CIPR-2026: main trends of industrial digitalization
From May 18 to 21, the XI conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia" (CIPR) took place in Nizhny Novgorod — one of the key business events in the country in the field of digital economy. The main theme of the year was the digital transformation of industry using its own solutions, and the business program featured top government and business officials. Here are the main takeaways.
From May 18 to 21, the XI conference "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia" (CIPR) took place in Nizhny Novgorod — one of the key business events in the country in the field of digital economy. The main theme of the year was the digital transformation of industry using its own solutions, and the business program featured top government and business officials. Here are the main takeaways.
Course for technological leadership
The tone of the discussion was set by the plenary session "Made in Russia: Digital Transformation of Industry", which was opened by Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin. According to him, the Russian IT industry has doubled its share of GDP over the past six years, and sales of domestic software and digital services exceeded 5 trillion rubles by the end of 2025. The Prime Minister emphasized the work of industry competence centers (ICCs): they have made it possible to build a new level of interaction between industry leaders and developers. The main message is to act proactively: not to catch up with departed Western products, but to forecast the market and compete in new areas.
AI moves from pilots to production
A cross-cutting theme of almost all sessions was artificial intelligence. According to data presented at the conference, AI in Russia is growing almost twice as fast as the IT market as a whole, and more than half of companies are already using such solutions. The main shift in 2026 is the transition from pilot projects to industrial implementation and the emergence of AI agents that take on routine steps of business processes. Of particular interest were industry-specific developments: from a digital airport management ecosystem to a field design platform that automates exploration from modeling to reserve calculation.
Yandex and Sber: betting on AI agents
The tone in corporate AI was set by two major players. Sber acted as the GigaPartner of the conference and focused on AI agents: on the GigaChat Business (GigaChat Enterprise) platform, they demonstrated dynamic agents that not only answer questions, but also independently perform tasks and work alongside employees as "digital colleagues". They also opened access to testing GigaCowork — a platform for managing AI agents across the entire company. The booth also featured Cloud.ru cloud services, the GitVerse development environment, and the GigaDoc document management service.
Yandex developed the theme of clouds and business tools. The Yandex B2B Tech division signed a memorandum on cooperation in the field of cloud and infrastructure services with Turbo Cloud on the sidelines of the forum. The basis of the company's business offering is the flagship YandexGPT model and the Yandex AI Studio platform, on which customers build their own AI agents and integrate them into their services. Both approaches point to a common market vector: the industry is moving from chatbots and pilots to managed AI agents embedded in real business processes.
Yandex developed the theme of clouds and business tools. The Yandex B2B Tech division signed a memorandum on cooperation in the field of cloud and infrastructure services with Turbo Cloud on the sidelines of the forum. The basis of the company's business offering is the flagship YandexGPT model and the Yandex AI Studio platform, on which customers build their own AI agents and integrate them into their services. Both approaches point to a common market vector: the industry is moving from chatbots and pilots to managed AI agents embedded in real business processes.
Transport and construction: industry cases
The scale of transport digitalization was discussed at Russian Railways: the company is launching satellite internet on Sapsan and Lastochka trains, and also agreed on joint training of IT personnel. Deputy General Director of Russian Railways Evgeny Charkin noted that such a scale requires ICCs to move towards cross-industry interaction. A separate area is financial instruments for technological projects: Russian Railways Technology, together with Sber, Rostelecom, VTB and the Association of Largest Consumers of Software and Equipment, signed a memorandum on the sidelines of the forum on the development of digital financial assets (DFAs) for projects in the field of technological independence and sovereignty.
Digitalization of development was presented by DOM.RF. At the session on housing construction, they reported on the growing use of information modeling technologies and the launch of the Competence Center "Expert.dom.rf", as well as a platform for collecting construction data and developing AI agents. On the sidelines of the forum, DOM.RF signed a memorandum on digitalization of the construction complex with the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Read also: ROOT CODE at CIPR-2026 — speech analytics and AI assistants for data-driven management (the material will be released next week). For more details about the forum program, visit the official CIPR website and the page of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Digitalization of development was presented by DOM.RF. At the session on housing construction, they reported on the growing use of information modeling technologies and the launch of the Competence Center "Expert.dom.rf", as well as a platform for collecting construction data and developing AI agents. On the sidelines of the forum, DOM.RF signed a memorandum on digitalization of the construction complex with the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Read also: ROOT CODE at CIPR-2026 — speech analytics and AI assistants for data-driven management (the material will be released next week). For more details about the forum program, visit the official CIPR website and the page of the Government of the Russian Federation.