CIPR

CIPR continues to foster international cooperation in high technology, including with the digital market partners of the Middle East. Last week, a CIPR team visited GITEX GLOBAL-2025, the largest tech exhibition in Dubai, UAE. This event brings together industry leaders, innovators and start-ups from all over the globe. During the event, the CIPR delegation met with international participants and concluded an agreement with AI Global Association to develop international IT projects.

From June 5 to 8, Nizhny Novgorod hosted the Tech Friendly Weekend Festival, a satellite of the CIPR conference and the main event about artificial intelligence and modern technologies. For four days, the festival focused on the main city site – the Nizhny Novgorod Fair and the Vysota Youth Center. Dozens of events were held here, which brought together over 4,000 participants from all over the country.

Over the five days of the international conference "Digitalization of Industrial Russia", more than 10,000 people from all regions of Russia and more than 40 countries of the world attended the event in Nizhny Novgorod. About 140 sessions were held as part of the business program, and 176 stands with digital solutions from Russian and international companies were presented at the annual exhibition. During the event, more than 300 agreements were signed, including those on IT cooperation with China, Cuba, Serbia, Iran, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan and Equatorial Guinea.

The final of the international cybersecurity tournament in the Defense Challenge format took place at the CIPR-2025 conference in Nizhny Novgorod. The competition brought together teams from Russia, CIS countries, Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. The absolute leader of the championship was the team from Belarus, which scored a record 6,149 points for the effective protection of its infrastructure. The second place was taken by the participants from Russia (5,588 points), and the third place was taken by the team from Vietnam (5,280 points).

As part of the business program of the Tenth Anniversary CIPR Conference, discussions were held on issues of technological leadership and import substitution, digitalization and ecosystems, sustainable development and investment, as well as media development and the impact of AI on them. Among the key events are the presentation of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko with the IT industry monitoring results, the meeting of the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Maksut Shadaev with representatives of companies, the presentation of the Cosmos national project, the launch of a new EPS Forum of Responsible Business "SO.ZNANIE".

PSB organized a strategic session "Proactive Cyber Defense. How Do Companies Anticipate Attacks in 2025?" at the CIPR Digital Forum in Nizhny Novgorod. The discussion was attended by the heads of information security departments of large Russian businesses and state-owned companies, as well as developers of domestic solutions in the field of cybersecurity. The session was moderated by Dmitry Miklukho, Senior Vice President and Director of the Information Security Department of PSB.

On October 16-17, 2025, the EPS Forum of Responsible Business "SO.ZNANIE" will be held in the capital of the Volga Federal District, which arose as a combination of two platforms: the ESG Forum "SO.ZNANIE" and the EPS Forum of Responsible Business. The relaunch will strengthen the position of the forum as one of the main events on the sustainable development agenda, bringing together key representatives of business and government, as was announced during a session at the CIPR-2025 conference in Nizhny Novgorod.

Dmitry Grigorenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Government Staff, presented the monitoring results of the IT industry at the 2024 year-end. The presentation took place during a meeting with the leaders of digital transformation at the conference "Digitalization of Industrial Russia" in Nizhny Novgorod.

On June 3, within the framework of the X anniversary conference "Digitalization of Industrial Russia", the results of the annual CIPR Digital Award were summed up. The best Russian companies and executives were granted awards for developments in the field of data economics, with special nominations highlighting achievements in the development of digital technologies over the past 10 years.

The central event of the second day of the CIPR conference was the plenary session "Digital Independence of Industrial Russia", which was attended by Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko, relevant ministers and business representatives.