Representatives of 74 countries confirm their participation in the Kazan Digital Week-2025
On 15 September , speaking at a briefing in the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers, the regional Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communications Ayrat Khayrullin informed that representatives of 74 countries have confirmed their participation in the Kazan Digital Week-2025 to be held at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center on 17-19 September.
“The scale of the forum keeps growing every year. This year we are expecting a record number of countries, and in addition to Russia colleagues from India, the UAE, Kuwait, Pakistan, China, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Moldova and many others will join us,” he said.
In addition, the forum will summarize the results of this year's implementation of the national project "Digital Economy. Data Economy" and, therefore, representatives from different regions of Russia responsible for digitalization will come to it, the Minister added.
“At the Kazan Digital Week – 2025 we will demonstrate and launch a new educational accelerator for training and educating solo IT-entrepreneurs. This is a startup based on AI for companies with only one person working,” Ayrat Khayrullin informed.
The director of the Association for the Promotion of Digital Development of Tatarstan Artem Safin noted that the exhibition of the forum, which will occupy two pavilions of the Kazan Expo, will also be a large scale one and 286 companies will demonstrate their achievements in the IT sphere. ”Most of the solutions demonstrated at the exhibition are related to automation of production processes, intelligent search, video analytics, security and integration of artificial intelligence into business,” he said.
The Chairman of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Rifkat Minnikhanov stated: “We always say that science should be the foundation for holding various forums. For the Kazan Digital Week we have compiled a research journal which comprises 371 scientific papers by representatives of Tatarstan organizations, Russian educational institutions and foreign scholars.”
According to him, the forum should pay special attention to the mutual integration of science, business and the state and support for young scientists. “The forum will have a separate session for discussing these issues. The Academy of Sciences will also organize its session to show its development,” he said.
The Rector of Kazan State Institute of Culture Roza Akhmadieva informed about the international fashion show Kazan Digital Fashion Week which will be held at 18:30 in the Bashir Rameev IT Park on 18 September.
“The program includes an original video show using modern technologies, a demonstration of unique collections from leading fashion designers and young designers from Russia and other countries, and the integration of AR and VR technologies. There will be collections in real and virtual formats, demonstrating the fusion of the cultural heritage of the CIS countries with modern technologies,” she said.
The forum will also feature master classes for a wide audience, dedicated to the synthesis of classical makeup techniques and digital technologies, neural network sketching in the modern makeup industry and trends in the film and gaming industries in creating images on the modern stage, Roza Akhmadieva added.