The Magnit Tech Accelerator (MGNTech) final kicked off today, coinciding with the opening of Magnit’s digital office at Skolkovo, which will be home to one hundred of the retailer’s IT specialists. The focus of the accelerator is to challenge Skolkovo...
The Skolkovo Foundation resident company VisionLabs has for the third time in a row confirmed its reputation as one of the global leaders in the field of computer vision and machine learning. This is based on the results of the independent testing of facial...
“I think that winning the competition is something to remember for a long time. I will tell my daughters that when they were born I won a large international innovation competition.” So said Alexander Dremin, a radio-engineer and electronics...
The formula "Shoot for the sun to hit the Moon" has never been fairer than during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The coronavirus disease, which has made half of the world's population stay at home, not only fails to prevent ExoAtlet from engaging...
The educational online platform Uchi.ru is Russia's only project to be ranked among the world's Top 10 websites in the education category, VC.ru reports, citing Similarweb The Similarweb ranking has regard to indicators, such as the average amount...
"It's like Dropbox, but only for corporate passwords," Andrei Pyankov, CEO of Passwork , an Arkhangelsk-based company, briefly explains the essence of the product. This conversation took place during the Startup Tour stage in the capital...
At the GITEX 2019 Technology Week in Dubai, the Skolkovo company TransInzhCom agreed with the engineering firm ‘Consultant HHS’ (UAE) to launch a joint pilot project. TransInzhCom, which develops the BRIO MRS mixed reality platform, which...
TAIPEI, TAIWAN An article entitled “Silicon Island” was published in Forbes Magazine 21 years ago. In the midst of the 1998 economic crisis, the author of the publication noted that while the economies of other Asian countries plunged into recession...
F5 Company, a global leader in multi-cloud services, announced acquisition of NGINX Web Server. The deal was worth around $670 million US, the press release of F5 says. NGINX Company is a resident of the IT Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. Illustration...
Marks & Spencer, one of the largest British retailers invested in Texel, the company that designed the technology of the electronic fitting room, Sergey Klimentyev, co-founder of the Skolkovo resident company, told Sk.ru. The negotiations regarding...
A large group of managers of major technology companies from Taiwan visited the Skolkovo Foundation. The delegation, led by James Huang, Chairman of the Taiwan Council for the Development of Foreign Trade (TAITRA), was received by Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman...
A Royal delegation arrived from the Riyadh Province, headed by its Vice Governor, Prince Muhammad bin Abdel-Rahman al Saud, visited Skolkovo and studied the new products of six residents of the Foundation. The high-ranking Saudi delegation came to Moscow...
A large group of top managers of AB InBev, the largest beer brewery in the world, visited the Skolkovo Foundation. Over several hours representatives of the Belgian company, led by Vice President for Global Solutions Tassilo Festetics, toured the Skolkovo Technopark...
VisionLabs, a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation, which specializes in computer vision and machine learning systems, has been ranked as one of top 3 face recognition algorithms of the US-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)....
The Russian Streetbee service which collects data using crowdsourcing and machine learning technologies for retail, FMCG, and pharmaceutical companies, has announced a merger with BeMyEye, a leading European data collection service based on crowdsourcing, spokesperson...
Skolkovo resident company Group-IB won a cybersecurity award in the Runet awards last week, which are awarded for excellence in the development of the Russian internet sector. Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov with his company's award at the Runet awards...
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...
Country, city: USA, San Francisco. Visiting Russia once or twice a year. Job title, company: By the Bay, Founder The main milestones: PhD in Computer Science from UPenn, first CS PhD on influence on Twitter. Senior Software Engineer, Amazon....
Mining industry management systems developer VIST Group, whose daughter company VIST Robotics is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has sold a majority stake to Zyfra, a company developing solutions to digitalize industry, the companies said in a statement...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement with Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Wednesday during the ASEAN-Russian summit in Singapore. Alexander Khanin (left), CEO of Skolkovo...
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...
VIST Robotics , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, last week unveiled its autonomous industrial loading and transport system for the mining industry at a testing ground in Belarus. Video: Sk.ru. The Skolkovo company...
Skolkovo resident cybercrime company Group-IB has joined forces with Russia’s police academy to train police officers in the field of cybersecurity. Group-IB CEO Ilya Sachkov (left) shakes hands on the agreement with Andrei Konev, head of the Interior...
Wallarm , a Skolkovo resident company that provides AI-powered application security, announced Monday that it had closed an $8 million series A financing round in San Francisco, bringing the company’s total funding raised to $10.8 million. Members...
Amid the driverless cars, robots, virtual reality headsets, industrial equipment and examples of every area of tech on show at the Open Innovations forum held at the Skolkovo Technopark this week, some looked a little out of place. An inviting-looking double...