The first IT Innovation Fest 2024 was held in the East Kazakhstan region, where hackathon participants and startups demonstrated their ideas and solutions. This year has become special — the prize fund has been doubled thanks to speaker Roman Linitsev, founder of Grand Mobile.

CodeMasters Hackathon: Bots for emergency situations

Hackathon participants created Telegram bots for emergency situations. Winners:

Ambulance LIama — 150,000 tenge (150,000 tenge doubled)

🥈 SaqBolBot — 120,000 tenge (120,000 tenge doubled )

Telegram bot by InVolve — 80,000 tenge (80,000 tenge doubled )

Idea Battle: Startups Changing the Future

In the startup competition, participants demonstrated their projects that received prizes:

Pocket Lawyer — 150,000 tenge (150,000 tenge doubled)

🥈 Questify — 120,000 tenge (doubled 120,000 tenge)

🥉 Involve — 80,000 tenge (doubled 80,000 tenge)

Startup Alley: Youth who inspire

Startups in the region also demonstrated their projects and received well-deserved awards:

🥇 Intelligent disease diagnosis system — 75,000 tenge ( 75,000 tenge doubled)

🥈 Map-globe of dangerous zones — 60,000 tenge (60,000 tenge doubled)

🥉 Akyldy Talk — 45,000 tenge (45,000 tenge doubled)

The festival has become a highlight thanks to inspiring performances:

- Alexander Komagorov (TON Society) — about the future of blockchain and its potential.

- Oleg Marchenko (Aitas Agro) — about the introduction of IT in agribusiness.

- Roman Linetsev (Grand Mobile) — increased the prize fund and motivated participants to create startups.

Oskemen hub— Innovation Center

IT Innovation Fest 2024 proved that Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk) is not only a cultural, but also a technological center of Kazakhstan, where innovations are born.