About a competition
The All-Russian contest "Tsifrovoy Breakthrough" started on April 3, 2019. It is designed for IT professionals, designers and managers in the digital economy. The project is aimed at identifying talents and forming a community of leaders in the country's digital economy.
The 400 best participants had the opportunity to receive a grant for the development of the project from the "Innovation Assistance Fund" from a grant fund of 200 000 000 rubles. And 20 finalist teams were able to win a cash prize from the general fund, which amounted to 10,000,000 rubles.
The best participants of the competition got the opportunity:
- win a grant from the Innovation Promotion Fund;
- receive a cash prize of 500,000 rubles per team;
- pass the pre-acceleration program and bring your product to the market;
- Launch your technology business
- get job offers from leading companies in Russia;
- participate in national projects;
- receive additional prizes from the competition partners.
Competition stages
The competition "Tsifrovoy proryv" was held in five stages: registration, online testing, regional qualifying hackathons in 40 cities, the final hackathon - the largest in Russia, a program for pre-accelerating projects and employing participants.
The application campaign lasted until May 12, after which participants were waiting for online testing, participation in which was mandatory for passing into the regional stage of the competition. The regional stage was held in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where representatives of information technologies, designers and managers in teams over 36 hours created prototypes of digital products.
Competition final
The largest hackathon in the world was held in Kazan: as it was. PHOTO
On September 27-29, 2019, the final of the All-Russian contest "Digital Breakthrough," organized by the presidential platform "ANO Russia - a country of opportunity," was held in Kazan. The competition became not only the largest in Russia, it also set a Guinness World Record for the number of IT specialists simultaneously working on the site in hackathon format. More than 3 thousand participants competed with skills in the field of programming, design and management of IT projects.
In the final, teams from 77 regions of Russia were represented. Teams consisting of 3-5 people worked on the site for 48 hours around the clock, solving problems in twenty thematic tracks (nominations).
The tasks for the final were developed together with the partners of the competition - state organizations and large companies. Among them are Rosatom, Megafon, Mail.ru Group, Rostelecom, Gazprom Neft, MTS, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Health, Federal Tax Service, Rosstat, Central Bank of Russia and others (for a complete list of tasks and partners, see the block below). A separate nomination for the final was prepared by the organizer of the competition - ANO "Russia is a country of opportunity."
Estimated the work of the jury of more than 100 people. The event also involved 80 moderators, 165 mentor experts who advised the teams of participants in the performance of tasks, and 250 volunteers.
The competition started in April. The teams that went to the finals were selected following the results of the regional stage of the competition, held in the summer in 40 cities of Russia. According to the organizers, initially they received more than 66 thousand applications for participation in the Digital Breakthrough. On the platform of the final of the competition, in addition to the winning teams of the regional semi-finals, separate competitions were held for students and schoolchildren.
Beginning
According to one opening ceremony of the final of the competition at Kazan Expo, it was possible to understand that something grandiose would happen here. The organizers prepared a performance in a futuristic style with light effects, music and dancing, as well as imitation of artificial intelligence as a host. On the big screen on the stage, codes flashed on a green background by analogy with the film "Matrix" and other graphics designed to impress the high-tech nature of what was happening.
The first deputy head of the presidential administration, RFSergey Kiriyenko, who oversees the Digital Breakthrough, arrived to speak at the opening on September 27.
 | You are already winners, you have realized the opportunity for which the President of the Russian Federation created these competitions, "Kiriyenko enthusiastically addressed the participants. - Today, when the world is changing rapidly, the competitiveness and future of the country is no longer determined by the availability of natural resources, buildings and even technology, but by people - you. You are the future of our country. |  |
Kiriyenko wished everyone victory and noted that there can be no losers in the competition. According to the results of the marathon, no one will leave the losers, he said: many are waiting for monetary awards, support for acceleration and the completion of projects.
| | Many of you will have the opportunity to work with large Russian high-tech companies. They are represented here. Now at the meeting, the leaders of these companies said that they feel like roosters who are curling over talent. They have already gone to competition for the best participants, "said Sergey Kiriyenko. | |
Participants
The participants in the final are an audience that is very diverse both in occupation and in age. According to the organizers, the average age of the finalists of the competition was 30 years. But there are also outstanding exceptions. So, the oldest participant - Yevgeny Polishchuk - is 76 years old. By profession, he is a biologist who already at a very adult age began to engage in programming. The youngest participant of the competition - Amir Isaev - is 13 years old. He took part in the competition block for schoolchildren. These two participants were personally greeted at the opening ceremony by Sergey Kiriyenko, he also handed them gifts.
Other unusual participants also included, for example, a programmer who, according to another type of activity, is a clown, as well as a deaf-mute person from birth - Alexey Prikhodko from Novosibirsk. Being limited in physical capabilities, he was able not only to get a higher education, but also to defend his candidate. Prikhodko is now working on a project to create a solution that understands sign language and translates it into printed text.
Among the contestants were those who received an education in the field of IT, and self-taught. Some work in IT companies and IT departments in large organizations. Like Raiffeisenbank and Mail. Russia
The maximum number of participants in teams, according to the terms of the competition, could be five people. Teams formed in different ways. Someone was familiar even before the competition, someone met each other during the regional semi-finals and formed a team. Each team was simultaneously attended by specialists with a different set of competencies: project managers, programmers, designers.
According to the terms of the competition, only Russian citizens could take part in the main part of it. Such a requirement was not made to the participants of the student block of competitions.
Who and why needs it
Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough project, noted that the main task of the competition is to realize the talent of Russian citizens, somehow related to IT, to provide them with opportunities for development and growth. At the same time, according to Mansurov, as practice has shown, the main target audience of such competitions is not employees of IT departments of large companies. These are mainly freelancers, self-taught, that is, those people who are poorly visible in the economy.
| | Now we see them and involve them in solving applied problems within our regions, industries and in general at the state level, "said Oleg Mansurov. | |
For the best projects, the Digital Breakthrough provides for a pre-acceleration program and a special educational program, as well as a cash prize fund of 10 million rubles - 500 thousand rubles per winning team.
In turn, for the partners of the competition - large companies and departments - this is an opportunity to identify the most talented specialists in order to further their employment. The shortage of qualified personnel in the field of IT in Russia forces many of them to start searching for future employees even in universities and even in schools, and large competitions for programmers are one of the opportunities to attract new employees.
Valentina Vatrak, director of corporate development and personnel management at Megafon, one of the key partners of Digital Breakthrough, said that their company had received the first result before the final of the competition. One of the participants in the stage of the competition, held in Samara, is already working at Megafon. And at the stand of the company in the final, even before its completion, about 40 applications were submitted from those wishing to train at the company, says Vatrak.
Rafael Valeev, CEO of AK Bars Digital Technologies, another partner of the competition, noted that financial companies are now undergoing a serious digital transformation and are working in a competitive market not only as part of their main activities, but also in the competitive human capital market. According to him, as part of the competition, their company also received a number of applications for employment from participants.
| | We will try to quickly make offers, despite the location of applicants. We are interested in employees not only from Kazan, but regardless of the region, because the IT world no longer has borders, "said Valeev. | |
At the same time, the organizers and partners of the competition not only expect to identify talents, but also to receive interesting ideas on the tasks set at the competition for their further implementation in practice. This is interesting, for example, to Rostelecom, which has more than 100 employees in Tatarstan. One of the areas of special interest for Rostelecom is smart city projects, the operator implements related projects in more than 50 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Therefore, Rostelecom invited the participants of the Digital Breakthrough to create a prototype system for monitoring garbage recycling points. The relevance of this task is growing, said Rostelecom IT Director Kirill Menshov.
| | We set a task in the field of garbage. Previously, we did not deal with this story, and that is why the winners in our task have a chance to become a pillar in this new story for us, "Menshov said. | |
And lobbying at a high level can help in the implementation of the ideas received in practice. So, Sergey Kiriyenko said that the ANO "Russia is a country of opportunity" will promote the idea of implementing projects and developments of participants in the Digital Breakthrough contest in Russian regions.
| | We are now sending projects and materials to the regions with a persistent request to the regional authorities so that nothing goes missing. All successful projects that were implemented should be introduced, because they really change people's lives, "Kiriyenko said. | |
Problems of the final
During the hackathon, each team of finalists solved one of 20 tasks developed together with the partners of the competition. A feature was the lack of educational tasks - all of them were based on real cases that state organizations and large companies need to solve. At the exit, the participants had to present a working prototype of the solution.
1. Develop a prototype software for automatic verification of duplication of program code in public procurement (the director of the task is the Ministry of Digital Development).
2. Develop software for a single certification center that will reduce the number of fraudulent actions related to the use of electronic signatures (FTS).
3. Offer online products that allow attracting citizens to actively participate in the 2020 census and present its results in a visual form (Rosstat).
4. Create a mobile application that allows you to collect the views of an external audience about the initiatives of the Central Bank for the purpose of public discussion, to ensure the processing of the results of such a discussion (Central Bank).
5. Develop a prototype platform that will translate into electronic form existing state services by analysts, without involving developers (Mininformsvyaz of the Republic of Tatarstan).
6. Develop an AR/VR solution for quality control of execution of special technological processes at industrial enterprises (Ministry of Industry and Trade).
7. Develop a platform that allows you to create a map of the production premises of the enterprise, lay optimal logistics routes on it, track the movements of parts (Rosatom).
8. Develop a data analysis service for inspection of transport pipelines (Gazprom Neft).
9. Offer a prototype of a scalable mobile application with an implemented solution for validating electronic documents offline (Digital Valley Sochi Foundation, AT Consulting).
10. Develop a mobile application and an application for the central server, which will allow transmitting data on the availability level of the mobile network and, on their basis, compile an up-to-date map of network coverage (Ministry of Transport).
11. Develop a prototype mobile application that allows a passenger to order food delivery from restaurants located in cities along the train route (Federal Passenger Company).
12. Create a prototype system for monitoring the general state of a person working at a computer using pattern recognition and modeling of human behavior (Ministry of Health).
13. Develop software that allows statistical analysis and visualization of the results of the creation of an all-Russian network of perinatal centers (Accounts Chamber).
14. Develop a prototype software to track the employment of university graduates, analyze and predict the demand for certain professions (ANO "Russia - a country of opportunity," ANO "RSV").
15. Offer a prototype platform for retraining specialists who are released in companies due to the digitalization of business processes (MTS).
16. Develop software for the inventory of heat and water supply systems, formation on the basis of the monitoring results of the regional geographic information system of engineering infrastructure facilities (Ministry of Construction).
17. Create a universal web application for housing and communal services enterprises, which allows you to recognize the meaning of the appeal, distribute appeals to responsible employees and track their implementation (Megafon).
18. Create a prototype information and service system for monitoring garbage collection and recycling points (Rostelecom).
19. Offer a prototype web service to stimulate social and civic activity through competitive and micro-grant mechanisms (Association of Volunteer Centers).
20. Create a prototype service for organizing volunteer projects on the platform of a social network (Mail.ru Group).
Guinness Record: Everything to Win
Given the scale of the Digital Breakthrough, the organizers decided to apply for entry into the Guinness Book of Records by the number of hackathon participants simultaneously working on the site. The previous record belongs to Saudi Arabia, where in 2018 the number of hackathon participants was recorded at 2950 people.
To record the record, it was necessary to comply with a number of strict requirements, including the almost irreversible work of the participants on the site for 12 hours with a total break time, including a toilet and a break, not exceeding 40 minutes.
To comply with this requirement, at the entrance and exit to the working zones of the Digital Breakthrough final, throughput control was established, where participants were required to record the time of departure and arrival. Also, participants for the time allotted for setting a record organized food directly at workplaces.
The efforts were crowned with success: on September 29, the official judge of the Guinness Book of Records, Shade Subasi, confirmed that the record was recorded. ANO "Russia - the country of opportunity" received the corresponding certificate.
Winners
After defending the projects, 20 winners of the final of the competition were selected before the jury on September 29. They were teams that scored the maximum number of points in each nomination (see the list of tasks by nominations above in the section "Tasks"). In some nominations, two teams were recognized as winners.
- PLEXet (Stavropol Territory) - nomination from the Ministry of Digital Development;
- Leader Digital Nation (Moscow) - nomination from the Federal Tax Service;
- Digital Hope (Saratov Region) - nomination from Rosstat;
- NOVA - nomination from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation;
- CoolDash (Republic of Tatarstan) and "Composite Key" (Tula region) - nomination from the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan;
- Jingu Digital (Sverdlovsk Region) - nomination from the Ministry of Industry and Trade;
- Continuous Disintegration (St. Petersburg) - nomination from Rosatom Group of Companies;
- WAICO (Moscow Region) - nomination from Gazprom Neft;
- Genesis (Perm Territory, Moscow) - nomination from AT Consulting;
- "Cast Iron Speed" (Republic of Bashkortostan) - nomination from the Ministry of Transport;
- "Analytics and Business Implementation" (Amur Region/Khabarovsk Territory) - nomination from the "Federal Passenger Company";
- "Karman Line" (St. Petersburg) and BlackPixel (Bryansk Region/Kursk Region) - nomination from the Ministry of Health;
- "Sunshine" (Tula region) - nomination from the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation;
- Spiral (St. Petersburg) - nomination from the ANO "Russia - a country of opportunity";
- goAI (Moscow) - nomination from MTS;
- Ficus (Rostov Region) - nomination from the Ministry of Construction;
- Frozen Lab (Krasnoyarsk Territory) - nomination from Megafon;
- RSX (Moscow/St. Petersburg) - nomination from Rostelecom;
- "Sakharov Team" (Moscow) - nomination from the Association of Volunteer Centers;
- Digitalizers (Tomsk Region, Omsk Region) - nomination from Mail.ru Group.
Photo sources: TAdviser, the press service of Digital Breakthrough.
Meeting of the expert committee on the eve of the final of the contest "Digital Breakthrough"
On September 10, 2019, a meeting of the expert council of theDigital Breakthrough contest, one of the flagship projects ofthe Russia-Country of Opportunity presidential platform, was held in Moscow.
Within the framework of the meeting, the results of the regional stage of the competition, which was held from June 8 to July 28 in 40 Russian cities, were presented. Members of the council discussed the final program, the composition of the expert council and the jury, as well as the pre-acceleration program.
In addition, the list of nominations for the final hackathon was considered. Recall that the hackathon will have five main tracks - Education and science"," Health care"," "State management," "HOUSING AND PUBLIC UTILITIES and the urban environment," "Transport and," logistics nominations from the contest partners - the State Corporation, "" Rosatom companies, "",, Mail.ru GroupMegaFon"", "", " MTS as RostelecomGazprom Neft AT Consulting well as tasks from the organizers of the final of the competition - ANO "Russia is a country of opportunity" and the Republic. Tatarstan
The meeting was attended by representatives of state and commercial organizations successfully implementing internal and external digital initiatives: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Communications, Department of Information Technologies of Moscow, Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, Office of the President for the Application of Information and Communication Technologies and Management Infrastructure, St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, mechanics and optics, ANO "Institute for the Development of the Internet," National Research University "Higher School of Economics," PJSC Gazprom Neft, PJSC Rostelecom, MegaFon PJSC, Rosatom Academy, AT Consulting, RAEC, Innopolis University, FSBI CECI, Center for Advanced Management Solutions (CPSD), Seldon, Acronis, Regional Community Internet Technology Center (ROCIT), SKB Circuit and Artem Geller Laboratory.
| | At the meeting of the expert committee, we summed up the main results of hard work at the regional stage of the Digital Breakthrough competition, and also discussed the key tasks facing us in the framework of the final in Kazan. This summer, at the sites of 40 cities hosting hackathons, we managed to gather several thousand participants, the result of which was about 1000 IT projects. We are confident that with the support of the business community and state-owned companies at the final of the competition we will be able to see no less outstanding results with a deeper study, since the participants will have more time to work, "commented Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough project. | |
The final of the Digital Breakthrough contest will be held at the Kazan Expo ICC from September 27 to 29. The event will become the largest hackathon in Europe - at the same time for 48 hours about 3000 specialists in the field of programming, design and management will work on the site.
The Digital Breakthrough competition started on April 3. The main goal of the project is to find new personnel for the digital economy throughout Russia. 66,474 applications from all regions of Russia were submitted for the competition.
On May 20, the online testing stage of the competition ended, a total of 37,566 registered participants were admitted to testing. 19,203 people confirmed their competence by completing 132,577 tests. The qualifying stage was held in three areas: information technology, design, project management and business analysis.
Face-to-face events were held from June 8 to July 28 in 40 cities of Russia in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where specialists in the field of information technology, designers and managers in teams over 36 hours created prototypes of digital products.
According to the results, participants will be able to start a business, get a job in the country's leading companies, win a cash prize for the team in the amount of 500,000 rubles, and also receive a grant from the Innovation Assistance Fund for the development of their project. In addition, the contestants will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop, the educational center of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO.
The expert council and the jury of the Digital Breakthrough contest include representatives of such large companies? as the State Corporation Rosatom, Mail.ru Group, MegaFon, MTS.
Rostelecom will support the finalists of the Digital Breakthrough contest
On September 11, 2019, Rostelecom announced that it had become an official partner in the All-Russian contest "Digital Breakthrough" - one of the flagship projects of the presidential platform "Russia is a country of opportunity." As part of the partnership agreement, the company will form tasks for participants in the final to develop innovative digital solutions for the market for high-speed Internet access and pay television services.
The final of the competition will be held from September 27 to 29 in Kazan in the format of a 48-hour hackathon. It is expected that it will become the largest hackathon in Europe - about 3 thousand people will take part in it. The regional stage of the competition was held from June 8 to July 28 in 40 Russian cities.
Rostelecom will be the founder of one of the twenty nominations of the final, in which participants will solve problems for the ICT industry. The company can integrate the best projects into its business processes.
| | We rely on the development of digital services and are constantly looking for new ways to improve the user experience of our customers. Partnership with Digital Breakthrough for us is an opportunity to work with talented specialists of the country on the tasks of the company and in a short time to get the widest range of options for solving problems. I think that our exchange of experience within the framework of the hackathon will be useful not only to teams, but also to Rostelecom experts. In addition, we will invite the best specialists who took part in the final to work in the company, "said Kirill Menshov, senior vice president of information technology at Rostelecom. | |
| | For the participants of the competition, support for the digital services and solutions provider - Rostelecom - is a great chance to declare yourself and make a career breakthrough in just 48 hours. The company is on the front line of digital technologies, and together with our partner we are expanding the boundaries of what is possible for our finalists, "commented Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough project. | |
Over 650 teams will take part in the final hackathon in Kazan
The final of the All-Russian contest "Digital Breakthrough" - one of the flagship projects of the ANO "Russia is a country of opportunity" - will be held in Kazan from September 27 to 29. The decision on this was made on Wednesday at a meeting of the organizing committee of the final of the competition.
The event was held on July 24 at the House of the Government of the Russian Federation. It also identified the directions of thematic tracks and the program of the final hackathon of the competition. The organizing committee was headed by Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Maxim Akimov.
The organizing committee also included the general director of the ANO "Russia - a country of opportunities" Alexei Komissarov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Roman Shaikhutdinov, Advisor to the General Director of the Innovation Assistance Fund Ivan Bortnik, Deputy Chairman - Member of the Board of Vnesheconombank Alexei Ivanchenko, Head of the Presidential Office for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies and Communication Infrastructure of the Administration of the Russian Federation Andrei Lipov, director of the Russian association electronic kommunikatsiysergy Plugotarenko, head of the competition "Digital Break" Oleg Mansurov and other participants.
Competitive events will be held at the Kazan Expo ICC on September 27 -29. The final will be the largest hackathon in Europe - at the same time, over 48 specialists in the field of programming, design and management will work on the site for 3000 hours.
| | We will invite an expanded pool of experts to the final of the competition. More than 120 industry specialists will advise the participants all days of the competition. In addition, each team will be assigned a mentor, who will oversee its work all 48 hours. In the first two days, contestants will have several workshops where they learn about the secrets and features of public performances, as well as learn how to generate ideas and build business models. The main result of the hackathon should be the maximum number of working digital products that the finalists will develop. We can say that the hackathon in Kazan will be not just final competitions for them, but also educational intensity, "said Alexei Komissarov. | |
The teams will include finalists of the regional qualifying stages, held in 40 cities of Russia from June 8 to July 28. It is expected that over 650 teams will take part in the final hackathon, 200 of which, according to the results of several control measures (check points), will be admitted to the final defense before the expert jury.
| | We thank the organizers for choosing our republic as the host region. The Republic of Tatarstan has extensive experience in conducting events of this level. ICC "Kazan Expo" at which, the final will be held, has repeatedly been tested by large-scale events and today meets all the requirements of the organizers for the venue. We will try to ensure that participants, experts and guests plunge into the atmosphere of our hospitality, and the opening and closing ceremonies are remembered for a long time. And of course we expect the successful performance of teams from our republic, "said Roman Shaikhutdinov. | |
Tasks for participants were developed jointly with the regions in accordance with the strategic directions of Russian domestic policy. The thematic tracks of the final hackathon will include 20 special nominations. Their organizers will be partners of the competition, ministries, the Accounts Chamber of Russia, the Central Bank of Russia, the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan. Over 120 members of the expert jury will evaluate the work of the teams.
In addition, as part of the final of the competition, a school hackathon for participants under the age of 18 will be held, which, according to expectations, will bring together more than 300 people. The teams will work on five tracks developed by the Sirius Educational Center.
| | Business regularly uses hackathons to quickly find alternative development paths. As the experience of our semi-finals showed, such a format is excellent for solving various problems in the field of digital development. In just two months of hackathons, we managed to get over four hundred viable digital products in five areas of National projects. At the final, we will increase this number, and I am sure that all of them will be implemented with the support of our federal and regional partners following the results of the competition, "commented Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough contest. | |
The regional stage of the Digital Breakthrough competition started on June 8. According to the results of the past seven qualifying semi-finals, over four hundred teams from all over Russia were invited to the hackathon in Kazan. The final wave of competitions will take place next weekend. They will be held in five cities - Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Vladikavkaz, Kursk and the largest - in Moscow. About half a thousand people will take part in it.
The Digital Breakthrough competition started on April 3. The main goal of the project is to find new personnel for the digital economy throughout Russia. 66,474 applications from all regions of Russia were submitted for the competition.
On May 20, the online testing stage of the competition ended. A total of 37,566 registered participants were admitted to it. 19,203 people confirmed their competence by completing 132,577 tests. The qualifying stage was held in three areas: information technology, design, project management and business analysis.
Face-to-face events are held from June 8 to July 28 in 40 cities of Russia in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where specialists in the field of information technology, designers and managers in teams in 36 hours create prototypes of digital products.
According to the results, participants will be able to start a business, get a job in the country's leading companies, win a cash prize for the team in the amount of 500,000 rubles, and also receive a grant from the Innovation Assistance Fund for the development of their project. In addition, the contestants will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop, the educational center of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO.
The expert council and the jury of the Digital Breakthrough contest includes representatives of such large companies as Rosatom, Mail.ru Group, MegaFon, MTS.
Regional semi-final
95% of participants in the Digital Breakthrough contest plan to continue to participate in hackathons
The regional stage of the All-Russian contest "Digital Breakthrough" - one of the flagship projects of the presidential platform " Russia is a country of opportunity" has become the largest event in the sphere in the IT territory. In Russia 40 hackathons of the competition took part 3,559 people from 79 regions of the country.
Hackathons are competitive events where specialists in the field of information technology, designers and managers in teams in 36 hours create prototypes of digital products.
According to the survey, respondents, which became about 1,600 participants in the competition, it turned out that most specialists first took part in hackathons. 79% of respondents admitted that previously they had no experience in participating in competitions of this format. For 15%, Digital Breakthrough became the second or third hackathon in his professional career.
The largest share of debutant participants (more than 90%) was represented in Arkhangelsk, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kursk, Lipetsk and Omsk. Almost 95% of specialists who first took part in the regional stage of the Digital Breakthrough project plan to continue to participate in hackathons.
For 6% of respondents, participation in the hackathon has become a familiar matter. So, at the Moscow stage, the Sakharov Team worked on a decision in the field of transport, for which the regional stage of the Digital Breakthrough became the 20th hackathon. They will break their record very soon - at the final of the competition in Kazan.
Specialists over 18 years old took part in the full-time stage, but there was no upper age limit. Several people of retirement age went to the final of the competition at once. The oldest participant was 76-year-old Evgeny Polishchuk from St. Petersburg, who, together with his team, reached the final.
The contest participants worked on prototypes of digital products in five main categories - "Healthcare," "Public Administration," "Education and Science," "Housing and Public Utilities and Urban Environment" and "Transport and Logistics." And also in a special track from the general partner of the State Corporation "Rosatom" - "Industrial Solutions." The most popular among the teams was the nomination "Education and Science" - it was announced in 29 cities out of 40. The increased interest in this area is due to the fact that a large number of students and recent graduates of universities took part in the competition, as well as the demand for digital solutions in the field of educational technologies.
| | Even at the stage of collecting applications, we realized that there would be a lot of records at the competition. 66474 applications were submitted for participation in the Digital Breakthrough from all over the country - this figure determined the scale of the competition. We managed to cover all regions and gather the best IT specialists who presented more than 1000 projects on hackathon sites. Together with corporations and state-owned companies, they will help bring Russia closer to a real digital future. Thank you to all participants and experts! The final of the competition will be the largest hackathon in Europe, "said Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough contest. | |
The regional stage of the Digital Breakthrough competition ended on July 28, 2019. It took place in 40 cities for two months. The final of the competition will be held in Kazan on September 27-29, where 650 teams will meet who have successfully overcome the full-time stage.
The Digital Breakthrough competition started on April 3. The main goal of the project is to find new personnel for the digital economy throughout Russia. 66,474 applications from all regions of Russia were submitted for the competition.
On May 20, the online testing stage of the competition ended, a total of 37,566 registered participants were admitted to testing. 19,203 people confirmed their competence by completing 132,577 tests. The qualifying stage was held in three areas: information technology, design, project management and business analysis.
Face-to-face events were held from June 8 to July 28 in 40 cities of Russia in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where specialists in the field of information technology, designers and managers in teams over 36 hours created prototypes of digital products.
The largest hackathons of the competition were held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. At the semi-finals in these cities, about a thousand specialists in the field of IT, management and design met. The top ten cities with the largest number of contestants also included Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, Simferopol, Krasnodar, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg. In each of them, digital solutions within the framework of the hackathon were developed by more than a hundred people.
According to the results of the competition, participants will be able to start a business, get a job in the leading companies of the country, win a cash prize for the team in the amount of 500,000 rubles, and also receive a grant from the "Innovation Assistance Fund" for the development of their project. In addition, the contestants will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop, the educational center of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO.
The expert council and the jury of the Digital Breakthrough contest includes representatives of such large companies as the State Corporation Rosatom, Mail.ru Group, MegaFon, MTS.
Semi-finalists of "Digital Breakthrough" will develop an educational course on AI for the regions
Three winning teams of the Moscow semi-final of the Digital Breakthrough contest, one of the flagship projects of the Russia-Country of Opportunity presidential platform , were awarded a trip to Sochi, organized jointly with the Sochi Digital Valley Foundation. Teams working on digital solutions in the nomination "State Administration" were selected by the fund based on the results of the capital's hackathon.
As part of the trip, the participants discussed with the management of the fund issues of further development and replication of their projects. Sochi Digital Valley also intends, together with the winners, to develop an educational course on artificial intelligence for representatives of regional state authorities.
| | During the hackathon semifinal, participants presented interesting and promising projects. However, the general problem of such initiatives is the replication and implementation of products. Therefore, during the stratsession, we discussed what difficulties they may encounter in the future and what mechanisms and tools there are to overcome them. We would like to support and work with these teams in the future. In particular, we decided to make an educational course in artificial intelligence for civil servants in the regions. I am sure that we will get an interesting product, and the hackathon participants will be able to share their experience and achievements, "said Anton Nemkin, president of the Sochi Digital Valley Foundation. | |
The capital's stage of the Digital Breakthrough hackathon was held in Moscow on July 27-28, 2019. According to its results, in the nomination "State Administration" the winners were the following projects, the teams of which visited Sochi:
- "Digital Business Ombudsman" is a single-window service that allows you to get instructions on how to interact with authorities and services of infrastructure organizations in the context of various life situations of citizens. The author of the project is the COS team.
- A geoanalysis service based on reviews allows city authorities to determine potential points of development for each area of the city, as well as identify problems based on reviews and posts on social networks. The author of the project is the Data Studio team.
- The RootLead project is the development of a mechanism for automating any business processes without linking to specific information systems. The author of the project is the Dev Leaders team.
| | The idea without implementation is nothing, and we follow this principle from the very first day of the competition. Our main goal is not only to find promising specialists, but also to create conditions for the development of their projects. It is no coincidence that both technical and industry experts work with the teams to help bring the product closer to market conditions and not get involved in development for the sake of development. I am sure that with the support of the Sochi Digital Valley Foundation, teams will be able to go from a prototype to a real product, "said Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough competition. | |
The final of the Digital Breakthrough contest will be held in Kazan from September 27 to 29. According to the results of the hackathon, winners will be identified who will be able to start their own business, get a job in the largest companies in the country, win 500,000 rubles for the team and receive a grant from the Innovation Assistance Fund for the development of their projects. Also, the winners will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop.
The Digital Breakthrough competition started on April 3. The main goal of the project is to find new personnel for the digital economy throughout Russia. 66,474 applications from all regions of Russia were submitted for the competition.
On May 20, 2019, the online testing stage of the competition was completed, a total of 37,566 registered participants were admitted to testing. 19,203 people confirmed their competence by completing 132,577 tests. The qualifying stage was held in three areas: information technology, design, project management and business analysis.
Face-to-face events were held from June 8 to July 28 in 40 cities of Russia in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where specialists in the field of information technology, designers and managers in teams over 36 hours created prototypes of digital products.
According to the results, participants will be able to start a business, get a job in the country's leading companies, win a cash prize for the team in the amount of 500,000 rubles, and also receive a grant from the Innovation Assistance Fund for the development of their project.
In addition, the contestants will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop, the educational center of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO.
The expert council and the jury of the Digital Breakthrough contest include representatives of such large companies as Rosatom State Corporation, Mail.ru Group, MegaFon, MTS.
Completion of the regional stage in 40 cities of Russia
On August 26, 2019, it became known that the regional stage of the All-Russian competition "Digital Breakthrough" was completed - one of the flagship projects of the presidential platform "Russia is a country of opportunity." It was held from June 8 to July 28, 2019 in the format of 36-hour hackathons in 40 cities of Russia. Participants worked on prototypes of digital products in five main categories - "Health Care," "Public Administration," "Education and Science," "Housing and Communal Services and the Urban Environment," as well as "Transport and Logistics."
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63 teams from 22 cities of the regional stage of the Digital Breakthrough took part in the Healthcare nomination. The tasks in the track were developed jointly with the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, as well as regional authorities. As part of the hackathon, participants worked on mobile applications to call for assistance to victims, an information service to motivate the maintenance of an active lifestyle among senior citizens, and a UI/UX mobile application for telemedicine.
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Other solutions presented by the teams include platforms for storing data on mandatory medical examinations for specialists of responsible professions (public transport drivers, aircraft pilots, workers in hazardous industries), designers of standard types of documents for medical institutions, platforms for volunteer health services, chat bots for sites of medical institutions.
In addition, teams have worked on services that will help older citizens interact with healthcare facilities over the Internet, platforms for quality control of care, and many other solutions.
| | The modern world is a world of digital technologies that not only make many things more convenient in our lives, but also increase the efficiency of management. That is why, within the framework of the national project "Healthcare," the formation of a single digital health care circuit is set as a separate task. I am sure that the decisions presented by the participants at the regional stage of the Digital Breakthrough competition will find their practical application in medicine. We, for our part, will contribute to this if possible, "said Oleg Salagay, Deputy Minister of Health of Russia. | |
| | In Russia, an ecosystem of digital health care is being actively created. Together with the Ministry of Health and regional authorities, we have developed a pool of tasks for the Digital Breakthrough competition. They were successfully implemented by teams during the regional stage. As a result, we received more than 60 prototypes of products that will form the basis of digitalization of the healthcare sector of our country, "said Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough competition. | |
Yegor Griva, a member of the ETIKON team from Tomsk, who worked in the track "Healthcare," shared his impressions of the competition.
| | Our team has developed a project based on chat bots, which are used in popular instant messengers - WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and others. The solution makes it easier to find medical professionals for people in need of palliative care. In addition, the service will become a single platform for volunteer organizations and individual caring citizens who are ready to provide such patients with support. We are very glad that we were able to reach the final, because we consider our project very promising. In Kazan, we also plan to work in the track "Healthcare," - said the participant of the competition. | |
The Digital Breakthrough competition started on April 3. The main goal of the project is to find new personnel for the digital economy throughout Russia. 66,474 applications from all regions of Russia were submitted for the competition.
On May 20, the online testing stage of the competition ended, a total of 37,566 registered participants were admitted to testing. 19,203 people confirmed their competence by completing 132,577 tests. The qualifying stage was held in three areas: information technology, design, project management and business analysis.
Face-to-face events were held from June 8 to July 28 in 40 cities of Russia in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where specialists in the field of information technology, designers and managers in teams over 36 hours created prototypes of digital products.
According to the results, participants will be able to start a business, get a job in the country's leading companies, win a cash prize for the team in the amount of 500,000 rubles, and also receive a grant from the Innovation Assistance Fund for the development of their project. In addition, the contestants will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop, the educational center of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO.
The expert council and the jury of the Digital Breakthrough contest include representatives of such large companies as Rosatom State Corporation, Mail.ru Group, MegaFon, MTS.
Start of the largest hackathon in Russia as part of the Digital Breakthrough competition in Moscow
On July 30, 2019, it became known that the regional stage of the largest all-Russian competition "Digital Breakthrough" - one of the flagship projects of the ANO "Russia is a country of opportunity" - started in Moscow. Participants from Moscow and the Moscow Region will work on prototypes of digital products in six categories - "Healthcare," "State Administration," "Education and Science," "Housing and Public Utilities and Urban Environment," "Transport and Logistics" and "Industrial Solutions."
Within 36 hours of continuous hackathon, teams of IT specialists, designers and managers will create truly breakthrough technological solutions. Topics of tasks for contestants correspond to key areas of the country's development, reflected in national projects.
First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko sent a welcoming address to the participants of the regional semi-final. According to him, the competition really creates opportunities to prove themselves, find a team, develop a new product.
| | I greet you at the regional stage of the All-Russian competition "Digital Breakthrough" - the project of the platform "Russia is a country of opportunity." The competition will allow you to change your life: get a job, open your business and offer new technological solutions. In addition, you can change the life of your country by participating in the implementation of national projects and bringing Russia closer to a real digital breakthrough. And it will be real only when every resident feels his positive impact in his daily life: in the urban environment, in health care, education and public services, in the work of transport and housing and communal services. It is no coincidence that there are five areas of the competition in which you have to work. I am sure that you will succeed with the Digital Breakthrough! And with you everything will work out in Russia, "said Sergey Kiriyenko. | |
Eduard Lysenko, Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Information Technology Department of Kazakhstan, stressed that competitions such as Digital Breakthrough allow you to identify the best in the industry, set a trend for the constant development of competencies and increase interest in the IT sector.
| | Without the use of digital technologies, it is impossible to manage a modern city. Since 2010, the Moscow government has been implementing a large-scale program to create a smart city. Over the years, much has been done both in terms of creating a modern IT infrastructure and implementing information systems in all areas of urban economy. The rapid development of information technologies encourages us to move on, quickly respond to the challenges of time, introducing modern solutions to make the life of citizens even more comfortable. We are sure that the participants of the competition will benefit from the experience of technological solutions in Moscow. And all the ideas, potential that will be presented here will be used not only in the capital, but also in other Russian regions, "comments Eduard Lysenko. | |
| | Moscow takes the largest hackathon in our country - at the same time, about five hundred specialists from the capital and the Moscow Region work on the site of the qualifying stage of the Digital Breakthrough. This is an absolute record for Russia - previously no one managed to collect so many developers in one place. For us, this is a confirmation that our specialists are interested in large-scale tasks that can globally affect the development of the Russian economy, "commented Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough contest. | |
Nomination "Industrial Solutions" - provided by the General Partner of the competition by the State Corporation "Rosatom." Hamid Kostoev, marketing director of the ROSATOM digital block, noted that ROSATOM is one of the leading state corporations that help build the Russian digital economy.
| | But the digital economy is not just technology. These are not to a lesser extent people with the necessary digital competencies. And their education and work to identify talents should also be built in a new way. Recently, Rosatom launched the Mission: Talent initiative, which offers an individual and "human-centric" approach to cultivating talent. Therefore, we are very attentive to projects to identify "digital talents," and we are glad to support the Digital Breakthrough project, "said Hamid Kostoev. | |
Anton Sorokin, head of the Umnik program of the Innovation Assistance Fund, emphasized in his speech:
| | Events such as the Digital Breakthrough contest provide teams with expert and financial support, as well as help participants cooperate and create really strong projects. We are a foundation that has supported for many years with grants from talented designers throughout the country. This year, together with the ANO "Russia is a country of opportunity," we are making the Digital Breakthrough contest, and this is a huge joy and honor for us. Projects can develop differently, but each of them needs financial support, and our fund is ready to contribute to the growth of projects. Contestants who successfully pass the regional stages will be able to apply for a grant by August 15, and we will announce winners who will receive 500,000 rubles per person. The age of the applicant of the Umnik program should be from 18 to 30 years. | |
Representatives of state authorities and major Russian companies - Rosatom, Mail.ru Group, MegaFon, MTS - are members of the Expert Council and the jury of the Digital Breakthrough competition. They will take the best teams that will join the winners from other regions in the final of the competition.
| | While developing its business, MegaFon relies primarily on innovation and its successful implementation not only in the company's projects, but also in the future of the entire industry, in the future of millions of digital service users. We did not accidentally become a partner in the Digital Breakthrough contest. For us, it is extremely important that the personnel market of the IT industry in Russia actively and qualitatively develop. Therefore, MegaFon is actively working with universities. For us, this is a great opportunity to find young specialists who are thinking about a career in the field of IT, are interested in modern technologies and want to influence the course of their development, "said Andrei Knyazev, director of the business systems department of MegaFon PJSC. | |
As of July 30, over ten thousand people from Moscow and the Moscow Region submitted applications for participation in the Digital Breakthrough competition. Together with Moscow, the closing regional stage is accepted this weekend by four more cities: Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Vladikavkaz and Kursk. The final of the competition will be held September 27-29 in Kazan.
The Digital Breakthrough competition started on April 3. The main goal of the project is to find new personnel for the digital economy throughout Russia. 66,474 applications from all regions of Russia were submitted for the competition. On May 20, the online testing stage of the competition ended. A total of 37,566 registered participants were admitted to it. 19,203 people confirmed their competence by completing 132,577 tests. The qualifying stage was held in three areas: information technology, design, project management and business analysis.
Face-to-face events were held in 40 cities of Russia from June 8 to July 28 in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where information technology specialists, designers and managers in teams create prototypes of digital products in 36 hours.
According to the results, participants will be able to start a business, get a job in the country's leading companies, win a cash prize for the team in the amount of 500,000 rubles, and also receive a grant from the Innovation Assistance Fund for the development of their project. In addition, the contestants will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop, the educational center of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO.
The expert council and the jury of the Digital Breakthrough contest includes representatives of such large companies as Rosatom, Mail.ru Group, MegaFon, MTS.
Organizer
The organizer of the competition is the ANO "Rossiya - Country of Opportunity," the co-organizer is the "Innovation Assistance Fund."
Advisory council
The expert council of the competition included representatives of state and commercial organizations that successfully implement internal and external digital initiatives - the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Communications, RASI, RAEK, Rosatom Corporation, Rostelecom, SKB Kontroy, Vnesheconombank, Seldon and others.
The expert council will act as an external evaluator of projects developed by teams during the regional hackathons - based on the results of their assessments, a pool of specialists will be formed who passed into the last full-time stage of the competition.
The full list of members of the expert council of the Digital Breakthrough competition:
- Denis Solodovnikov, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation;
- Oleg Bocharov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation;
- Mikhail Nasibulin, Director of the Department of the Ministry of Communications for the coordination and implementation of projects on the digital economy;
- Igor Agamirzyan, Vice President of the HSE.
- Andrei Belevtsev, Director of Digital Transformation, Gazprom Neft;
- Andrei Bugaenko, Deputy Director of the Voskhod Research Institute;
- Dmitry Voloshin, General Director of Otus.ru;
- Vladimir Gabrielyan, Vice President, Technical Director, Mail.ru
- Boris Glazkov, Vice President of PJSC Rostelecom;
- Elijah Dimitrov, Seldon CEO;
- Andrey Klepach, Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank;
- Dmitry Marmorov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SKB Kontur;
- Sergey Plugotarenko, Director of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications;
- Ekaterina Solntseva, Director of Digitalization of Rosatom Corporation;
- Alexander Tormasov, Rector of Innopolis University;
- Maria Shklyaruk, General Director of the Center for Advanced Management Decisions;
Registration of participants
To participate in the competition, it was necessary to submit an application on the portal цифровойпрорыв.рф. Registration of participants was available from April 3 to May 15.
Final registration results: 66474 people will compete for the prizes of the Digital Breakthrough contest
Over 60 thousand IT specialists, designers and managers in the field of the digital economy became participants in the Digital Breakthrough contest, one of the flagship projects of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO. The application campaign took place from April 3 to May 15. Now the contestants will have to pass qualifying online testing and compete for access to the regional stage of the competition.
| | "We have received 66474 applications. This indicates the demand for the Digital Breakthrough competition among the target audience - talented and ambitious IT specialists. The contestants have two important stages ahead - online testing and regional competitions, overcoming which, the strongest teams will be able to compete for prizes in the final of the competition this fall. We wish success to all participants in passing competitive tests, "commented Alexey Komissarov, Director General of ANO Russia - Country of Opportunity. | |
Most applications came from residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg. The top 10 cities by the number of registrations for the competition also included Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Voronezh, Saratov, Samara, Krasnodar and Nizhny Novgorod.
| | "The largest influx of applications for the competition occurred in the last two weeks of the bid campaign. It is worth noting that in connection with the numerous requests from the regions, we had to extend the registration stage for three days. Qualifying online testing starts today, "said Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough project. | |
He added that online tests will help identify "the strongest IT specialists, as well as talented managers and designers who will take part in one of the 40 regional hackathons in June-July."
| | "We are confident that projects like Digital Breakthrough solve two problems at the same time - they help talented specialists to realize themselves and, thereby, contribute to the development of the country's digital economy, become one of the drivers of its competitiveness growth," concluded Oleg Mansurov. | |
Intermediate Registration Results
The number of participants in the Digital Breakthrough contest, one of the flagship projects of the Russia-Country of Opportunity ANO, increased by 20 thousand in just a week and, according to May 7, 2019, exceeded 50 thousand people.
By the number of registrations traditionally lead Moscow and. St. Petersburg In addition, participants from,,, and showed great activity Voronezh Perm. Krasnodar Izhevsk Ufa Applications for the regional stage of the competition are accepted until May 12.
| | We are glad to see such a positive response from specialists from all over Russia - the application campaign did not slow down even on the days of the May holidays. There are still several weekends, holidays ahead, and we hope to welcome another wave of new participants after them, "said Oleg Mansurov, head of the Digital Breakthrough project. | |
| | A large number of applications for the competition confirms the relevance of the selected format. Our country has a huge number of strong and talented specialists in the field of digital technologies. Digital Breakthrough is the country's largest personnel IT competition. We see that young specialists starting their careers and teams with rich professional experience show interest in the project. I am sure that according to the results of 40 regional hackathons, we will receive many breakthrough ideas and prototypes of products, "said Vladislav Davankov, Deputy General Director of ANO Russia - Country of Opportunity. | |
The Digital Breakthrough competition started on April 3. The main goal of the project is to find new personnel for the digital economy throughout Russia.
The application campaign will last until May 12, after which participants will receive online testing, participation in which is mandatory for passing into the regional stage of the competition. The regional stage will be held in the format of hackathons - competitive events, where representatives of information technologies, designers and managers in teams in 36 hours create prototypes of digital products.
According to the results, participants will be able to start their business, get a job in the leading companies of the country, win a cash prize for their team in the amount of 500 thousand rubles, and also receive a grant from the "Innovation Assistance Fund" for the development of their project. In addition, the contestants will have the opportunity to undergo training in special educational programs at the Senege Management Workshop.
Interview with project leader Oleg Mansurov
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