Gazprom Neft awards winners of the International IT Industry Championship

Digital specialists from Russian industrial companies have identified the strongest in the finals of the international IT championship of the oil industry. The authors of the best projects based on the results of the three-month competition were announced by the organizers of the Russian Energy Week Youth Day. The winners received awards from Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, as well as grants from Gazprom Neft.

Alexander Novak, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation: "The Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week is the largest platform for young professionals to interact with industry leaders. Using the example of the growing number of participants in the IT championship, we can talk about the transformation of traditional professions. Thanks to the development of technology in the industry, there are more and more hybrid engineers – multifunctional IT specialists with deep knowledge of the oil and gas industry. This once again confirms that not only artificial intelligence is needed in production, but most importantly, highly qualified professionals who know how to work with it."

The IT Championship is a prestigious international team competition for students and representatives of all industries. This year, more than 500 specialists and students from Russia and the CIS countries took part in it. These are employees of technology centers and industrial companies, university students and graduate students, freelance developers.

Alexander Dyukov, Chairman of the Gazprom Neft Management Board: "The final of the IT championship is not only a competition, but also a good opportunity for participants to demonstrate their skills, share experiences and join the talent pool of the industry. Over the past four years, representatives of 20 regions, 66 companies and 40 leading educational institutions of the country have joined our project. Many of these young professionals joined Gazprom Neft to develop new industrial technologies. The number of specialists with digital competencies has already exceeded 10,000 people, which is almost one in ten of the company's staff."

The competition consists of several stages: solving standard cases, a hackathon, creating and defending your own project in the "MVP Development" and "Industrial Automation" categories. The winner's Cup is awarded to the developers with the highest amount of points based on the results of all stages.

Direction "Development MVP» it was divided into two streams.

In Student track the national team "Cameral processing" won, the second place went to the team "Neftebayty", the bronze medal was awarded to the team "The Power of Thought".

The champion Professional Track The "Nice Guys" team was recognized, the ITF-Neft team won silver, and the DigiFusion Dynamics team took third place.

The winner in the direction of "Industrial Automation" The Automatika team won, the RTU-MIREA-1 team won silver, and the PK9 team rounded out the top three.

The winners received grants from Gazprom Neft, and the prize fund of the Championship was 1.5 million rubles. And the end of the IT championship was a dialogue on equal terms "We are on our way to IT: the view of leaders" with Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Eduard Sheremettsev and IT Director of Gazprom Neft Anton Dumin.