Russian Federation Winners Tender

Moscow hosted the Grand Final of the second season of Digital Breakthrough. The best IT teams were able to personally communicate with top managers of the largest commercial and state companies heads of departments and tell them about their developments.As part of the Grand Final a strategic management session was held at which the participants discussed key issues related to digital transformation determined which specialists in what areas would be needed in the future. In addition a master class on successful negotiations and goal setting was organized for the teams.The event ended with an award ceremony for the winners who presented the best solutions for the given cases. The teams received cash prizes and gifts from the competition partners. The winners of the Smart City case were presented by Maxim Egorov Deputy Minister of Construction Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation.Participants of the Digital Breakthrough hackathon solve applied problems aimed at improving the quality of life accelerating and simplifying business processes and growing the economy. For the departmental project Smart City the teams have developed interesting solutions and recommendations that will surely find application in the program. The solutions will allow faster and more accurate assessment of the progress of digitalization in 209 cities participating in the project and therefore will help the technological development of our cities says Maxim Egorov.The hackathon participants who chose the Smart City direction were tasked with improving the monitoring and data analysis system that helps assess the digitalization of urban economy - the IQ Index of Cities developed by the Ministry of Construction of Russia and Moscow State University. Lomonosov. The index is measured on the basis of 47 indicators currently obtained mainly by hand. As a case study it was proposed to create a methodology and an algorithm for collecting data that would reduce the number of indicators collected and processed manually improve their quality and transparency.The jury included representatives of the Smart City project Moscow State University. Lomonosov Rostelecom and Big Troika LLC. They evaluated solutions in 10 areas for example originality performance compliance of the result with the task economic effect. The scalability and the code itself were also assessed its quality modernity legality. 14 teams took the Smart City problem and 12 teams reached the defense.In total more than 45.5 thousand Russians from all 85 regions of Russia took part in the qualifying competitions for the second season of the Digital Breakthrough competition and 1.2 thousand specialists from 70 regions reached the final. 45 teams became the winners of the Digital Breakthrough.