On&nbsp;December 5-6, we&nbsp;will be&nbsp;bringing together over 100&nbsp;IT&nbsp;industry experts and scientists for insightful technical discussions encompassing programming, machine learning, and captivating scientific breakthroughs. YaTalks 2023 will take place across Moscow and Belgrade.On&nbsp;the first day of&nbsp;the conference, we&nbsp;will immerse ourselves in&nbsp;cutting-edge technologies and significant tech trends. Transitioning to&nbsp;day two of&nbsp;YaTalks 2023, we&nbsp;will delve into essential aspects of&nbsp;IT management and explore scientific phenomena that are already shaping the industry and have the potential to&nbsp;make a&nbsp;substantial impact on&nbsp;the global stage.

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We&rsquo;re actively seeking speakers who are ready to&nbsp;take the stage at&nbsp;YaTalks 2023, both in&nbsp;the realm of&nbsp;technical subjects and those encompassing management, science, and even inspirational topics. If&nbsp;you have something to&nbsp;share with the&nbsp;IT community, simply complete the form and await an&nbsp;email from the program committee.

<h3>Criteria for technical presentation:</h3><ol><li>Audience: middle, middle+. Your presentation should cater primarily to&nbsp;experienced professionals while remaining accessible and engaging for those who are still developing as&nbsp;developers.</li><li>Relevance: your presentation should clearly convey its value to&nbsp;a&nbsp;wide audience of&nbsp;engineers, explaining why it&rsquo;s essential for them to&nbsp;hear your talk at&nbsp;this moment.</li><li>Uniqueness: we&nbsp;only consider presentations that have not been previously delivered at&nbsp;public events or&nbsp;shared online.</li></ol><h3>We&rsquo;re inviting submissions in two types of presentation:</h3><ol><li>Overview presentations about major technological changes in&nbsp;your field.</li><li>Practical talks about how you&rsquo;ve applied new approaches and tools.</li></ol><h3>Criteria for management, leadership, and science presentation:</h3><ol><li>Audience: targeted towards mid+ level engineers and team leads. Your talk should primarily resonate with experienced professionals while remaining relatable and captivating to&nbsp;those in&nbsp;the early stages of&nbsp;their managerial journey.</li><li>Your experience: real-world practical experience holds more appeal than abstract summaries from management books.</li><li>Uniqueness: we&nbsp;exclusively consider talks that haven&rsquo;t been presented at&nbsp;previous public events or&nbsp;posted online.</li></ol><h3>Don&rsquo;t miss the chance! Submit your application by&nbsp;October&nbsp;7.</h3>

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Yandex international conference for&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the&nbsp;IT community;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Encompassing management, career development, team dynamics, leadership, and change management

IT&nbsp;management track

Showcasing the most captivating talks about significant scientific phenomena that could reshape the world at&nbsp;large and the&nbsp;IT industry in&nbsp;particular, possibly as&nbsp;soon as&nbsp;tomorrow

Inspiration track

During this day, the primary conference stage will host presentations by&nbsp;seasoned managers from both Russian and international&nbsp;IT companies: including CTOs, leaders of&nbsp;prominent tech firms, and team leaders. Meanwhile, the secondary stage will feature insights from Russian and foreign scientists, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;science communicators. We&rsquo;ve curated over 30&nbsp;talks and masterclasses across various key domains:

December 6;

YaTalks 2023 explores life:

YaTalks channel

YFD channel

VK community

Engaging discussions on frontend and mobile development

Interface development track

Encompassing backend, DevOps, databases, hardware, and security

Development and operations track

Concentrating on GPT, CV, NLP, MLOps, and other groundbreaking technologies

ML track

Get ready for a&nbsp;deep dive into the world of&nbsp;technology without the constraints of&nbsp;specific stacks or&nbsp;tools. This day will showcase an&nbsp;impressive lineup of&nbsp;more than 30&nbsp;talks and masterclasses, spanning key domains:

December 5;

Exploring technology at&nbsp;YaTalks 2023:

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Maxim has been engaged in&nbsp;frontend development for eight years, though he&nbsp;started in&nbsp;the backend. Over his six years at&nbsp;Tinkoff, he’s&nbsp;tried on&nbsp;several hats, ranging from developer and SRE to&nbsp;the Head of&nbsp;Frontend for the International Projects Department. Now, Maxim is&nbsp;leading a&nbsp;frontend architecture team. He’s&nbsp;built a&nbsp;system of&nbsp;80 micro frontends operating within a&nbsp;single business line.

Maxim Smirnov

Alexey is&nbsp;the creator of&nbsp;the PEG grammar parser SimplePEG and a&nbsp;VSCode extension (ARRR). He&nbsp;is&nbsp;the author of&nbsp;the Russian Angular documentation and the largest Angular and TensorFlowJS Telegram communities.

Alexey Okhrimenko

Sergey has been with Yandex since 2005, contributing to&nbsp;various roles across Search, Mail, blog search, the Ya.ru platform, Images, Video, internal tools, and more. He&nbsp;actively develops technologies and tools for website creation. Sergey is&nbsp;one of&nbsp;the co-authors of&nbsp;the BEM methodology and manages Yandex’s&nbsp;Frontend Development School. Lately, he&nbsp;has focused on&nbsp;streamlining development, hiring, and training processes.

Sergey Berezhnoy

Alexander leads a&nbsp;team creating products for Yandex Go&nbsp;partners. He&nbsp;has experience in&nbsp;developing web interfaces on&nbsp;Clojure and OCaml. Today, he&nbsp;writes in&nbsp;TypeScript. Alexander is&nbsp;an&nbsp;organizer of&nbsp;the Yandex Go&nbsp;frontend meetup. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;into board games and pool swimming.

Alexander Yanin

Alexander used to&nbsp;implement B2B projects to&nbsp;protect data and secure data channels. Today, he&nbsp;actively implements BDUI in&nbsp;applications to&nbsp;simplify developers' lives, improve development quality, and reduce TTM.

Alexander Popsuenko

Alexey joined the infrastructure from Android development. Over the past two years, he&nbsp;has automated processes for iOS, Android, and Flutter teams. Alexey championed the APIs of&nbsp;major mobile app stores and switched Yandex&rsquo;s mobile teams to&nbsp;their own automation systems. He&nbsp;wrote tools that simplify the lives of&nbsp;developers, testers, and managers. Alexey helps everyone who is&nbsp;willing to&nbsp;join the development community and participates in&nbsp;the Yandex Mobile Development School. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;also a&nbsp;mentor at&nbsp;the Android Developer course on&nbsp;the Yandex Practicum.

Alexey Panchenko

Semyon has been a&nbsp;frontend developer since 2013. He&nbsp;launched a&nbsp;startup in&nbsp;Moscow City, led a&nbsp;team at&nbsp;Rambler, built an&nbsp;HR&nbsp;program, and helped people find zen in&nbsp;Zen. Now, Semyon is&nbsp;dedicated to&nbsp;making Yandex Market faster. He&nbsp;has traveled throughout Asia and dreams of&nbsp;rocking a&nbsp;ten-thousand-strong crowd while performing with a&nbsp;rock band. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;also known for his magnificent 30-cm beard.

Semyon Levenson

Gleb has been working in&nbsp;commercial development since 2003. He&nbsp;worked for NVIDIA as&nbsp;a&nbsp;Software Engineer in&nbsp;2008. Gleb had worked on&nbsp;a&nbsp;startup that was shut down after 3 years of&nbsp;operation. He&nbsp;spent nine years as&nbsp;the founder and CTO of&nbsp;a&nbsp;digital agency. Now he&nbsp;is&nbsp;out of&nbsp;business and into product. Gleb loves Angular, performance, complex animations, architecture, and responsive interfaces. Since 2018, he&nbsp;has been responsible for the FrontendConf conference program and speaker training. He&nbsp;gives talks on&nbsp;frontend and management and hosts a&nbsp;Telegram channel and YouTube podcasts. Gleb promotes systematic work with juniors and believes this is&nbsp;the key to&nbsp;the staffing crisis and all its consequences.

Gleb Mikheev

Nikita has been with Yandex for almost five years. He&nbsp;studied at&nbsp;the School of&nbsp;Data Analysis and continues teaching at&nbsp;the Frontend Development School. At&nbsp;the Yandex programming championship, Nikita made people write their tree shaking in&nbsp;30 minutes. His JS, TS, Python, Python, C++, and Java code are used in&nbsp;Yandex production. Nikita is&nbsp;passionate about code mining: he&nbsp;searches for similar code sections via code2seq, minhashing, etc.

Nikita Sidorov

He&nbsp;graduated from the Higher School of&nbsp;Economics and the New Economic School. Before Yandex, he&nbsp;headed the strategic partnerships and M&A&nbsp;integration team at&nbsp;SberX. He&nbsp;was involved in&nbsp;structuring deals such as: &mdash;&nbsp;JV&nbsp;with Yandex, acquisition of&nbsp;a&nbsp;45% stake in&nbsp;Yandex Market ($500 million); &mdash;&nbsp;JV&nbsp;with VK&nbsp;Group (Mail.ru Group), acquisition of&nbsp;a&nbsp;stake in&nbsp;O2O Holding ($1 billion); &mdash;&nbsp;Acquisition of&nbsp;a&nbsp;75% stake in&nbsp;2GIS ($200 million); &mdash;&nbsp;Acquisition of&nbsp;a&nbsp;100% stake in&nbsp;the Zvuk streaming service ($12 million); &mdash;&nbsp;Acquisition of&nbsp;a&nbsp;45% stake in&nbsp;the EAPTEKA service ($81 million); &mdash;&nbsp;Acquisition of&nbsp;a&nbsp;25% stake in&nbsp;the educational holding Prosveshcheniye ($320 million)

Alexey Nikolaev

Gennady leads one of&nbsp;the largest Flutter product teams in&nbsp;the world, with over 100 people. The team helped to&nbsp;create a&nbsp;Flutter application that also became one of&nbsp;the largest in&nbsp;the world. Gennady has been engaged in&nbsp;development since 1989. He&nbsp;even remembers the pre-IDE era and many other things to&nbsp;scare the juniors and others. Gennady is&nbsp;passionate about video games and owns the last three generations of&nbsp;every game console. He&nbsp;gathered all the weapons and camouflage in&nbsp;Call of&nbsp;Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and loves Cyberpunk 2077 and Diablo IV.

Gennady Evstratov

Ivan started his career in&nbsp;1998 with a&nbsp;project on&nbsp;the use of&nbsp;biometric technologies in&nbsp;payments. He&nbsp;was involved in&nbsp;the automation of&nbsp;the Formoza company. Ivan contributed to&nbsp;the creation of&nbsp;the Robokassa service and participated in&nbsp;the development of&nbsp;acquiring technologies in&nbsp;Multicard (VTB). Throughout his professional life, Ivan has been trying to&nbsp;find new ways of&nbsp;interacting with users, including reducing the natural stress of&nbsp;making payments.

Ivan Alekseev 

Stanislav worked his way up&nbsp;from analyst to&nbsp;director of&nbsp;big data and analytics management at&nbsp;a&nbsp;leading telecommunications operator in&nbsp;Kazakhstan. He&nbsp;started his career with tasks in&nbsp;application development, machine learning algorithms, and extensive data analysis. Today, Stanislav manages the strategy and development of&nbsp;the culture of&nbsp;data protection, storage, and processing at&nbsp;the corporate level. He&nbsp;actively participates in&nbsp;international conferences and seminars. Stanislav has been a&nbsp;mentor at&nbsp;Yandex Practicum for five years.

Stanislav Streltsov 

Vasiliy is&nbsp;a&nbsp;creator of&nbsp;the Honest Mark digital marking and tracking system for Russia and EAEU countries, which can be&nbsp;used to&nbsp;ensure the authenticity of&nbsp;goods and reduce the number of&nbsp;counterfeit products. His development team now works with a&nbsp;heavily loaded kernel that generates hundreds of&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;unique codes daily, processes tens of&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;incoming documents, and multiple NoSQL-based storages with nearly a&nbsp;petabyte of&nbsp;data. Previously, Vasiliy worked at&nbsp;Deutsche Bank&rsquo;s Tech Center and was involved in&nbsp;setting up&nbsp;BNP Paribas Bank&rsquo;s Tech Center in&nbsp;Russia.

Vasiliy Gigauri 

Alexey has been with Yandex since 2016. He started with big data and then launched a cross-border marketplace. Over the past three years, Alexey has been responsible for developing Market's logistics platform, which now covers thousands of points across the country, ranging from small retail stores and parcel automats to extensive facilities handling more than a hundred thousand orders daily. Before Yandex, he worked on big data at Beeline and developed an aggregator of products from various investment banks for UBS. Alexey relaxes by riding a unicycle.

Alexey Ostrikov 

Andrey is&nbsp;an&nbsp;engineer developing open source RDBMS at&nbsp;Yandex. He&nbsp;has been engaged in&nbsp;data indexing research since 2008. Andrey has a&nbsp;Ph. D. in&nbsp;Technical Sciences, is&nbsp;an&nbsp;associate professor at&nbsp;the Ural Federal University, and is&nbsp;a&nbsp;lecturer at&nbsp;the Yandex School of&nbsp;Data Analysis. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;involved in&nbsp;database creation, research, and teaching. He&nbsp;committed his first Postgres patch for version 9.7. Long before he&nbsp;graduated from university, Andrey was already teaching there. He&nbsp;asks people to&nbsp;solve riddles to&nbsp;find solutions. Andrey goes for a&nbsp;run whenever he&nbsp;gets a&nbsp;break.

Andrey Borodin

Alexey started his career as a developer and worked his way up to CTO. He has been a lecturer and consultant on modern management methods for the past eight years.

Alexey Pimenov

Evgeniy has 15 years of&nbsp;IT&nbsp;experience in&nbsp;various roles and positions. He&nbsp;was a&nbsp;system administrator, programmer, and server administrator in&nbsp;outsourcing companies and a&nbsp;technical project manager, programmer, and team leader in&nbsp;a&nbsp;product company. Evgeniy majored in&nbsp;Applied Mathematics and Computer Science even before it&nbsp;became mainstream. He&nbsp;advises businesses and professionals. Evgeniy also hosts the &laquo;TeamLead Obvious&raquo; Telegram channel and the &laquo;Koda Koda&raquo; IT&nbsp;podcast.

Evgeniy Antonov

Vitaliy has a&nbsp;20-year IT&nbsp;background. He&nbsp;has built heavily loaded systems, led development in&nbsp;a&nbsp;large department at&nbsp;Avito, and served as&nbsp;CTO at&nbsp;Skyeng. Today, he&nbsp;is&nbsp;rebuilding the IT&nbsp;department at&nbsp;Movavi, which develops photo and video editors. In&nbsp;his spare time, Vitaliy enjoys hiking in&nbsp;the mountains. He&nbsp;has been to&nbsp;Nepal, climbed Elbrus and Kilimanjaro, and conquered the peaks of&nbsp;Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Vitaliy Leonov 

Maria is&nbsp;the ex-head of&nbsp;Career & Talent Development at&nbsp;Skyeng and the author of&nbsp;&laquo;I&nbsp;Take Care of&nbsp;Myself&raquo;. She helps to&nbsp;build working relationships so&nbsp;that people trust each other and know how to&nbsp;work out agreements.

Maria Beloglazova

Denis oversees Yandex Go&rsquo;s reliability, speed, and architectural infrastructure goals. He&nbsp;led the performance boost of&nbsp;the Yandex Go&nbsp;super app by&nbsp;2.4 seconds and a&nbsp;multiple decrease in&nbsp;the number of&nbsp;downtimes. Denis is&nbsp;the author of&nbsp;the golangci-lint open source linter. Previously, he&nbsp;worked at&nbsp;Mail.ru Mail and launched the BeepCar startup. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;graduate of&nbsp;the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

Denis Isaev

Nikita worked his way up&nbsp;from junior to&nbsp;director of&nbsp;product and development. He&nbsp;led an&nbsp;Adtech product (BidSwitch) that processed 500 billion requests per day and was responsible for multiplying business performance and results. At&nbsp;SberMarket, Nikita created a&nbsp;content system that helps update, store, and quickly access hundreds of&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;product offers across Russia. He&nbsp;aims to&nbsp;make the most efficient IT&nbsp;team in&nbsp;the industry.

Nikita Elagin

Veronika is&nbsp;a&nbsp;professional dilettante. She has been working with IT&nbsp;professionals since 2015. Veronika has worked her way up&nbsp;from an&nbsp;outsourced junior recruiter through HRD full stack to&nbsp;managing a&nbsp;team of&nbsp;10+ people. She is&nbsp;currently a&nbsp;consultant and mentor for internal and external IT&nbsp;communications. Veronika writes articles, speaks at&nbsp;conferences, and hosts the &laquo;Veronica Answers&raquo; channel. She likes cats, video games, and stickers.

Veronika Ilina

Alexey is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Java Developer, JUG Leader, and Java Champion. He&nbsp;has experience working as&nbsp;a&nbsp;programmer at&nbsp;Oracle, DevRel at&nbsp;Odnoklassniki, and as&nbsp;an&nbsp;engineer of&nbsp;the ICPC Live team. Alexey has been organizing conferences for programmers for 10 years.

Alexey Fyodorov

Anastasia oversees an&nbsp;extensive code monorepo and ensures the satisfaction of&nbsp;developers who work with it. She actively monitors open-source usage and facilitates exporting popular open-source projects from an&nbsp;internal repository to&nbsp;GitH ub. Anastasia is&nbsp;passionate about public speaking and organizing IT&nbsp;events related to&nbsp;infrastructure, development tools, soft skills, and management. She orchestrates engaging team-building activities for her teams and leads Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. Additionally, Anastasia manages a&nbsp;trending Telegram channel for aspiring team leaders titled &laquo;Notes from a&nbsp;Burning House&raquo;.

Anastasia Abrashitova

Alexander has been working for Yandex since 2019 and Yandex Music since 2020. Before that, he&nbsp;was the СТО at&nbsp;VKontakte. During the three and a&nbsp;half years of&nbsp;his leadership, Music enjoyed a&nbsp;sevenfold audience growth. Alexander is&nbsp;actively involved in&nbsp;perfecting the quality of&nbsp;service and user experience. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;passionate about learning the technical side of&nbsp;Music, mainly how codecs and content distribution systems work. Alexander has boosted the deployment and development speed and is&nbsp;now actively working on&nbsp;the stability and reliability of&nbsp;the service.

Alexander Konstantinov

Dmitry is&nbsp;the ex-CMO of&nbsp;Yandex and ex-Director of&nbsp;Kinopoisk, Yandex Afisha, and Yandex Music media services. He&nbsp;founded the GP&nbsp;Foundation at&nbsp;AAL VC&nbsp;and the LP&nbsp;Foundation at&nbsp;s16vc. Dmitry also invests in&nbsp;Take Charge, Best Doctor, Yasno, iFarm, and Chatfuel. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;entrepreneur (Afisha Picnic, Sports.ru, Journey agency, and FRAM travel club), a&nbsp;member of&nbsp;the boards of&nbsp;Help Nearby and Hume charitable foundation, an&nbsp;expert at&nbsp;Skolkovo Moscow School of&nbsp;Management, a&nbsp;lecturer at&nbsp;the Russian Presidential Academy of&nbsp;National Economy and Public Administration, Universal University, and the Moscow School of&nbsp;Professional Philanthropy. Dmitry is&nbsp;a&nbsp;member of&nbsp;the Forbes 30 under 30 jury.

Dmitry Stepanov 

Oleg works on&nbsp;high-load distributed systems, data storage and processing systems, and software development. He&nbsp;contributed to&nbsp;the open source release of&nbsp;YDB. Oleg is&nbsp;a&nbsp;candidate for Master of&nbsp;Sports in&nbsp;Powerlifting. He&nbsp;knows everything about YDB, a&nbsp;fault-tolerant open source distributed SQL database that combines high availability and scalability with strict consistency and ACID transactions.

Oleg Bondar

Anton is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Russian representative in&nbsp;ISO at&nbsp;C++ standardization working group meetings. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;the author of&nbsp;several accepted proposals for the C++ language standard. Anton is&nbsp;also the author of&nbsp;the Boost libraries PFR, TypeIndex, DLL, Stacktrace, and the Boost C++ Application Development Cookbook. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;also an&nbsp;active maintainer of&nbsp;Any, Conversion, LexicalCast, and Variant. Furthermore, Anton leads the development team of&nbsp;the asynchronous userver framework.

Anton Polukhin

Alina built a&nbsp;career as&nbsp;a&nbsp;developer and decided to&nbsp;start from scratch. During her five years at&nbsp;Yandex, Alina went from development intern to&nbsp;head of&nbsp;frontend development. She started working on&nbsp;<acronym title="Search engine optimization" lang="en">SEO</acronym> optimization tasks and worked her way up&nbsp;to&nbsp;setting up&nbsp;global processes in&nbsp;the service. Being a&nbsp;successful speaker, Alina nurtures speakers within the team and knows how to&nbsp;remain an&nbsp;engineer while changing her career track from development to&nbsp;management.

Alina Vanieva

Alexander joined Yandex in&nbsp;2014 with a&nbsp;prototype of&nbsp;weather forecasting technology. From 2015 to&nbsp;2017, he&nbsp;worked with the team to&nbsp;finalize and deploy the technology on&nbsp;Yandex servers. Afterward, Alexander led a&nbsp;team of&nbsp;ML&nbsp;specialists and meteorologists for five years. Under his leadership, they created a&nbsp;precipitation map of&nbsp;the entire world and the world&rsquo;s first weather forecasting technology, Meteum, which uses machine learning and crowdsourced data. In&nbsp;2022, Alexander became the head of&nbsp;the Yandex Weather team. Before Yandex, Alexander was involved in&nbsp;scientific activities. He&nbsp;holds a&nbsp;Ph. D. in&nbsp;Physics of&nbsp;the Atmosphere and Hydrosphere. He&nbsp;co-founded an&nbsp;international environmental startup for air pollution assessment and forecasting. Alexander graduated from the Department of&nbsp;Experimental and Theoretical Physics at&nbsp;the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and completed internships in&nbsp;Japan and France.

Alexander Ganshin

Sergey has almost 20 years of&nbsp;IT&nbsp;experience. He&nbsp;has worked for Shell, Kaspersky, Raiffeisen Bank, and The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Sergey was responsible for infrastructure, business transformation, IT, and digital. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;building his own consulting business and helping companies with their digital strategy. He&nbsp;hosts a&nbsp;podcast about people management called &laquo;Withoutallthatstuff&raquo;.

Sergey Shcherbinin 

After a&nbsp;long and fascinating journey through Android and Flutter development, Eugene couldn&rsquo;t resist and finally moved into management. He&nbsp;now leads a&nbsp;team of&nbsp;thirty fabulously talented developers. He&nbsp;created and hosted the Flutter Dev Podcast. The Google I/O main stage featured an&nbsp;app Eugene worked on. He&nbsp;has changed jobs three times without leaving the company. His experiments with technology in&nbsp;his spare time eventually grew into a&nbsp;full-fledged department. Eugene has spoken at&nbsp;dozens of&nbsp;conferences across Russia and recorded dozens of&nbsp;podcast episodes about the most exciting people in&nbsp;the Flutter world.

Eugene Saturow

Dmitry founded the tech startup U&nbsp;Skillz and, before that, Firma. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;the father of&nbsp;the U&nbsp;Skillz Family of&nbsp;entrepreneurs and a&nbsp;member of&nbsp;the Mesto community advisory board. Dmitry was the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of&nbsp;the Harvard Business Review and the Development Director of&nbsp;Digital October. He&nbsp;was awarded the Best Media Manager of&nbsp;Moscow in&nbsp;2015, the Runet Award for media startup Firrma, and the National Association of&nbsp;Business Angels of&nbsp;Russia (NABA) Award for coverage of&nbsp;the venture capital market.

Dmitry Falaleev

Anna worked for a&nbsp;long time on&nbsp;monetizing Look At&nbsp;Me, Habrahabr, and Rambler media and then started building B2B at&nbsp;Yasno. Now, she is&nbsp;responsible for the operational part and motivating the department heads of&nbsp;the whole service.

Anna Nikulina 

Dmitry has been working in&nbsp;Android development since 2016. He&nbsp;was involved in&nbsp;antivirus development at&nbsp;Kaspersky and the business banking app at&nbsp;Revolut. Dmitry graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;the organizer of&nbsp;the Android Academy MSK. Dmitry also runs the Zen and Telegram blog &laquo;Dmitry Movchan&nbsp;&mdash; about IT&raquo;.

Dmitry Movchan

Eugene is&nbsp;an&nbsp;associate of&nbsp;the Faculty of&nbsp;Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at&nbsp;the Lomonosov Moscow State University. His research interests lie in&nbsp;developing methods and tools for robust AI&nbsp;systems. Eugene co-authors the master&rsquo;s program &laquo;Artificial Intelligence in&nbsp;Cyber Security&raquo;. Together with his colleagues, Eugene has developed and teaches courses such as&nbsp;&laquo;Robust Models in&nbsp;Machine Learning&raquo;, &laquo;Attacks on&nbsp;Artificial Intelligence Systems&raquo;, and &laquo;Application Development Using Artificial Intelligence&raquo;. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;the author of&nbsp;over 40 scientific publications. Eugene has been working in&nbsp;the industry for more than 20 years, the last 10 of&nbsp;which have been dedicated to&nbsp;developing industrial solutions with AI&nbsp;technologies.

Eugene Ilyushin

Stanislav has been with Yandex since 2010. He&nbsp;has led teams and departments at&nbsp;Yandex Search and launched Quick Answers, Turbo Pages, product search, and more. Stanislav joined Lavka in&nbsp;March 2022. Since then, the service has evolved from a&nbsp;startup to&nbsp;a&nbsp;full-fledged business, launching its major experiments and in-house technological constructions. Today, the development team comprises more than 200 people, with separate customer products, logistics, B2B, back-office development, algorithm, and ML&nbsp;project teams. Stanislav is&nbsp;passionate about technology companies and companies where technology can impact the business. His strengths include ML, backend, building effective teams, and interaction between product and technical departments. Stanislav is&nbsp;into sports; he&nbsp;has a&nbsp;black belt in&nbsp;Aikido and plays soccer. He&nbsp;also loves rock music and playing the guitar.

Stanislav Makeev

Eugene ran Netstream, a&nbsp;company specializing in&nbsp;high-load projects related to&nbsp;online broadcasting and video (Smotri.com, ivi). In&nbsp;2012, Netstream and its entire team were merged into Ivi. Since 2006, Eugene has taught the author course &laquo;Team Software Development Technologies&raquo; at&nbsp;the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

Eugene Rossinsky

Alexey is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Candidate of&nbsp;Technical Sciences, Associate Professor at&nbsp;Moscow Institute of&nbsp;Physics and Technology, and the former Head of&nbsp;Instant and Interactive Answers Development at&nbsp;Yandex Search. Alexey has a&nbsp;background in&nbsp;Yandex and Google. He&nbsp;created Yandex Tutor, hosted YaTalks, organized Team Leader Meetup, helped launch Yandex Andromeda, and conducted clustering for Yandex News. Alexey teaches at&nbsp;Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow Institute of&nbsp;Physics and Technology, and Higher School of&nbsp;Economics. In&nbsp;2020&ndash;2021, he&nbsp;worked at&nbsp;Google Switzerland and is&nbsp;now actively developing his startup.

Alexey Shagraev

Together with partners, Beslan founded and developed the data science and development school karpov.courses. He&nbsp;understands business, analytics, education, and relationship building and knows how to&nbsp;cross these points and make a&nbsp;good product. Beslan spent four years at&nbsp;Yandex, working on&nbsp;advertising analytics. He&nbsp;created a&nbsp;course on&nbsp;analytics for the Higher School of&nbsp;Economics, taught it&nbsp;himself, and helped build a&nbsp;team of&nbsp;teachers. Beslan selected teachers for karpov.courses and was responsible for launching new courses and the graduate employment center. Before karpov.courses, he&nbsp;started and closed several businesses, including a&nbsp;web studio and a&nbsp;passenger bus transportation company. Beslan is&nbsp;passionate about robotics and has a&nbsp;closed robotics startup on&nbsp;his record. As&nbsp;a&nbsp;hobby, he&nbsp;builds self-driving cars based on&nbsp;RC&nbsp;models with a&nbsp;computer and sensors on&nbsp;board. Beslan hosts the podcast &laquo;You don&rsquo;t get born IT&nbsp;person&raquo;, where he&nbsp;asks his guests how they got into IT.

Beslan Kurashov

Arik is&nbsp;a&nbsp;pioneer in&nbsp;the Russian HR&nbsp;technology market. At&nbsp;17, he&nbsp;accidentally entered the recruitment industry, built a&nbsp;career in&nbsp;international companies, and 10 years later founded VCV, Russia&rsquo;s first video resume service for employee selection. In&nbsp;the first three years, the largest companies in&nbsp;the country became clients of&nbsp;the service, viewing tens of&nbsp;thousands of&nbsp;candidates per month on&nbsp;VCV. In&nbsp;2017, VCV was listed in&nbsp;500 Startups and moved to&nbsp;San Francisco. It&nbsp;then raised investments from various investors, including Russian impact investor Ruben Vardanyan, an&nbsp;angel investor from Indeed, and a&nbsp;Japanese fund. VCV then opened an&nbsp;office in&nbsp;Japan. Arik is&nbsp;known among IT&nbsp;entrepreneurs as&nbsp;an&nbsp;unofficial ambassador of&nbsp;Armenia, attracting business and technology experts from different countries. Over the past year, Arik has helped various IT&nbsp;companies organize over 50 events. Arik also became a&nbsp;father four months ago.

Arik Akhverdyan

Antonina has been a&nbsp;frontend developer since 2018 and became a&nbsp;team leader in&nbsp;2021. Her experience includes studio development, working with major IT&nbsp;companies, and successfully implementing highload projects. For the past four and a&nbsp;half years, Antonina has maintained a&nbsp;blog and contributed weekly articles to&nbsp;the Team Lead and Career Mailing for two years. In&nbsp;addition to&nbsp;her professional pursuits, Antonina is&nbsp;an&nbsp;avid audiobook enthusiast and has built an&nbsp;extensive home library.

Antonina Listopadova

Lev has spent the last five years developing video services and building effective Android teams. He&nbsp;has worked in&nbsp;large companies such as&nbsp;VK&nbsp;and Yandex. During his professional career, Lev contributed to&nbsp;the development of&nbsp;ExoPlayer. He&nbsp;considers video services to&nbsp;be&nbsp;one of&nbsp;the most exciting areas of&nbsp;IT, offering the opportunity to&nbsp;work not only with regular mobile applications but also with Android TV, Android Auto, Google Assistant, and other platforms. In&nbsp;his spare time, Lev enjoys scuba diving.

Lev Zhukov

Ivan&rsquo;s job is&nbsp;to&nbsp;bring as&nbsp;much benefit as&nbsp;possible to&nbsp;VK&nbsp;users and the company with the help of&nbsp;ML. Ivan and his team launched voice recognition and translation of&nbsp;all text content into three languages. Now, he&nbsp;is&nbsp;working on&nbsp;automating support to&nbsp;keep it&nbsp;&laquo;human&raquo; without template responses. Over the last six years, Ivan has collected a&nbsp;bullshit bingo of&nbsp;hype topics. He&nbsp;has launched blockchain components for the private sector and raised investment for a&nbsp;startup developing software for cryptocurrency funds and trading on&nbsp;exchanges. Ivan launches ML/DS products and chips for tens of&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;users. He&nbsp;believes that in&nbsp;the near future, no-code via GPT-like models will become ubiquitous, managers will write essay-length prompts to&nbsp;build software, and we&rsquo;ll have an&nbsp;abundance of&nbsp;Tilda-like applications.

Ivan Samsonov

Alexey joined Yandex five years ago as&nbsp;an&nbsp;intern and fell in&nbsp;love with the team, business, and processes so&nbsp;much that he&nbsp;hasn&rsquo;t changed jobs since then and doesn&rsquo;t plan to. He&nbsp;also works at&nbsp;the Macroeconomic Forecasting Laboratory of&nbsp;the Institute of&nbsp;Economic Forecasting of&nbsp;the Russian Presidential Academy of&nbsp;National Economy and Public Administration, where he&nbsp;started his career. Alexey likes food, wine, travel, movies, music and books. He&nbsp;has visited more than 30 countries. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;avid hedonist, cat lover, and Lord of&nbsp;the Rings fan, having seen the director&rsquo;s cut more than 20 times. His main worktime playlist has only four tracks he&nbsp;has listened to&nbsp;on&nbsp;repeat every day for the last three or&nbsp;four years.

Alexey Tsarev

Over the last ten years, Nikolay has been working with infrastructure, focusing on&nbsp;analytics systems. He&nbsp;builds the architectures and the processes for working with them&nbsp;&mdash; Data Governance and MLOps&nbsp;&mdash; in&nbsp;different companies, leads the analytics platform DE&nbsp;team and teaches courses with universities in&nbsp;different countries. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;also a&nbsp;member of&nbsp;the program committees of&nbsp;several programming and data engineering conferences. Nikolay enjoys cooking, various sports, and board games.

Nikolay Markov 

Aleksandr has been developing iOS applications for 12 years and is&nbsp;proficient in&nbsp;Objective-C and Swift. For over 8 years, he&nbsp;has managed large mobile development teams: Tinkoff, SberHealth, SberBank, Rambler & Co. Aleksandr also has been an&nbsp;IT&nbsp;conference speaker and organizer for 8 years. For 6 years, he&nbsp;has been teaching at&nbsp;Sber, Netology, Tinkoff, and KTS schools of&nbsp;iOS development, test automation, and management.

Aleksandr Sychev

With an&nbsp;extensive 18-year IT&nbsp;background, Evgeny began his professional journey in&nbsp;C++ and microcontroller programming, steadily progressing from an&nbsp;engineer to&nbsp;a&nbsp;vice president. Prior to&nbsp;his role at&nbsp;Rarible, Evgeny contributed to&nbsp;Dell’s&nbsp;success and mentored multiple teams at&nbsp;Wrike. Recognized as&nbsp;a&nbsp;Google Developer Expert in&nbsp;Dart, Flutter, and Web technologies, Evgeny is&nbsp;a&nbsp;sought-after conference speaker. He&nbsp;is&nbsp;also the author of&nbsp;the most popular management presentation at&nbsp;TeamLead Conf. Beyond his technical expertise, Evgeny is&nbsp;a&nbsp;professional coach, psychologist, and the host of&nbsp;the Doctor Kot podcast.

Evgeny Kot

Petr has been working in&nbsp;software development for about 15 years. His main technology stack is&nbsp;<acronym title="Hypertext Preprocessor" lang="en">PHP</acronym> + MySQL. Petr runs the &laquo;Five Minutes of&nbsp;<acronym title="Hypertext Preprocessor" lang="en">PHP</acronym>&raquo; telegram channel and podcast. A&nbsp;few years ago, he&nbsp;hosted the &laquo;Five Minutes of&nbsp;React&raquo; podcast about frontend development in&nbsp;React, but he&nbsp;moved away from frontend. Lately, Petr has been fascinated by&nbsp;the practical application of&nbsp;AI&nbsp;tools in&nbsp;development. His hobby is&nbsp;IT-related: he&nbsp;has several mechanical, split, and ortholinear keyboards&nbsp;&mdash; he&nbsp;can share which options he&nbsp;tried and which he&nbsp;found comfortable.

Petr Myazin

In&nbsp;2008, he&nbsp;graduated from the Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LETI) with a&nbsp;degree in&nbsp;Computer Science. With over 15 years in&nbsp;commercial development, he&nbsp;has managed teams of&nbsp;2,000+ employees. Since 2012, he&nbsp;has been at&nbsp;VK, holding positions such as&nbsp;head of&nbsp;video platform development and project lead for the news feed of&nbsp;the &laquo;Odnoklassniki&raquo; project. In&nbsp;2019, he&nbsp;became the CTO of&nbsp;VKontakte, VK&nbsp;Video, and VK&nbsp;Calls. Together with his team, he&nbsp;implemented the QUIC internet protocol, doubling the speed of&nbsp;VKontakte. He&nbsp;developed VK&nbsp;group calls and unlimited participant calls. In&nbsp;2020, he&nbsp;launched the VK&nbsp;Clips short vertical video service on&nbsp;the VKontakte technology platform. In&nbsp;2021, he&nbsp;introduced a&nbsp;unified video technology platform at&nbsp;VK, combining VK&nbsp;Video, VK&nbsp;Clips, and OK&nbsp;Video. In&nbsp;2022, he&nbsp;became the Vice President of&nbsp;Technology and Development at&nbsp;VK, responsible for technology development and development processes across the entire VK&nbsp;company.

Alexander Tobol

Onsite participants will have the valuable opportunity to&nbsp;receive a&nbsp;free one-on-one consultation with a&nbsp;top IT&nbsp;expert. During this 25-minute session, you can discuss any concerns or&nbsp;questions and receive expert recommendations.To&nbsp;schedule your consultation:<ol><li>Register for onsite participation and confirm your attendance.</li><li>We&nbsp;will email you a&nbsp;link to&nbsp;book an&nbsp;appointment with our experts.</li><li>Please provide a&nbsp;detailed description of&nbsp;your request. As&nbsp;the number of&nbsp;consultations is&nbsp;limited, our experts will select the most interesting topics..</li></ol>

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We&nbsp;are waiting for speakers who are ready to&nbsp;take the stage at&nbsp;YaTalks 2023, addressing both hard technical topics and management, science, and even inspirational subjects. If&nbsp;you have something to&nbsp;share with the IT&nbsp;community, please fill out the form by&nbsp;October 7th.

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December 5&ndash;6 Onsite in&nbsp;Belgrade and Moscow Online worldwideDecember 5&ndash;6 Onsite in&nbsp;Belgrade and Moscow Online worldwide

We&nbsp;will delve into IT&nbsp;management and scientific phenomena that are already shaping the industry and have the potential to&nbsp;make a&nbsp;substantial impact on&nbsp;the future.В&nbsp; Management track will provide the stage for experienced managers from Russian and international IT&nbsp;companies: CTOs, leaders of&nbsp;prominent tech companies, and team leaders. The second stage will feature insights from Russian and foreign scientists and science communicators, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;visionary presentations by&nbsp;IT&nbsp;experts.

December 6: YaTalks 2023 explores life

IT management

Presentations on&nbsp;significant scientific phenomena that could reshape the world at&nbsp;large and the IT&nbsp;industry in&nbsp;particular, possibly as&nbsp;soon as&nbsp;tomorrow.

Inspiration

An&nbsp;idea alone does not guarantee results, a&nbsp;fact known to&nbsp;anyone who has ever launched a&nbsp;project. To&nbsp;truly impact the world, an&nbsp;idea must become a&nbsp;phenomenon.But what defines a&nbsp;phenomenon? Global events, such as&nbsp;macro trends, game-changers, technological and scientific breakthroughs. And, undoubtedly, people, with their personal practices and approaches pushing the world forward. This is&nbsp;the central theme of&nbsp;YaTalks 2023.Join us&nbsp;to&nbsp;discuss the phenomena that have shaped the world over the past year and those we&nbsp;have yet to&nbsp;create together.

Over 100 IT&nbsp;experts and scientists. Technical reports on&nbsp;development and ML. Popular science lectures and presentations on&nbsp;team management

An&nbsp;idea alone does not guarantee results, a&nbsp;fact known to&nbsp;anyone who has ever launched a&nbsp;project. To&nbsp;truly impact the world, an&nbsp;idea must become a&nbsp;phenomenon.

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Get ready for a&nbsp;deep dive into the world of&nbsp;technology without the constraints of&nbsp;specific stacks or&nbsp;tools. This day will showcase an&nbsp;impressive lineup of&nbsp;more than 30 talks and masterclasses, spanning key domains.

December 5: Exploring technology at&nbsp;YaTalks 2023

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Tomorrow, December 6th, we&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;discussing IT&nbsp;management and scientific phenomena related to&nbsp;the industry that can significantly shape the future world. If&nbsp;you missed today&rsquo;s broadcast, don&rsquo;t worry, we&nbsp;have a&nbsp;recording.

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<h3>An&nbsp;idea alone does not guarantee results, a&nbsp;fact known to&nbsp;anyone who has ever launched a&nbsp;project. To&nbsp;truly impact the world, an&nbsp;idea must become a&nbsp;phenomenon. And it&nbsp;is&nbsp;the phenomena that keep the world evolving.</h3>But any phenomenon has a&nbsp;cause. Behind each one, there is&nbsp;a&nbsp;code. We&nbsp;are the result of&nbsp;unique genetic code combinations. Social and cultural codes shape our vision of&nbsp;the world. And the advent of&nbsp;program code caused science and technology to&nbsp;evolve at&nbsp;a&nbsp;speed never imagined before.The world used to&nbsp;be&nbsp;reshaped by&nbsp;the steam engine and the light bulb inventors. Today, artificial intelligence and supercomputers help conduct thousands of&nbsp;autonomous scientific experiments daily and analyze enormous amounts of&nbsp;data.This has already enabled scientists to&nbsp;begin clinical trials of&nbsp;a&nbsp;cancer vaccine. Climate researchers can now predict and mitigate the climate change effects more accurately. And the James Webb Space Telescope was able to&nbsp;discover the most distant exoplanet and detect organic molecules in&nbsp;galaxies far away.Behind every phenomenon, there is&nbsp;a&nbsp;code. And behind every line of&nbsp;code, there is&nbsp;a&nbsp;dedicated individual. Engineers and developers, researchers and analysts, backenders and frontenders&nbsp;&mdash; we&nbsp;all have different backgrounds but a&nbsp;common desire to&nbsp;shape the future.With every product developed, feature implemented, and neural network trained, we&nbsp;turn ideas into phenomena that change life for the better.Once, YaTalks also was an&nbsp;idea that five engineers from the Yandex’s&nbsp;Ekaterinburg office implemented. Today, YaTalks is&nbsp;an&nbsp;international event bringing together thousands of&nbsp;people in&nbsp;Belgrade, Moscow, Almaty, Yerevan, Ekaterinburg, and other parts of&nbsp;the world.YaTalks speakers and attendees speak the same language as&nbsp;YaTalks, which engineers created for engineers. This year, we&nbsp;will dive deep into the technology, analyze industry-shaping tech trends, discuss IT&nbsp;management practices, and get inspired by&nbsp;landmark scientific ideas.Join in!

In&nbsp;2023, Yandex’s&nbsp;premier conference for the IT&nbsp;community YaTalks celebrates its 5th anniversary. We&nbsp;decided to&nbsp;commemorate this by&nbsp;dedicating YaTalks 2023 to&nbsp;understanding phenomena.

Behind every phenomenon, there is a code

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Behind every phenomenon, there is a code

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The great relocation era has brought many engineers face-to-face with people from other cultures. How do&nbsp;you understand them, and how do&nbsp;you adapt to&nbsp;be&nbsp;successful? How do&nbsp;you help someone from a&nbsp;different culture adapt to&nbsp;yours? How can this be&nbsp;useful even when everyone around you shares your culture? Let&rsquo;s tackle these issues avoiding the pitfalls of&nbsp;stereotypes and xenophobia. The discussion will be&nbsp;interactive so&nbsp;that the audience can become co-authors of&nbsp;the report.

A&nbsp;friend among strangers: experience of&nbsp;adapting to&nbsp;other cultures

The job interview question &laquo;How do&nbsp;you see yourself in&nbsp;five years?&raquo; is&nbsp;actually not that terrible. First off, it&rsquo;s a&nbsp;great opening joke: &laquo;With my&nbsp;eyes, of&nbsp;course!&raquo;. And second, you have to&nbsp;give an&nbsp;answer. Five years is&nbsp;a&nbsp;long time, but why do&nbsp;juniors know exactly who they&rsquo;re going to&nbsp;be&nbsp;when they grow up, but seniors and managers don&rsquo;t? Let&rsquo;s break down how to&nbsp;build a&nbsp;career consciously and why it&rsquo;s so&nbsp;important these days. We&rsquo;ll look at&nbsp;barriers to&nbsp;career development and how to&nbsp;overcome them. And, of&nbsp;course, we&rsquo;ll talk about lobsters.

Endless growth

2022 saw the Yandex Eats’ acquisition of&nbsp;Delivery Club. The СТО of&nbsp;the joint company will share how it&nbsp;happened. How the target vision was chosen in&nbsp;terms of&nbsp;the applications to&nbsp;be&nbsp;kept, the way the technical stacks should be&nbsp;unified, and the final organizational structure. How the employees of&nbsp;the two companies were merged: what project areas were gathered, what goals and objectives were set, how statuses were tracked and work was synchronized. How the entire development was completed in&nbsp;three months: how the target architecture was agreed upon, how mobile apps, websites, and backends were updated, and how data was migrated and moved to&nbsp;a&nbsp;common infrastructure. Nikita will share the lessons they learned from this experience and answer audience questions.

Integration of Delivery Club and Yandex Eats

Changing jobs for the first time is&nbsp;a&nbsp;difficult step for a&nbsp;team leader. He&nbsp;did not come to&nbsp;this position ready-made but grew up&nbsp;while working on&nbsp;a&nbsp;project, using the baggage of&nbsp;knowledge from his previous position. He&nbsp;faces anxiety at&nbsp;every stage: when considering a&nbsp;job change, during the interviews, and even when joining a&nbsp;new team. &mdash;&nbsp;Is&nbsp;it&nbsp;really time to&nbsp;leave and will some other place be&nbsp;better than this one? &mdash;&nbsp;Are my&nbsp;skills really valued in&nbsp;the market? &mdash;&nbsp;Will I&nbsp;be&nbsp;able to&nbsp;pass the interviews for sure? What will they ask? &mdash;&nbsp;How will I&nbsp;fit into a&nbsp;project without experience? &mdash;&nbsp;Does anyone else even need me, or&nbsp;am&nbsp;I&nbsp;stuck on&nbsp;the current project? &mdash;&nbsp;Maybe it&nbsp;would be&nbsp;easier to&nbsp;stay here and not change jobs? Don&rsquo;t panic! Evgeniy has been a&nbsp;team leader and changing jobs for eight years, and Anastasia is&nbsp;an&nbsp;experienced team leader of&nbsp;team leaders. Together they will explain why things are not as&nbsp;scary as&nbsp;they seem.

I&rsquo;m a&nbsp;team leader. Who even needs me?

In&nbsp;terms of&nbsp;features and workload products tend to&nbsp;grow evolutionarily. The backend has to&nbsp;follow this process. In&nbsp;practice, however, it&nbsp;is&nbsp;much more difficult to&nbsp;evolve the backend to&nbsp;meet the needs of&nbsp;a&nbsp;product than it&nbsp;is&nbsp;to&nbsp;design the service correctly once. This often raises the desire to&nbsp;redesign everything from scratch. The report will take us&nbsp;through the evolution of&nbsp;an&nbsp;imaginary backend service from startup to&nbsp;enterprise, addressing the major pains of&nbsp;each development stage. Along the way, we&rsquo;ll discuss: &mdash;&nbsp;How to&nbsp;minimize the now-we-have-to-rewrite-everything situations &mdash;&nbsp;What changes in&nbsp;cross-service interaction as&nbsp;the service size grows &mdash;&nbsp;What interesting things happen in&nbsp;the backend when moving to&nbsp;neural network APIs

JSON moving: a non-revolutionary approach

Imagine you need to&nbsp;make a&nbsp;wireless microphone. The stream involves several dozen sources jamming the transmission environment like a&nbsp;subway during rush hour. Delays are unacceptable as&nbsp;the sound must be&nbsp;as&nbsp;clear as&nbsp;the morning air. It&nbsp;would also be&nbsp;great if&nbsp;the device could be&nbsp;used as&nbsp;an&nbsp;ACS element and run almost forever on&nbsp;a&nbsp;single charge. We&nbsp;will talk about the pitfalls awaiting those who try to&nbsp;meet these requirements with standard technologies, review cases where such requirements are a&nbsp;harsh reality, and try to&nbsp;find solutions. We&rsquo;ll also analyze the practical experience of&nbsp;developing such a&nbsp;device and consider how it&nbsp;can be&nbsp;improved.

UWB&nbsp;&mdash; wireless streaming frontier

We&nbsp;will review the main stages of&nbsp;ML&nbsp;component implementation into the system, and discuss difficulties that may arise and how to&nbsp;avoid them. We&nbsp;will also cover the issues of&nbsp;operating ML-featuring systems.

What to do if you find ML in your runtime

Migration from a&nbsp;monolithic application to&nbsp;a&nbsp;microservices architecture often forces data to&nbsp;be&nbsp;distributed among separate storages to&nbsp;reduce the system cohesion and improve its fault tolerance. In&nbsp;the process, it&nbsp;may turn out that some of&nbsp;the data must be&nbsp;accessed from different components of&nbsp;the system. Although there are many different approaches to&nbsp;solving this issue, most often it&nbsp;is&nbsp;necessary to&nbsp;find a&nbsp;trade-off between data consistency and overall system performance. Andrew will share how they managed to&nbsp;separate data models between the system components with a&nbsp;database of&nbsp;tens of&nbsp;terabytes, a&nbsp;client workload of&nbsp;thousands of&nbsp;RPSs, and tens of&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;messages in&nbsp;asynchronous processing a&nbsp;day. He&nbsp;will also explain how asynchronous replication helped and why the standard approach to&nbsp;Event Sourcing was rejected when implementing it. Furthermore, Andrew will provide some recommendations on&nbsp;how to&nbsp;maintain a&nbsp;consistent distributed cache and handle sudden component failures.

The clone war: replicating data while maintaining performance and consistency

Widgets are small additions to&nbsp;apps that can be&nbsp;placed on&nbsp;the screen for quick access to&nbsp;useful features or&nbsp;to&nbsp;decorate the screen. They were introduced in&nbsp;the early versions of&nbsp;Android, but the second wave of&nbsp;widget popularity came when Apple took notice and added them to&nbsp;iOS. This report compares the capabilities and limitations of&nbsp;modern Android and iOS widgets, with a&nbsp;bit of&nbsp;cross-platform coverage.

Android widget vs&nbsp;iOS widget

Yandex Market is&nbsp;a&nbsp;marketplace with tens of&nbsp;millions of&nbsp;products and a&nbsp;logistical infrastructure of&nbsp;enormous variability. Imposing logistical variability on&nbsp;mobile interfaces is&nbsp;not an&nbsp;easy task, and it&nbsp;turns out to&nbsp;be&nbsp;impossible on&nbsp;the first or&nbsp;even second try. Rustam will share what three architectures were implemented in&nbsp;the application at&nbsp;different times and why it&nbsp;was necessary to&nbsp;move from one to&nbsp;another. We&nbsp;will review the interaction between the application and the backends, and discuss the data used by&nbsp;the application during order placement.

Three architectures of&nbsp;a&nbsp;single Market purchase

Vladimir will explain what a&nbsp;mobile device testing farm is, why it&nbsp;was introduced in&nbsp;Sber, and how it&nbsp;helps mobile and front-end developers, and testers. You will get an&nbsp;insight into similar projects in&nbsp;the market and hear some interesting stories about the peculiarities of&nbsp;device automation.

To&nbsp;test impossible to&nbsp;struggle: Sber&rsquo;s own mobile device testing farm

Large language models have gained popularity in&nbsp;science and everyday life. We&nbsp;read about them in&nbsp;the news, see impressive video presentations by&nbsp;large corporations, and hear conspiracy theories about how a&nbsp;language model has already understood the world and we&nbsp;are hurtling toward a&nbsp;real SkyNet. We&rsquo;ll try to&nbsp;coherently find out what LLMs can do&nbsp;today, what they can handle besides texts, and how they can help to&nbsp;create a&nbsp;super-strong intelligent machine. Andrey will share his research experience in&nbsp;this field, and talk about experiments, benchmarks, and other big humankind problems in&nbsp;the unresolved matters. We&nbsp;will discuss the multi-agent approach, ways of&nbsp;LLM communication, Chain-of-Thought and Tree-of-Thought mechanisms, shared memory, self-reflection, and other aspects that are already worth paying attention to. Each attendee will answer the question posed in&nbsp;the report&rsquo;s title through interesting examples and reasoning, and will leave either realizing the hopelessness of&nbsp;natural intelligence or&nbsp;convinced of&nbsp;its triumph.

Strong&nbsp;AI: a&nbsp;myth or&nbsp;an&nbsp;existing reality?

Many people face challenges when they begin to&nbsp;learn something new. It&nbsp;is&nbsp;especially hard to&nbsp;solve problems that are unlike anything we&nbsp;have known before. In&nbsp;ML, such problems arise all the time, and it&nbsp;takes research to&nbsp;find a&nbsp;solution. Alexey will explain how to&nbsp;set tasks in&nbsp;such a&nbsp;way that creative engineers can find solutions on&nbsp;the fly. He&nbsp;will also give tips on&nbsp;how to&nbsp;motivate and develop senior ML&nbsp;teams. Together we&nbsp;will discuss why we&nbsp;need to&nbsp;translate from technical to&nbsp;business language and vice versa. We&rsquo;ll discuss how to&nbsp;accept the fact that your team is&nbsp;better at&nbsp;something than you are, and how to&nbsp;live realizing that the day is&nbsp;over and you haven&rsquo;t done anything.

You tell them what to do, and they do what they want

Sergey will talk about the ins and outs of&nbsp;training diffusion models for image generation, including data collection and architectures, training tricks and comparison of&nbsp;models. He&nbsp;will share cases of&nbsp;successful and not-so-successful experiments. We’ll&nbsp;discuss different approaches, current and future applications of&nbsp;diffusion models.

Nikita Sidorov
Head of User Speed Infrastructure Service @ Yandex

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Head of User Speed Infrastructure Service @ Yandex

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