V Annual International Conference "CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION: THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, THE EUROPEAN UNION AND NORWAY"

- Evgeny Alexeev, Head of the Unit on External Economic Relations, Ministry of economic development of the Murmansk oblast, Russia
- Benedikt Asgeirsson, Ambassador of Iceland to the Russian Federation
- Heikki Aurasmaa, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Employment and the Economy of Finland
- Sergey Balanev, General director of the St.Petersburg foundation for SME development, Russia
- Mika Boedeker, Director of the Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in St.Petersburg
- Jaroslava Borozdina, Deputy Minister of Culture and Public Affairs of the Republic of Karelia
- Christoph Ehmann, Prof., Dr., Secretary General of the European University Foundation - Campus Europae
- Markus Hulkkonen, Head of the Joint Technical Secretariat of the EU-Russia Cooperation Programme "South-East Finland-Russia: Leningrad oblast, St. Petersburg". Secretary General of the Regional Council of South Karelia, Finland.
- Vello Juhkov, Deputy Mayor of the Johvi Municipality, Ida-Virumaa County, Estonia
- Martin Guillermo, Secretary General, Association of European Border Regions (AEBR)
- Hans-Gunther Clev, Dr., Director General of the Mission Opйrationnelle Transfrontaliиre (MOT), France
- Vadim Gustov, Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs, the Council of Federation, Russia
- Natalia Klimenko, Head of Scientific Programmes and Projecting Department, I.Kant State University of Russia
- Krista Kampus, Head of the European Territorial Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia
- Siim Valmar Kiisler, Minister for Regional Affairs of the Republic of Estonia
- Alexander Kolesov, Deputy Prime-Minister of the Government of the Republic of Karelia - Minister of Finance of the Republic of Karelia, Russia
- Igor Kovtun, General Representative, Nordic Investment Bank (NIB)
- Igor Kuprienko, General Director, Finnish-Russian Innovation Centre, St.-Petersburg, Russia
- Alexander Kuznetsov, Deputy Governor of the Leningrad oblast, Russia
- Ksenia Koloshtivina, Team Leader NEFCO Russia, Senior Investment Advisor
- Eugene Lopatin, Dr. Coordinator, Finnish-Russian Cross-Border University (CBU), University of Joensuu
- Evgeny Lukyanov, Deputy Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation to the North-West Federal District
- Elena Oleneva, Leading Specialist-expert of the Directorate on International Education, Federal Agency for Education of the Russian Federation
- Vitaly Sergejev, Chief Executive, Narva BAS Foundation, Estonia
- Marina Shatokhina, Head of resource support sector, Committee for SME and consumer's market development, Government of the Leningrad oblast
- Barbara Skуlska, Head of the Unit for Cross-border Cooperation of the Ministry of Interior and Administration of the Republic of Poland
- Šarūnas Radvilavičius, Deputy Director, Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in the Republic of Lithuania
- Sigitas Šiupšinskas, Vice-Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania
- Paul Vandoren, Acting Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Russia
- Veli Matti Virolainen, Prof., Dr., Vice Rector, Lappeenranta University of Technology
- Richard Weber, Deputy Director General, EuropeAid Co-operation Office, European Commission; Jorge de la Caballeria, Head of the Unit EuropeAid A6, European Commission
- Edgars Zalāns, Minister of Regional Development and Local Government of the Republic of Latvia