Digital Fest STARTUPHANA brought together young representatives of the IT industry.

STARTUPHANA, which recently took place in Astana, aimed at developing IT content in the Kazakh language.

STARTUPHANA is held to support the community of entrepreneurs and IT specialists who work on developing Kazakh content in the IT sector and fostering a Kazakh-speaking IT culture.

At the forum, successful IT entrepreneurs and specialists, bloggers, and motivators shared their experience in business and digital fields, and discussed topics such as startups, marketing, and NFTs.

IT specialist Maksat Kadyrov, who moved abroad in 2016 and "conquered" Silicon Valley, and now works as a senior engineer at LinkedIn in the USA, presented a talk about his experience achieving success in the IT field based on Kazakh proverbs.

Speakers included Abilaykhan Kamalladin — CEO of QAMALLADIN bloggers agency, Azat Esenov — managing partner of the international consulting firm Yessen & Company, Zhyger Kairatuly — product manager of cloud and satellite technologies at TTS, Farhad Moldash — content maker, professional photographer, and blogger, Birzhan Ashim — well-known Instagram and YouTube blogger, actor, entrepreneur, and others.