The Company got a Digital Pyramid award in the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of the Year category. It was presented to Levon Kirakosyan, head of digital projects and IT development at Nornickel, at the Company and HR Management Technology forum on 28 March.

“The Digital Pyramid competition is held every year to acclaim the developers of digital technologies and pioneering companies. Until recently, the award categories included the Digital Project of the Year, Company Digitalisation and Digital Solution. This year, we introduced a category that was totally new for the Russian market — CDO of the Year. We are pleased to present this award to one of Nornickel’s top managers responsible for digitalisation processes,” said Alexander Lebedev, the Chairman of the HR Directors Summit Organizing Committee, after the ceremony.

As he added, Russian companies tend to establish CDO positions in response to ongoing digital transformation around the globe. “Chief Digital Officer has two main functions: creation of new businesses, services and products and process automation reducing costs and streamlining business operations.”

“In 2018, Nornickel set up its Digital Lab, an R&D unit of nine people to work on digital solutions for the Company’s production facilities using Industry 4.0 technologies,” commented Yuri Shekhovtsov, Head of IT Department at Nornickel. “In a little more than a year, Digital Lab has considered over 130 concepts, with over 30 initiatives being under active development and 16 completed and pending implementation. All this results from great teamwork of Digital Lab’s experts and enthusiastic employees of IT and other of the Company’s departments,” he said.

Nornickel receives CDO award