CONNECT.KG Discover the Next IT Hub of Central Asia

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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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.

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.