Last Sunday, Kazan hosted the finals of the Digital Breakthrough national competition. The event will now feature in the Guinness World Records as the largest IT competition in the world, the record previously set in 2018 by Saudi Arabia. Over 3,000 IT professionals from 77 Russian regions participated simultaneously in the Kazan hackathon.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Roman Shaikhutdinov commented during a follow-up news conference that the Digital Breakthrough produced numerous innovative solutions for the Russian economy. The deputy prime minister thanked the organizer of the competition, Russia the Country of Opportunities autonomous non-profit organization (RSV), as well as MegaFon, MTS, Rosatom and Rostelecom.
RSV Manager for Cooperation Anton Serikov said that the organization plans to develop an Artificial Intelligence “that will help to build career strategies and make people’s lives better.”
Competition Director Oleg Mansurov reported that the biggest number of teams that reached the finals came from Moscow and St Petersburg while there were several mixed teams, each representing more than one city.
The next stage of the competition, involving 60 teams, will be pre-acceleration of the most successful projects. The finalists will be refining their solutions up to the pilot stage and present them to investors, including investment funds and high-tech corporations.