In December, Russia will host a virtual mega Artificial Intelligence (AI) event, between December 3 to 5. India will be participating in this event in a major way as there are a record-high number of participants and speakers. Amongst the speakers are Anima Anandkumar from California Institute of Technology, Pradeep Dubey of Intel, Gurdeep Singh of Microsoft.

The event will be sponsored by Sberbank, one of the largest banks in Russia in which the Russian government is also the principal shareholder. Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank said, "This challenging year, our conference has already beaten the AI Journey 2019 record in terms of the number of applications submitted by foreign participants. At the moment, specialists from every fourth country in the world are set to participate in the event."

On India, he said, "We expect many professionals from India – last year its experts did not attend, but now India ranks first among foreign countries in terms of the number of registrations".

The event will be attended by over 400 people from 58 countries.