiveManufacturing in St Petersburg

Serafima Kuropatkina,
Head of OEM and Industry Division,
ZAO WURTH NORTH-WEST

Automotive manufacturing has undergone a period of dramatic growth and expansion, with 5 large OEMs bringing the industry to St Petersburg. Together with the OEMs came the world class quality and productivity standards. A production facility in Russia has to produce according to the global quality standards and therefore can not afford to waste any time dealing with the local problems and issues. Manufacturing in Russia brings new challenges, opportunities and, inevitably, new costs and headaches. There is a way to overcome these challenges in an efficient and cost effective way. Learn from the experts:

• St. Petersburg - the Detroit of Russia – and the challenges that it posts to the operating companies and their suppliers
• Adapting supply service strategies, processes and products to the local industrial environment
• Building partnerships with suppliers and service companies
• Case study from a different industry - how do other OEMs find their way in St. Petersburg?

Successful Production Strategies & Future Plans For Volume Growth, Supplier Localisation & Management

Martin Jahn,
Managing Director,
VOLKSWAGEN GROUP RUS OOO

Join this unique session to get the latest information first hand from the leaders of the largest and most important to your business projects in Russia. You will learn the strategy and practical realities behind:

• Current project management
• Production launches & management
• Growth plans for medium to long term future
• Supplier localisation strategies and practice
• Sales figures and growth forecasts
• New models, volume growth and supply chain development

Strategic Overview Of Suzuki’s Production Facility, Current & Future Plans For Growth

Shoji Shigeru,
General Director,
SUZUKI AUTO MFG RUS LLC (SAMR)

Suzuki’s investment in St Petersburg production facility represents an investment of 86 million Euros and is scheduled to start operating in the latter half of 2009. Models scheduled for production are the Grand Vitara compact sport utility vehicle and the SX4 sport crossover vehicle. Suzuki targets production of 5,000 units in the plant's first year of operation and future annual production of 30,000 units. Hear the latest news on production, models and volumes from one of our most popular AutoRussia speakers Shoji Shigeru, General Director of Suzuki Auto MFG Rus LLC. He will focus on:

• Current progress update
  
• Supplier sourcing strategies and major supplier choices
  
• Production volumes, growth plans
  
• Models and timescales

Project Update & Production Plans From Nissan’s Production Facility In St Petersburg

Tatjana Gorovaya,
Legal & External Affairs Section Manager,
NISSAN MANUFACTURING RUS

Nissan is spending $200 million on the plant, which will build the Teana and the X-Trail models, with capacity at present scheduled to be 50,000 vehicles a year. The site will employ 750 people. The St Petersburg plant will have assembly, paint, trim and chassis lines. This plant is "the next significant step towards global expansion under the Nissan Value-Up campaign". Nissan expects Russia to overtake the UK as the biggest sales area for its cars in Europe. Join Tatjana Gorovaya for an update on Nissan’s progress in:

• Building the production facility
  
• Supplier selection and localisation
  
• Production volumes and models planning
  
• Strategy development for future growth and expansion

PRACTICAL FOCUS
Analysing & Overcoming Key Legal Challenges Facing Automotive Manufacturers In Russia: Strategic & Practical Information

Olga Litvinova,
Managing Partner,
DLA PIPER

Dealing with legal issues could be a very costly and highly time-consuming excercise, especially when you have the production and customer management targets to focus on. Join this session to find how you can avoid and resolve the most difficult and common issues you are bound to face in Russia:

• key operational challenges in Russia
  
• setting up production
  
• building partnerships with key customers, suppliers and partners

Developing A Successful HR Strategy For Your Operations In Russia

Julia Nikitina,
Managing Parnter, BOYDEN RUSSIA;
EMEA Regional Director, Board Member, BWC

Developing a strong and competitive HR strategy could end up being the key to your success in Russia. Given the growing number of automotive producers in St Petersburg, skilled personnel is becoming the hottest currency in the region.

You don’t want to miss the strategies and information about:

• Labour market in St Petersburg
  
• Key current and forecasted shortages
  
• What it takes to attract and keep the best
  
• Overcoming key challenges on the way

1. PURCHASING, SUPPLIER LOCALISATION & MANAGEMENT: DEVELOPING A WINNING SOURCING STRATEGY TO MAXIMISE SUPPLIER LOCALISATION & COST SAVINGS

If your job is to develop relationships with new OEM customers, then this session is perfect for you. Find out first hand from the purchasing directors of key OEM projects in Russia about how they see their supplier base and their future sourcing strategies. Learn what it takes to be a long-term supplier to the world’s largest OEMs. Ensure you have the information you need to win their business. Hear how they develop and manage their purchasing budgets by:

• Achieving balance in local and global sourcing
• Choosing local suppliers: quality vs best price
• Ensuring long-term success in supplier relationship management
• Ensuring that your local suppliers are financially stable and are unlikely to go out of business
• Maintaining top quality throughout production process
• Helping suppliers with their sourcing strategies and supplier management
• Integrating your local suppliers into your global supply chain
• Meeting new suppliers to become your global partners
• Overcoming key challenges in supplier management in Russia

Arnaud Briand, Purchasing Manager, PSA

Miroslav Vlasak, Head of Purchasing, VWRUSSIA

Dimitry Abakumov, Head of Business Development, LEMCON RUSSIA

Volker Grueter, VP Sales Russia, HP PELZER

2. SUPPLY CHAIN, LOGISTICS & CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT: IMPLEMENTING A WINNING SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT STRATEGY IN RUSSIA

Supply chain, JIT production and logistics are on the top of every automotive company’s agenda. Your customers simply expect effective and cost efficient supply chain to back their production and output schedules. Find out first hand from top producers in Russia about what it takes them to:

• Overcome key challenges for automotive supply chain management
• Evaluate existing infrastructure and local suppliers
• Build long lasting relationships with suppliers
• Achieve balance between best service and best price
• Collaborate with suppliers to manage your JIT production
• Deal with the local legislation: decree 166-566
• Succeed in managing suppliers from across Russia
• Assure top quality with local suppliers and service providers
• Reduce costs: what are the dos and don’ts?

Albrecht Bochow, Managing Director, MAGNA/GAZ SUPPLY CHAIN ORGANISATION

Sergey Levshin, Supply Chain Management Section Manager, NISSAN MANUFACTURING RUS

Yrysbek Tashbaev, Deputy General Director, STS LOGISTICS

Roeland Van Gestel, General Manager, LEAR RUSSIA

Hartmut Hengstwerth, Managing Director, DELPHI RUSSIA

3. HR, ATTRACTING & RETAINING QUALITY SKILLED WORKFORCE: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF EFFECTIVE STAFF SOURCING, MANAGEMENT & RETENTION

Make use of the most successful strategies from the largest and most experienced employers in the Russian automotive sector. Nowhere else will you find the breadth and the depth of information from the real experts, HR directors from the OEMs and T1 suppliers:

• Current employment situation in the region
• Understanding of local professional skills and level of qualification
• Overview of the Russian labour legislation (labour contracts, taxation, personnel hiring/dismissal)
• Aspects of personnel training, motivation and retention in Russia
• Projected legislative changes
• Using personnel migration in Russia as a solution to your labour force shortage: migration policy and legislative aspects
• Key factors influencing the shortages of staff in St Petersburg
• Accessing skilled and experienced personnel
• Motivation and retention strategies
• Pay and incentives strategies
• Forecasting the future staff costs and challenges

Olga Komisarova, HR/GA Manager, NISSAN MANUFACTURING RUS

Julia Filatova, General Director, AVENIR ST-PETERSBURG

Tatyana Arabadji  - General Manager,  Russian Automotive Market Research