TBEC 2026 — 5th Tashkent Business and Economics Conference

The fifth edition of Tashkent's main academic business conference, and this year it is largely about AI. TBEC 2026 runs 20–21 October 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Tashkent, organised by the WIUT Business School together with the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Westminster International University in Tashkent. The theme is Reimagining the Silk Road: Regional Connectivity and Trade Integration. Tracks. Eight of them, and three are squarely technical:

• Cross-Border Markets & AI-Enabled Customer Value Systems
• Financial Integration and Digital Financial Infrastructure
• AI, Automation & Workforce Transformation
• Silk Road Tourism & Hospitality
• Regional Integration, Connectivity & Cross-Border Exchange Economics
• Supply Chains and Cross-Border Coordination
• Sustainable & Green Finance and ESG
• Development and Structural Transformation

Publication. Accepted work routes to a special issue of the International Journal of Tourism Research (Q1 / WoS / SSCI), plus conference proceedings with ISBN. That is a stronger publication pipeline than most regional conferences offer, and it is the reason the paper deadlines are early. Fees. $50 for international participants, 500,000 UZS local, 250,000 UZS for students. Be clear about what this is. TBEC is a peer-reviewed academic conference, not a build event — nobody ships code over the weekend here. The paper submission and registration deadlines have already passed (15 June and 31 July respectively), so October is for attending rather than presenting unless you are already on the programme. Why it is on this calendar anyway. The AI, Automation & Workforce Transformation track is where the evidence base for the labour-market claims everyone in the Uzbek tech scene makes casually actually gets argued — with data, in front of reviewers. If you are building fintech or logistics products for this region, the digital-financial-infrastructure and cross-border-coordination sessions are the cheapest available access to people who study the constraints your product will hit. Student pricing at 250,000 UZS makes that an easy decision.

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