While AI is set to dominate this year’s proceedings, a key dialogue with a former partner is being reconstructed The annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) will be held over June 3-6. In its nearly three decades of existence, this event has borne witness to fundamental global shifts—and it has shifted along with the world. Founded with the aim of facilitating foreign investment in Russia, it became known as Russia’s Davos in the 2000s, when Western executives descended upon