Results of the Forum “New Challenges – Training for the Digital Economy”
Under the instructions of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, on October 30-31, Bashir Rameev IT-park in Kazan hosted the All-Russian Forum «New Challenges - Training for Digital Economy» with the participation of people’s deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Aydar Metshin, Deputy Director of the Department of State Policy in the sphere of secondary vocational education and vocational training of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation Marina Sofronova, Tatarstan Minister of Digitalization of State Administration, Information Technologies and Communications Ayrat Khayrullin and Tatarstan Minister of Education and Science Ilsur Khadiullin.
The forum discussed issues of career guidance and early involvement of youth in the IT sphere, training of IT specialists, problems of career development and formation of motivation of IT students to learn IT specialties demanded by the Russian economy. Tatarstan Minister of Digitalization of State Administration, Information Technologies and Communications Ayrat Khayrullin together with curator of the Uchi.ru platform Artem Alekseev and head of VK vocational and educational projects Alena Shtabina held a Lesson of Digit for schoolchildren of Tatarstan.
At the forum, the Championship on game development (TatGameJam), where 39 finalists from Tatarstan, Moscow and Khanty-Mansiysk took part.