Conference description:

The Conference is designed to create a scientific basis and present applied solutions and

frameworks to form a new vision of agriculture as an advanced, commercially efficient

and investment-attractive sector of economy and a new vector of economic growth. The

issues of development of agriculture in a digital economy and Industry 4.0 based on

groundbreaking technology: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, and Internet of Things

(IoT) will be discussed at the conference.

The authors will cover the prospects for bringing agriculture in line with priorities

determined by sustainable development goals, based on digital modernization and

transition to AgroTech. In particular, they will determine the importance of “smart”

innovations in agriculture and AgroTech for ensuring food security, responding to global

challenges of the modern era – climate change and natural and climatic differences in

economic and ecological systems, – and establishing careful and responsible

management of natural resources.

Particular attention will be paid to COVID-19 lessons for sustainable development and

the prospects for eco-economic crisis management based on “smart” innovations in

agriculture and AgroTech to prevent future epidemics, pandemics and economy crises.

The conference welcomes works which present the review and analysis of international

experience, applied and multidisciplinary researches on AgroTech and “smart”

innovations in agriculture for sustainable development.

Conference sections:

1. AgroTech as a prospective line of development of agriculture in a digital economy and

Industry 4.0;

2. “Smart” innovations in agriculture for sustainable development;

3. Applied solutions and frameworks for agricultural development based on Artificial

Intelligence (AI), Big Data, and Internet of Things (IoT);

4. The importance of “smart” innovations in agriculture and AgroTech for ensuring food

security;

5. “Smart” innovations in agriculture and AgroTech as a response to global challenges of

the modern era: climate change and natural and climatic differences in economic and

ecological systems;

6. Careful and responsible management of natural resources based on “smart”

innovations in agriculture and AgroTech;

7. AgroTech and “smart” innovations in agriculture for preservation of forests and

conservation of biodiversity;

8. COVID-19 lessons for sustainable development and the prospects for eco-economic

crisis management based on “smart” innovations in agriculture and AgroTech.

9. Optimization of agricultural production management processes (agricultural solutions) based on “smart” innovations.

10. Technological and socio-economic innovations for sustainable development of rural areas.

11. Organic production of agricultural products as a promising vector of sustainable development.

Conference committees

Organizing committee

Popkova Elena Gennadievna - Doctor of Economics, Professor, Leading Researcher, Center for Applied Research, Department Economic policy and public-private partnership of MGIMO

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, President of ANO Institute of Scientific Communications (Moscow, Volgograd, Russia).

Bruno S. Sergi - Harvard University, USA and Messina University, Italy.

International Program Committee

Gyyazov Aidarbek Toktorovich, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ph.D., professor.

Kevin Chen - New York University, USA.

Irwan Trinugroho - Sebelas Maret University and Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia.

Mike King-fai Fung - Hong Kong University of Science and technology, Hong Kong.

Ijaz Ur-Rehman - Al-Falah University, UAE.

Petrenko Elena Stepanovna, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Professor of the Department of Management Theory and Business Technologies of the Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov, Moscow, Russia.

Roman Matoushek - Queen Mary University of London - London, United Kingdom.

Emiliano Sironi - Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

Peter Bielik, PhD, Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Economics Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, President of Visegrad University Association, Chairman of the International Network MBA in Agribusiness and Commerce.

Wim Heijman, prof.dr., Wageningen University & Research, Agricultural Economics & Rural Policy Grp, Wageningen, Netherlands.

National Program Committee

Bannikova Natalia Vladimirovna, Doctor of Economics, Professor Department of  Entrepreneurship and World Economy, Stavropol State Agrarian University.

Bobryshev Alexey, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Innovation work of the Stavropol State Agrarian University, professor Department of Management Accounting, Doctor of Economics, Professor.

Esaulko Alexander Nikolaevich, Dean of the Faculty of Agrobiology and Land resources and Faculty of Ecology and Landscape Architecture of the Stavropol State Agrarian University, Professor of the Department of Agrochemistry and plant physiology, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Khalikova Elvira Anvarovna - Associate Professor of the Department of Accounting and audit of the Ufa State Petroleum Technical University, candidate of economic sciences, associate professor.

Kleiner Georgy Borisovich, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Member Correspondent of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, Head of the Department of System Analysis in Financial Economics University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Konina Olga Vladimirovna, Doctor of Economics, Professor Department of Management, Marketing and Organization of Production Volgograd State Technical University.

Kuznetsov Viktor Pavlovich, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Economics of the Nizhny Novgorod Enterprise State Pedagogical University named after Kozma Minin.

Leibert Tatiana Borisovna - Director of the Institute of Oil and Gas Business, Professor of the Department of Accounting and Auditing, Ufa State Petroleum Technical University, Doctor economic sciences, professor.

Litvinova Tatyana Nikolaevna, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor Department of Management of the Volgograd State Agrarian university.

Lyapina Innara Rafailievna, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Professor Oryol State University. I.S. Turgenev.

Ostrovskaya Victoria Nikolaevna, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Center for Marketing Initiatives.

Rogachev Alexey Fruminovich, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Department mathematical modeling and informatics of Volgograd State Agrarian University.

Sibirskaya Elena Viktorovna, Doctor of Economics, Professor Department of Statistics, Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov.

Sozinova Anastasia Andreevna, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, Vyatka State university.

Stroeva Olesya Anatolyevna, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Economics and Economic Security Rostov State Economic University (RINH) Oryol branch.

Sycheva Olga Vladimirovna, Head of the Department of Production Technology and Processing of Agricultural Products, Stavropol State Agrarian University, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor.

Shlykov Sergey Nikolaevich, Professor of the Department of Production Technology and processing of agricultural products of the Stavropol State Agrarian University, Doctor of Biological Sciences.

Zaitseva Irina Vladimirovna, Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems

Stavropol State Agrarian University, Ph.D. mathematical sciences.

Ermakova Anna Nikolaevna, Associate Professor of the Department of Information Systems Stavropol State Agrarian University, candidate economic sciences.

Alexey Bobryshev, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Innovation work of the Stavropol State Agrarian University, professor Department of Management Accounting, Doctor of Economics, Professor.

Vanchukhina Lyubov Ilyinichna - Head of the Department of Accounting and audit of the Ufa State Oil Technical University, Doctor of Economics, Professor.

Vodenko Konstantin Konstantinovich - Counselor at the Rector's Office, South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) named after M.I. Platova.

Fedotova Gilyan Vasilievna, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Associate Professor department. economics and finance of the Volgograd enterprise State Technical University.

Key dates:

The proposal should be submitted before April 20, 2021

Participation should be confirmed by the organizing committee before April 30, 2021

The report should be submitted before May 5, 2021

The conference program should be provided before May 7, 2021

The conference is to be held on May 27th, 2021

The final manuscript of the article should be submitted before June 10, 2021

Publication is expected in 2022

Upon conference’s results, scientific articles will be published in books:

1.Book: «Smart innovation in Agriculture», Series «Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies», Publisher: Springer (Web of science, Scopus).

2. Book: «AgroTech: AI, Big Data, IoT», Series «Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation», Publisher: Springer (Web of science, Scopus).

3. ASTI Book Proposal «Business 4.0 as a Subject of the Digital Economy».  Series «Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation».

4. «Imitation Market Modeling in Digital Economy~ Game Theory»  Series «Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems» Springer. 

5. «Food Security in the Economy of the Future: Transition from Digital Agriculture to Agriculture 4.0 Based on Deep Learning» Palgrave.