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General Partners

  • VK

    The company has the same name as the social network, but it is not limited to one project at all: there are more than 200 of them, from gaming to educational. In 2022 it became the general partner of JUG Ru Group, but its history of cooperation with our conferences began much earlier.

    Participation in our conferences

    When you work on very large-scale projects, you get rare experience. And the company willingly shares it — for example, Odnoklassniki makes one of the most popular sites on Runet in Java, and in his talks Andrey Pangin reveals Java "from the inside":

    In 2021, the company was launching the VK Calls service, and at our VideoTech conference they told us about its development in four forms at once:

    Their employees participated in our conferences not only as speakers:

    • Experts

      Assist the speaker with the presentation, ask questions

    • PC members

      Compose the conference program and help polish the talks

    • Booth assistants

      At the company’s booth, someone has to answer tricky questions from the participants

    • Participants

      It is interesting not only to share experiences, but also to listen to others

    Contributions to the IT Community

    In addition to services for end users, the company has something to offer developers: for example, the in-memory computing platform Tarantool is widely known.

    There are also various educational initiatives:

    • VK Lab

      About artificial intelligence — online and without nerdiness

    • TechnoCup

      Programming Olympics for school students

    Partnerships with our conferences also contribute to the dissemination of knowledge.

    What we ourselves use

    When conferences went online in 2020 with the pandemic, we started to develop our own video platform. Among other things, we needed high-quality video communication, and as a result, one of the internal components of our platform was VK Calls, which turned out to be better than alternatives for our tasks. So the talks about this project at VideoTech were relevant for us.

  • Yandex

    Speakers from Yandex have already performed with us, but now the cooperation has moved to a new format: the company has become the general partner of JUG Ru Group.

    Participation in our conferences

    Since Yandex has a lot of knowledge in a variety of areas, speakers from the company have given talks at almost all of our conferences. Here are just three examples:

    Their employees participated in our conferences not only as speakers:

    • Experts

      Assist the speaker with the presentation, ask questions

    • PC members

      Compose the conference program and help polish the talks

    • Booth assistants

      At the company’s booth, someone has to answer tricky questions from the participants

    • Participants

      It is interesting not only to share experiences, but also to listen to others

    Contributions to the IT Community

    Yandex offers more than just services. First, the company has open source initiatives: for example, it recently introduced the DivKit framework for server-driven UI.

    Secondly, the company is known for educational initiatives:

    Partnerships with our conferences also contribute to the dissemination of knowledge.

    What we ourselves use

    Many of us may use some of Yandex’s services for work and personal purposes, but one of them has become not just a personal choice, but is used by the company as a whole: it is Yandex Cloud. So talks from Yandex on «cloud» topics at DevOops are especially relevant to us.