🗓 Events Digest August 17–23

MONDAY
🔸 Markdir 2026: How to Drive Changes in Product, Sales, and Processes — A series of podcasts and a closed meetup with CMOs and CPOs about business transformation: from changing the business model and processes to launching new products.
🔸 CRM for Recruitment: 5 Criteria to Check Before Implementation. Practical Case from Aiteko — Analysis of key criteria for choosing an HR system and practical experience in automating recruitment.

TUESDAY
🔸 Infrastructure for Development at Hyperspeed: Self-Service and MCP in HyperDrive — How Internal Developer Platform, self-service, and MCP help eliminate manual approvals and speed up the path from code to ready infrastructure.
🔸 AI Agents — a New Component of Project Management Systems — A SKOLKOVO webinar on how AI agents are changing project management and which manager tasks can already be delegated to digital assistants.
🔸 AI in Business: Where the Money Is — A real case of AI implementation in the Bouche chain: where the technology actually brought money, which hypotheses failed, and how to calculate the economic effect.
🔸 Why Employees Don't Take Responsibility — and What to Do About It — A meeting about authority, initiative, and the transition from manual management to managed team autonomy.
🔸 MWS Meetup #7. Offline Meeting of Data Specialists — A meeting of data stewards, analysts, and engineers: practical cases of working with data and exchanging experience within the professional community.

WEDNESDAY
🔸 AI in Business: How to Assemble Strategy, Architecture, Economics, and Security into a Working System — SKOLKOVO, Yandex, and ITMO on how to move from scattered AI pilots to a systemic architecture where people and digital employees work together.
🔸 Antifragile Learning 2026 — An online conference on corporate learning in times of uncertainty: AI in L&D, skills analytics, ROI of learning, and new formats for employee development.
🔸 Personnel Assessment: Between Business Requirements and the Law — A webinar on how to build an employee assessment system that takes into account business tasks and legal constraints.
🔸 How to Find a Job in America? — A masterclass for IT and Digital specialists on finding vacancies, working with American recruiters, and entering the international market.

THURSDAY
🔸 OKR Russia 2026 — A conference on setting and achieving ambitious business goals. Cases of OKR implementation, connection with strategy, performance management, and management in times of uncertainty.
🔸 The Price of a Tired Leader, or How Much Manager Burnout Costs Business — A conversation about managerial burnout not as a personal problem but as a factor affecting decisions, teams, and business results.
🔸 From UPP to ERP: Transition Scenarios for Owners and Managers — Three scenarios for transitioning to 1C:ERP, a risk map, implementation costs, and ways to migrate without stopping business or losing data.
🔸 Projects in Industrial Manufacturing — A practical webinar on systematic management of industrial projects: timelines, budgets, R&D, procurement, and a unified information space.
🔸 Where Vibecoding Ends and Engineering AI Development Begins — Honest cases of AI implementation in development teams and a discussion on the boundary between a quick prototype and a maintainable engineering product.
🔸 Manage: Where to Grow and How to Restructure Your Agency Team — A conference for agencies on niching, new growth areas, AI transformation, and team restructuring.

FRIDAY
🔸 Yandex Ecom Open Air 2026 — Yandex's B2B festival for those developing online commerce: e-commerce, advertising, analytics, sales technologies, and cases from major retailers.
🔸 Annual Educational Conference Green Standard Awards — A conference for companies developing sustainable and "green" projects: ESG practices, environmental standards, and real business cases.

SATURDAY
🔸 Welcome Times for Analysts — An offline meeting at the Yandex office: product analytics cases, getting to know teams, networking, and an opportunity to test your skills.

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