The participants of the course learned how to work with innovative technologies and digital products, learned about the conditions for creating an environment for effective communications. Also, experienced foreign experts in the format of an online meeting talked about how to quickly create a digital product, how to explore the market in conditions of instability, and shared practical recommendations.

"In the context of digitalization, it is important to develop the skills of employees in all areas of business. Firstly, this helps to achieve the necessary level of competitiveness of personnel in the labor market, to more effectively adapt them to new conditions. Secondly, taking these courses and mastering such skills will provide the use of new digital opportunities by employees, which means it will contribute to the growth of the efficiency of personnel and enterprises, the development of society and the economy as a whole,” said Zhanerke Egeubayeva, director of the Astana Hub corporate innovation and digital competencies office.

The course speakers were the head of the South IT Park accelerator, founder and CEO of 2UP, corporate tracker Bogdan Odarchenko and early-stage project tracker, personal and business coach Maria Golovach.

“Such courses are definitely needed. We received express knowledge on the basics of project management, lean Startup, we were shown successful cases on projects with technological solutions. The speakers also gave me motivation, now I know when to make a checkup and make sure I’m moving in the right direction or I need to pivot and try again,” shared the head of the Best Investment Consulting Center Ainur Zaurbekova.

*The courses were held as part of the implementation of the state task for the development of a startup ecosystem in the field of infocommunication technologies.