🎯 Have an idea that can make Petropavl more resilient?
This is your chance to be heard!

For the first time, the UNDP launches a pilot project competition — an opportunity to propose solutions that enhance the resilience of the city and the entire North Kazakhstan region.

🌍 What we are looking for:
If your idea helps reduce climate risks, prevent disasters (including floods), improve the urban environment, or make daily life more convenient — we want to see your project!

💡 We accept ideas in the following areas:
• urban development
• digitalization & IT
• creative industries
• interdisciplinary solutions

💸 Prize fund — 300,000 ₸
🚀 Incubation for the best projects
💰 Opportunity to receive up to 50,000 USD in funding from UNDP donors to implement your idea

The initiative is implemented as part of projects strengthening urban resilience to disasters and supporting climate adaptation in Central Asia, funded by the Government of Japan and the Green Climate Fund.

How to Stop Being Afraid of Selling and Start Growing: 7 Sales Rules for Startup Founders

Sales are a crucial skill for every founder.
At this session, you will learn how to overcome the fear of selling, build effective communication with customers, and lay the foundation for your product’s growth.

👩‍💼 Speaker: Aigerim Kanafina
Founder of Teachbox.kz and the iq.tracking business club

📅 Date: 29 Nov
🕒 Time: 14:00
📍 Location: Abay 107

🔥 "Founders are more important than startups" — interactive workshop for future leaders of technology companies

In the venture capital world, investors don't choose presentations, they choose people. It is the team that sets the growth rate, determines the sustainability of the business and turns the idea into a product. Founders are the core of a startup, its DNA, and its main asset.

At the workshop, we will analyze:

• the key roles of the founders and how their balance affects the company's development trajectory
• Real-world case studies of global companies
• factors that make a team investable, reliable, and capable of scaling

, The practical part:
An interactive role-playing game awaits the participants, where everyone will be able to try on different roles in a startup and understand in practice:
— what tasks reveal your strengths
— which roles cause internal resistance
— how does this affect team dynamics and the success of a future project?

Join us to gain a deeper understanding of yourself as a leader, experience team mechanics, and get tools that are used by the best founders in the world.