Sber chose the best youth IT projects in the Urals

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According to the press service of the financial institution, in Yekaterinburg, at the hackathon of Sberbank and the Ural Federal University (UrFU), the top 3 technological projects developed by schoolchildren and students, coinciding with the 300th anniversary of the city, were selected. .

The company states that its youth solutions will solve real problems in the field of ecology, sports and cultural events and inclusion.
The final took place at the Sber technology center.

More than 130 young people from Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don and Magnitogorsk divided into 38 teams participated in the Hackathon.

In the 24-hour IT marathon, the children developed software for three cases.

Service “Hello Yekaterinburg!” It will let guests and residents of the city know about upcoming events. Based on the artificial intelligence model, “ChitAI Gestures” can recognize continuous Russian sign speech. Big City Ecology is a service to help improve the city’s ecology using signal messages.

The jury of the competition recorded the 3 best ideas. The winners were the “Invers”, “One-button scarves” and “Pincode” suits.

Each winning team received 100,000 rubles as the main prize.

According to Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank, when Sber opens a technology center in Yekaterinburg at the end of last year, it may be possible to “make a powerful leap into the future” with the help of people who will be involved in the company’s most complex IT developments.

“Now this place has become a center of attraction not only for developers but also for talented young people. Kuznetsov, the hackathon finals were attended by people from all over the country with bright eyes and a desire to achieve unique results.

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