About 120 events will be held within the framework of the International Forum Kazan Digital Week 2022 which opens on Wednesday in Kazan. The forum will host roundtable discussions, conferences, exhibitions, as well as the Figital Games and the All-Russian Digital Skills Championship.
"We expect to hold 120 different events in 10 areas. These are round tables and thematic sections. There is a large number of speakers <...>. The exhibition <...> is a large part of the event - 10 thousand square meters, about 140 Russian exhibitors, who are ready to present their leading IT-solutions", said Ayrat Khayrullin, Minister of Digital Development of Tatarstan, at the press-conference in the eve of the event.
Topics of digital government, intellectual transport systems, cyber-security, digital technologies in agriculture, medicine and financial sector will be discussed at the forum.
Khayrullin said that the number of participants in business, official and exhibition parts of Kazan Digital Week will reach 15 thousand.
Maxut Shadayev, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov, Deputy Minister of Transport Dmitry Bakanov and others are among the speakers announced at the forum.
The International Forum Kazan Digital Week will be held from September 21 to 24, 2022, at the Kazan Expo. On the same days, the Kazan Expo will host the All-Russian Digital Skills Championship, where students will compete in digital competencies, as well as the Figital games, held in Kazan ahead of the Games of the Future in four disciplines: Figital football (FIFA + Futsal), Figital basketball (NBA2K + Streetball), Beat Saber - a VR game where the participant has to break geometric shapes to a musical rhythm and score points, and a drone race.
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Based on materials from TASS