in russia, they are building up the arsenal of world support for the it industry. in what areas is the replacement of foreign software an urgent need, how large is the size of the average grant that development teams can count on. why applicants are not recommended to look for opportunities to put pressure on experts and what, alas , is lacking in the new regions of the country, let's talk about this with the head of the russian information technology development fund alexander pavlov how many projects the fund supports on average per year and note here trends? we see that, like this, the number and quality of applications from the fund is growing and, of course, the year 22 is the most significant yes, this is growth, six times, and about one thousand three hundred projects at the moment there is a huge huge need to replace foreign solutions on the russian market on the situation associated with pressure on

russian programmers on russian companies and, of course, this is really an explosive growth; maximum interest and such involvement of the programming community in solving common tasks. there are some industry leaders there. yes, what is called where the request is the most in terms of needs. this, of course, and the largest enterprises are industry leaders. in e various spheres, and the economy is both trade and industry , i suspect that energy. ah, energy. ah, car building, engine building, shipbuilding building, that is, all those areas that have faced, uh, the risks of stopping production, uh, cycles. uh, the disruption of projects, and the projects there, as a rule, but also the dual purpose of this a lot and where hmm were the most, and

the red critical zone in terms of the urgency of decision-making. there, of course, there has been the greatest request from the enterprises reported some difficulties near the products. e. i read that these products are system products for working with data with process control and design of complex products. and how can the fund change the situation. e with such products can and does affect us on behalf of the government of the russian federation , together with the mintsif within the framework of national programs. the digital economy, together with the development corporation, web-rf, did such a great job in 2022 to create industrial centers of competence in all, and leading enterprises were identified as priority sectors of the economy. they formulated an industry functional order. that is, what needs

to be replaced from the point of view of functionality and, uh, what russian solutions could be russian developments, and i provided the russian information technology development fund. uh, guaranteed financing, for just such accelerated resolution of these problems. i mean, uh, that doesn't mean it's a bad accelerated one. this means that it is very fast. this is a priority and an additional incentive from the state so that additional programmers are hired with these grant funding , additional development capacities are involved. uh, that is, it is clear that uh , since uh everyone understood that foreign vendors in many respects did not, e, many competitors did not go into this area of ​​development, but when it became clear that u was lower. she is not just freed up. it becomes such

a critical free passing system needed. you need a product lifecycle management support system, but they don't exist. well, you can give an example there of some successful domestic decision that has replaced e foreign ones, if within the framework of particularly significant projects, then these decisions are being created and we will receive in 23, and some of the first. already implemented projects 24 there for more projects, we started this work in the twenty-second so urgently and spontaneously, a uh project implementation period. well, it's so big. well, even if you compare it with foreign ones. it is, of course, faster, because we lean on it with such a super resource. well, anyway, it's three or four years, but of those e, demanded e products of solutions that already exist. and hmm, for example, uh, we supported

the company with a grant, and the company new cloud technologies, which then u considered and the market agreed with this, that you need your own u, corporate mail server with u instead, and microsoft-xchange and prague was supported grant. foundation. they were at the right time. they took over in the right place. increased risk increased obligation to issue e. this solution to market and ensure its commercialization received additional resources to accelerate the hiring of additional developers to increase production capacity say a. this is how the fund operates and to what extent this amount of funds meets the challenge facing the industry, if in numbers, then the fund is young. hmm just celebrated our 4th anniversary, like, hmm we, and as a result

twenty second year. a-a signed nineteen agreements with especially significant projects for a total amount of funding grants of 16 billion rubles. this is a large significant budget, but nevertheless, and from those projects that we received from enterprises from those needs. and in the grant instrument on we see that we meet it in this way, but a little more than 10%, and the needs are not a secret. uh, according to the size of the grants given out , what uh? here is the most what is called heavy, those very large ones were. that's what can be the smallest or medium e, to some extent we had a demonstrative one in the twenty-second year , and the average check was, and 75 million e rubles is for

the development company, and for the development company there is a prerequisite for the project to be commercialized. this means that if there, for example, a project cost, for example, 150 million, grants, funding, it was 75. this means that they need to show the proceeds from this product in the first year, and not less, but it turns out 37 million 100 rubles . thirty- eight, with the support of the government, we significantly changed the terms and mandate. if we used to be able to support projects. with the cost of grant funding up to 300 million rubles. then this upper threshold was increased, and 20 times to 6 billion rubles. and, uh, the implementation period was doubled. that is, where there was 2 1/2 years there became 5 years. well, these are really adequate numbers, that is, when we saw at the moment that

heavy ones are required, there are engineering software solutions and design environments. it is clear that in a year and a half they will not realize this under any circumstances, although here, as regards grant recipients. it must be a team. yes, there must be a company or uh, what is called these here from 75 million rubles. until there, several billion can fall into the hands of one single programmer. well, it's impossible. e directly physically in the case when these are large projects, the recipients are enterprises, industry leaders in the case when it is a development grant. this is an it-development company that really has experience in development, has a high-quality qualified competent team and ready to bring the claimed product to the market within the stated time frame. well

, that is, so, uh, figuratively speaking, you won’t come in from the street, if it’s a qualified competent developer, then you can come. and this is a normal situation. but if this is an organization that is engaged in a completely different area, even, let's say, in the field of consulting, but does not have development experience, does not have a qualified , competent team. then, of course, the experts at the project evaluation stage will skip such a project, but just in time for the question of who judges who, and i would say that in some. yes, this is such an anonymous story, yes, that is, uh, the names of the turnout are kept secret so that there is no way to show any kind of pressure and so on, and how wide is the circle of these experts themselves and uh, how competent are they really. you say that they are highly qualified specialists in such japan

. there are a lot of expert models that are implemented in the fund, it is multilevel. uh, that is, at the first stage, we are looking at it as a fund, but formally, and in the direction of the project, how everything is formalized, the authenticity of the documents , the quality of the applicant. yes, there are cases when a maximum openness is required, and our composition is the top level of its grant committee, which makes the final decisions. it is public and everyone can see it, and uh, the personal composition is people from the industry, these are representatives of the federal executive authorities who are interested. uh, in industry solutions. these are representatives of development institutions such as skolkov. he promote innovation. these are representatives of key e -corporations, such as rusatom rostec, that are