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‘Hack For Peace” invites developers, entrepreneurs, mentors and investors to create anti-war tech products (Oct. 21-23)

Sigma Software Group, a Swedish-Ukrainian IT company, and Tech Nation, a UK platform providing support services to forward-looking leaders and founders, have teamed up to host‘Hack for Peace.’ This cross-European hackathon aims to support the creation of anti-war tech products. The organizers welcome aspiring newcomers, advanced coders, professional entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, and all others who …

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From education to social and environmental responsibility: How Yandex pushed its sustainability agenda in 2021

Yandex publishes today its annual Sustainability Progress Report covering the company’s environmental, social and corporate governance results in 2021 and outlining key accomplishments within each of the sustainability priority areas. Yandex presented its full sustainability agenda in 2020. A number of streams, for example, cybersecurity, the quality of services and employee wellbeing, are closely aligned …

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Yandex publishes YaLM 100B, the largest GPT-like neural network in open source

Yandex has published YaLM 100B, a bilingual neural network for generating and processing text. It’s the largest GPT-like model in the public domain. It can be used freely by developers and researchers from all over the world. YaLM 100B contains 100 billion parameters, more than any GPT-like model available in open-source under a license that …

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New East Tech Awards: Highlighting the region’s best startups and investors (deadline: Dec. 17)

New East Tech Awards — an event intended for both startups and investors — aims to highlight the strongest players in the VC market and provide them exceptional collaboration opportunities, networking and resources.  Startups from the ‘New East’ (Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Balkans) as well as VC funds, business angels and accelerators investing in …

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Tinkoff named most innovative digital bank in Central and Eastern Europe at World’s Best Digital Bank Awards

Tinkoff has been recognised for its innovative banking solutions as the Most Innovative Digital Bank in Central and Eastern Europe at Global Finance magazine’s 2021 World’s Best Digital Banks awards. In 2020, Tinkoff unveiled its AI Banking strategy that aims to transform its customer offering through personalisation with the help of artificial intelligence across all products …

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Yandex, Cambridge and Oxford universities team up to launch international machine learning competition

Yandex, in collaboration with Oxford and Cambridge Universities and as part of the NeurIPS conference on machine learning, is launching the global ‘Shifts Challenge’, a three-pronged competition track designed to tackle the problem of distributional shift in ML that features the largest autonomous vehicle (AV) dataset in the industry to date. This dataset contains 600,000 scenes (or more than 1,600 hours …

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High tech reverberations from the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

A notable part of this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was dedicated to IT and digital transformation as well as the state’s role in these fields (see the forum’s topical sessions and its special Innovation Space). This major event took place on June 3-4, gathering much of the country’s political and business elite and some foreign …

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Moscow online event on smart cities attended by 193,000 people from around the world

No less than 193,000 people attended virtually the first edition of Smart Cities Moscow, an international online forum which took place earlier this week in Moscow. Eighty-six speakers from Russia, China, Switzerland, Canada, Spain, the United States, Sweden and other countries shared their views, offering fascinating insights about smart city developments across the world. “A …

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QIWI teams up with Swedish Digital Alliance to launch SoftPOS-based contactless payment service

Swedish fintech player Digital Alliance AB and Russia’s QIWI Group have launched a new solution based on advanced SoftPOS technology. Initially launched in Russia under the brand ‘tap2go,’ the service will be made available on other markets in the course of 2021. The new service enables end users to accept card payments directly on their mobile devices, …

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New remote opportunities in the Baltics for tech talents worldwide (online fair, April 8)

On April 8, the online fair ‘Your Next Move: Spotlight on the Baltics‘ will highlight the region’s fast-growing tech ecosystem and its opportunities for international talents, including from Russian-speaking countries.  This online event aims to position Latvia, in particular, as a first-choice destination to build a professional carrier or do business within a number of companies, from …

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Korean tech news site teams up with EWDN to bridge global innovation

Startup Recipe, a leading tech news outlet from South Korea, and East-West Digital News, the international resource on tech innovation in Eastern Europe, have teamed up to provide their respective audiences with new insights. Startup Recipe now offers a selection of translated EWDN content on its website. In the past few weeks, through this content …

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Love vs. AI, women in tech, American dream… Hot tech topics discussed at top regional conference (online event, May 12-14)

On May 12-14 EMERGE, a top tech conference covering Eastern Europe and Central Asia, will hold its third edition in an online format and in English language (more information and tickets here).  With participation from high-level speakers from the region and beyond, the program will cover a variety of topics such as: No planet B: how …

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