80% of graduates will stay to develop their projects in Innopolis.
The graduates were congratulated by Tatarstan Prime Minister Alexey Pesoshin, Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaikhutdinov, Mayor Ildar Khuzzyatov, and Innopolis University Director Dmitry Vandyukov.
The students presented their IT startups as their graduation projects. This year, graduates created AI services, digital platforms, solutions for industry and robotics, technologies in the fields of voice AI, personalized nutrition, and digitalization of heating. One of their developments is an AI companion that helps complete important projects.
University startups often move to the Innopolis Special Economic Zone and transform from an idea into a business. Over the past 12 years, Innopolis University has trained more than 2,000 graduates. Many of them continue to develop their own technology projects or work in Russian IT companies, research laboratories, and the university's technology centers.