New UrFU Campus to Host Finals of All-Russian RuCode Festival
On October 14 and 15 Ekaterinburg will host the RuCode finals on the territory of the world-class campus of the Ural Federal University. This is the largest face-to-face platform of the festival that will bring together more than 1000 participants from all over Russia.
Ekaterinburg was chosen as the capital of the 2023 finals for a reason. The Sverdlovsk region has a well-developed IT industry: there are not only local companies, but also federal development agencies. The goal of the festival is to stimulate further development of IT education and the IT industry in the region.
A rich program awaits the participants. October 14 will be the Day of Artificial Intelligence: popular scientific conference on AI, where specialists from Yandex, Sber, Rosatom, VK and others will speak; personal defense of the best solutions of the AI championship, exhibition of IT companies, job fair, master classes, excursions to the campus and to the offices of companies in Ekaterinburg. October 15 will be the day of algorithmic programming: a personal championship in algorithmic programming, accredited by the Russian Sports Programming Federation.
“On October 14, as part of the third stage, Ekaterinburg will host an in-person defense of the best solutions to AI problems on data from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Rosatom State Corporation and Kontur. And on October 15, everyone will be able to try their hand at the algorithmic programming championship online, but out of competition,” said Alexei Maleev, director of the Higher School of Software Engineering at MIPT and head of the festival’s program committee. – Only the results of the live events will be counted, and only those who passed the selection process will be counted. The Ural Federal University will become a meeting place for more than 1000 festival participants, a place of communication with professionals in the field of programming, artificial intelligence and representatives of the IT industry”.
All-Russian RuCode Festival of Artificial Intelligence in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering and Life Sciences is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia and the Federal Project “Popularization of Science and Technology”. Along with the organizers, the participants are supported by Yandex, Sber and Rosatom State Corporation.
“Today, the development of the economy and society is closely linked to progress in the field of artificial intelligence. Therefore, training specialists in AI is the most important task for Russia, to which Sber, as a leader in the IT market, makes a great contribution by supporting young and talented professionals. I am confident that RuCode will be a great platform for the participants of the intensives to get acquainted with the world of artificial intelligence,” said Andrey Ocheretny, Managing Director-Head of Academic Partnerships at Sber.