RCC 2015 final September 19

As all the participants of the Russian Code Cup championship and their fans know, the final contest will take place on September 19. This is the fourth RCC account, and this year the total number of participants exceeded 6,000 people. However, this time we decided to move away from the usual format and significantly expanded the program of the final. While the participants will solve the assignments given, a talk show will be held at the Mail.Ru Group office dedicated to the past, present and future of programming and high technology, which will be broadcast live.

Guests will exchange views on a variety of issues related to the development of IT and programming. This is the first such talk show in our country. The presenters will be Anton Komolov and Mikhail Mirzayanov, the head of the Center for Olympiad Programming Training.

Here is a list of guests who will take part in discussions and interviews:
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• Nikolay Nikiforov - Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation;
• Natalia Kasperskaya - InfoWatch CEO;
• Sergey Andreev - President of ABBYY;
• Oleg Bortunov is one of the key developers of the Mail.Ru Group, a member of the PostgreSQL Foundation;
• Dmitry Soshnikov - technological evangelist at Microsoft;
• Aleksey Pajitnov - programmer, inventor of the Tetris game;
• Anatoly Shalyto - Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Programming Technologies Department at ITMO St. Petersburg State University;
• Dmitry Sklyarov - programmer, developer of the Advanced eBook Processor program;
• Evgeny Malikov - Vice-President for Organizational Development of the Mail.Ru Group;
• Dmitry Zevelev - Director for Advertising Technologies Mail.Ru Group;
• Dmitry Voloshin - Director of the Research and Education Department of Mail.Ru Group.

The finalists will be able to take part in the competition personally, arriving at the office of Mail.Ru Group (Moscow) or ITMO University (St. Petersburg), and remotely from home. The fight for the prizes will take place from 12 to 15 hours. The talk show broadcast will occasionally be interspersed with direct inclusions from the halls where the championship final will be held.