Registration for the Google Solution Challenge hackathon is open for projects in Central Asia and Mongolia! For projects from Central Asia, regular workshops have been held since December to prepar

Current stage: Expanding educational horizons We are at an exciting stage of introducing new adult courses. At the moment, our course "Data Warehouse Developer" is actively attended by more tha

🌿 Exclusive news! MVRDV company from the Netherlands laid the foundation stone and planted the first tree for the future project “La Serre” (Greenhouse) in the suburbs of Paris! This innovative pro

🌬️ Innovative wind energy technology! Engineers from Delft Technical University in the Netherlands presented Kitepower Hawk, an innovative wind energy storage system. This compact and highly eff

Over the past two months, SDU IT Park has provided an exciting educational experience in two courses: NLP and Data Science. Let's explore what we have learned during this period.At the beginning of

 In October, the 2nd stream of students started the course “Application development in Qlik Sense. From collecting requirements to creating dashboards” according to the state program Tech Orda. T

Two training modules: 1️⃣ Big-O notation, algorithm complexity estimation 2️⃣ Basic data structures When: 🗓 On Thursdays, 07.12.2023 and 12/14/2023 🕓 17:00 - 20:00 (Moscow) / 20:00

Most recently, we held a graduation on the Big Data course. The graduation dates coincided with the completion of one of the training streams of the Tech Orda grant program. The organizers of

Since 2014, the Attractor School of Almaty, which began its activity as an IT Attractor, has gone through a transformation from a company engaged in software development and training graduates for a

I Invested 8 Million Tenge Saved for an Apartment": Almaty Resident Forsakes Profitable Businesses for IT Startup

Ablai Yusupov embarked on entrepreneurship while studying marketing at Almaty Management University. Initially, he and his friends created the wine project Queex (producing short funny videos), then moved on to developing a language center. After graduating, he founded Upgrade School, a school for marketing, management, and SMM training. Over time, it transformed into an IT startup, Upgrade Business – an online platform offering access to 70+ educational courses across various fields. The service's main advantage is its short lessons, each lasting 5-10 minutes. In an interview with the joint project Digital Business and Astana Hub "100 Startup Stories of Kazakhstan," Ablai discussed his transition from traditional business to IT, how he managed to create a mobile application for zero tenge, and why he decided to develop his product following the Netflix model.

  Modern companies are increasingly choosing immersive presentations of products and prototypes in the virtual space. And there are good reasons for this! How is this good? Instant Connection

The ProductBee IT Academy is currently training Junior Product Managers. One of our students, Anton, works at Tinkoff and is fond of bachata and salsa 🔥 Read on to learn more about him 👉

At DAR University, we don't just train future IT specialists - we create success stories. Thanks to cooperation with Astana Hub within the TechOrda program, 51 students are studying in such areas a

During the 2 months since I started my start-up, I would single out 2 tools for an inexpensive and effective tool for marketing promotion. The first is a social network - Instagram, and the second i

Programming is one of the most promising and in-demand areas in the modern world. Every year thousands of people from all over the world decide to invest their efforts and time in exploring this fa

The results of Global Outsourcer program: 73 contracts from 27 countries totaling $158,000

The Global Outsourcer program, aimed at supporting IT outsourcing companies to enhance Kazakhstan's export potential, has successfully concluded its first iteration. Fifteen innovative teams underwent acceleration, securing 73 contracts worth a total of $158,000. The participants' sales geography spanned 27 countries, including the USA, Canada, European nations, Turkey, Australia, and others.

Is your child spending hours staring at a smartphone? A Kazakh startup aims to tackle children’s gadget addiction

Baglan Ayazbayev and Lana Dikanchieva, a married couple, have dedicated two years to developing the educational application for children called Smart Zebra (formerly OILA). Initially, their goal was to create a product that could steer children towards studying anatomy or history instead of simply watching cartoons. However, their current aim is more ambitious: to overcome children’s addiction to gadgets. Paradoxically, they plan to achieve this goal through a mobile application.

How Astana Hub Changed the View on the Future of the IT Ecosystem in Kazakhstan

The technology park has compiled a unique "short list" of the best Kazakhstani startups.

How to Change Your Life with the Tech Orda Project

Tech Orda is a program for financing private IT schools in Kazakhstan by the MCRIAP RK and Astana Hub. It is aimed at preparing IT specialists. Each student is provided with a grant of up to 600,000 tenge and offers unique opportunities for professional growth. Graduates of this project in the Abay region shared their impressions of the training and talked about how they applied the knowledge gained in practice.