On 26 September, the AI Business Club (a project of the AI research cluster based at the MGIMO AI Centre) and the MGIMO Artificial Intelligence Master's programme met in a hybrid format. The students were addressed by the ‘
AI for Product’ team, including Ilya Golovko, MGIMO graduate and head of Payments at Alfa-Bank, and Leonid Shashkov, head of the Services Block Directorate at Sberbank.
The guests spoke about ‘how AI is changing the process of creating IT products in the bank’ using the experience of Sber and Alfa as an example. They discussed what AI Product Development is, what new roles there are in an AI-driven team, how to increase the efficiency of the IT team with the help of AI, and what AI tools are used to reduce service development time.