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• Head of the .NET-Development Department at JetBrains Sergey Kux: Don’t Build a Process Just for the Sake of It

  Many companies are now turning to specific technical solutions in their pursuit to streamline business processes and improve communications between teams. For the .NET-development Department of JetBrains, these consist of CI-integrated merge robot and organizational silver bullets such as EAP (Early Access Program), Feature Freeze, and others. In his recent visit to ITMO, Head of the .NET-development department of the company Sergey Kux met with the university’s students and staff and told them about effective practices for managing the development processes that are used at JetBrains.

  04.12.2018

• Fighting Talk: Management Sparrings Participants Discuss their Experience

  Last weekend, ITMO University hosted the St. Petersburg’s Cup in Management Sparring. An initiative of the interregional non-profit ‘Federation of Management Sparrings’, the competition takes inspiration from innovative techniques developed by Vladimir Tarasov, founder of the Tallinn School of Management. Company executives, managers, entrepreneurs, tax consultants, lawyers and real estate brokers attended the event to test their management prowess. The diverse pool of contestants also included students from ITMO University’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. 

  01.10.2018

• ITMO University Online Courses You Can't Miss

  Online learning is becoming increasingly popular today. However, many specific subjects like Plasmonics or Statistical Methods in Innovation Management can’t be found online. This semester, ITMO University is launching three new online-courses on the Open Education Platform and the edX platform.

  19.04.2018

• New Opportunities: ITMO University Revamps Its Entrepreneurial Activities

  ITMO University is restructuring its Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. The new faculty will also include the Institute of International Business and Law and two departments of the Faculty of Management and Automation Controls (Academy LIMTU). The new Faculty will cooperate closely with the Project Management and Innovation Department, which will help optimize the university’s portfolio of educational programs in the field of technological management, entrepreneurship and innovations, intensify project work, and give students the opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial competencies as early as in their first year at the university. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, Nina Yanykina, Head of ITMO’s Project Management and Innovation Department, expanded on these recent changes and the tasks of the university’s new structure.

  29.12.2017

• Youth Foresight Festival Tackles Future of Transportation

  Last night, at Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg, a special opening of the Russian Youth Foresight Festival “Pravo Rulya” [or “Go Starboard!”] took place. The festival is devoted to transport and traffic. ITMO University’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations (FTMI), St. Petersburg’s Education Committee and St. Petersburg’s City Youth Art Palace are organizing the event for the second time for school and university students from the ages of 7 to 25. The festival will go on for an entire week, during which future transport systems will be discussed. ITMO.NEWS writes about the opening and what to expect in 2050.

  21.09.2017