The fourth annual CyberDay conference devoted to cybersecurity got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday, the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of Computer Security Day. Skolkovo Foundation chairman Arkady Dvorkovich speaking at the opening...
Group-IB , a Skolkovo resident company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, is opening new global headquarters in Singapore, it announced at CyberCrimeCon 2018 in Singapore on Monday. Ilya Sachkov, CEO of Skolkovo resident company Group-IB at...
Cybersecurity experts urged countries to put politics aside and work together to tackle hackers, and to turn the tables on cyber-predators by hunting them down, at an international conference in Moscow this week organised by Skolkovo resident company Group...
Cybersecurity warriors from all over the world are congregating in Moscow this week for CyberCrimeCon/18 , a two-day conference organised by Skolkovo resident cybersecurity company Group-IB . Group-IB solves about 80 percent of high-profile investigations...
Eight Skolkovo IT startups headed to the Asian startup hub of Singapore last week to showcase their innovative products and solutions at ConnecTechAsia, a major telecoms trade exhibition. Singapore has a startup tax exemption scheme and launchpads across...
Seven Skolkovo resident startups are currently presenting their innovative mobile tech products and solutions at Mobile World Congress Shanghai , which opened Wednesday and runs through June 29. Seven Skolkovo startups are taking part in this year's...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
“AI will not replace lawyers, but will enhance connections to data beyond the abilities of a human mind. And data can win cases,” believes Michael Lew, founder of LegalComet, a legal tech advisory service based in Singapore. Michael Lew, founder...
When the Kursk region-based agricultural enterprise Agrofirma Rylskaya noticed that the costs of their sugar beet production were constantly rising, with no corresponding increase in yield, they turned to an innovative tech startup. Roboprob , a resident startup...
The U.S. may be streets ahead in the development of driverless cars, but there is one area where Russia could still overtake, Russian technology experts believe. Their secret weapon? That tried-and-tested historical ally, General Winter. For it’s one...
For centuries, ambitious young people have gone into law believing they would never be in want of work: the world will always need lawyers, so the thinking went. In the 21 st century, amid growing predictions that many human jobs will soon be outsourced to...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...
Three Skolkovo fintech startups presented their solutions to the global financial services world at the recent Sibos conference in Toronto, after winning the chance to do so in a competition earlier this year. Maria Veikhman (left), CEO and founder of...
The proximity of Vladivostok to Asia is palpable throughout the port city in Russia’s Far East, from the abundance of right-hand drive cars imported from Japan – a growing number of them electric – and currency exchange points displaying rates...
Banks, power stations and cryptocurrency exchanges are the most likely targets for hacking in the near future, the cybersecurity company Group-IB said Tuesday, presenting its Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2017 report at a conference. Ilya Sachkov, CEO of Group...
Two resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster were among the top 10 companies at Slush Singapore this week, as selected by a jury of investors. Svetlana Yefimova presenting her company Oz Forensics at Slush Singapore. Photo: Oz Forensics...
Five Skolkovo companies will take part in the DICE Europe video game industry conference, which is taking place in Cascais, Portugal on September 10-12. DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) brings together gaming, console and VR industry players...
Questions surrounding artificial intelligence and whether or not it constitutes a threat to mankind have dominated the headlines this year. Now the Skolkovo innovation centre is gathering together Russian and international experts in this field to discuss the...
Mobile devices, the Internet of Things and outdated legislation were put under the microscope last week at the annual Business Information Security Summit in Moscow, as international IT security experts agreed on one thing: business technologies are growing...
Для резидентов и представителей Фонда «Сколково» стартовал традиционный «осенний марафон» кибербезопасности. В сентябре они стали участниками двух главных конференциях по теме ИБ. На октябрь намечена масштабная конференция резидента...
Современные технологии способны кардинально менять качество жизни людей. Простой пример: всего несколько лет назад человек, потерявший руку или ногу, вынужден был менять образ жизни и привычки, смиряться с отсутствием многих возможностей. Сегодня такой человек...
Konstantin Deblikov deftly extends one black, bionic finger to rub the side of his nose as he talks. The casual observer might think that the young journalist from Voronezh has complete mastery of his bionic hands, but his dexterity belies the struggle that...
В рамках конференции FinTech Lab 2016 состоялась битва питчей финтех-стартапов, по итогам которой сервис Cashoff, разработанный резидентом «Сколково» « Кэшофф Лаб », набрал наибольшее число голосов от представителей банковского сообщества...
For three days this week, Skolkovo will be transformed into an international centre of industrial design, promise the organisers of an event aimed at helping tech startups to use design as a tool to commercialize their projects. The idea for the Days...