Events

🌊 Registration for Caspian Hackathon 2026 is now open!

Caspian Hackathon 2026 is the first international hackathon bringing together developers, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, and innovators from the Caspian region.

Over the course of three days, participating teams will develop innovative technology solutions focused on preserving the Caspian Sea ecosystem and present their projects to an expert jury.

🏆 Prize Fund — 10,000,000 KZT

📅 Event Dates: August 6–12, 2026

📍 Venue: Rixos Water World Aktau

Participant Requirements:

• Age: 18–34 years old;

• Team size: 2–5 members;

• Each team must include at least one developer;

• Hybrid format: project development online, final project presentation offline;

• Online project presentations will not be accepted.

⏳ Application deadline: August 5, 2026.

Submit your application and review the Hackathon Regulations at:

https://csaw2026aktau.kz/

We invite you to level up your management skills — no IT background required.

This hands-on course is designed to take you from a random one-off assignment to a real digital solution — built on your actual government cases.

🧑‍💻 Course Program:

Week 1 — Learn & Dive In: We start by experiencing the classic chaos of ad-hoc assignments through business games, then master design thinking, AI tools for task optimization, hypothesis generation, and unit economics. We build a managed process from idea to release — in teams.

Week 2 — Refine Online via Zoom: In-depth consultations, project refinement, and independent work.

Final: A graduation Demo Day where teams present their finished project solutions.

📆 Dates: August 10–19
🕦 Start: 09:00
📍 Venue: Aqmola Hub, 7 Gagarin St., 5th floor

DroneTech: let's teach you how to fly a drone in 15 lessons 

From August 10 to 28, a practical course will be held for those who want to master the skill of drone control. Speaker – Dmitry Ozhigin, Phd Associate Professor (Associate Professor) of the Department of Surveying and Geodesy at the Moscow State University. Saginov.

On the course you are:

, study the design of unmanned aircraft systems, 

, you will understand the legal requirements and rules of safe flights,

⚡ Learn practical piloting,

, learn how to design aerial photography missions, 

, learn how to work with GNSS equipment,

You will understand how to perform field surveys and process the received data in Agisoft Metashape

The course is suitable for students, engineers, surveyors, specialists in the construction and mining industries, as well as anyone who wants to gain practical skills in working with unmanned technologies. 

The event is supported by the Department of Digital Technologies of the Karaganda region.

When: August 10-28

Location: IT-hub “Terricon Valley", 12 Alalykina St.

Format: offline / online

Have you created a product? Now let's figure out how to make sure that they start using it.

Do you already have an idea, an MVP, or even a ready-made IT product, but you don't know how to find your first customers? Then this workshop is for you

At the meeting, we will discuss: • how to understand who your first customer is • how to prepare a product for launch • where to look for the first users • how to collect valuable feedback and improve the product • what mistakes startups most often make at the start

Instead of a dry theory, you will find real cases, practical recommendations and a clear action plan that can be applied immediately after the event.

Date: August 10th

🕒 Time: 19:00

Location: Zhezkazgan. Momyshuly St. 3a. Ulytau Hub

Participation is free, but the number of seats is limited. Take the first step to getting your product used.

📅 August 11–12

📍 Atyrau Hub

💰 Free participation | Limited seats available

August 11 — Theory. Four key modules: Access Control Systems (ACS), Audio, Networking, and integration with Hikvision video surveillance. The program includes the latest products, product lines, and real-world application scenarios.

August 12 — Practical Session. Hands-on training with real equipment at fully equipped workstations.

💡 Have an idea but don’t know where to start? At this educational event, we’ll explore how to identify promising ideas, turn them into solutions, and use artificial intelligence at different stages of building a startup.

🤖 We’ll introduce practical tools that can help you validate ideas faster, create prototypes, and move from an initial concept to a real project.

📅 August 11🕙 10:00 AM📍 28/1 Abaya Street

🔥 Join us not just to come up with an idea, but to take the first step toward turning it into reality!

Presentation of the corporate Service Desk system from Techdrive, a single window for operational interaction between financial consultants and technical support.

In the program:

• Automation of request processing and integration with a Telegram bot for instant notifications.
• Transparent tracking of statuses, application history, and SLA control.
• Role-based access model and analytical dashboards for managers.
• Analysis of the strengths of the solution, growth areas and scaling opportunities (SWOT analysis).

The webinar will be useful for managers, HR and IT specialists optimizing internal business processes.

🚀 Automate Your Work with Kimi AI

Do you have a great project but not enough time to bring it to life or create content? Join our hands-on workshop and learn how to use Kimi AI to automate your workflow and boost your productivity.

🎯 Workshop Agenda:

🔹 Kimi AI Features: Explore its key capabilities and practical use cases;

🔹 Content & Text Creation: Instantly generate social media posts, articles, and marketing copy;

🔹 Practical Applications: Automate everyday tasks with AI and save valuable time.

Date: August 11–12

Time: 5:00 PM 

Location: Kyzylorda Hub, 29A Aiteke Bi Street

Artificial intelligence opens up new possibilities for monitoring the environment and solving environmental problems. At the workshop, we will analyze how AI is used to analyze satellite images, data from drones and sensors, helps track ecosystem changes, predict natural processes and improve the effectiveness of environmental monitoring. We will also look at real-world examples of using artificial intelligence for sustainable development and get acquainted with modern digital solutions that help conserve natural resources.

, August 12, 3 p.m.
, Kunaeva, 5B

The workshop will be useful for students, IT specialists, environmentalists, researchers, entrepreneurs, startup founders and anyone who wants to learn how artificial intelligence and modern technologies help solve environmental problems and contribute to sustainable development.

Startup Roast — where ideas face a real test! 🔥

Participants will present their startup projects, share their ideas, and answer questions from the audience. Guests will have the chance to connect with project founders and vote for the best startup of the evening.

It’s a great opportunity to get inspired by new ideas, make valuable connections, and see how promising projects come to life.

📅 August 12

🕓 4:00 PM

📍 Pavlodar Hub, 80 General Dyusenov Street

Join us, support the participants, and help choose the best project!

🏙️ Qostanai Smart City Hackathon — one of the biggest IT hackathons of the year is coming soon!

Over two exciting days, participants will work on real-world cases, develop innovative solutions for urban development, refine their ideas with the support of industry experts, and present their projects at the final Demo Day. The best teams will share a 1,000,000 KZT prize pool. 🏆

💡 Gather your team, showcase your skills, and create a solution that could become part of the city of the future.

🚀 Registration is now open!

Come to the Cloud Native Community Day in Almaty!

 The traditional meetup under the auspices of CNCF will take place on August 13. This is a free meetup where people get to know each other, find help with difficult tasks, and agree on collaborations and projects.

SRE, DevOps, platform engineers, and architects will gather in one room. There will be more people this time — at your request, the number of participants has been increased to 100-150 people, but places are running out quickly.

The events will be held at the Almaty Hub.

What awaits you:
- Cases from engineers who keep clusters in battle every day. 

- A real-life experience that helps you complete tasks without magic or pain.

- Solutions that can be tried tomorrow.

- Networking, where you can discuss "how you did it," and "what's with your logs," and just chat.

- Buffet, gifts and afterparty.

Share your production case. Meet outstanding engineers. Leave with ideas you can put into practice the very next day!

On August 13, Cloud Native Community Day in Almaty will bring together engineers, CTOs, founders, technology teams, and everyone working with modern cloud-native platforms.

This is your opportunity to connect with the community, explore real-world infrastructure case studies, and exchange practical experience.

📍 This year's event will take place at Almaty Hub.

The program features real production cases and hands-on experience in:

👩‍💻 Kubernetes
⚙️ Platform Engineering
🌐 Service Mesh
📈 Observability
💾 Storage
🔌Networking
🚀 CI/CD
🛡 DevSecOps

🎤 Call for Papers is now open!

If you have engineering experience worth sharing with the community, become a speaker at Cloud Native Community Day.

Your experience could become someone else's best solution—and someone else's talk could save you hours of debugging.

⚡️ Audience Registration

📌 Submit a Talk Proposal

Organizers:
- QOSI
- CORE 24/7
- Almaty Hub

📅 August 13
🕖 10:00 
📍Almaty Hub, Zenkov St. 24 | 4th floor

To attend the event, please download the Astana Hub app in advance and register there.

Stay updated on upcoming events:

Instagram: almaty_hub
Telegram: Almaty Hub

Do you dream of creating your first game? Start with Unity! 🎮

Unity is one of the most popular game engines used to create mobile, PC, and VR games. At the master class, you will learn the basics of working in Unity, learn how the game development process works, and take the first steps towards creating your own project.

This master class is suitable for novice developers, students and anyone who has long wanted to try their hand at GameDev. Gain practical knowledge, understand the Unity interface, and find out where every game developer's journey begins.

Don't miss the opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of gamedev and start creating games today!

📅 13.08 | 15:00 📍 Kazakhstan, 59/1

The real case of AI in retail: from the manager's question to the answer on profits, sales, products and customers.

We will show how artificial intelligence works with data, identifies deviations and helps to make decisions based on facts.

Registration:https://sowita.kz/events/webinar-ii-analitika-biznesii-analitika-biznes?utm_source=astana 

Kolesa Backend Meetup will be held in Almaty on August 20

At the meeting, we will discuss architectural solutions, product metrics, the career path of a backend developer, and how AI is already changing the development process.

In the program:

Architecture of reversible solutions: how to design when you don't know the future

Alexander Kuzminsky — Middle Backend Developer, Kolesa.kz

We will tell you how to distinguish reversible architectural solutions from irreversible ones and take them into account the long-term consequences.

We consider what's important: a practical guide to metrics in a product

Maksat Baigazy— Senior Backend Developer, Avtoelon.uz

Let's talk about how to choose metrics that help you make decisions. Let's analyze Prometheus, Graphite, SLA, SLO, SLI, error budget and real monitoring cases.

Internen middlegain: berilmeudin shynayy tarikhy

Agybai Isak — Middle Backend Developer, Kolesa.kz

Shynayy tazhiribe, kyndyktar, kasibi osu zhane, salasyndagy algashky kadamdar turaly agime.

Fleet of AI agents instead of hiring: how we gave SDLC to machines and increased production 4 times

Azamat Orynbai — Tech Lead, Arbuz.kz

Omirali Sengirbai — Tech Lead, Arbuz.kz

As AI agents, they took on tasks throughout the SDLC and helped to increase the team's output by 4 times without expanding the staff.

Register, come for new knowledge, ask the speakers questions and get to know the backend community. See you at the Kolesa Backend Meetup! 🚀

This is a free hands-on workshop for those who work with VMware and decide what to do next.

It will be held in Astana on August 24, 2026 from 14:00 to 18:30

In one day, participants manually transfer a real virtual machine from a running VMware server to Cozystack, an open virtualization platform that is being developed by the CNCF foundation.

Most of the time is spent practicing in a personal work environment: machine migration, database, monitoring, backup.

Leads Timur Tukaev is the maintainer of Cozystack and the co—founder of Aenix.

After the workshop, each participant has a test environment for 30 days, a chat with the maintainers of the platform, home laboratory work and the opportunity to receive a Cozystack Certified Fundamentals certificate.

Participation is free upon registration; the number of seats is limited.

«Живая сборка: AI-Маркетолог за 60 минут»

Главный вебинар серии. Не лекция, а демонстрация — собираем работающего AI-маркетолога с нуля при тебе на экране.

Что будет:— Выбираем одного зрителя из эфира и берём его реальный проект— Собираем промпт-каркас «маркетолог под твой ICP»— Генерируем контент-план на 30 дней — таблица появляется на глазах— Полируем один пост до публикации: хук, структура, CTA— Фиксируем ритм еженедельной работы: что отдаём AI, что оставляем руками

На выходе у выбранного зрителя — готовый контент-план, который можно публиковать с завтра. У всех остальных — точная воспроизводимая методика.

Кому: соло-фаундерам, экспертам, блогерам, продактам — всем, кто делает контент для своего продукта или личного бренда.

Веду: Дмитрий Ватютов, AI Product Coach. Ex-CPO Doshkola Tilly (275K юзеров, exit). Менторил Garderob ($2.5M Seed), Kid Security (5M+ скачиваний), Prosper Pay.

Участники получают спец-цену на курс AIstack до 25 июня.

17 июня, 20:00 Алматы / 18:00 Москва.Регистрация — t.me/aistackca

We are announcing the speakers of the August Non-Conference

Anna Baedilova, HRD at Wooppay — "Key Leadership Skills: the role of a modern Leader"

Natalia Abramova, Co-founder of AI PR studio Ozgeshe — "How AI reduces marketing costs by up to 80%"

Akira Bayanova, Brand Manager at The Walt Disney Studios — "Global brand in the local market: how to adapt international campaigns for Kazakhstan"

Talgat Shaikenov, Fullstack QA Engineer at Kolesa Group — "The path from beginner to Fullstack QA"

Anton Samsonov, DevRel Manager, QazCode (Beeline Kazakhstan) — "How a developer's personal brand helps a company hire"

Gleb Shabalin, Backend Developer at Zimran — "How to maintain the level of engineering culture in an ever-changing business context"

Participation is free, registration is based on the link in the description.

The event is supported by the Department of Digital Technologies of the Karaganda region.

When: August 28, 18:30

Location: IT-hub "Terricon Valley", 12 Alalykina St.

Format: offline / online

Третий и последний эфир серии перед стартом курса 25 июня.

Что будет:— Покажу результаты зрителя-героя с прошлого вебинара (что получилось, где спотыкается, что я бы изменил)— Открытый Q&A: на любой вопрос про курс, про AI-стек, про запуск своего продукта — без скриптов— Разбор реальных возражений участников серии: «я не технический», «у меня нет идеи», «у меня уже есть бизнес», «дорого», «нет времени»— Финальное предложение по тарифам AIstack, которое действует до 23:59 24 июня

После 25 июня цены вырастают. Следующий поток — через 3+ месяца, дороже.

Кому: тем, кто посмотрел вебинары 1-2 и думает, идти ли в первый поток. И тем, кто сразу пришёл на финал — будет понятно всё с нуля.

Веду: Дмитрий Ватютов, AI Product Coach. Ex-CPO Doshkola Tilly (275K юзеров, exit). Менторил Garderob ($2.5M Seed), Kid Security (5M+ скачиваний), Prosper Pay.

23 июня, 20:00 Алматы / 18:00 Москва.Регистрация — t.me/aistackca

NAG CONF Kazakhstan 2026 will be held in Almaty

On September 9, 2026, the InterContinental Almaty Hotel will host NAG CONF Kazakhstan 2026— an annual conference for telecommunications and information technology professionals.

In 2026, the event will be held for the sixth time and will bring together more than 200 participants: engineers, solution architects, technical directors, IT project managers, representatives of telecom operators, integrators and professional communities.

The conference is organized by NAG Kazakhstan.

The program of the one-day event includes more than 20 reports and round tables from practicing industry experts. The participants will discuss current technological challenges, the development of communications infrastructure and practical solutions for the telecom and IT market in Kazakhstan.

Among the key topics of the conference are:

— cybersecurity;

— satellite communication technologies;

— Network stability and redundancy;

— artificial intelligence;

— backbone networks of the Republic of Kazakhstan and their modernization for traffic growth;

— there is a shortage of personnel in telecom and the training of engineering specialists.

NAG CONF Kazakhstan 2026 is aimed at architects and technical leaders, engineers and network administrators, telecom operator specialists, integrators, as well as aspiring professionals who seek to move from theory to practical experience.

In addition to the business program, participants will enjoy professional networking, communication with market experts and familiarization with new solutions and equipment for the telecom infrastructure.

The organizers invite experts to make presentations, and companies to participate in the conference as partners.

Registration of participants, speakers and partners is available on the official website: nag-conference.kz

Media contacts:

nagconf@nag.kz

+7 727 344 34 44

The ProcessTech Forum is Russia's largest event for the exchange of experience in the use of business process analytics (Process Mining), business operations analytics (Task Mining) and artificial intelligence.  

On September 24, Almaty will host Reunico Digital Day 2026, a conference on practical cases of process automation, complex solutions, internal IT teams and technologies that change the work of large businesses from the inside.

We will assemble teams that are not just discussing process orchestration, but are already implementing AI-native products, developing their own expertise, migrating from legacy solutions to Camunda 8, and building a new enterprise-level process architecture.

The conference program includes reports from the Companionbank, Halyk Bank and the Reunico team.

Companionbank, Kyrgyzstan will make a presentation: "Training instead of outsourcing: how we paid for our own expertise and why it will pay off"

The bank's team will tell you why, when switching to business process orchestration on Camunda 8, they relied not on outsourcing, but on their own competencies.

Halyk Bank, Kazakhstan will present a report: "From Camunda 7 to Camunda 8: practical experience of migration processes in Halyk Bank"

The report will focus on migration in a large bank: architectural solutions, risks, dependencies, and conclusions that will be useful to other enterprise teams.

There will also be a report from the Reunico team. For the first time at our conference, we will show Cabinee, a self—developed business platform, as well as share interesting details from projects.

Reunico Digital Day 2026 will be useful for those responsible for automation, architecture, development of process platforms and digital transformation in large companies.

Date: September 24th

Location: MOST IT Hub, 2/2 Khodzhanova St., Almaty

BE WOMAN in collaboration with @silkroad_innovation_hub and @womenintech.kz announces the start of accepting applications for the Female Founders Pitch Competition.

Applications are accepted until August 11, 2026.

This is an opportunity for female founders to present their startup on an international platform, receive expert feedback, find new partners and discover new growth opportunities for their project.

The final of the competition will be held on October 15, 2026 at the international BE WOMAN 2026 Forum in Almaty. The finalists will present their projects to real investors, international experts and leaders of the technological ecosystem.

If you are the founder of a startup and you are ready to take your project to a new level, apply.

, Submit a request: https://bewoman.asia/femalefounders 

Perhaps the next big success story will start with your application.