The RIF Voronezh Internet technologies festival was held between 22 and 23 September in the main building of VSU. This large event was conducted in Voronezh for the 12th time. The festival attracted young specialists and representatives of companies working in different areas, such as marketing and advertising, HR, development, design, and IT.
It is the third time VSU has offered to accommodate the participants of RIF at the university. The programme was very busy, and over the course of two days 2090 participants have completed five educational tracks: marketing and advertising, HR+development, development, design+mobile, and government+IT.
86 speakers from 39 partner companies gave speeches for the visitors. Among them were large companies operating in the field of online technologies and business, including Red collar, Surf, ITentika, Neoflex, Cinimex, and HeadHunter. Leading experts from the presented areas of knowledge were speakers at the round table discussions and festival’s sessions. Andrey Gavrikov, MBA, founder of the MaEd online marketing academy, ICF coach and “My Business” and Synergy Global Forum speaker Alla Staub, and head of the partnerships group for the Southern Federal District Natalia German from Yandex spoke about the secrets of marketing. Anastasia Polyanskaya, digital marketing and business development expert, talked about the development of a personal brand. Mikhail Boldyrev, art director of ex-Decart IT-Production, and Maxim Sobkovsky, art director of Red Collar, gave lectures on designing the interfaces of digital products. Evgeny Kovaltsov, Dmitry Vasiliev, and Denis Migulin from Cinimex as well as Nikita Korchagin and Artur Chekanov from Itentika were the guests invited by the development panel.
Five large halls and rooms of the main building of VSU were used for the festival, that is 4,000 square meters all in all, including the building’s wide corridors where the event's partners offered activities for the guests and gave them a chance to meet potential employers. The visitors had a chance to attend a recruitment fair, play ping-pong or Jenga, try on VR glasses, make pancakes, or solve puzzles. Key figures of RIF and VSU were invited to the online media studio of the festival and participated in video interviews.
Graffiti by Denis Gramm was created in the yard of the main building of VSU as a memento of RIF Voronezh.
