Friends! We invite you on April 15 to the Russian final of our main student competition of software projects - Imagine Cup! (
registration ,
online broadcast )

This year, the
Imagine Cup is 15 years old. Over all these years, the competition has changed, new categories have appeared in it, he traveled the world until he settled in Seattle. This year, we again returned to the “roots”, and at the competition we consider student projects of any kind, using modern cloud technologies, while the main focus is on technology.
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But something has changed. Come April 15 to Digital October to learn the shocking news about the changes in the Imagine Cup, how many teams will go to represent Russia at the competition in Seattle, as well as to celebrate with us! And if you can not come - watch the online broadcast!
The main reason why you should come to the Russian final is
to listen to the performances of the teams ! This year,
13 teams will be presented at the finals, carefully selected from more than 100 applications during the intramural and absentee regional finals. The final included teams from MIPT, Skoltech, Innopolis, MAI, MEI, UNN, PFC, SFU, SUSU, as well as one school project. You can read the
descriptions of projects in advance. You can listen to the performances of teams from the stage, or chat with them at the exhibition.
The projects include a system for identifying and analyzing scientific trends, smart games for children using artificial intelligence technologies, applications for choosing interesting tourist routes based on data from social networks, a rehabilitation project after a stroke with Kinect, playing a guitar based on smart watches, several projects with virtual and augmented reality. Interesting? Highly!
In addition to the performances of the teams, you are waiting for:
- Elite machine learning workshop with Azure ML and deep neural networks from our evangelist Yevgeny Grigorenko. This is a great chance in 2 hours to get acquainted with such a popular topic as deep machine learning and learn to recognize images in practice. To participate in the master class, you must have a laptop!
- An interactive discussion on the topic of reason and feelings in the era of artificial intelligence. Do you think robots in love will appear soon? We accept answers at the event!
- Secret master class / business game , about which we do not tell you yet, but it promises to be very interesting!
- The exhibition , where in addition to the projects of students will be presented interesting devices, including those that you probably want to see !
- Botokvest on knowledge of the history of Imagine Cup! Come prepared to win prizes right on the spot!
- The grand closing and award ceremony with the participation of a famous blogger , with whom you will definitely want to take a picture, as well as a special surprise dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the Imagine Cup !
- Opportunity to talk with experts, learn about where to find resources for the development of their technological projects
- Well, as well as always - delicious coffee breaks and other entertainment!
Hope to meet many of you at the event soon! Hurry to
register , the places are rapidly running out!