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• ITMO Graduate and Entrepreneur Yaroslav Pavlov on Changing Academia Through IT

  10 years ago, Yaroslav Pavlov graduated from ITMO’s Business Informatics program; since then, he’s managed to study in three different countries, build a managerial career in the field of IT, and launch one of Russia’s first iMBA programs at the RANEPA Institute. Currently, Mr. Pavlov is head of his own project that helps Russian business schools and companies get distance education processes up and running. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, the expert spoke about the common problems that managers working in IT face, the specific features of Russian business schools, and why blended learning will become all the more popular in educational establishments.

  04.05.2018

• Russian and Finnish Students Learn About Business Together with FIRST+

  30 students from Finland and Russia are currently attending the “Project-Based Approach to Business Canvas Model” intensive program in St. Petersburg. They learn about the use of business process engineering tools and work on cases of major companies like Valio, SOK and Bonava. ITMO University was chosen as one of the program’s main venues. The week-long course was made possible thanks to collaboration between ITMO University and the Tampere University of Applied Science, and a grant from the FIRST+ program, which promotes collaboration and partnership between universities of Russia and Finland.

  22.03.2018

• How to Start Your Own Business: Advice from Experts

  ITMO University just hosted an expert session for hardware, high-tech and IT projects of the Future Technologies accelerator. This year, a record-breaking amount of participants made it to the final selection - 25 teams in total. Up until March, they’ll be finalizing their technologies, choosing and testing business models, studying their target audiences and making their first sales. Recently, the novice entrepreneurs’ projects were assessed by experts - founders and CEO’s of companies, specialists on growing markets, the financial sector and marketing. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, they’ve shared about why most startups face common problems, the usual mistakes novice startupers face, and what there is to expect from 2018 in terms of promising technologies.

  31.01.2018

• Stickerum Startup Brings Your Favorite Telegram Stickers to Life

  Social networks such as VK and the Telegram messenger app have made stickers hugely popular on the Russian internet. There are so many stickers available that you can express any emotion and replace whole sentences using them. However, the users don't just love the virtual stickers - you can find actual stickers of various brands, events, organizations and even famous personalities on laptops, smartphones, notebooks and more. Three students from ITMO University decided to bring the virtual stickers into reality, launching a startup called Stickerum, which lets Telegram users make real stickers out of virtual ones. Our special interview with Vitaliy Guryn, member of Stickerum’s team, gives us more insight into the new startup - and how to order your first set of stickers.

  24.01.2018

• 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

• ITMO.REGIONS Startup School Comes to Volgograd State Technical University

  As part of the ITMO.REGIONS trans-regional network of startup schools, an expert team from ITMO University has conducted two training programs on technology entrepreneurship and fundraising at the Volgograd State Technical University. The initiative is part of the “Conveyor of Innovations” strategic project; among its partners are the Volgograd Oblast business incubator and the regional government.

  06.12.2017

• Future Technologies Program: Teams Present Projects at Demo Day

  On September 21, as part of the St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum (SPIIF), a Demo Day was held for ITMO Business Incubator’s acceleration program Future Technoogies. Ten teams presented their ideas to the expert jury, special guests and visitors. Over the course of five months, the projects have gone through many stages, from initial prototypes to final products, and acquired market introduction strategies. Visitors of the Forum could learn more about ITMO University’s technological projects at a special exhibition.

  25.09.2017

• How to Launch a Tech Project and Succeed

  What does one need to get into tech, and, ultimately, launch their own project? A unique idea, a team of professionals, materials, equipment, financing and, first and foremost, specific knowledge that can’t be gained fast and cheap. Not having even one of these things will often make even the most enthusiastic entrepreneur abandon their work before it’s even started. The staff at ITMO’s Student Laboratory OLIMP, however, believes that finding your place in the tech world isn’t as hard as it may seem. Four years ago, a student team had a similar experience, and they are now ready to share it with others. As part of Gogol Library’s “Popular Science Week”, OLIMP’s co-head Kirill Bodrov gave a talk about the traps and pitfalls of technological entrepreneurship, why it’s important to visit FabLabs and science festivals and where to find the right skills and people for a project.

  14.09.2017

• Divide and Conquer: How S&R Built a Successful Chemical Startup in Russia

  S&R Systems, a resident of ITMO University’s business incubator, is working on the optimization of chemical technology processes in manufacturing and laboratories with a strict focus on import phase-out. The company’s equipment is cheaper than its foreign-made counterparts and is made according to clients’ custom requirements. Founders Denis Sapegin and Mikhail Razin spoke with us about the tasks their company solves, lifehacks for finding angel investors at bars and indifferent engineers.

  30.08.2017

• FactoryFinder: ITMO Graduates Develop Service To Optimize Procurement

  According to the data by GfK Rus research agency, more than a third of Internet users regularly make purchases in Internet stores; consumers are becoming more used to choosing and buying things online, and various services allow them to quickly order a taxi, book a ticket or rent an apartment. Yet, can this work in the b2b segment? Purchase coordinators sometimes have to spend days or even weeks to find a really good offer and purchase the goods they were looking for. Team FactoryFinder decided to come up with a solution and developed an online service for optimizing the processes in procurement departments, a platform that brings together suppliers, engineers, and purchase coordinators. The service's main task is to automatize the work of the latter and let companies find best offers quickly. Half of FactoryFinder's team are graduates of ITMO and the company is a resident of the university's Technopark; as of now, it has offices in St. Petersburg, Tallin and Berlin. Read more about the service, the peculiarities of business in Russia and how a common platform can help foreign companies understand it in an article by ITMO.NEWS.

  30.08.2017