March 15 - 19 2021
Connect.KG is fully online conference that will bring together local and international IT startups, digital businesses, and IT industry specialists. Featuring over 40 local Kyrgyz IT companies!
18:00 - 19:00 (GMT+6)
Invitation only
Invitation only
17:00 - 18:00 (GMT+6)
Title: "Zero to One in IT"
Key Topics: Building an IT Business / IT Bootcamps in the United States v Kyrgyz Republic / Leveraging IT technologies for new businesses
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
Title: "Zero to One in IT"
Key Topics: Building an IT Business / IT Bootcamps in the United States v Kyrgyz Republic / Leveraging IT technologies for new businesses
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
18:00 - 19:00 (GMT+6)
Pricer
Timely Soft
EASE
SAP
New Norm
Center of Business and Innovation
Pricer
Timely Soft
EASE
SAP
New Norm
Center of Business and Innovation
19:00 - 20:00 (GMT+6)
RIPE NCC
TYPO3 Association
Promethean & Handicraft
bit media
FabLab (SIFO)
Lights Creative Group
Japan Style LLC
RIPE NCC
TYPO3 Association
Promethean & Handicraft
bit media
FabLab (SIFO)
Lights Creative Group
Japan Style LLC
20:00 - 21:00 (GMT+6)
Title: "The Future of IT in the Kyrgyz Republic"
Key Topics: Impact of COVID-19 on IT development : Challenges and Opportunities in Kyrgyz Republic
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
Title: "The Future of IT in the Kyrgyz Republic"
Key Topics: Impact of COVID-19 on IT development : Challenges and Opportunities in Kyrgyz Republic
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
16:40 - 17:00 (GMT+6)
PEAK’s key goal is to support the development of startups and to stimulate the sustainable growth of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and improve the business advisory services infrastructure.
PEAK’s key goal is to support the development of startups and to stimulate the sustainable growth of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and improve the business advisory services infrastructure.
17:00 - 18:00 (GMT+6)
Title: "From KG to the World - Through Digital"
Key Topics: Global digital marketing for IT Startups and SMEs / Targeting the U.S. and European markets / Post-Covid digital marketing / Leveraging integration and partnerships with larger platforms
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
Pre-Event: PEAK Kyrgyzstan Presentation 16:40-17:00
Language: Russian
Title: "From KG to the World - Through Digital"
Key Topics: Global digital marketing for IT Startups and SMEs / Targeting the U.S. and European markets / Post-Covid digital marketing / Leveraging integration and partnerships with larger platforms
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
Pre-Event: PEAK Kyrgyzstan Presentation 16:40-17:00
Language: Russian
18:00 - 19:00 (GMT+6)
IROKEZ
Spalmalo
Open CBS
Namba One
C-Technology
IROKEZ
Spalmalo
Open CBS
Namba One
C-Technology
19:00 - 20:00 (GMT+6)
Growave
BaiTushumBank
OptimTrade
Glovo
Digital Academy
Growave
BaiTushumBank
OptimTrade
Glovo
Digital Academy
20:00 - 21:00 (GMT+6)
Panelists:
Aman Tentiev (Tech Crunch)
Aikanysh Saparalieva (Glovo)
Murad Wadhwania, (Linkedin)
Moderator: Aibek Kurenkeev (E-Commerce Association)
Key Topics:
1. Access to Digital payments (domestic and cross-border)
2. Creating an eCommerce hub to serve the CA region
3. Digital skills for citizens, business, civil servants – opening access to eCommerce platforms for a wider public
Language: Russian (with English simultaneous translation)
Panelists:
Aman Tentiev (Tech Crunch)
Aikanysh Saparalieva (Glovo)
Murad Wadhwania, (Linkedin)
Moderator: Aibek Kurenkeev (E-Commerce Association)
Key Topics:
1. Access to Digital payments (domestic and cross-border)
2. Creating an eCommerce hub to serve the CA region
3. Digital skills for citizens, business, civil servants – opening access to eCommerce platforms for a wider public
Language: Russian (with English simultaneous translation)
17:00 - 18:00 (GMT+6)
"Developing a Global IT Product"
Key Topics: Global innovation / Startup Development / VC Investment
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
"Developing a Global IT Product"
Key Topics: Global innovation / Startup Development / VC Investment
Language: English (with simultaneous Russian)
18:00 - 19:00 (GMT+6)
fortylines.io
3D Kyrgyzstan
Siroca
EGIS
Clarity Movement Co.
fortylines.io
3D Kyrgyzstan
Siroca
EGIS
Clarity Movement Co.
19:00 - 20:00 (GMT+6)
SeeRem
Mad Devs
Trixcode
Vergent Tehnologies
Yorc
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc
Reviro
SeeRem
Mad Devs
Trixcode
Vergent Tehnologies
Yorc
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc
Reviro
20:00 - 21:00 (GMT+6)
Title: "Using technology for good. Building social enterprises powered by tech, from the ground up."
Key Topics: Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship / Public solutions
Title: "Using technology for good. Building social enterprises powered by tech, from the ground up."
Key Topics: Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship / Public solutions
09:00 - 10:00 (GMT+6)
Title: "Creating legal frameworks for venture capital and financing startups in the Kyrgyz Republic"
Key topics: Legislative reform / investment promotion / IT development
Language: Russian (with simultaneous English)
Title: "Creating legal frameworks for venture capital and financing startups in the Kyrgyz Republic"
Key topics: Legislative reform / investment promotion / IT development
Language: Russian (with simultaneous English)
16:30 - 17:15 (GMT+6)
Title: "E-governance and Digital Transformation"
Language: English with Russian (simultaneous)
Title: "E-governance and Digital Transformation"
Language: English with Russian (simultaneous)
17:15 - 18:00 (GMT+6)
Title: "Unlocking the Power of Open Source in Government"
Key Topic: Public sector transformation / technical demo of AWS Open Government Solutions
Title: "Unlocking the Power of Open Source in Government"
Key Topic: Public sector transformation / technical demo of AWS Open Government Solutions
18:00 - 19:00 (GMT+6)
Ulut Soft
Codify
Mad Aliens
Put in byte
Montenegrin IT Cluster
iERP.ai
Ulut Soft
Codify
Mad Aliens
Put in byte
Montenegrin IT Cluster
iERP.ai
19:00 - 20:00 (GMT+6)
"Facebook for Kyrgyz Republic: How to Put Your Brand on the Global Map"
"Facebook for Kyrgyz Republic: How to Put Your Brand on the Global Map"
Aurora is a Partner Manager for Greater China and Central Asia at Facebook. She has spent more than a decade in the field of digital developments, including in partnership and marketing positions for Google, Ogilvy, and Baidu, among others. At Facebook, Aurora has helped to train thousands of policymakers, candidates, diplomats, leaders of non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders in both the public and private sectors about how to take the best use of social media to maximize their influence and stay connected with the world. She is a true believer in marketing as a force to make the world a better place through positively impacting behavior.
Tilek is the CEO and Co-Founder of Outtalent - a career accelerator that supports engineers from emerging markets to land jobs at top tech companies abroad. For the last 11 years, Tilek worked in engineering, business, and project management roles at Google. He spent 4 years at Google X as a program manager focused on stratospheric balloons that provide Internet to remote areas in emerging markets as well as a lead of a machine learning business. Tilek’s Central Asia background inspired many evening and weekend projects at Google - he helped launch Google Translate in Kyrgyz and Kazakh languages, Google Street View in Kyrgyzstan, local Google Developer Groups, Google Elections, infrastructure solutions for faster YouTube and interface localization for Central Asian languages for most Google’s multiple products.
Esen is the co-founder and CEO of Peaksoft, a Bishkek-based software solution and development service provider serving U.S. companies. Originally from Batken region, in the south-west of the Kyrgyz Republic, Esen has been working in IT for 10 years. In 2011, he moved to the United States, where he studied computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started his career in the IT industry at Chase Bank, after which he worked as an executive director at Cybertek, Chicago. Esen also founded Muras Club in Chicago which has trained hundreds of aspiring Kyrgyz-American IT programmers.
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Dina is the Founder and Managing Director of the Codify Group (Codify Academy, Codify Consulting and Codify LMS) in Bishkek. In 2020, Dina was named Chairwoman of the Kyrgyz Software and Services Developers Association. She previously led Project Development at Zensoft, one of the largest software services companies in the Kyrgyz Republic, building technical teams to solve complex problems and create innovative software. With an MBA from the University of Lincoln in California and a Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Dina has gained extensive experience and exceptional ability to connect clients with their development teams. She has taught Project and Product Management, System Specifications at INAI and Ala Too Universities for MBA students for the past 3 years.
Ouali is the Founder and Organizer of WebCongress events — a digital marketing platform, helping the world leverage today’s digital opportunities through events, trainings and services in the United States, Latin American and Europe in over 16 countries. Since 2020, Ouali has participated in the Global Entrepreneur Network, mentoring startups of all stages to leverage their digital efforts, plan, analyze and optimize their marketing and data analytics He has been a featured expert on digital marketing for startups hosted by the PEAK Bishkek Business Development and Innovation Center.
Aikanysh is the General Manager of Glovo in the Kyrgyz Republic -- a Barcelona-based delivery startup operating in Europe, Africa and Asia. She is the co-founder, and former president of the E-commerce Association of the Kyrgyz Republic, which aims to enhance cross-border e-commerce, and to become a platform for dialogue between the online business community, with the government, and international partners. She has been a consultant on the country’s national eCommerce strategy. Aikanysh received her master’s degree in e-business management at the University of Warwick, UK.
Aman is the founder and Managing Partner of “Tech Farm”, an IT Incubator, which has been developing innovative projects in the Central Asian and Caucasus regions since 2005. Most notably the Namba Group, which encompasses a number of IT related companies including Namba One (SuperApp), Namba Market, Namba Pay, Namba Media, Namba Taxi and Namba Food. Aman is a Managing Partner in Avanta Capital, a Venture Growth company specialising in investments in Agricultural and Infrastructure in Central Asia and also the founded Aiten Consulting Group in Central Asia. In the past 15 years, Aman has also managed a number of investment projects in Georgia and Central Asia specifically focusing on Telecommunications, Property Development and Banking.
Aibek has over 15 years of experience in business, e-commerce, and telecommunications. He has been a regulatory policy consultant for e-commerce, telecommunications, banking, information security, and the development of a digital transformation and management strategy.
Nikita is the co-founder and CEO of FitJab, a pioneering fitness mobile app for Muslim women. Born and raised in the Kyrgyz Republic, Nikita has over 11 years of experience in business development and marketing in Kyiv, Ukraine and New York. Nikita holds a BS degree in Software Engineering and he is a graduate of New York Film Academy and Juilliard School of Music. Nikita is also an IronMan 70.3 World Championship Finalist.
Lily Liu began her career in 2007 working for local government on a variety of topics ranging from civic engagement, educational funding, and innovative technology projects. She spent time working for the Transportation Security Administration, the City of Long Beach, California, and Mayor Bloomberg's Special Projects and Analytics team. Inspired by serving local communities for 5+years, she founded PublicStuff in 2009, which is a civic engagement platform designed to promote communication between local government and residents. To this day, PublicStuff is utilized in small to large cities across the world, including Palo Alto, Philadelphia and New York City. As CEO of Piñata, Lily has brought to life her vision of creating financial equality for renters. In 2017, she was recognized as Forbes’ 30 under 30 Top Entrepreneurs and Business Insiders’ People to Watch. Lily received her Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon University, is an avid surfer, and a lover of the arts. Learn more about her at www.lily-liu.com
Sergei is the head of storage, platforms and solutions division for Dell Technologies - North-Eastern Europe. Sergei has a successful track history at leading international companies as Intel and Cisco in the different regional roles mostly focused on business development. From 2016 Sergei became a board member of Estonian Government Cloud and is active on various digital transformation initiatives. Sergei has graduated from Tallinn Technical University and is fluent in Estonian, English and Russian languages.
Caroline joined AWS in 2019 to form a new digital team helping governments with their digital transformation through open source technology and shared best practices. She went on to launch Open Government Solutions, which showcases open source and public resources published by government agencies and other public sector organizations around the world. Reusing what others have found to work enables governments to realize the benefits of open source solutions, such as increased agility and innovation, reduced costs, and improved efficiency. She also established the Executive Education Course in Digital Transformation as an international virtual course with renowned speakers, attended by hundreds of public sector leaders around the world in 2020. Caroline previously worked in the UK Government’s Cabinet Office as Head of Digital (Race Disparity Unit) and Digital Marketplace Service Manager (Government Digital Service). In the private sector, she held a variety of roles which included Head of Music Product for Vodafone Global, Director of Technology at Sony Pictures and Director of Product in a UK crowdfunding start up.
Uluk is a senior policy advisor at the Future Growth Initiative, specializing in regulatory reform, economic development, and startup consulting. He is the co-founder of the Blockchain Network of Central Asia, a non-profit platform for professionals, experts and government bodies dedicated to the promotion and spread of blockchain technology in the CA region.
Murad has over 20 years of experience within customer operations and e-commerce space. Murad previously worked at Expedia as a Senior Director, building online products for sales and support. He has led multibillion dollar businesses at Amazon and was involved in building Amazon Fresh which is online grocery delivery service. Currently, Murad works at LinkedIn as a Director whose team drives product quality for all of LinkedIn. Throughout his career, Murad has been focused on identifying customer needs and building products and services to delight them. He has also been an active volunteer with AKDN and has served in a variety of economic and education institutions.
Chubak plays one of the key roles in the development and support of the IT-industry development in the Kyrgyz Republic. His goal in HTP is recruiting international and local IT companies and expanding the global markets of HTP resident companies.
He has more than 5 years of experience in the IT sector, in addition to 3-year sales and consultancy experience. He earned his bachelors degree in Business Administration from AUCA and MS degree in Operations and Logistics Management from the University of East Anglia
High Technology Park is a government organization and a key tech player building an innovation ecosystem in the Kyrgyz Republic.
HTP shapes the IT industry in Kyrgyzstan and strongly supports tech businesses by providing tax benefits to companies and entrepreneurs both local and foreign. The organization welcomes international partners in order to foster an export-oriented economy and actively engage with the global tech community.
In 2019, residents of the High Technology Park generated more than $14 million, a 65% increase from 2018. 84% of the total production was created for export. Exports to the US alone grew 25% in the last quarter over the previous year. By 2024, HTP is anticipated to generate $200 million in annual aggregate revenue and up to 10,000 domestic IT-related jobs.
On the national level, HTP runs incubation programs for tech startups, educational initiatives to increase enrollment in IT programs and improve online learning, and various events to create opportunities for industry professionals and cultivate tech culture among the youth of the Kyrgyz Republic
High Technology Park strives for global growth and a vibrant, sustainable tech ecosystem built with the great talents of Kyrgyz professionals.
The Kyrgyz Republic has become an emerging outsourcing market for international tech startups and SMEs seeking business processing and IT services, due to its zero percent tax regime, low overhead costs, and skilled local IT workforce.
There is an increasing demand for collaboration and a spike of interest in the tech gem of Central Asia. Connect.KG will be the first international IT expo in Kyrgyzstan set to help in understanding the peculiarities and the possibilities of its tech market.
Emerge yourself into a new exciting tech environment. IT experts, business leaders, entrepreneurs, sales executives, investors, marketers, and interested observers will all benefit from being a part of Connect.KG.
Visitors will get a chance to connect with the leading IT companies, organizations, and professionals in Kyrgyzstan. Explore services and solutions to achieve your tech-driven objectives.
Access a new exciting workforce market to scale your business with ease or create your own tech startup/product efficiently. Learn the benefits of launching a branch in Kyrgyzstan and start your business journey in the next hub of Central Asia.
Get to know Kyrgyzstan and make an impact through investment opportunities in tech startups, innovative infrastructures, IT education institutions, or through mentorship and consulting. Connect.KG will help you navigate the ecosystem and the ways you become a part of it.
Connect.KG is both a business and an informative event. Allow yourself to get to know the market beyond the sales pitches and into transparent and raw insights into Kyrgyzstan’s tech ecosystem
Foreign companies and organizations are encouraged to participate in showcasing their tech solutions, services, and ideas. The IT industry in Kyrgyzstan is only starting to bloom and has a vast space for tech opportunities. Be one of the firsts to enter the region and create the vision of the future.
This virtual event is at no cost to you. You’ll be introduced to a wealth of information without the hassle of traveling and expenses on tickets, and passes. Safe, effective, time and energy saving. Welcome to Connect.KG!
The Kyrgyz Republic’s emerging ICT sector is poised to be a major economic driver to power modernization and regional development, offering significant investment and trade opportunities in the “Virtual Silk Road”.
While the country has lagged behind its regional neighbors in ICT access and digital infrastructure development, the IT sector of Kyrgyzstan is one of the fastest growing and promising industries in the Kyrgyz Republic.
In the last six years, the Kyrgyz Republic has risen in the rankings of the Global Innovation Index from 117 th (2013) to 94 th (2020) among 131 countries. This year, Kyrgyzstan has advanced by three rankings in Innovation Output.
Under the digital transformation roadmap, the Kyrgyz government is targeting ICT modernization of customs and logistics centers, healthcare service centers, educational institutions, and transport hubs.
Prospects for U.S. companies include: broadband internet access technologies, consumer electronics, educational software, fintech and banking services, analytical software, hardware, cyber security solutions and legal and financial services.
The country is also an emerging outsource market for international tech startups and companies seeking business solutions and automatization of their services, due to its 0% tax regime, low overhead costs, and highly skilled local IT workforce.
The legislation provides repatriation of investments, property, and information out of Kyrgyz Republic, guarantees of protection against investment expropriation and reimbursement of losses incurred by investors, guarantees of income use and freedom of monetary transactions, and others.
Existing laws for investor protection are: