The moderator was Ilya Yaskov, Deputy Vice-rector for development.

In 2018, the FEFU hosted the educational intensive «Island 10-21», which brought together the best programmers, technology entrepreneurs, outstanding students in order to teach them how to work with big data with the help of artificial intelligence. A separate direction was the track Chief Data Officers (CDO).

In the near future, the Director of data (Chief Data Officer, CDO) will be in demand in almost all areas of business. Retail, manufacturing, agriculture, mining, Finance and professional services, among others, will follow the path of technology companies like Google, Facebook and LinkedIn, which already have CDO in their staff.

Even today, the collection of big data and their processing are actively applied in practice: the data of brokerage companies are used to predict exchange rates, artificial intelligence makes medical diagnoses, experts optimize traffic, on the basis of big data can be calculated on what depends the efficiency and efficiency of employees.

In the Far East of Russia, the Chief Data Officer training program will be implemented at the Far Eastern Federal University: an agreement was signed to create a CDO competence Center at FEFU.