Sber and Sinara Group run GigaChat industrial hackathon at Sber Technohub Yekaterinburg, producing 40+ GenAI initiatives
Sber
On August 17, 2026, Sber and Sinara Group held a hackathon at Sber's Technohub in Yekaterinburg where ~30 participants from Sinara plants (Kalugaputmash, Uralkhimmash, Ural Locomotives) and students from UrFU and UrGUPS produced more than 40 GenAI initiatives on Sber's GigaCowork platform. Featured solutions include an NL assistant that cuts production/warehouse/financial report preparation from hours or days to ~1 minute, an AI agent that automates 1.5-hour manual design-documentation checks, and a welding technology selector that matches 3D models to approved processes with material norms.
Why it matters
First reported industrial application of GigaCowork (Sber's agent collaboration platform) inside a major Russian industrial group, with concrete quantified productivity gains in factory workflows — extends GigaChat from consumer/enterprise chat to shop-floor AI agents.
Importance: 3/5
open-weights / GA marker