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  • 85th Anniversary of Business Economics,
    Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Department
    St. Petersburg State University
Dear Colleagues,
we invite you to participate in the 9th International Conference on Business management in the Digital Economy to be held on 19th-20th March 2026 in St. Petersburg State University, RUSSIA. The Conference sessions are planned in person, and we organize special online panels for participants from Cangzhou Normal University, Uzbekistan, and BRICS+ countries.

The conference is dedicated to exploring the impact of data and artificial intelligence on business processes, consumer behavior, investment and product economics, educational processes, and the new challenges for government regulation and corporate governance.

Conference-2026 Theme: Economics and Management Transformation in the Era of Data and AI

Conference tracks:
  • Advanced analysis, planning, and modeling
  • Data-driven marketing and consumer engagement
  • Capital infrastructure for energy and data economy
  • Business process management and cybersecurity
  • Innovation and data-driven product management
  • AI in universities: opportunities and risks
  • Transformation of professions and corporate culture
  • Ethical and legal aspects of data generation and usage
  • Digital solutions for entrepreneurs and small businesses
  • Data in the international trade and integration
  • Digitalization and information security in the hospitality and tourism industry
  • Digital transformation, AI and data management in BRICS+ countries

Working languages: Russian and English (with synchronic translation).

Target audience: researchers, teachers, master and postgraduate students, company managers and specialists, public officers.

Participation: submission of a paper of 2000−3000 words (see templates).

Registration is open from November 1st, 2025, to January 10th, 2026.

Accommodation and travel expenses to the conference venue are to be covered by the participants.

Publications:
1. Compilation of conference papers (electronics form), indexed in Russian Science Citation Index.
2. At the request of authors, the Organizing Committee provides the article review for publication in the St Petersburg University Journal of Economics, indexed in EBSCO, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, eLIBRARY.ru, EastView, CyberLeninka, Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection), Scopus Q3.

About Conference

Program Committee

  1. Chair: Igor Arenkov, professor, Head of Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  2. Vice Chair: Maria Tsenzharik, associate professor, Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  3. Elena Chernova, professor, Academic Secretary, Deputy Chairman of the Academic Council, Saint Petersburg University
  4. Victor Titov, Vice-Rector, first Deputy Dean, Economic Faculty, Saint Petersburg University
  5. Viktoria Akberdina, Corresponding Member in RAS, Vice Director of Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  6. Olga Korableva, professor, Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  7. Elena Midler, professor, Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  8. Irina Trapeznikova, associate professor, Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  9. Vitaly Kovalev, prof. of Credit Theory and Financial Management Dpt, Editor-in-Chief, St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies
  10. Zhanna Pisarenko, professor, Dpt of Risk Management and Insurance, Saint Petersburg University
  11. Olga Pogrebova, associate professor, Dpt of Marketing, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
  12. Alexey Udovichenko, senior lecturer, Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  13. Yana Testina, associate professor, Acting Head of the Dpt of Regional Studies and International Tourism, Saint Petersburg University
  14. Tatiana Gavrilova, professor, Head of Dpt of Information Technologies in Management, Saint Petersburg University
  15. Dinara Ivanova, associate professor, Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  16. Sergei Smirnov, associate professor, Dpt of Business Economics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saint Petersburg University
  17. Julia Krylova, invited associate professor, Saint Petersburg University
  18. Murat Ikramov, professor, Tashkent State University of Economics 
  19. Larisa Lapidus, professor, Director of Social and Economic Innovation Center, Lomonosov Moscow State University
  20. Vadim Borisov, professor, Dpt of Control and Smart technologies, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, President of Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence
  21. Svetlana Orekhova, professor, Dpt of Information Technologies and Statistics, Ural Federal University, 
  22. Sergey Falko, professor, Director of Controlling and Management innovation Center, Head of Dpt of Manufacturing Economics and Organization, Bauman Moscow State Technical University
  23. Vladimir Serbin, CEO, LLC Balta
  24. Vadim Sabashny, CEO, LLC Lanit-Tercom
  25. Valeria Steshenko, Head of department, Gazprom Invest 
  26. Dr. Fulufhelo Netswera, Executive Dean: Faculty of Management Sciences and Head of BRICS Research Institute, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
  27. Prof. Andrea Santos, Coordenadora do Programa de Engenharia de Transportes, PET COPPE UFRJ, Brasil
  28. Shalini Singh, associate professor, Durban University of technology, South Africa 
  29. Shereen Nassar, associate professor, Heriot-Watt University Dubai UAE  
  30. Dr Sriram Divi, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India

Participation

Deadlines

Article requirements

Articles not meeting the formal requirements are not reviewed and may be rejected.

Example of the article (2000-3000 words)

Recommended article structure:
  • Introduction and statement of the theoretical, methodology, or practical problem
  • Existing theoretical or practical solutions to the problem (results of literature review)
  • Methodology of the author's research/solution
  • Justification and description of the data
  • Academic and managerial results and conclusions
  • Limitations and future research directions

Requirements for references
  • Recommended number: 10-12 references
  • Academic articles and monographs indexed in international research databases, analytical reports (no more than 3)
  • If the article contains calculation results, the sources of data used must be indicated
  • The following are NOT accepted as references: textbooks, popular and descriptive articles

Use of AI
When preparing the article, AI may be used as a tool for data searching and structuring; however, all AI-generated information must be verified by the authors.

Text
  1. Please use Times New Roman font, size 12, line spacing – 1, alignment – justified; paragraph indentation – 0.75 cm. Please use the styles specified in the article example below. 
  2. Tables and figures must be numbered and titled. Sources of tables are indicated under the table. Tables font size is 10 or 11, spacing 1.
  3. Page numbering is not required!
  4. Footnotes should be automatic and at the bottom of the page, without square or other brackets!

Information
Since the collection is uploaded to RSCI base, we need to meet the requirements:
  1. Provide information about the author(s): full name, position and academic degree, affiliation, email.
  2. After the title, include an abstract (no more than one paragraph) and keywords (no more than 8).
  3. After the article, include a numbered list of references (no more than 12 sources). Please note that the example shows the correct way to cite electronic sources.
  4. In the end, you include acknowledgements or grant details.

Program

Preliminary program

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Plenary session

Round table


Friday, March 20, 2026

Sessions

Round table

Contacts

Registration, participation, program issues:

Dinara Ivanova, digitalecon@spbu.ru

Maria Tsenzharik, matiac@yandex.ru


Organization issues:

Yulia Evdokimova, y.evdokimova@spbu.ru