What Sports Have Taught Me as an IT Leader

“Project of the Year” is an annual contest which has been held by professional IT-community Global CIO since 2012. During this time it has become a key communication platform for CIOs and top managers who use automation and digitalization in their daily practice. In the last two years the contest has become international.

Global CIO has invited Oleg Vaynberg, who has experience in IT education in Australia and experience as a CIO, to tell what are the pros and cons of the Australian IT education system. Global CIO community thanks Oleg for his lecture.

Global CIO has invited Zoltan Buzady, a professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, to share insights on how to enhance the effectiveness of work and organizational output through leadership qualities. The hour-long lecture flew by unnoticed, because it was filled with bright, inspiring examples, jokes, and useful instructions. Global CIO community thanks Zoltan Buzady for an interesting and useful webinar.

Now with the back-to-school season, it’s high time we started with something educational. Take, for example, the news from the chemistry.

The summer is time for plants and harvests. That is why we are starting this summary of AI and data analytics updates with the news from an Israeli kibbutz.

Let's talk about the principles of high-performance projects, whether any project can be made highly efficient, and if so, how. By combining the experience of the customer and the contractor, we identified 7 principles of highly effective projects.

It is difficult to fully assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the program “Digital Kazakhstan”, despite the large investments in digitalization, due to the lack of approaches to measure the digital economy. Nevertheless, according to a number of studies and international ratings mentioned in the review, certain initiatives have a good effect and have a positive effect on the economy of Kazakhstan as a whole.

Kazakhstan's economy is the largest in Central Asia. Kazakhstan is rich in mineral resources: the country ranks 12th in the world in oil reserves, 14th in gas reserves; Kazakhstan has 30 % of world reserves of chrome ore and 25 % of manganese ore; there are large reserves of tungsten and molybdenum. The vast territory of the country — Kazakhstan occupies the 9th place in the world by area — provides opportunities to create a strong agro-industrial complex. However, in our time, having a strong resource base alone is not enough for competitiveness on the international level in the economy.

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Google's DeepMind has introduced a new AI specialist, RoboCat, to the market. The vendor claims that the system is capable of learning without supervision. RoboCat learns faster than the most advanced models. It can learn to perform a new task after just 100 demonstrations, as it has a huge dataset stuffed in it.

Valery Nemtsov, an expert on integration issues of the company "Constanta" told  about how to implement the project of MDM-system implementation and get as few bumps as possible. Consider businesses of different sizes, because for a small factory and agricultural holding MDM - it is not the same.

According to IDC Worldwide Global Forecast, by 2025 the total amount of business data will reach 175 zettabytes. For reference: one zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes. Have you tried to picture it? I couldn't. And this is just the beginning, the plot thickens. When you see a picture like this, you are tempted to ask yourself how to store and work with this stuff. It seems that very soon all businesses will face the task of full technical re-equipment, the purchase of additional servers is not enough.

Chubak Temirov, director of the High Tech Park in Kyrgyzstan, told Global CIO how the first tech park in Central Asia was created and what opportunities are open to its residents. The High Technology Park of the Kyrgyz Republic (HTP) has been operating for more than ten years. Law on creation of HTP and special tax regime for companies-residents of the Technopark was passed in 2011 at the initiative of Kyrgyz Association of Software and Services Developers (CARPOU).

An email attack is one of the favorite ways for cybercriminals to compromise company information. In 2022 alone, 60% of companies in Russia faced a Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack, with the average amount of damage doubling compared to the previous year, reaching up to 4 million rubles.

On the threshold of a new technological revolution we are witnessing the rapid growth and development of neural networks. More and more companies and specialists are integrating AI into their operations, and this is already having a significant impact on different areas of human life.

On May 18th, the annual meeting of the international club Top-100 IT Leaders took place in Almaty. The speakers of the event were representatives of Kazakhstan’s leading companies.

Not every problem should be solved using machine learning (ML). Attempts to break this rule are common because of the extreme popularity of ML in recent years and the increasing availability of computational resources.