#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The digital education center IT-Cube.Norilsk will hold the VI IT-Weekend|Norilsk festival on April 19 and 20. The event will bring together experts who will talk about the possibilities and prospects of domestic developments.
Speakers’ presentations will be complemented with master classes and interactive platforms. Residents of other cities can connect to the online broadcast.
“Norilsk will again become the center of the IT community’s attention. This time, at the request of regular festival participants, the theme was the horizons and challenges that domestic developers face today, and the best examples of IT specialists’ self-realization. Thanks to the support of the Norilsk Development Agency (NDA), the IT-Cube center invites interesting speakers to the festival”, said the organizers.
Head of extended reality at SberDevices Yana Charuyskaya will present solutions that, using artificial intelligence, help generate not only images and text, but also music and video, as well as create entire worlds in extended reality.

Alena Biryukova, manager of mobile and front-end development at Smart Technology, will talk about the career opportunities that IT specialists have today, about the mistakes of novice developers and ways to overcome them. And two more expert presentations await participants of the IT-Weekend|Norilsk festival.
The event will take place over two days. The number of participants reaches 200 people. On the first day, the organizers prepared activities for schoolchildren and students, and on the second, the material will be designed for adult IT specialists. To diversify the program, speaker performances and interactive platforms will alternate with master classes and quizzes on the festival theme.
The city schoolchildren and students can receive an invitation to the festival by completing an online quest. The link to the quest is published on the official resources of the IT-Cube.Norilsk center.
It will be possible to join the festival online; speakers’ speeches and key interactive events will be broadcast on the website itweekend.ru/. Viewers will be able to join in the discussion.
Let us recall that last year the festival was dedicated to Russian developments in the field of cybersecurity, as well as solutions in the field of neural networks.
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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Severny Gorod MC’s archive