Leonid Volkov, who served as campaign manager for Alexei Navalny’s attempt to get registered for Russia’s 2018 presidential election, will speak on Russian opposition strategy.

A member of Russia’s Future Party, Volkov also served as campaign manager and chief of staff for Navalny’s 2013 mayoral campaign for Moscow. Currently, he oversees all regional political operations of the Future Party over Russia’s 11 time zones. He also is founder of the Internet Protection Society, an NGO focused on internet freedom and digital rights in Russia.

Volkov is a former deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma and the head of the central election committee of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council. He has more than 20 years of experience as an IT professional, running and consulting for several of Russia’s largest software firms. Together with Fyodor Krasheninnikov, he published three editions of “The Cloud Democracy,” a book on how modern technology could re-shape and re-define democracy and elections.