One day in the village. Skolkovo Startup Village

On June 2-3, Intel took part in the Skolkovo Startup Village conference. Intel emerged from the startup age a few decades ago, but we know how our energetic and creative young people can use our technology to succeed. While some worked on the stand, others (in my face) walked around the territory, gathering impressions. Here they are, these impressions in the format of a photo essay - what is, do not seek it. Keep in mind: at the end of the post - a small teaser.

So, the village of Skolkovo, a Russian forge of the nano-bolt, met guests and participants of the conference with a multi-kilometer traffic jam on a narrow highway that was not adapted to allow so many cars to pass and multimeter lines to the check-in counters: as a result of some kind of failure, whether technical, or organizational, good half of those who arrived had to register again. Arriving at 9, I stood in the queue for an hour, and as for the late ones who had pulled up according to the Moscow tradition later, they can only sympathize with them ...


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Entering the village was met by girls and boys dancing on the gate. The girls squealed and shot with crackers. For those who consider this work easy, I would like to emphasize that they had to dance all day under the scorching sun. So and wrinkle long.



Nobel Street, while the only one in the village of startups. But construction is in full swing, expansion is only a matter of time. And money. It seems to me that ours.



Startup LADA presented an innovative car Lada 4x4 Urban. It looks, of course, not so hot, but nothing, the first step is the first step.



Slingshot - a symbol of innovation. There is another symbol in Skolkovo, well reflecting the essence of what is happening: a bicycle with square wheels is installed at the entrance to the village. Very accurate in my opinion.





Intel's pavilion was always crowded. They demonstrated RealSense : they played on a virtual piano, and Konstantin cappasity personally produced a 3D scan of various objects. Also, everyone (or, more precisely, everyone who posted a selfie from here to any social network) was handed out nano-ice . In the corner of the photo shows how it looks. It tastes great!



This is a Skolkovo nano robot, infante terriblé of our pavilion. At first, he moderately annealed and even quoted Guberman from memory, but then either from the heat or from excessive attention fell into insanity and by the end of the day he got everyone.



Another “start-up”, it is unclear how it turned out in Startup Village - Russian Post. Going into the pavilion behind the mailbox, you could take a virtual tour of the “office of the future.” The future of the post, according to the authors of the project, is the introduction of an electronic queue and glass partitions. Not to say that it is very ambitious, but real and useful.



Headliners of the first day of the festival: Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich and President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg. On the second day, Dmitry Medvedev himself arrived.







Robot section of the village leaves a sense of inferiority. Then you realize: well, when a robot decently plays table hockey and a designer with sensors is not bad either, but in the 21st century you expect more intelligent products from innovative start-ups. Certain hopes were pinned on the computer chess player, but the setup of the system was delayed and we could not see it in the work.







So that you do not think that I was looking for one negative on Startup Village - no, it is not. I was pleased to see enthusiastic people who were hotly discussing some working moments, nice to find really useful, not toy projects - there were not many of them, but they were. My main prize goes to the guys from the company Fibrum . Making a virtual reality helmet from a smartphone is an absolutely brilliant idea in its simplicity. And the implementation is also not pumped up.



Why is this girl engaged in training around the Intel Pavilion? But I will not say. At least for now. I note only that the topic is very interesting and soon a separate post will be devoted to it.

So say goodbye. All successful innovation!