On 15 January 2016, Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov participated in the meeting between Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and President of the Cognitive Technologies Group Olga Uskova.
During the meeting, the parties discussed issues of further cooperation and signed a Letter of Intent between AO SEZ Innopolis and Russia-based Cognitive Technologies.
Creation of Technology Development Centre is not the first project of Cognitive Technologies in Tatarstan. In 2014, Cognitive Technologies jointly with PAO KAMAZ initiated a project on creation of a new generation unmanned vehicle on the basis of KAMAZ truck by 2020.