The second, plenary day of the StrategEast State and IT Eurasian Forum assembled 10 discussion panels on various topics, including:
Central Asia as a digital hub of Eurasia;
Development of IT Parks in Central Asia;
Global IT Industry in Eurasia;
IT industry in the Kyrgyz Republic;
New taxes for the new economy;
Smart fintech solutions;
Startups acceleration;
New education for the new economy;
Blockchain as a good governance technology;
Inclusive development of Eurasian tech.
These topics were addressed by Dastan Dogoev, Minister of Digital Development, the Kyrgyz Republic; Arkadiy Dobkin, President of EPAM Systems; Dmytro Sholomko, Business Development Director, Eastern Europe, Google; Yevgeny Koren, Country Manager at Microsoft, Belarus; Elena Krukovskaya, Chief Operations Officer, Exadel; Oleksandr Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine; Avtandil Kasradze, Chairman at Georgia’s Innovation and Technology Agency (GITA); Timur Shalekenov, Head of Fintech, BTS Digital LLP, Kazakhstan; Elena V. Son, Executive Director, The American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce (AUCC), The US-Kyrgyzstan Business Council (USKGZBC), The US-Tajikistan Business Council (USTJBC), The US-Afghanistan Business Initiative (USABI); Tamerlan Taghiyev, Acting Head of the Center for Analysis and Coordination of the Fourth Industrial Revolution under the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan; Ayten Rustamova, EBRD Regional Director for Kyrgyz Republic , Tajikistan and Turkmenistan; Filip Stoyanovich, Chief of Party, USAID’s Future Growth Initiative (FGI) for Central Asia; Ana Chirita, Strategic Projects Director, ICT Association of Moldova, Project Director at Tekwill, Moldova and other featured speakers and moderators.
