The SPbGASU team defending its solution
Import substitution in information technology is a pressing issue today. The country's best specialists are working on this, and the All-Russian IT Games, organized by the professional community "Educational League of Vendors" and the Organizing Committee of the International Engineering Championship CASE-IN, have been established to showcase these developments.
The first games concluded in Omsk on 29 May. The qualifying tournaments involved 1,200 teams from 80 Russian regions, as well as from Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan—a total of about 3,000 participants. Twenty-five teams advanced to the finals. There were no age or skill level restrictions.
The Olympiad included five competition tracks. The SPbGASU team, "CTRL-ALT-DELETE.CODE.AK," competed in the "Workplace" category. It included second-year students from the Department of Information and Mathematical Modeling Technologies (IMMT): Vladimir Bulykin, Anastasia Ryazanova, Maksim Suvalko, and Anastasia Matvienko. All of them are participants in the student project "Code.ak," which explores new digital solutions in depth.
The "Workplace" track focused on the development and configuration of applied IT solutions: creating chatbots, automating communications and workflows, integrating office services, and expanding the standard capabilities of tools to solve real-world problems.
IT engineers demonstrated their skills and abilities in real time. They had just six hours to find a viable solution for real Russian companies. An expert panel evaluated the entries based on four criteria: solution accuracy and precision, architectural soundness, code quality and reproducibility, and innovation and applicability. Our university's team scored highly in each of these parameters and, as a result, was awarded the grand prize of the "Workplace" track—a cash certificate and a chance to be included in the talent pool of leading Russian tech companies.
