Yandex Qazaqstan gathered leaders of large businesses and announced new B2B solutions

On June 17, the closed Y2B conference took place in Almaty for the first time, organized by Yandex Qazaqstan for large businesses. Leaders of Kazakh companies met to personally discuss, including in debate format, technological trends in business management. The key topic of the event was AI-based solutions. Yandex Qazaqstan announced the launch of a new Yandex Retail /tech direction — AI solutions for retail and other industries.

15 services of the Yandex ecosystem operate in Kazakhstan — they are used by 10 million residents of the country. Many of the company's projects offer businesses interaction with this ecosystem, as well as various infrastructural and technological solutions that underpin it and have proven their effectiveness in practice.

At Y2B, Yandex Qazaqstan shared plans for further expanding opportunities for business in the region. Timur Shalekenov announced the imminent launch of a new direction of modern AI-based solutions for retail and other industries in Kazakhstan — Yandex Retail /tech. Implementing these technologies will help stores, supermarkets, and retail chains in digitalizing their business, increasing efficiency, and improving the customer experience.

In addition, virtual Yandex 360 office will become available to business users in Kazakhstan, which includes more than 10 services for team collaboration: corporate email, project management system, cloud storage, document editor, video meeting service, and other tools for organizing effective employee work.

Among the speakers at Y2B Qazaqstan were representatives of MCRIAP, QazPost, Home Credit Bank Kazakhstan, Kolesa Group, Beeline Kazakhstan, Freedom Telecom, Tele2/Altel, People Consulting, and Centras Group. Among the guests at the event were CEOs and directors of development, technology, marketing, and HR from 250 leading companies in the country. Representatives of Yandex Cloud, Yandex Ads, Yandex Search, and other company services spoke about Yandex Qazaqstan solutions for business.

The Y2B Qazaqstan conference became an important platform for dialogue between the technological business and the corporate sector interested in digitalization.