The Mail.ru Group design team and creative director Mitya Osadchuk gathered the most interesting speakers from the digital design industry for the main section of the festival. This year's performances will be supplemented by members of the Moscow community «Ladies, wine & design», supervised by Katya Shashina.

- The topics of design, psychoanalysis and sex will be covered by Elena Anikeeva, CEO and Art Director of Pixies Studio. If you have ever thought of cutting off wasting your energy and investing it in things you really love, but did not know where to start, Elena will surely dot the i's and cross the t’s.

- The head of LINII branding projects Taisiya Denisova knows how to make a team happy and effective. Care Manager Taisiya will speak on how to manage a creative team with support and empathy, build trust and prevent burnout.

- Katya Shashina, curator of Moscow Ladies, wine & design, freelancer kateshash.com, member of the International Society of Typographic Designers, will tell you about how and why a community for designers appeared and what it can give them.

- Alexandra Ermolenko, head of Mail.ru service design team, will talk about social responsibility in design and professional ethics, and how social diversity maintenance affects the industry.

- Evgeny Verkhovtsev will have a speech on the future of yesterday. Evgeniy visualizes poems in 3D, converts music into code, and images into ambience. Mixing reality and digital technologies is the leitmotif of his works.

- Stas Antipov, co-founder of «White Russian» design studio, who is engaged in experimental design, creative coding and hockey, will talk about tactile web-design, programming and generative web graphics.

- Slava Yashkov, head of the design team at Search & AI Mail.ru Group, will speculate about where the future comes from. His team is designing a line of products based on search technologies and artificial intelligence.

- “Post-digital me” - the intriguing name of Vladislav Derevyannykh - Brand Design Director of «RA Voskhod» agency. Vlad and the agency's team won more than 500 professional awards at international festivals.

- Sergey Slutsky, the founder of the «Metaforma» presentation studio, believes that everyone can create slides and will try to prove it. The studio specializes in visualization of ideas, creating presentations for business problems solving.

- A discussion on an identical chaos to be the final performance: to add and multiply or to subtract and divide. The speakers invited to solve the problem are Ivan Vasin, creative director of the «Shuka Design design» bureau, and Dasha Zudina, art director.

The tickets for the G8 Festival are free of charge this year – for the first time: 

The Design section will take place on December 4 in the main hall of the Digital Business Space.

Register for the event for free - https://2020.ggggggggfest.com/en/prices 

Festival program - https://2020.ggggggggfest.com/ru/reports