The key topic at the plenary session of the event was what the concept of "IT sovereignty" actually means
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:27 am
Vladimir Pirozhkov, Director of the Center for High Complexity Prototyping "Kinetics" at the University of Science and Technology MISIS , shared his impressions of the conference: "For me, the ITSMIR conference was amazing: it was very homely and very constructive. It felt like everything here was businesslike and that these were the people who were creating changes on the ground."
Rinat Gimranov, Head new zealand cell phone number list of Information Technology Department, PJSC Surgutneftegas"We tried to make the ITSMIR conference different from all the others," said Rinat Gimranov, Head of the Information Technology Department at Surgutneftegas, who headed the program committee for the event. "We practically abandoned marketing speeches and filled the program with non-traditional elements, including an opening speech by a visionary, a battle between two domestic ERP system developers, and a brainstorming session on the topic of the Industrial Competence Center (ICC) "Oil, Gas and Petrochemistry", while we did not limit ourselves to industry frameworks. The event was intimate, and high-level executives from both large businesses and the IT industry gathered for it." He also noted that the goal of ITSMIR 2022 was to test the waters before taking action: what can be done, where to move, who needs to do what, who is a supporter of change, and who is still taking an observer position. “In many ways, the event is experimental, since many people talk about technological sovereignty, but no one knows what exactly needs to be done to achieve it,” noted Rinat Gimranov.
Rinat Gimranov opened the discussion on this topic. "Creating domestic software products to replace foreign ones - such "Russian coding" - does not lead to sovereignty, although it helps us survive," he said. "But all the paradigms and technologies that we use are Western. And if we continue to do this for at least another three or four years, we will soon find ourselves in a deep depression, since we will discover that Western IT companies, each of which annually invests billions of dollars in R&D, have created new paradigms and technologies that we will have to catch up with again. Being a "squirrel in a wheel" is a hopeless situation. True digital sovereignty is a full cycle: from fundamental research and discoveries, applied developments to national standards, technologies, conditions and only then - our own products."
Rinat Gimranov, Head new zealand cell phone number list of Information Technology Department, PJSC Surgutneftegas"We tried to make the ITSMIR conference different from all the others," said Rinat Gimranov, Head of the Information Technology Department at Surgutneftegas, who headed the program committee for the event. "We practically abandoned marketing speeches and filled the program with non-traditional elements, including an opening speech by a visionary, a battle between two domestic ERP system developers, and a brainstorming session on the topic of the Industrial Competence Center (ICC) "Oil, Gas and Petrochemistry", while we did not limit ourselves to industry frameworks. The event was intimate, and high-level executives from both large businesses and the IT industry gathered for it." He also noted that the goal of ITSMIR 2022 was to test the waters before taking action: what can be done, where to move, who needs to do what, who is a supporter of change, and who is still taking an observer position. “In many ways, the event is experimental, since many people talk about technological sovereignty, but no one knows what exactly needs to be done to achieve it,” noted Rinat Gimranov.
Rinat Gimranov opened the discussion on this topic. "Creating domestic software products to replace foreign ones - such "Russian coding" - does not lead to sovereignty, although it helps us survive," he said. "But all the paradigms and technologies that we use are Western. And if we continue to do this for at least another three or four years, we will soon find ourselves in a deep depression, since we will discover that Western IT companies, each of which annually invests billions of dollars in R&D, have created new paradigms and technologies that we will have to catch up with again. Being a "squirrel in a wheel" is a hopeless situation. True digital sovereignty is a full cycle: from fundamental research and discoveries, applied developments to national standards, technologies, conditions and only then - our own products."