Digital Valley

2019

SAP cooperation with the Yenisei Siberia Development Corporation in training IT specialists for the Krasnoyarsk Digital Valley project

On June 06, 2019, SAP CIS announced the intentions of SAP and JSC Yenisei Siberia Development Corporation to cooperate in the field of training IT specialists for the Krasnoyarsk Digital Valley project. The document was signed by Sergey Ladyzhenko, General Director of the Yenisei Siberia Development Corporation, and Andrei Filatov, General Director of SAP CIS . More details here.

Technopark Agreement

The Yenisei Siberia Development Corporation and 30 Moscow and Krasnoyarsk IT companies concluded an agreement in March 2019 on the creation of the Digital Valley in Krasnoyarsk. The ceremony was held as part of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum and instead of traditional signatures on paper, participants left fingerprints on the electronic screen, the TASS correspondent reports.

The purpose of the project is to concentrate in one place and create favorable conditions for the work of domestic IT companies, to stimulate the development of Russian information technologies. To do this, a high-tech technopark will be built in Krasnoyarsk, on the squares of which companies can place their offices. The total number of jobs in the Digital Valley in five years will be 5 thousand. By the end of 2019, up to one thousand jobs can be created, which will bring the budget 50 million rubles in taxes.

"The complex investment project" Yenisei Siberia, "which consists of industrial projects in the field of mining, processing of metals, minerals, is replenished with another, related to high-tech solutions, using the strongest points of our human potential. The project is very young, he is literally a couple of months old, "said Sergey Ladyzhenko, general director of the Yenisei Siberia Development Corporation, at the ceremony

The Digital Valley will include a technopark, Novoostrovsky and Akademgorodok housing estates, the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center, the Institute of Space and Information Technologies of the Siberian Federal University and the eSports Center. Its residents will receive a low cost of rental payments, the presence of active investors, a "green corridor" for the implementation of their projects, as well as special conditions for employees - residential infrastructure, transport logistics between sites.

"Our role in the project is to attract federal companies. Literally in a month and a half they were able to agree [on participation in the project] with five rather large companies. This is the Atom Foundation, which made the Digital Valley in Sochi, this is AT Consulting, Beeper, VTsIOM, our agency. We expect to bring here about 20 large players before the summer and it will be either re-registration of them here or the creation of separate units with jobs, "Denis Terekhov, managing partner of Social Networks, told TASS