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Maria started career as an Urban architect-design and worked in several years as a technical specialist, was engaged in the development of project documentation in accordance with the construction and architectural norms and rules of the Republic of Uzbekistan. After the designer experience, Maria started the next part of her career in Construction. She started in an engineer position and finished career in construction works as Head of the Engineering Department. Maria currently manages a Studio of Architecture and Design in Tashkent. The company is engaged in the design of civil facilities, as well as urban planning projects. Throughout professional career, Maria has lectured on architecture and urban planning at the Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, as well as in co-working spaces and other places in Tashkent.

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Thomas Eschenbach, the Managing Director of Priedemann CIS, has an engineering background with more than 25 years of experience in the facade construction industry.

He gained much of his expertise working in the facade engineering field on the system provider’s side at Schüco. In 1998 he started there as a Product Manager International and few years later was promoted for the role of a Technical Director at Schüco Russia.

In 2017 Thomas joined Priedemann Facade Experts as Senior Project Manager & Business Development Director working on projects in Germany, Northern and Eastern Europe, the United States and CIS. Today, Thomas is responsible for the CIS and Baltic States; and together with the team of Priedemann independent facade consultants he implements his knowledge and expertise throughout the entire life cycle of building skins.

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Baltsevich Pavel Leonidovich. Marketing Director of ALUTECH. Experience in the company - 15 years. Oversees the policy of the Group in the field of development of assortment and strategic development, as well as export (markets of Central Asia, Great Britain, Transcaucasia)

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Victor Zhilinsky is the founder and CEO of Skytop Engineering, an international design and consultancy company specializing in facade solutions, with offices in Dubai and Minsk. Victor holds a degree in civil engineering and began his career as a design engineer in general construction before focusing on facade engineering, working for one of the largest European companies in the industry.

Since 2017, Victor has been developing Skytop Engineering, which continues to strengthen its position globally, working on a variety of facade projects around the world on outstanding architectural landmarks.

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14 years of experience in developing glass technical solutions used in the construction markets of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the UK. Consulting on the application of laminated safety glass with Trosifol PVB and SentryGlas interlayers on facades and interior of buildings.

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Mikhail Balagurov is a Russian automatic control systems engineer graduated in 1995 and MBA graduated in 2004. In the first years of his career, he was a Commercial Director for big FMCG company. In 2008 he started as General Director in the production & distribution of roofing materials, and he has been developing markets in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries. Since 2012, he is active as a Commercial Director at LLC VILPE Rus, a Russian division of a Finnish family-owned company specialised about 50 years in mechanical ventilation, natural ventilation and innovative products of roofs, such as exhaust ventilation pipes, roof fans and a new types of roofing fasteners, where here too he is developing new markets.

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Ivan Tomovic is the Project Director East Europe and Central Asia, CEO of Werner Sobek Moscow, Werner Sobek Belgrade, and a partner of Werner Sobek AG. Ivan Tomovic holds a Diploma in StructuralEngineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. After post-graduate studies and participation in several projects and competitions in Serbia, Montenegro and Russia, he joined Werner Sobek in 2007, where he was promoted from an engineer to partner, project director and general director.

Ivan Tomovic has been successfully managing the Moscow representative office of Werner Sobek for 15 years, during which he has recommended the company as a high-level professional and reliable partner. He is also the head of the company's largest projects, among them the iconic ones, completed in Russia and the CIS, are the Iset Tower in Yekaterinburg, the Garage in Gorky Park (Moscow), the Moscow Towers high-rise office complex in Moscow City.He is also General Manager of the Werner Sobek branch in Belgrade. In addition to design work, Mr. Tomovic teaches at the Moscow School of Architecture MARCH and at the Institute for Light Construction and Conceptual Design at the University of Stuttgart.

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Born in 1987 in Moscow, Russia, Valentin pursued a degree in Railway Engineering at Moscow State University from 2004 to 2009. Following this, they completed postgraduate studies at the "Bridges and Tunnels" chair from 2009 to 2012, while simultaneously working as a structural engineer at Mosgiprotrans. From 2013 to 2016, Valentin continued to enhance their expertise as a structural engineer at Mosproekt-3.

In 2016, they joined Werner Sobek Moscow, where they worked as a structural engineer and project manager until 2022. During this time, they also served as a tutor in the theory of structures at MARCH (Moscow) from 2017 to 2022. In 2023, Valentin transitioned to an office and project manager role at Werner Sobek Tashkent.

Throughout their career, Valentin has contributed to several significant projects, including the Center for Contemporary Art and Art-Residencies in Tashkent, the French Cultural and Restoration Center in Tashkent, and the Moscow Towers high-rise in Moscow City, among others. Their work has played a pivotal role in various infrastructure projects across Russia and Uzbekistan.

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Lyubov Safronova - more than 18 years the owner of the companies Safronova project, Design house - in design, landscape design and interiors. Has more than 20 years of experience in design, landscape design and interiors. The creator of the first in Uzbekistan "Week of design and architecture UDAW", more than 7 years the owner of the company Home interior - a showroom of designer furniture, decor and lighting. Implemented from 5200 projects in Uzbekistan, Russia, Europe, UAE and Central Asia. Laureate of international competitions, speaker of major conferences on architecture.

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Paolo Matteuzzi is a Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, where he has played a key role in prestigious projects since joining in 2002. He holds a degree in architectural design from the University of Rome La Sapienza and a PhD in Urban Sustainable Development.

Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Architectural Design in Rome and a consultant for the Italian Red Cross, working on reconstruction projects in Central America and Turkey.

At ZHA, Paolo has led major projects, including the Alisher Navoi International Research Center, featuring a museum, specialized school, and Makom Center in New Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as well as The Seamless City in Hangzhou, China. He also played a key role in developing several other projects, serving as façade director for the Morpheus Hotel Tower in Macau and contributing to the design of The MAXXI Museum in Rome.

Before ZHA, Paolo worked on the Syracuse Old City Regeneration Project in Sicily. His expertise spans design innovation, master planning, mixed-use developments, cultural projects and historic conservation.

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Mr. Uğur Özer Özgüven completed his bachelor’s degree on architecture at İstanbul Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Architecture (YTU) in 2003, and received his Master Degree in 2009 at İstanbul Technical University ( İTÜ) on Architectural Design. Besides, he is a lecturer at Kültür University.

He is a Registered Architect and member in the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects. (TMMOB)

He founded Özgüven INC. with his brother Mr. Özgür Onur Özgüven in 2004. During the last 16 years, the company has achieved tremendous amount of success, working with domestic and foreign investors, construction companies, private estate investors and government establishments. Moreover, along the way partnered with HOK, GENSLER and Perkins+Will for A+ projects in Turkey. Since 2007, Özgüven has successfully accomplished average 13 to 15 million square meters of various types of projects per year and became one of the fastest developing company nationwide.

The company currently operates with 70 multi-diciplined core staff, including planners, architects, engineers, BIM experts, building technologists and technicians governed simultaneously from İstanbul and Ankara offices. Providing solutions for master plans, urban design, architectural projects and implementations within the frame of integrity, Özgüven has been working on creative, research & development based and contemporary application experiences since it was founded. Ranging from mass housing to commercial buildings, large scale urban renewal projects to sacred architecture, Özgüven puts it’s signature under more than 50+ different projects per year.

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Haldun Yilmaz earned his bachelor's degree from Bosphorus University in 1989 and holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, along with certifications in Facade Engineering from institutions like İTÜ and CWCT Bath University. He brings 37 years of extensive experience in the Facade Industry. In 2019, he became a member of CIBSE-SFE, received the FSFE title. After 27 years in leadership roles at prominent facade contracting firms in Turkey and internationally, he joined FMT Engineering Co. in 2014. Through this Turkey-based company, he provides International Facade Consulting and Engineering services across 16 countries in America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Yilmaz has served on boards and committees of organizations such as Tügiad and Talsad and has held volunteer positions with T.S.E., DEİK, and İBB. Since 1996, he has participated in academic events and lectures as a guest speaker at various universities, contributing articles to numerous publications. He currently serves as the General Manager of FMT Façade Consultants.

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Engineer for design and construction of buildings and structures. International expert on "green construction". Engineer under the economic contract 3P-24 "Reconstruction and reconstruction of the building of a modern cardiology, neurology and multidisciplinary polyclinic in connection with the demolition of existing buildings. Head of the innovative joint international project "Uzbekistan-China", on the topic: "Research of highly efficient thermal insulation materials and structures for opaque enclosing structures of low-carbon buildings" implemented within the framework of state scientific activity programs. Consultant on higher education.

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Olga oversees issues of technical regulation and standardization, timely development of new and amendments to existing technical regulatory legal acts in the field of architectural, urban planning and construction activities; methodological work and innovative activities in the field of architectural, urban planning and construction activities; ensuring the creation, maintenance and operation of an information resource in the field of architectural, urban planning and construction activities, as well as interaction for these purposes with other entities of technical regulation and standardization; providing interested entities of economic activity with current technical regulatory legal acts on electronic and paper media; activities of technical committees for standardization in the field of architectural, urban planning and construction activities created on the basis of the Enterprise. Interacts with government bodies, enterprises and organizations of the Republic of Belarus, as well as enterprises of other countries.

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Alexey Shchavlev has more than 15 years of experience in the façade market, in particular in the field of glass and glass products. In ROTO FRANK since 2019, he has been the head of the “Aluminum window fittings in Russia and the CIS countries” direction and supervises the department for working with developers. Alexey is actively involved in the development of solutions in all landmark facilities of the Russian Federation and CIS countries. Graduated from Saratov State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky with a degree in Law in 2003.