Future Skills Camp

A key threat to corporate information security is data leakage due to employee actions. The causes of a leak can differ, ranging from negligence and carelessness to malicious intent.

A specialist in enterprise information systems security prevents any data leaks.

Where the skill is needed:

• Protecting a company from information leaks caused by illegal actions of employees (insiders), whether intended or accidental

• Automatic leak detection and blocking systems that use artificial intelligence to predict user activity

• An individual 'security officer' for each employee to prevent leaks

This skill involves concept creation, development and implementation of a manufacturing project within a productive and efficient team of specialists. Individual skills certainly have value in themselves, but the key to success of any project is the ability to work effectively as a team.

The challenge is to bring together a team of complementary specialists, for example, in project management, electronics, software engineering, machining and CAD engineering design. Winning a Manufacturing Team Challenge also depends on the availability of specialists with financial and managerial skills to control the timing, cost and quality of the test project. In addition to personal talents, team members should contribute to the overall effort, be clear about their strengths and weaknesses, possess interpersonal skills and be able to think outside their skill area.

Development of manufacturing projects based on existing facilities. With direct design, the product is constructed from drawings. With reverse engineering, the specialist often deals only with parts of the product that are used to reconstruct the picture of the breakdown and creates a 3D model of the whole object.

Reverse engineering specialists are skilled in 3D scanning, computer modelling and material analysis.

Where the skill is needed:

• aviation
• ships
• energy
• mining and transportation of mineral resources
• routine equipment repair
• research and development
• medicine
• engineering education

• generative design
• structural optimisation
• tissue engineering for the food industry and medicine

• research and development
• integration with IT processes

This skill allows interlinking a large variety of devices, even those located at a huge distance from one another, with a human, other devices and information systems.

A specialist who has mastered this skill creates distributed control systems for such devices using the internet and cloud technologies.

Where the skill is needed:

• data collection in the agricultural sector
• smart city (data collection in public utilities, transport monitoring)
• data collection from equipment developers and incorporation into industrial manufacturing
• use at home (smart home)

• control of smart home systems by voice and gestures
• diagnosis and automatic maintenance
• safe traffic

• full-scale implementation of the internet of things in all spheres of human activity

The goal of a specialist in mobile application development is to create a product that combines fault-free operation on the mobile operating platform, a user-friendly interface and multi-functionality.

Mobile applications make everyday life easier for users.

Where the skill is needed:

• social networks and messengers
• media editors
• fitness applications
• business-user interaction
• smart watches

• car movement and refueling
• smart home
• health industry

• full-scale implementation of applications in all spheres of human activity

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control, including remote piloting. UAV operation, error detection and troubleshooting.

Operation of UAVs requires various specialisations: technician, operator, external pilot, software engineer, engineer and others.

Where the skill is needed:

• cartography
• monitoring traffic and safety in urban areas
• agriculture
• construction industry
• delivery of goods
• filming
• organizing performances
• education

• delivery of small shipments to hard-to-reach areas
• extinguishing fires in inaccessible areas
• Passenger transportation to hard-to-reach places
• Cargo transportation in the city and in remote places
• Swarms, drone show

• Passenger transportation in the city
• Tracking, protection
• Augmented Reality Projection

Automated welding carried out by robotic manipulators and automatic welding equipment. The technology is widespread in the automotive and machine-building industries.

It is cost effective for a large number of repetitive tasks, in hazardous industries and critically important welding areas.

Where the skill is needed:

• Manufacturing of cargo trailers, tanks, railroad cars, doors and other products involving welding

• Manufacture of smaller car parts, boat and ship hulls, steel structures of bridges and buildings

• Mobile robotic welding systems for field work

A specialist with this skill sets up a unified communication process to manage a project at all stages – from concept development through design and manufacturing to sales, after-sales service and disposal.

Project lifecycle management helps reduce the time to market for a new product and improve plant efficiency.

Where the skill is needed:

• different branches of the economy (mechanical engineering, heavy industry, development, science organization
• certain stages of the manufacturing processes (idea creation, system design, product specification management, integration of digital devices and software, after-sales service)

• introduction of digital design technologies
• creation of digital twins and a PLM system for interactive lifecycle management

• lifecycle management is implemented in a wide variety of industries and areas of manufacture
• manufacturers will be able to modify, refine and transform product parameters in real time at all lifecycle stages based on feedback
• the customer will participate in product development together with the manufacturers through adaptive lifecycle management

This skill involves the use of digital models in designing and operating manufacturing systems. Furthermore, not only the products themselves but also the manufacturing tools, production and logistics processes are displayed as digital models.

The use of digital models enhances equipment efficiency through the introduction of artificial intelligence, cloud technology, industrial internet of things, tools for working with data arrays into the process.

Where the skill is needed:

• Industrial production processes

• Possibility of customized order of individual products and small series

• The widespread use of digital production will lead to quick and high-quality ordering of individual customized products at a selected time interval

This skill implies the ability to organize the recognition, analysis and processing of large amounts of data, including unstructured data, without the use of clear deterministic algorithms. The skill allows solving a variety of practical problems.

And thanks to the extensive experience in machine learning accumulated by the industry and new tools, it is becoming possible to predict the development of a problem and use graphics to model it.

Where the skill is needed:

• unmanned motor vehicles
• speech recognition
• search engines

• personalised education

• personalised medicine
• total business process digitalisation

Experts develop an information model of a building, create interconnected drawings on its basis and enable data exchange between all building process participants. Information modelling involves the production and management of information about the construction project at all stages. The skill allows testing the solution before its implementation, reducing the construction cost and ensuring its quality through end-to-end management of the building lifecycle at all stages – from development to disposal.

Where the skill is needed:

• Design of capital construction projects.

• Operation of buildings and structures (asset management, energy efficiency)

• Creating a digital twin of objects and structures (smart city)

The development of software solutions to improve business performance covers numerous skills and disciplines. The key points are the dynamic nature of the industry and the ability to keep pace with ongoing changes. Professionals in the sphere of software solutions always collaborate closely with clients to modify existing systems or create new ones. They may adapt standard software and integrate it into the existing systems. They often work within a team of professional software engineers responsible for formulating requirements, system analysis and design, development, testing, training and deployment as well as maintenance of commercial software systems.

Internet marketing as well as classic marketing is a type of activity aimed at satisfying needs by way of exchange. In internet marketing, user requests, such as applications, orders or expression of interest in a type of goods or services as well as money in the form of online payments, are traded for what the users may obtain directly on the internet – that is, information, goods or services.

Internet marketing is part of e-commerce. It is also referred to as online marketing. It may include such aspects as internet integration, information managment, PR, customer support service and sales.

Prototyping of household appliances, manufacturing units and their interfaces, land and air transport (including motor vehicles, planes, trains), a variety of equipment.

The skill defines the functional and aesthetic qualities of manufacturing and connects manufacturability with elements of art, science and marketing.

Where the skill is needed:

• Creation of comfortable and aesthetically pleasing items that meet market requirements, such as manufacturability, cost and operating conditions

• Active introduction of digital technologies and 3D prototyping. Ubiquitous use of virtual and augmented reality tools for product design and demonstration

• There will be no difference between industrial design, engineering design and the game industry

Any space mission, including those related to the development, launch and piloting of spacecraft, requires strong engineering skills.

A space systems engineer performs the design, numerical modeling, programming and assembly of a functional model of an Earth observation satellite and is also responsible for ground testing of the model created.

Where the skill is needed:

• digital modelling of air and spacecraft behaviour under different conditions
• modelling the interaction of air and spacecraft components under different external impacts
• manufacturing of airplanes, rockets, jet and propeller engines, spacecraft and spare parts for these systems
• use of satellite data for weather forecasting, TV broadcasting, agricultural analysis

• disposal of toxic waste in space
• manufacturing of high-quality crystals under weightless conditions
• extraction of mineral resources on the Moon and asteroids

• creation of low-cost technologies for transporting goods and people into orbit (a space elevator from the Earth's surface)

The main concept of Skill "Digital Capabilities for Business" is the integration of solutions from Skill 09 "IT Software Solutions for Business" with modern technologies that are used in market solutions. The competence covers such skills of participants as knowledge of various technologies, the ability to use them for solving applied problems, as well as the ability to integrate these solutions into classic business software.

Skill "Digital Capabilities for Business" involves teams of 3 people. Within several sessions participants are invited to implement a business application core, develop a mobile application, and finally integrate the created "core" with modern technologies. Competition is as close to reality as possible - at the tasks level, hardware solutions provided by the organizers for solving certain sessions, as well as organizing work within the competence.

The skill that allows programming, equipping and controlling industrial robots to perform automated manufacturing tasks.

Robotisation offers an advantage in the face of frequently changing manufacturing processes. For example, it requires less investment as it allows the use of standard industrial robots for various tasks.

• Automation of welding, machine maintenance, machining, palletising of the finished product etc. The aim is to increase manufacturing volumes and reduce manufacturing costs

• Robotic clusters of machines for a group of manufacturing operations without human intervention

• Fully robotic manufacturing with minimal human involvement, a human only controls the entire process

Quantum encryption is used to protect the information, as the security of data transmission is guaranteed by the fundamental laws of physics.

Quantum technologies allow instantly detecting compromised distribution of key documents in a communication line, so users can be certain that an intruder will not get access to their information.

Where the skill is needed:

• banking industry
• protecting critical state information

• complex solutions for the banking sector
• for large companies in the public sector

• protection of each user's personal data
• use of quantum encryption in mobile devices and transport

Service robot operation is the process of administration, configuration and repair of the robot. A key result of the competition is a correctly operating remote-controlled robot. In the near future we will be surrounded by a variety of domestic robots that we should already be able to repair and adjust.