The board of Sberbank has adopted ethical principles behind development and use of artificial intelligence across Sber Group. Principle #1: Secure AI The AI technologies Sber develops are secure, governable and controllable as much as possible. Sber takes into account the possible risks associated with the security of AI technologies and does not allow them to …
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The first Russian-French Forum on Artificial Intelligence will be held on Feb. 26, 2021 by videoconference. This event is intended for French and Russian-speaking audiences. Its program is available in French language through this link. Representatives of the business community, research institutes, higher educational institutions, as well as government circles from the two countries will …
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Did you know Lithuania ranks #4 in the world for its fintech ecosystem; #11 for ease of doing business; and #1 for the speed of its public Wi-Fi? No wonder why this country is attracting a growing number of startups from across the world, including Eastern Europe. Its high quality of life, low cost of living and …
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Sber has presented its leaderboard called Russian SuperGLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation), the first ranking of neural networks for the Russian language. A neural network’s ranking position depends on how well it deals with tasks in logic, commonsense, reasoning, and general language understanding. Designed by the SberAI team with Huawei and the Higher School of Economics, the …
GenerationS and Sequence Ventures announce #GENSTechTalks a new series of talks (in English language) to explore the Russian tech landscape with the leading industry experts. The series is scheduled as follows: December 1: Quantum technologies with Maria Lepskaya of Runa Capital; December 10: Blockchain with Eldar Khamitov of G1 Ventures; December 22: Artificial Intelligence with Alexey Fomin of Botkin.AI. …
Flashpoint VC — an international investor previously known as Buran VC — has launched an international startup challenge dedicated to SaaS technologies. The challenge is open to Seed and post-seed companies with an MRR of $10,000-$100,000 and no more than $3 million raised. The targeted segments are AI, DevOps, Remote work & productivity tools, HealthTech and …
On June 1-3 EMERGE, the leading international event on the Belarusian innovation scene, will hold its annual conference in an online format. Major global companies – including Chivas, Coursera, Dropbox, Farfetch, Ikea, MegaFon, Miro, Tesla, Transferwise and VTB – will participate. On the venture side, the event will gather such funds as Acrobator Ventures, Atomico, …
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The Retail Innovation Tech Alliance (RITA), an international startup scouting initiative launched by major Russian retailers, has just launched its first call for startups. RITA is seeking innovative solutions in a variety of fields, including e-commerce, transport and logistics, quality of goods, point-of-sale operations, back office automation, CRM, marketing, home mobile entertainment, automated interior design …
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As three billion people are locked down across the world, an international hackathon is calling innovators to “hack the future so we never go through this again.” Designed as an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Global Hack also aims to “build resilience post-pandemic.” The tracks are inspired by the UN sustainability goals that cover …
Saint-Petersburg, Russia – Data MATRIX, an eClinical software developer, announces free access to its proprietary electronic data capture (EDC) system to run COVID-19 trials in 2020. Recognizing the latest update from the World Health Organization, with the total count of people diagnosed with coronavirus surpassing 200,000, over 8,000 of whom have died, Data MATRIX’s team could not …
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On March 23, the French capital is to host the world’s leading investors searching for early-stage innovation in health and wellness. Startups from Eastern Europe are welcome to this fast-track cross-border match-making event, which covers such industry segment as digital health, precision medicine, ageing in place, pharma, medical devices and IoT. To date, 40+ investors …
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On March 19 the Moscow Expocenter will play host to the third edition of Fashion Tech Day, a must-attend conference dedicated to the fashion retail tech and e-commerce industries (see presentation in Russian). This event is co-organized by East-West Digital News and OneWay, a developer of online stores for clothing, footwear and accessories. It enjoys the support …
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