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Yandex supercomputers top entries from Russia and Eastern Europe among world’s most powerful computing systems

November 25, 2021

Yandex’s most powerful supercomputer ranks 19th in the global TOP500, showing the best results for high-performance computing systems in Russia and Eastern Europe. Named after one of the greatest machine learning theorists, Alexey Chervonenkis, Yandex’s fastest supercomputer has 199 nodes and produces 21.53 petaflops, that is, 21.53 quadrillion floating-point operations per second. The other two Yandex TOP500 entries, …

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How the pandemic has impacted retail, logistics and delivery in Russia

November 5, 2021

The pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on retail and delivery markets. In Russia, e-grocery was among the most impacted industries: the number of orders in this segment increased by 174% y-o-y in the first half of 2021, according to Data Insight. Fast delivery has become one of the main trends in the food sector …

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Russian team with mysterious backers wins world’s biggest eSports prize

October 28, 2021

On October 17, Russia’s Team Spirit triumphantly lifted the Aegis of Champions. The team of five youngsters – the oldest of them only 23 years of age – looked somewhat out of place, dwarfed by Romania’s biggest stadium. The International 10 is no ordinary sporting event: it is the world championship for multiplayer online battle …

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Yandex, Cambridge and Oxford universities team up to launch international machine learning competition

July 26, 2021

Yandex, in collaboration with Oxford and Cambridge Universities and as part of the NeurIPS conference on machine learning, is launching the global ‘Shifts Challenge’, a three-pronged competition track designed to tackle the problem of distributional shift in ML that features the largest autonomous vehicle (AV) dataset in the industry to date. This dataset contains 600,000 scenes (or more than 1,600 hours …

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Russian digital majors invite children from across the world to AI contest

June 29, 2021

Children and teenagers from some 80 countries are taking part in the Artificial Intelligence International Junior Contest (AIIJC). Russia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh account for the largest cohorts of participants, but the Philippines, Canada, Ecuador and a variety of other countries are also involved.  This first-of-its-kind competition is organized jointly by Sber, Russia’s state-controlled financial and …

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High tech reverberations from the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

June 19, 2021

A notable part of this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was dedicated to IT and digital transformation as well as the state’s role in these fields (see the forum’s topical sessions and its special Innovation Space). This major event took place on June 3-4, gathering much of the country’s political and business elite and some foreign …

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Moscow online event on smart cities attended by 193,000 people from around the world

May 28, 2021

No less than 193,000 people attended virtually the first edition of Smart Cities Moscow, an international online forum which took place earlier this week in Moscow. Eighty-six speakers from Russia, China, Switzerland, Canada, Spain, the United States, Sweden and other countries shared their views, offering fascinating insights about smart city developments across the world. “A …

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“All transport on earth will be electric,” says Elon Musk to Russian students

May 24, 2021

Last week Elon Musk spoke remotely at a Russian state-sponsored education forum, spending 40 minutes answering questions from students. The tech celebrity said he received a personal invitation from President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Among other speakers at the event were Steve Wozniak, on the international side, and a bevy of tech CEOs …

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World’s megacities gather in virtual event to discuss global smart city challenges (May 25-26)

May 17, 2021

On May 25-26, Moscow will host Smart Cities Moscow, an international online forum dedicated to smart cities and the ‘new normal’ in the urban environment More than 50 international speakers are expected, including heads of administrations of large megacities across the world, professors and experts from leading educational institutions, business representatives in the field of …

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New remote opportunities in the Baltics for tech talents worldwide (online fair, April 8)

April 9, 2021

On April 8, the online fair ‘Your Next Move: Spotlight on the Baltics‘ will highlight the region’s fast-growing tech ecosystem and its opportunities for international talents, including from Russian-speaking countries.  This online event aims to position Latvia, in particular, as a first-choice destination to build a professional carrier or do business within a number of companies, from …

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Russian Venture Forum: “A new decade of radical transformations” (offline+online, Kazan, April 7-8)

March 23, 2021

On April 7-8, more than 200 Russian and foreign speakers as well as thousands of attendees are expected to take part in the 15th edition of the Russian Venture Forum (RVF). One of the country’s leading industry events, this forum is held each year in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. This edition …

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Love vs. AI, women in tech, American dream… Hot tech topics discussed at top regional conference (online event, May 12-14)

April 27, 2021

On May 12-14 EMERGE, a top tech conference covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia, will hold its third edition in an online format and in English language (more information and tickets here).  With participation from high-level speakers from the region and beyond, the program will cover a variety of topics such as: No planet B: how …

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