The final of the RB Digital Awards was held. Which projects in the field of digital transformation were recognized as the best this year?

The award is impossible without our friends at the company who responded to the offer to support the project and helped make it possible. Samolet, CLOUD, Rostelecom groups.

In total, RB.RU received 342 applications to participate in the award, of which 67 companies were shortlisted, whose cases were evaluated through closed voting by jury members, leading experts in digital transformation. The editors guarantee the transparency of the voting and the fairness of the results: the members of the jury did not consult and were unaware of each other’s votes.

Before moving on to the winners, let’s talk about the figurines. Reflecting on the design of the awards, editors increasingly start from the issues and events that most concern society, in particular business, in the year of preparation and celebration of the award. The figurines become a kind of sign of the times.

This year, the figurines are covered with a white wardrobe trunk: how the Russian technological sphere turned out to be hidden from the world. But the canvas is removable, a sign that the business is not giving up and is learning to work in a new reality. Even if the figure is not visible, this does not mean that it does not exist. Everyone can discover new shades of meaning that we try to put into this award.

And now we talk about the winners of the RB Digital Awards 2023.

Nomination “Marketing and Sales”

The winner is Rosselkhozbank together with RSHB-Intech.

The name of the case is “Recommender system for the sale of agricultural products”.

The project manager is Irina Butkevich, CEO of RSHB-Intech LLC.

case

We developed a recommendation system for the Svoe Rodnoye platform. The specificity of the platform implies a geodependent emission of farmers and their products. This means that a hypothetical visitor from Moscow will see one group of farmers, while a user from Vladivostok will see another.

At the same time, farmers can have an offline point of sale in a particular city or connect the delivery of products through SDEK and deliver them throughout the country, so that they are available wherever there are SDEK order pick-up points. close.

“Cybersecurity” nomination

The winner is Positive Technologies.

The name of the case is “Crowdsourcing platform to attract information security specialists (ethical hackers)”.

Project Manager – Yaroslav Babin, CPO (Standoff 365 Product Manager) Positive Technologies.

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Ethical hackers choose a client based on their skills. The client pays only for the result of finding a vulnerability, and not for the time spent by a specialist. The crowdsourcing program runs for an unlimited period of time, allowing it to constantly monitor for vulnerabilities in customer systems.

“Industry” nomination

The winner is Severstal.

The title of the case is “Computer vision for the prevention of chain breaks in hot rolled coil conveyors”.

The project manager is Andrey Golov, director of the Severstal Digital Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

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A suite of computer vision models enables real-time recognition of pin splices and cracks in chain links, as well as chain breaks on hot rolled coil conveyors to promptly eliminate undesirable events and reduce mill downtime 2000.

Since the system’s introduction, it has been possible to completely avoid emergency downtime due to chain pin sticking, link cracks, and to reduce the response time to an open circuit of the KGKR.

Nomination “Logistics and transport”

The winner is Sitronics Group.

The name of the case is “Unmanned Control of Ships”.

The project manager is Pavel Dreiger, Vice President of Software Products and Solutions at the Sitronics Group.

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The implementation of technology allows reducing the cost of operating ships, the impact of the human factor and prevents accidents and environmental disasters. With it, you can manage a caravan of ships and more accurately predict maritime logistics, which is important for the development of such a strategic project for the country as the Northern Sea Route.

“HR and Internal Communication” nomination

The winner is M.Video-Eldorado together with Verme LLC.

The name of the case is “Working hours market “Shift Exchange””.

The project lead is Valentina Kharlamova, product manager for flextime and workforce management at M.Video-Eldorado, and Roman Shatalov, business partner at Verme.

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To unite stores that need temporary employees and full-time employees who don’t have full employment at their primary place of employment, they came up with “Shift Swapping.” The store creates shifts, and the employee can reserve them and go to work temporarily in the store.

Thanks to Exchange, an employee can earn more and the company receives high-quality temporary employees at the store location, which makes it possible to maintain a high level of customer service.

Nomination “Corporate Pilot”

The winner is SberSolutions along with Dbrain.

The name of the case is “Automation of Employee Recruitment”.

The project manager is Alexander Mukharov, director of product development at SberSolutions and Oleg Sychugov, head of business development at SberSolutions.

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AI-based recognition technology extracts data from applicants’ documents and converts them into electronic documents. The solution was implemented based on the development of Dbrain, the winner of the Sber international accelerator, Sber500.

At the entrance of the employee – stacks of documents, at the exit – completely filled out forms in “1C”. The speed of document recognition has tripled, the workload of employees has decreased significantly.

“Digital Services” nomination

The winner is Sheregesh GLK together with VisionLabs.

The name of the case is “Biometric pass in a ski resort”.

The project manager is Ilya Romanov, Business Director of VisionLabs and Ekaterina Etush, Director of Marketing and Public Relations of VisionLabs.

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Virtual Face Pass automatically recognizes a tourist even in ski equipment: helmet, balaclava and goggles. The introduction of a contactless way to pass through the turnstile has become part of a large-scale work to improve the infrastructure of the complex. In addition to improving the user experience, the system can also increase the average check through personal offers, increase the loyalty conversion rate, and track cross-sells.

Nomination “Exploitation Activities”

The winner is X5 Group along with HeadPoint.

The name of the case is “Control of the operation of refrigeration equipment at the Federal Customs Service “Pyaterochka” using the Russian IoT InOne platform.”

Project Manager — Alexander Minyaev, Head of Projects of the Department of Operations and Operations of the Pyaterochka Retail Network of the Directorate of Technological Business Development.

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The InOne platform made it possible not only to automate all processes for monitoring the operating parameters of refrigeration equipment and interaction with corporate systems of the X5 Group, but also to significantly reduce the burden on employees responsible for the operation of refrigeration equipment. . The proposed solution can be used for refrigeration equipment of various brands.

Special nomination “Supplier of the Year”

The winner is BOBDEY SOFT LLC.

The project manager is Boris Kukhlev, CEO of BOBDAY SOFT LLC.

“Supplier of the Year” is the only nomination where the winner was not determined by a close vote of the jury, but rather by an editors’ choice from the long list of applications for the award.

When choosing the winner in the special nomination, the editorial team took into account the number of cases implemented by the company, the innovation of the cases submitted for the award, reviews about the company, and descriptions of its activities in open sources.

Members of the jury:

• Alexander Kanivets, director of the digital “Digit” of the “Airplane” group;

• Fedor Prokhorov, CLOUD CIO

• Alexey Podryabinnikov, Vice President, Director of Corporate Client Relations, Rostelecom;

• Vladimir Potapenko, General Director of Magora LLC;

• Vitaly Tarasov, Head of Digital Transformation, Head of SberKorus;

• Sergey Merkulov, Director of Digital Transformation, Segezha group;

• Maria Andrianova, Director of Strategic Development of Moscow Deptrans;

• Anton Antonichev, Head of the Metro IT Division;

• Oleg Bochtarev, Director of Innovation, Kirovsky Zavod;

• Igor Gulyansky, Director of Innovation, Inline Group;

• Artem Gavrilenko, digital transformation leader, Azbuka Vkusa Agile-coach;

• Alexey Parasyna, Director of Industrial Automation and Metrology, Norilsk Nickel;

• Ekaterina Zabelina, Director of the Department of Organizational Development and Change Implementation, X5 Group;

• Ilya Frenklakh, Vice President of Digital Transformation, Renaissance Insurance;

• Olga Piven, co-founder of the conference, general director of the group of media companies CIPR, RTVI;

• Pavel Semyonov, Member of the Board of Modulbank;

• Alexander Lozhechkin, CIO, Head of the Information Technology Directorate, Raiffeisenbank;

• Alexander Gornik, Co-Founder and CEO of Mindbox;

• Alexey Pelevin, founder of Pravo Tech;

• Mikhail Sverdlov, Independent Director of Product and Digital Transformation;

• Artem Preskaryan, Technical Director, Head of External Kontur and Services for Companies of SKB Kontur;

• Pavel Gushtyuk, Founder and CEO of FORMIND;

• Oleg Yasenov, Marketing Director of the Beluga Group.