Kazan Digital Week 2022 brings together over 18 thousand participants from 65 countries

One hundred and twenty events devoted to digitalization were organized at the international forum.

More than 18,000 people from 65 countries participated in the Kazan Digital Week 2022 International Forum, which was held from 21 to 24 September at the Kazan Expo Center. They joined the event in online and offline modes. In total, 120 events were organized devoted to digitalization in all areas – from cybersecurity to agriculture and culture, Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin said at the Business Monday meeting.

Digital technologies are being used in all the activities of the municipality. Digitalization increases the efficiency of work, which frees up the time, the head of the city stressed. “Therefore, we will continue to improve our work. The working procedures are speeding up, as well as the decision–making, and importantly, all these resources allow us to improve not only the quality of data control, but also the transparency of all our work, - I. Metshin said. - Already implemented projects require constant improvement and updating. This year, the implementation opportunities have shrunk due to sanctions, but the development of the industry in the republic, which President Rustam Minnikhanov and our colleagues from the federal center pay attention to, gives confidence that we will implement all the goals.”

The Mayor reminded that the forum program included a specialized block for the exchange of practices between municipalities.

Dmitry Kremlyov, Head of the IT&C Department, said that the program on digital transformation of state and municipal administration was of great interest to the participants. The experts discussed the way to establish more effective communication with the residents and form a comfortable information infrastructure for users at the VKontakte State section.

The replication of experience and the use of new digital products are among the main goals of Kazan Digital Week. This year, the forum participants discussed the exchange trading of identified valid products, identified trends in venture investments and the development of the GameDev- industry. The Phygital Games were held at the forum as part of the preparatory events to the Games of Future 2024 in Kazan.

Russia's first large-scale project for the development of talents in the gaming industry “Start the Game” was presented at the section “Import replacement in education. Measures of state support for IT departments of the university”. It will allow to provide conditions for professional and creative self-realization of young people who are engaged in the development of gaming products.

Experts also shared their experience at the “Cybersecurity of the new time” section. “Now we have started implementing projects using artificial intelligence in video surveillance cameras and intercoms installed in apartment buildings, - said the head of the IT&C Department. – I would like to note that thanks to the large-scale installation of video cameras and security systems in Kazan in social facilities, public places and yards of the city, the security level is at a high level.”

For the first time, an exhibition of implemented digital projects took place at the Kazan Digital Week.