‘We Managed to Outperform Teams of 15–20 IT Specialists’
On June 5, 2025, the top projects were presented as part of the Digital Solutions Marathon hackathon in a case study on forecasting and evaluating lost sales. First place went to a joint team of students from the HSE Faculty of Computer Science and the National University of Science and Technology MISIS, consisting of six students.
The Digital Solutions Marathon (DSM) is a competition for engineering, technology, and IT teams to develop working prototype solutions for the industrial, oil & gas, and energy sectors. The event took place within the framework of the Leaders of Innovation 2025 Forum and brought together more than 150 teams from across Russia.
Hackathon participants could choose a case study of easy, medium, or high difficulty. A distinctive feature of the DSM was its focus on practical implementation of the solutions.
The winners of the KUDO case track on forecasting and evaluating lost sales were the MISIS x HSE Microgit team, comprising:
Artem Sokolov, second-year bachelor’s student in Software Engineering, HSE Faculty of Computer Science.
Vladislav Eliseev, second-year bachelor’s student in Applied Mathematics and Information Science, HSE Faculty of Computer Science.
Tatiana Zavarykina, first-year student of MISIS University.
Dmitry Kaykov, second-year student of MISIS University.
Rodion Naumov, second-year student of MISIS University.
Adil Khabibulin, second-year student of MISIS University.
The students presented a web platform to help managers forecast sales. The forecasts are generated by the DeepAR and ChronosZeroShot machine learning models, achieving up to 97% accuracy.
Artem Sokolov
‘Our case was from KUDO—we had to develop a test version of a platform for demand forecasting and create a product recommendation system for customers based on their behaviour.
The decision to take part in the hackathon was rather spontaneous. We have participated in similar competitions before, so we already had a good idea of who should do what. We prepared in advance: we studied reports from the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, talked to business owners, and collected a lot of different data on the topic, which definitely helped us get closer to victory.
Even though there were only a few of us, we managed to outperform teams of IT specialists from companies numbering 15 to 20 people—and win.’
Text by Alexandra Sytnik
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