Last week for the world of the Atyrau IT community was marked by the completion of the Atyrau Energy Challenge.

The Atyrau Energy Challenge is a marathon of programmers, developers, webmasters, stimulating the emergence and development of new ideas that facilitate the facilitation of operational processes in the oil and gas industry.
During the contest, which lasted for a month, more than 100 entries were submitted. The contest participants were tasked with developing IT solutions to ensure compliance with safety and environmental standards. Facilitation of the processes of warehousing and storage of materials, reduction of paper workflow and solutions of the industrial Internet of things.

The aim of the Atyrau Energy Challenge competition was to find and help introduce the most promising solutions for the oil and gas industry in Kazakhstan, develop local content and a digital startup ecosystem in Atyrau, attract scientific communities and startups from neighboring countries, as well as attract promising startups, accelerators and investors in oil and gas industry.

Contest winners
1st place - Sergey Kim. Neural Shield Development of an application for the automation of the collection and processing of "SAFE-R" cards. Security in your smartphones.
2nd place - Darmen Zholtay. InSight Team Big Data - New Oil
3rd place - Amanbaev Aruzhan Dream-Team Automated mobile saÿety support AMANOS and Nurzhan Mukhamedkali. Team Norsec EINIXVISION ADVANCING AI FOR EVERYONE

Norsec Delta Projects wants to once again heartily congratulate the participants on their victory and express appreciation for their journey. At this hackathon, existing young IT specialists, as well as students from various Kazakhstani universities, presented their work. The work of the participants produced a very strong, positive effect on the panel of judges, demonstrating the great potential of the current and future IT community of our country. In turn, Norsec Delta Projects wishes the participants and all representatives of IT culture further success in their goals. Also, being one of the sponsors of this event, I would like to say that we are always open to new, innovative ideas and solutions and are ready to provide all possible support for their development.

And finally, I would like to express my gratitude to the organizers of the Atyrau Energy Challenge represented by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) together with Petrocouncil.kz (under the Atameken RPC and Kazenergy Association), together with APEC PetroTechnic Higher College.