Conference Agenda

9:00-9:05 Opening speech by Prof.Siyi Gong, Vice President of Shanghai University.

9:05-9:10 Greetings by Prof.Kangjuan Lv, Dean of SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University.

9:10-9:30 Introduction of SILC, Prof.Hui Fang, Vice Dean of SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University.

9:30-10:00 keynote talk 1

10:00-10:30 "Latvia and China: Prospects for cooperation", Prof.Zaneta Ozolina, Head of Department of Political Science, Director of Advanced Institute of Social and Political Research, University of Latvia, Latvia

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:15 "Industry 4.0 as a platform for Sino-Baltic cooperation", Prof.Kestutis Duoba, Vice Dean of School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

11:15-11:45 keynote talk 4

11:45-12:15 keynote talk 5

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 Presentation 1: IS security and business: Possibilities for the Baltic States and China, Prof.Mikko Siponen, Vice Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

14:00-14:30 Presentation 2

14:30-15:00 Presentation 3

15:00-15:30 Presentation 4

15:30-16:00 Presentation 5

16:00-17:00 Round table discussion

18:00-20:00 Gala dinner

Participants (being updated):

Ms.Pirgit Laanpuu, Investment and Trade Director of Estonia in China, Embassy of the Republic of Estonia to the People's Republic of China

Ms.Agnese Sturmane, Economic and Commercial Counselor, Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the People's Republic of China

Mr.Ramūnas Rimkus, Transport Attaché, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the People's Republic of China

Prof.Alojzy Nowak, Dean of Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland

Prof.Kestutis Duoba, Vice Dean of School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Prof.Lehte Alver, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Prof.Zaneta Ozolina, Head of Department of Political Science, Director of Advanced Institute of Social and Political Research, University of Latvia, Latvia

Prof.Mikko Siponen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Prof.Leonid Shirokorad, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

Prof.Viktor Riazanov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

Prof.Kangjuan Lv, Dean of SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University, China

Prof.Hui Fang, Vice Dean of SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University, China

Prof.Xiaohan Hu, Vice Dean of SHU-UTS SILC Business School, Shanghai University, China

Prof.Xiaosong Zheng, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Shanghai University, China

Prof.Ping Shuai, Shanghai University, China

Prof.Yuegang Chen, Shanghai University, China

Prof.Lijun Jia, Shanghai University, China

Prof.Ping Shuai, Shanghai University, China

Prof.Lei Wang, Donghua University, China

Prof.Xin Li, director of Eurasian research center, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, China

Prof.Zhuchang Tang, Vide Dean of Faculty of Economics, Fudan University, China

Prof.Jianming Li, Vice director of Central Asian Research Institute, Northwest University, China

Prof.Youjun Ma, Director of Russia Research Institute, Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences, China

Prof.Xiaoyin Liu, Assistant dean, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China