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Sergey Dmitriev

After 12 years in IT/Telecom and education industries as an engineer and analyst, community builder, university relations coordinator, writer and social entrepreneur, I've started a simple life in the countryside researching and practising approaches to ecology, self-sufficiency, and zero-waste. My notes on this research are at Medium's 'Country Side Settlers'.

I also write a blog about education and business ecosystems since 2005. I'm a co-founder at Mathlingvo initiative - a community for computational linguistics in Russia, apartment project 'HomeWork' one of the first coworking and education hubs in Russia and Game|Changers program - ad-hoc environment for bright students to learn and acquire 'can do' skills and attitude doing real-world projects.

My talks, events, texts, slides, comments in media and posts:

Talks

2025

1FUTURE Symposium 'Bridging Research Between Business and Academia for a Greener Tomorrow'. Article's presentation 'The Green Program, Kaospilots, Game|Changers, And Zeleno Doba Cases For Bridging Industries, Academia, And Communities To Grow Regenerative Leaders For The Western Balkan' (in co-authorship with Eva Vitorovic, NGO Zeleno Doba). University of Montenegro, Montenegro
'Pop-up Cities and Ecovillages as Pathways to Network States and Bioregional Governance' (slides) a talk at a private gathering.

2024

Invited lecture and discussion 'Critical and proactive mapping for ecological rural initiatives'. Novi Sad Academy of Arts, Serbia
“Polycrisis, Symbiocene and Ruralization of Meaning” at the Belgrade conference on Polycrisis.

2023

Invited lecture at Montelibero Club 'Global Ecovillage Network Experience and OKRs for Intentional Communities', Bar, Montenegro
Invited lecture at School and Garden 'Kompas': Multi-crisis and Shift to Post-Anthropocene (slides)
Entertainment for the Post-Anthropocene'. Festival of Intellectual Hedonism. Novi Sad and Belgrade, Serbia.
Pitch together with Timofey Chernov 'Ecology, Education, and Art Unconference' (text, slides) at SlovoNovo's social accelerator. Lustica bay, Montenegro
Gardening Learning Ecosystems in Between Steady University and Industry Structures Ad-hoc Education & Research Program ‘Game|Changers’ Case (text, slides) at the conference In from the margins – Sharing footnotes of subaltern knowledge and practices: Questioning North-South relations and ethics of international collaboration. Belgrade, Serbia

2022

'From IT to Ecovillages. Personal Path' - CRAFT Conference at Adriatic College. Budva, Montenegro
'Sustainability/Regeneration Grassroots in Montenegro. Opportunities for: Kids Education University Research Citizen Science' School Conference at Adriatic College. Budva, Montenegro

2020

Ecovillages Day at 'Living Cities Forum' 2020 (Zoom). Program co-creation and speaking. Program, video.

2017

Seminar on 'Modern Village Country Life in Russia, Belorussia and Latvia'. Ladoga lake Festival "Otrkytie" ('Open Fest').

2016

Talk on 'Sociology and No-Economics in Non-eco Villages and Communities'. 'II Mindful Country Life Forum' at 'Ethnomir'.

2014

Seminar 'Organizational Design in Agile Companies at Master in Information Technologies and Innovation Management (MITIM) in St. Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management (poster, programm and slides)
Talk 'Google's Organizational Design' progress report on 'Agile Organizations Design and Operations Study', internal lecture at Yandex St. Petersburg Offiice.

2013

Moscow International Forum 'Open Innovation', a guest expert at the panel discussion ‘How to Raise the Game Changers of the Future?‘.
II St Petersburg International Cultural Forum. Round table ‘Culture as an Instrument of Revitalisation of Urban Spaces‘ with ‘Education&Research Programs as a Basis for Territory Cultural Development’.
‘Tech in Media-2013‘ Forum. 'Visionary about Technologies”: “End of Education” (slides). Delivered by Paul Votchintsev, joint talk preparation.

2012

“Ad-hoc Education. What is it?”, PechaKucha Night: The Future of Education (video, slides, comments)
“Fourth Place”, NextPlace Conference (slides)
“IT Industry Introduction for Kids”, «St. Petersburg Social Program for Talended Youth» (curriculum)
“Ad-hoc Education&Research Program Game|Changers“, “IT Education in Russia” Conference (slides)
“DEMO: New Educational Projects“, Strelka' Institute Summer Program (video, Q&A video, slides)
“Relations that are long-term”, ZonaSpace Summer Start-up School (video, slides)
“Future Professions in IT and How to Work in IT if you are not a Geek or Nerd”, Geek Picnic in New Holland (slides)
“IT Industry for Kids“, Summer School Camp “КОМПЬЮТЕРиЯ” (programm)
“IT Success Stories from St. Petersburg“, V St. Petersburg International Innovations Forum (slides, таблица, тезисы).
“Innovation Management Master Programs”, Round table by Russian Venture Company at the Moscow International Forum 'Open Innovation' (slides)
“Future Education. Entrepreneurial Approach”, St. Petersburg Forum “Youth wave” (slides)

2011

‘Colliders instead of Incubators’, seminar ‘Strengthening Partnership in Creative Industries‘, St. Petersburg Institute for Cultural Programs and Norden (slides, original post)

Events Production

2025

'Ecovillages and Universities: Achievements and Perspectives in Collaboration. How to Start Cooperation for Your Ecovillage' workshop at the European Ecovillage Gathering. Manas Garden, Hungary

2024

Belgrade Home Conference, Serbia (co-organizer)

'Nature re-connection Walk on Fruška Gora', Serbia (help with audience attraction)

2023

Ecovillages as Living Labs for Academia and Artists to Pave the Road to Symbyocenic Collaborations Morning walk&talk unstructured discussion within the conference In from the margins – Sharing footnotes of subaltern knowledge and practices: Questioning North-South relations and ethics of international collaboration. Belgrade, Serbia

2020

Ecovillages Day at 'Living Cities Forum' 2020. Zoom. Program co-creation and speaking. Program, video.

2014

Unconference yCamp (NerdCamp: Moscow Edition). Consultant. (Media highlights: Russian Reporter, TRV Science).

2013

Unconference Education Engineering Days. Helsinki, Finland. Concept, casting: team (PixelAche page, public notepad, Report publication on T&P).

2012

NёrdCamp 2: ‘See the Heffalump’. Concept, moderation, talks (program).
Jam session “Science and Technology Studies – What is it?”. Experts casting and moderation.
tbd2 «Fab labs with Neil Gershenfeld». Experts casting, media relations.
tbd2 «Bioinformatics. Window of Opportunities». Keynote and experts casting and moderation, media and partner relations.
Interactive lecture “IT Success Stories from St. Petersburg” at V St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum. Experts casting and moderation.
Conference “Value Creation when Bits meet Atoms”. Casting: speaker, experts and moderator; media relations.
Seminars on Education Administration and Methodology. Casting: speakers.

2011

Seminars in ‘HomeWork’ project (Software Developement Industry in St. Petersburg with Andrey Ivanov, Urban Planning with Daniyar Yusupov and Arthur Shakhbazyan, Foresight 'Education 2013' with Dmitry Peskov and Pavel Luksha, Distributed Organizations with Nikolay Mityushin, Vasily Markov and Alex Baranov)
NёrdCamp. Head of Program Committee.
tbd2 «How Internet Will Change Education Industry». Casting: speaker, experts and moderator.
tbd2 «Open Data: Opportunities for Society, Business and Governments». Casting: speaker, experts and moderator; media relations.

2007

Forum “How to Teach Natural Language Processing Specialists” (VK,PCWeek/RE, журнал СПбГУ) - responsible for media relations and sales

Selected Publications

2019

“Current scene and history of how people in Russia move from cities to country-side: 1990 - nowadays" published in GEN-Russia Newsletter 2018
Townshifting - Common Sence Demegapolization"
Tutors and Colliders. Masters and and study groups.

2014

“How Google Works with OKRs: Unachievable Goals and Fair Grades“, Slon.ru Magazine, in Russian
“How IT Companies Share News with their Employees“, Slon.ru Magazine, in Russian

2013