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Kazan Digital Week as a good site for sharing digital experiences

21 September 2021, Tuesday

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Russian Minister of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media Maksut Shadaev took part in the opening of the Kazan Digital Week 2021 international forum. The event will take place from September 21 to 24 at Kazan Expo.

The mission of the forum is to create an annual platform for scientific, technical, and commercial communication of developers and users of digital transformation technologies, products, and services.

Minister Shadaev reminded that the Russian President declared digital transformation as one of the four objectives of national development. “Digitalisation should be introduced to a greater extent in our lives, in all sectors. It is very important that these plans should not remain on paper, but be implemented as intensively as possible,” the head of the Digital Development Ministry said.

Rustam Minnikhanov and Maksut Shadaev then visited an exhibition on the sidelines of the Kazan Digital Week. Russian and foreign companies presented their digital developments in healthcare, education, industry, agriculture, transport, traffic safety, communications, and other areas.

The forum’s programme will focus on digital smart technologies and innovative products created on their basis. The main areas are digital industry 4.0, intelligent transport systems, cybersecurity, fintech ecosystem, etc.

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