Smolensk team “Patisson” entered the top 10 strongest on the eighth season of the international hackathon “Leaders of digital transformation”
Smolensk team “Patisson” from the Association “Order of Phoenix” (Nikita Evseev, Denis Shumilov and Sergey Vorozheykin) became a finalist of the eighth season of the largest international hackathon “Leaders of digital transformation”

Smolensk team “Patisson” from the Association “Order of Phoenix” (Nikita Evseev, Denis Shumilov and Sergey Vorozheykin) became a finalist of the eighth season of the largest international hackathon “Leaders of digital transformation”. Within a month, the guys developed an “Intelligent system for monitoring the construction site”.
The results of the competition were announced on October 30, 2026 in Moscow, in the Lomonosov innovation cluster, as part of the LCT-Fest youth festival. According to the jury, the level of decisions in the final was so high that the choice of winners was extremely difficult.
The Smolensk team entered the top ten, which is a huge success for the region, especially given the level of rivals. It is worth noting that the competition is not a children’s one – experienced teams of developers from all over the country and neighboring countries competed in it.
About the contest itself
“Leaders of Digital Transformation” is the largest annual hackathon in Russia, which has been held since 2019 at the initiative of the Mayor of Moscow. In 2026, his prize fund amounted to 40 million rubles.
In 2026, the organizers prepared 20 real cases from the Moscow authorities, leading Russian IT companies and corporations (such as Positive Technologies, Beeline Business, Yandex Cloud, VK Tech). The tasks cover the areas of artificial intelligence, automation of urban processes, unmanned technologies, digital modeling and big data analysis.



