The president of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov who is in the USA on a three-day working visit (on November 9-11, 2016) has visited a campus of the Google company – Googleplex located in Silicon Valley of California and has met the management of the company.
The President of the Republic of Tatarstan was accompaniedby the Minister of Economics of the Republic of Tatarstan Artyom Zdunov, the Deputy prime minister – the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, the deputy prime minister – the minister of informatization and communication of the Republic of Tatarstan Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Assistant to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Radik Gimatdinov, the head of the Agency of investment development of the Republic of Tatarstan Taliya Minullina, the CEO of the Innopolis SEZ Igor Nosov, the head of SAI "Science and technology park in the sphere of high IT park technologies Anton Grachev and others.
For members of delegation of Tatarstan the excursion on a campus of Google has been organized. Today the Google company has more than 70 offices in 40 countries of the world and the headquarters in Mountain-twist in Silicon Valley, better known as Googleplex. For employees the creative working space which besides jobs, includes cafe with good nutrition and microkitchens with snack and drinks is organized here. At offices of Google places for playing table football, tennis, billiards, volleyball and Ping-Pong and also for video games and playing a piano are equipped.
The unit manager for public relations of the Google company Charina Choi has told about new developments of the company in spheres of new technologies, machine training and artificial intelligence.
With the presentation of decisions for work with small business for regions the head of the global direction of Internet economy and work with small business of the Google company Tom Lue has acted. He has told, in particular, about the course of the educational project "Business class" which is carried out in Tatarstan by the Google Russia company and Sberbank with assistance of the Ministry of Economics of RT. Further the session of questions-answers has taken place.
Rustam Minnikhanov, addressing specialists of Google, has taken an interest in what terms engineers of Silicon Valley will finish the project of the self-driving car. Representatives of the technological company have answered that the presentation of such car will take place within the next 3-5 years.
The President of the Republic of Tatarstan has reported that now in the Republic of Tatarstan development of the self-driving car KAMAZ which release is planned by 2030 is conducted. I am sure that everithing will turn out, we wait for your results, Rustam Minnikhanov has told.