The semi-final of the Digital Breakthrough started in the Siberian IT hub

On Friday, September 25, 2020, the semi-final online hackathon started in the Siberian Federal District "The digital breakthrough" – the flagship project of the presidential platform "Russia is a land of opportunity". 100 IT teams will compete to reach the finals. The prize fund is about 3 million rubles, and the best solutions will be supported before implementation.

More than 1,200 people are taking part in the hackathon. developers, designers, product managers and other IT professionals, as well as students from 33 regions Of Russia. The leader in the number of registrations is the Novosibirsk region. The Omsk, Tomsk and Irkutsk regions and the Krasnoyarsk Territory are also in the TOP 5.

Within 48 hours, the teams will solve actual cases from the project partners live. Among the directions – industrial IoT, situation centers, e-commerce, digitalization and digital development.

"To the contestants to be Save forests from fires using artificial intelligence, create an automated park management system, improve courier delivery services, and develop a service for digital library navigation.", – said the Director General of ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities" Alexey Komissarov. – In addition, we have proposed a case study of the "Russia is a land of opportunity" platform itself. Need create a user-friendly presentation builder for participants the project of our platform – engineering championship "CASE-IN". The contestants will also have the opportunity to solve a case that requires managerial skills. – necessary to develop software for the diagnosis and testing of information systems, platforms and resources for the creation of a digital state and digital transformation".

The teams will compete remotely, and trackers and experts will help them pass the tests non-stop. The projects will be defended live.

"Once again, the competition brings together people with a wide variety of competencies. Among the most popular – HTML CSS (193 registrations), fundamentals of programming: data types and structures (172 registrations), Python (169 registrations), JavaScript (161 registrations), SQL (138 registrations). In addition to the developers, designers, managers and other specialists joined us. There are many participants with interdisciplinary competencies – many indicated more than five different skills when registering. This shows how many talented specialists there are in Siberia! Our task is to help them develop and involve them in the process of digital transformation of the country.", – commented on Head of the Digital Breakthrough Competition, Director RAEC Sergej Plugotarenko.

An important part of the semi-final will be a series of business events dedicated to the transition of the Siberian Federal District from digital transformation to digital maturity. On the opening day of the hackathon, 25 A round table was held with the participation of Sergey Menyailo, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Siberian Federal District, as well as heads of regional ministries of digitalization and communications, industry experts and representatives of the Siberian IT business. It discussed the digital transformation of traditional sectors of the economy, public administration and the social sphere, personnel issues, and the level of digital literacy among residents of the Siberian Federal District.

On the second day of the hackathon, on September 26, a public talk "Digital Transformation of consciousness and processes" will be held live, where industry experts, representatives of large state-owned companies and regional authorities will speak.

Among the relevant cases of the competition is a task from the state corporation Rosatom is developing technology for collecting and processing information about the location of containers in enterprises.

"The Digital Breakthrough Competition has become an effective meeting place for large technology corporations and talented developers interested in developing a professional career in our country, where many new opportunities are opening up today. Rosatom expects specialists to be ready to understand how the digital solutions being created will be used in practice. Therefore, the cases that we propose to solve within the framework of the "Digital Breakthrough" are as substantive as possible. We are interested not only in how well young specialists create prototypes, but also in how quickly they can understand the specifics of the management or production process. We call a new type of "digital" specialist working in industry "neo-engineers" who, in addition to understanding and being able to design production systems, are also deeply versed in digital technologies. Such specialists are a very scarce resource. And we are actively looking for them, including at the Digital Breakthrough, — shared by the General Director of CHU "Tsifrum" (GC "Rosatom") Boris Makevnin.