Red team against blue team: the CYBERKENT 4.0 final is under way in Tashkent

The final stage of CYBERKENT 4.0, one of Uzbekistan's largest cybersecurity competitions, has officially started. Finalists are split into attacking and defending teams on infrastructure built to simulate the real thing — and students from Inha University in Tashkent are among them.

Twenty places, nine days to apply: Uzbekistan opens a World Bank-backed selection for industrial tech startups

The Ministry of Economy and Finance has opened an open competition to pick 20 technology startups for phased support on business development, investment readiness and international expansion. It runs under the World Bank's FINGROW programme, participation is free for those selected, and applications close on 14 October 2026.

Six days to apply: IT Park opens a call for Uzbek startups to join the Digital Uzbekistan delegation at Web Summit in Lisbon

IT Park Uzbekistan is recruiting startups for the Digital Uzbekistan presence at Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon on 11 November. Applications close 10 October, and the bar is explicit: a working product, an English-language website, existing sales or pilots, and a founder who can hold the room in English.

Grants up to 1 billion soums: Uzbekistan lets technical schools spin student projects out into real companies

A Cabinet of Ministers resolution adopted on 29 September creates a legal route for state technical schools to found spin-off companies built on student startup projects — with grants of up to 1 billion soums, a 25 per cent minimum school stake, and model companies expected in every region by the end of 2026.

125,000 applications, 15 million lines of code: School 21's Tashkent campus turns two — and moves to a new intake every three weeks

School 21 Tashkent marked its second anniversary with a graduation ceremony and a set of numbers worth reading: 125,000+ applications, 3,000+ current students across 15 digital specializations, 46 startups out of its Launch Lab. The bigger news for anyone waiting to get in is that selection pools move from six times a year to every three weeks, with the next ones on 19 October.

Astana Hub, IT Park Uzbekistan and Eurasia Growth Hub sign a three-way memorandum to push Central Asian startups abroad

The two largest tech parks in Central Asia have put their names to a joint cooperation memorandum with London-based Eurasia Growth Hub, covering business missions, B2B matchmaking, soft-landing support for UK market entry and joint AI and R&D work. It was signed at the AI & Digital Bridge 2026 forum.

Women Cup 2026 Names Winners Among Uzbekistan's Creative Entrepreneurs

An accelerator for women-led creative and digital businesses wrapped up in Tashkent. Twelve finalists pitched out of 120+ applications, with a handmade fragrance brand, a fashion visual-communications studio and an AI 3D-renovation platform taking the top three places.

Yandex Maps Expands Accessibility Data for Tashkent Venues

Yandex Uzbekistan and the National Agency for Social Protection surveyed over 5,000 Tashkent organisations for wheelchair access. Only 39% had accessible entrances; accessibility data now covers 30,000+ organisations nationwide.

EasyTap and Verifix Form Joint Ventures to Build a Unified Workforce Management System

Uzbek workforce-management developer Verifix and flexible-employment platform EasyTap are setting up joint ventures in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to merge full-time staff management with hourly shift work on one platform.

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Deepen IT Park Cooperation in Dushanbe

An Uzbek delegation led by Deputy Minister Jamol Makhsudov met counterparts at IT Park Dushanbe to agree joint startup and incubation programmes, and a shared Central Asian brand for international tech events.

Uzbekistan and Switzerland map out cooperation in AI, startups and R&D

Digital Technologies Minister Sherzod Shermatov and Swiss Ambassador Simone Giger discussed AI model development for education, growing the startup ecosystem and expanding Swiss investment in Uzbek tech projects.

IT Park opens a tender for the design of a new IT Hub in Tashkent's Yashnabad district

IT Park Uzbekistan is looking for a design organisation to prepare the full architectural and engineering documentation for an IT Hub at 39A Ohangrabo Street, with bids accepted from 30 September to 14 October 2026.

ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 closes: 300+ exhibitors from 51 countries and a $4.3bn startup ecosystem

The four-day "Land of Startups" edition of ICT Week drew more than 30,000 visitors and 3,000 international guests to Tashkent, and organisers used the closing figures to position Uzbekistan as Central Asia's fastest-moving tech ecosystem.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

IT Park Uzbekistan and Hong Kong Science and Technology Park deepen cooperation on startups, AI and R&D

Meeting on the sidelines of ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 focused on market entry support, startup ecosystem ties and joint work in artificial intelligence and R&D, with four HKSTP startups attending the event.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Ten Uzbek Projects Win ASOCIO Digital & AI Awards 2026 as IT Park Expands Asia-Pacific Ties

IT Park Uzbekistan and ASOCIO, which represents 29,000+ ICT companies across Asia and Oceania, discussed joint events and startup ecosystem work — while ten Uzbek projects took awards at ASOCIO's 2026 programme.

Central Eurasian Venture Forum Will Return to Uzbekistan in 2027

MOST Holding and IT Park Uzbekistan signed a memorandum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 to keep the Central Eurasian Venture Forum in Tashkent for a second year, with a new GP Academy for fund managers on the programme.

IT Park signs MoU with OITE Global to take Uzbek startups to COMEX 2027 in Oman

A memorandum signed during ICT Week opens official participation for Uzbek startups at COMEX in Muscat (1-4 February 2027), with talks on a dedicated Central Asian startup track.

Turkish cloud provider ICT BULUT BILISIM eyes new data centres in Uzbekistan

At ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 the Turkish company presented plans to invest in building data centres across the country and to support digitalisation of higher education.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Swiss innovation platform Tenity explores backing Uzbek fintech and AI startups

IT Park Uzbekistan met Tenity at ICT Week 2026 to discuss connecting local startups to the Swiss platform's investor network, corporate partners and international scaling programmes.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

IT Park Uzbekistan expands BPO and IT cooperation with South Africa

An IT Park delegation in Johannesburg held the first Uzbekistan–South Africa Business Forum with over 60 organisations and signed up partners in the BPO and global business services sector.

IT Park and Alibaba Group discuss AI, cloud credits for startups and joint hackathons

Talks at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 covered Alibaba Cloud training and certification for Uzbek specialists, cloud resources for selected startups, and jointly run AI hackathons and innovation competitions.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

AWS Academy launches at 12 universities across Uzbekistan

IT Park Uzbekistan and Amazon Web Services are rolling out ready-to-teach cloud and AI curricula at twelve universities for the 2026/2027 academic year, including machine learning and generative AI modules.

400 seats to 1,400: Telecontact weighs a Namangan site with IT Park

Telecontact already runs contact-centre operations in Tashkent, Samarkand and Fergana with 400+ staff. In talks with IT Park on the closing day of ICT Week, Namangan came up as the next region — and a figure of over 1,000 new jobs.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Five startups to Türkiye, and a London hub: IT Park's route into UK and Turkish markets

Academia Park London, which supported Central Asian delegations at London Tech Week, discussed a market-entry programme with IT Park — including a proposed five-startup cohort in Türkiye next year.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Uzbekistan hires the scorekeeper's advice: Startup Genome to benchmark the ecosystem

First Deputy Minister Ayubkhon Sultanov met Startup Genome founder Jean-François Gauthier at ICT Week to work on Uzbekistan's standing in the Global Startup Ecosystem Report — and on making the local ecosystem legible to foreign investors.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Uzbekistan and Belarus compare notes on running a tech park

Minister Shermatov met Belarus' ambassador on IT service exports and joint projects, while a Belarus Hi-Tech Park delegation spent ICT Week with IT Park on governance models, startup centres and venture financing.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Princeville and Hypernova open AI pipeline talks with IT Park

Two international funds met IT Park at ICT Week: Princeville Capital wants a pipeline of Uzbek AI startups, while Hypernova Capital is working on routing Asian LP money into local venture funds.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

APSTAR signs with UZ-SAT: Hong Kong satellite capacity meets Uzbek broadband ambitions

A cooperation agreement between APT Satellite and UZ-SAT, signed at ICT Week, covers satellite broadband, broadcasting and digital infrastructure across Central Asia — with new spacecraft in the plan.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

A Korean security vendor wants a Tashkent data centre — and Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa from it

IT Park Uzbekistan signed a memorandum with South Korea's SaferZone, which plans a local entity and a Tashkent data centre offering colocation, cloud and cybersecurity — pitched as a hub for three regions.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Paperless across the border: Russia and Uzbekistan pilot cross-border e-document exchange from shipping papers up

A plenary session at Tashkent's U-Enter Innovation Center detailed a TEDO pilot exchanging shipping documents between the two countries' tax authorities, document operators and trusted third parties.

Avito's Trisigma brings its A/B testing platform to Uzbekistan, targeting 23,000 companies across four markets

Trisigma, Avito's in-house experimentation platform, is entering Uzbekistan along with Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan — pitched at companies for whom building the same infrastructure in-house runs about 50 million roubles a year.

TLDCON 2026 closes in Tashkent: DNS abuse, satellite resolvers and the multilingual domain problem

The two-day ccTLD conference hosted by UZINFOCOM wrapped in Tashkent with registry operators from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on DNS security, internationalised domain names and satellite DNS infrastructure.

Tokyo's Headline Asia looks at a Tashkent office after ICT Week talks with IT Park

Headline Asia partner Kazuhiko Oyoshi met IT Park Uzbekistan during ICT Week 2026 to discuss backing Uzbek startups — and a possible regional office in Tashkent. The Tokyo fund has invested in more than 100 companies.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Global Tech Weekend returns to Tashkent in spring 2027 — dates still unannounced

IT Park Uzbekistan and the event's co-founders have confirmed a second Global Tech Weekend in Tashkent for spring 2027. The programme and exact dates are still to come.

Five papers at Interspeech 2026: an Uzbek company puts the Uzbek language into the global speech-AI record

Bitmanager, an IT Park resident, has had five papers accepted into the main track of Interspeech 2026 — including LRLspoof, a 2,700-hour synthetic-speech corpus covering 66 languages, with roughly 39 hours of it in Uzbek.

From Andijan to the U.S. Market: 350+ Professionals Serving Global Clients

IT Park residents in Marhamat District, Andijan Region grew IT service exports 69% year-on-year to $8.72 million in Q2 2026.

OTS Technology Parks Discuss a Connected Innovation Ecosystem

Technology park leaders from Organization of Turkic States countries met in Tashkent to build startup mobility, soft-landing and co-investment mechanisms across their ecosystems.

Event: OTS Technology Forum 2026 (ICT Week Uzbekistan)

300,000 users in a few days: TelecomSoft's Hamroh SuperApp wires itself into Tashkent's traffic-light network

Hamroh, built by Uzbektelecom joint venture TelecomSoft and shown at ICT Week 2026, pulls live data from 2,652 traffic lights and 442 controllers, and bundles fleet management, utilities and a delivery pilot into one app.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

EY Partner Outlines Eight Conditions for AI Ecosystem Growth

At the Enterprise Uzbekistan Summit 2026, EY's Timothy Grosser set out an eight-point framework for what a country needs to grow a working AI ecosystem.

Event: Enterprise Uzbekistan Summit 2026

Enterprise Uzbekistan to Create Regulatory Sandbox for Technology Testing

Enterprise Uzbekistan will open a regulatory sandbox for testing technology products inside a special jurisdiction built on English and Welsh common law principles.

Event: Enterprise Uzbekistan Summit 2026

IT Park to Launch $5M "Land of Startups" Global Program in 2027

IT Park Uzbekistan announced Land of Startups, a global market-entry program launching in 2027 with a $5 million prize fund for 25 founders worldwide.

Event: Startup & Venture Summit 2026 (ICT Week Uzbekistan)

Uztelecom Opens GPU-Equipped Data Centers in Bukhara and Kokand

Two new Tier III-certified data centers presented at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 push the national UzCloud platform more than 300 km beyond Tashkent, with GPU servers for AI training and machine learning.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

227.3% growth and seven cities on the map: Uzbekistan named world's fastest-growing startup ecosystem

StartupBlink's Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026 puts Uzbekistan's growth at 227.3% — the highest worldwide — with seven Uzbek cities entering the global rankings for the first time and Tashkent leading Central Asia.

Event: Global Startup Ecosystem Awards 2026 (Tashkent)

Uztelecom and Amazon Leo Expand Satellite Connectivity in Uzbekistan

Uztelecom subsidiary UZ-SAT signed an agreement to become the authorized distributor of Amazon Leo low-Earth-orbit satellite internet in Uzbekistan.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Uztelecom and Apifonica to Build a Voice AI Centre in Uzbekistan

Apifonica's AI agent platform will run on Uztelecom infrastructure, first handling first-line support and later offered to businesses as a service.

IT Park Uzbekistan Explores Tech Cooperation with Shenzhen's Longgang District

Talks at ICT Week covered data centres, cloud services and a possible memorandum between the two territories' technology parks.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

IT Park Uzbekistan and Hong Kong's Cyberport Expand Startup Cooperation

Five Cyberport startups joined ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 as the two hubs firmed up soft-landing mechanisms in each other's markets.

Event: Central Asia Fintech Forum at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

Future Intelligence Forum 2026 in Tashkent Announces an AI White Paper for Uzbekistan

The ICT Week forum on the digital economy in the AI era brought together ministries, AICA and international experts, and floated a national AI White Paper.

Event: Future Intelligence Forum on the Digital Economy 2026

The $50 million gap: Uzbekistan presses Google to switch on YouTube monetization

Saida Mirziyoyeva met Google VP Karan Bhatia in New York on 23 September. Uzbek creators still have no access to the YouTube Partner Program — research puts the annual cost to the country at around $50 million.

CYBERKENT 4.0 Qualifiers Close: 20 Teams Advance to Uzbekistan's National Cybersecurity Final

More than 300 teams entered the online qualifiers for CYBERKENT 4.0. The Blue Team round ran on 15 September and the Red Team round on 22 September; the top 10 from each track go through to the offline final in Tashkent on 5-6 October, competing for a 270 million UZS prize pool.