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...
More than 150 students, developers and scientists working in the field of neuroscience spent a sleepless weekend at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on November 16-18 for a neuro-hackathon , racing each other in teams to find solutions...
Every day, the headlines warn us that robots will soon replace humans in more and more jobs. But in many areas of industry, experts believe that the best work is a joint effort by man and technology. This is the thinking behind a competition held at the...
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...
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...
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...
“Will robots take over?” and “Will robots take our jobs?” are the most frequent robot predictions searched for on Google. The internet, alas, does not always have accurate answers. But if anyone knows what the future holds in store for...
Hackers may be associated around the world with Russia above any other country, thanks to news reports that often describe cybercriminals as Russian, and to accusations this year that Russian hackers were behind attacks on the U.S. Democratic National Committee...
Russia marked a milestone Wednesday with its first large-scale event for women in technology, aimed at supporting female professionals working in spheres where they are distinctly outnumbered by men, such as IT. Tatyana Arkharova (right), head of the...
The Skolkovo Foundation is on the hunt for promising virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) projects and has launched a search that will culminate in St. Petersburg next month. The competition will be held as part of Unreal Fest , an international open-air...
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...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
Seventeen innovations received recognition at the Minsk stage of the Startup Tour this week, with four projects winning a place in the pitch sessions at Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The winners of the Belarus pitch sessions. Photo: sk.ru ...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center on March 20-22 hosted the third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference, one of the biggest events of its kind in Russia. More than 2,000 registered for the three-day bonanza , which bought together robot developers, company...
The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
The Skolkovo Foundation began accepting applications Monday for the pitch sessions at Startup Village, Eastern Europe’s biggest innovations conference, at the Innovation Center on June 2-3. Last year's Startup Village attracted around 10,000...
A trip to the United States has blown away any doubt in three of Skolkovo’s premier startup businesses that the lucrative tech market is accessible, and that local partners and investors can be found, the entrepreneurs say. The companies, Viziware...
A cloud solutions company from Skolkovo’s IT cluster named Jelastic has won the Russian stage of IBM’s global SmartCamp contest. Jelastic is based in Silicon Valley but in 2012 year launched an R&D spinoff in Skolkovo to develop a product...
Software giant SAP cites analysts as saying the Russian cloud computing market is growing at a rate of 30 to 40 percent a year. The Russian affiliate of the German-based firm, SAP CIS, a partner of the Skolkovo Foundation, said in a press release on Tuesday...