Team Bottleneck

A static evacuation map shows possible routes but not whether they can handle the traffic. Bottleneck runs a real road network through a mesoscopic traffic simulation to show how fast a city can clear out, where queues form, and how closures, extra lanes or contraflow change the outcome. Four real cities ship built in, with validation targets set in advance so misses stay visible.

Team Platephoto

Platephoto turns a meal photo into an editable food diary entry. Snap or upload a picture and it estimates the foods, portion size, calories, protein, carbs and fat, then hands you a review screen to correct anything before it is saved. Recognition is treated as an assistant, not an unquestionable source of truth.

Team Review Pulse

A 3.9 average tells you nothing about what to fix this week. Review Pulse takes a pile of dated reviews and turns them into recurring themes, evidence and trends, so an owner can tell one angry comment apart from an actual pattern. Original quotes stay attached and are never invented, and the report lives in the browser with no account needed.

Real-World Impact Award

Konstantin Likhonin

Head of Transactional Products at JSC "Bank DOM. RF"

Leads transactional products at Bank DOM. RF, with eight years in regulated industries building high-load banking, medical and e-commerce systems. Recognized for consistently identifying the projects with the greatest potential to improve how people live and work.

Outstanding Evaluation Award

Evgenii Poremov

Data Analyst and Workforce Management Expert, VERME

Data analyst specializing in workforce management, with published work on scheduling systems for retail chains. Recognized for the rigor and thoroughness of his written assessments.

Technical Architecture Excellence Award

Andrei Privalov

ML Engineer at SimbirSoft

Machine learning engineer building RAG pipelines, fine-tuned language models and planning agents, with a master’s in AI from ITMO University. Recognized for his eye for how a system is put together beneath its interface.

Systems at Scale Award

Mykola Khoroshevskyi

Principal Data Engineer at Sigma Software Group

Principal engineer and architect in distributed systems and data platforms, formerly at Yahoo and Verizon Media on a platform serving millions of events per second. Recognized for assessing whether projects would hold up under real production load.

Domain Expertise Award

Sambit Panigrahi

Digital HR Technology Leader at VITAS Healthcare

Fifteen years leading enterprise HR technology transformation at VITAS Healthcare, Deloitte Consulting and Wipro. Recognized for bringing deep specialist knowledge to the projects he evaluated.

Mentorship Excellence Award

Maksim Kananovich

Founder and Managing Partner of Novaconix LLC

Technology entrepreneur with twenty years in the industry and a decade in C-level roles, founder of several cross-border IT services and game studios. Recognized for the guidance and support he gave teams throughout the event.

Constructive Guidance Award

Denis Sinyukov

Lead Software Engineer at xStack

Full-stack engineer with ten years of experience, architecting fintech services that handle millions of daily transactions and mentoring the developers around him. Recognized for the specific, actionable feedback he gave to teams.

Judging Leadership Award

Oleg Bondarchuk

Azure Infrastructure Architect at GenRe

Senior cloud architect with sixteen years in hybrid cloud, leading GenRe’s enterprise cloud transformation across more than forty offices. Recognized for the coordinating role he played within the panel.

Innovation Recognition Award

Liudmyla Shumilina

Senior Product Designer at Meazure Learning

Product designer who has designed and scaled SaaS products used in more than forty countries, leading the exam creation redesign at Meazure Learning. Recognized for spotting transformative potential in the projects she reviewed.

Responsible Technology Award

Kirill Pechurin

Senior Backend Engineer at T-Bank

Senior backend engineer scaling high-load Python systems and leading LLM-powered automation at T-Bank. Recognized for how carefully he weighed the ethical and practical dimensions of the submissions.

Predictive Leadership Award

Sushrutha Sreevathsa

Project Manager and SRE at Yahoo

Site reliability engineer turned product strategist with eleven years across reliability, data intelligence and product strategy, MBA from the Kelley School of Business. Recognized for seeing where a project was heading rather than only where it stood.

Visionary Impact Award

Ratnakar Tripathy

Senior Architect at Salesforce

Senior program architect and AI specialist with twenty years in enterprise IT and a U.S. patent in intelligent automation. Recognized for the breadth of influence his perspective had across the event.