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The large consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has partnered with Bitfury Group, a mining and blockchain software company, to create a blockchain accelerator for companies in Russia, according to a press release from today's PwC, December 13th.
The statement explains that PwC has already used Exonum – the Bitfury open source framework for creating blockchain – for training courses and seminars.
According to the release, the main goal of the new accelerator is to meet the "current needs" of the consulting giant's enterprise customers in Russia. Victor Nelin, an IT consultant at the Russian branch of PwC, said that BitFury and PwC will provide "fundamentally new" products to companies in various sectors in the coming years.
The communiqué also cites a recent PwC study on the implementation of blockchain in the energy sector. The company believes that blockchain can "drastically" change the modern economy and cut personnel and infrastructure costs with the automation of business processes.
With a turnover of over $ 41 billion for the 2018 fiscal year, PwC is currently the second largest of the large professional services companies.
As reported earlier by Cointelegraph, in November the Russian Bitfury branch launched another blockchain accelerator with the Moscow University of Economics Plekhanov. As part of the partnership, the university is committed to offering courses related to blockchain and additional educational programs.
PwC will also launch its own accelerator to strengthen its employees' blockchain knowledge through a two-year program starting in January 2019. The UK-based company plans to train at least 1,000 employees.
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