The events were organized by the Presidential Academy, Tomsk State University and the Association "University Consortium of Big Data Researchers". This year, more than 170 applications were submitted for the Award from 104 organizations from 41 regions of the country. Among the participants: 81 universities, 23 companies, scientific organizations, government agencies and schools, and 12 participating teams last year submitted applications with new projects and this year

The winners and promising projects were awarded according to the following thematic tracks "Data", "Algorithms", "Practice", "Potential". In each category, depending on the nomination, the winner and a promising project were determined. The winners were the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Moscow State University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation and others.

The project of teachers of the Faculty of Law: Smagina E.S., Frolova E.Yu. and students: law - Kozhukhova A. S. and economics faculties of SFedU - Dushenko N.A. and Golovacheva M.M. in the track "Practice" in the nomination "The best case in the field of public administration" received the award "Promising project".