Yury Lifshits /    Юрий Лифшиц

Entrepreneur

  • Statecraft — Analytics solutions for local governments.
  • Entangled Solutions — Innovation agency for education.
  • Blended Labs — R&D lab making experimental services for mobile, online and blended education.
  • Geek Picnic — One of the largest outdoors tech festivals in the world, 100,000+ annual attendance.
  • Zonaspace — Coworking space and educational center.

Computer scientist

  • Yury.name — Main research website with papers and talks.
  • The Like Log Study (2011) — A major research project developed at Yahoo! Labs.

Side projects

  • HackDay (founded in 2009) — A major hackathon series in Eastern Europe.
  • VnimanieTV.ru (2011) — Russian national awards for best educational video.
  • ShouldKnow.ru — A directory of young leaders people should know.
  • HomeWork (2011) — one of the first coworking+coliving spaces in Russia.