The Hi-Tech Park and the U.S. company General Electric Global Research (GE Global Research) intend to assimilate innovative solutions into the Belarusian economy, the park’s representatives reported after the park’s Director Vsevolod Yanchevsky met with Janeen Uzzell, a director of operations at GE Global Research.
During the meeting the sides discussed the possibility of introducing Internet of Things technologies and machine learning in various branches of the Belarusian economy. Janeen Uzzell shared her experience of introducing technology programs in healthcare, aviation, and power engineering. “The Hi-Tech Park is a fantastic place,” said Janeen Uzzell as she visited the business incubator of the Hi-Tech Park in Minsk.
“Upon coming here, I felt like I am in the Silicon Valley right away. A lot of energetic and creative people. Very interesting projects are implemented here. I will definitely share information about the park with colleagues in the USA. Today I’ve been shown the Belarusian mobile phone app Viber. I’ve already installed it on my phone in order to communicate in Minsk.”
Representatives of the American corporation were also interested in the Hi-Tech Park considering the recent adoption of the Digital Economy Development Ordinance. Nowadays Hi-Tech Park companies develop internationally recognized products in the sphere of artificial intelligence and machine learning, create innovative platforms for processing large amounts of data. General Electric is a customer of the Hi-Tech Park companies.
The Hi-Tech Park has recently embraced the policy of vigorous cooperation with the world’s largest corporations. Hi-Tech Park Director Vsevolod Yanchevsky noted that the global hi-tech industry pays attention to Belarus more and more often. “The two largest IT giants, one can say, symbols of the American Silicon Valley — Google and Facebook — have acquired Belarusian companies. General Electric Company demonstrates a symbolic interest in the Hi-Tech Park as real-sector companies – power engineering, production sector, automobile engineering ones — embrace digital technologies. It is a global trend. In our country it is also very important for our companies to move fast in this direction,” said the executive.
General Electric is the world’s largest power engineering company, which makes a broad range of high-tech products ranging from nuclear reactors and aviation engines to locomotives and medical equipment. General Electric specialists are busy developing smart systems for healthcare, use 3D printers to make aviation products, and develop their own software to make the equipment more effective. The company has invested heavily in information technologies recently. General Electric is one of the oldest power engineering concerns in the world. Today it vigorously assimilates technologies in various economy branches. After buying the software development company ServiceMax General Electric Company became a direct competitor for corporations like Microsoft and Oracle. General Electric intends to become a world top 10 software development company by 2020.
