{"id":350,"date":"2019-09-12T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T09:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2019-09-12T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:12:37","slug":"digital-bridge-forum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/?page_id=350","title":{"rendered":"Digital Bridge Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Bridge-2018-1-1024x574.jpeg\" alt=\"Digital Bridge Forum 2018\" data-id=\"282\" data-link=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/?attachment_id=282\" class=\"wp-image-282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Bridge-2018-1-1024x574.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Bridge-2018-1-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Bridge-2018-1-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Bridge-2018-1-953x535.jpeg 953w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Digital-Bridge-2018-1.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/001.JP_.jpg\" alt=\"Digital Bridge 2018 Alley\" data-id=\"351\" data-link=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/?attachment_id=351\" class=\"wp-image-351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/001.JP_.jpg 800w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/001.JP_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/001.JP_-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/b7b156c0f3c83706441134cc79beae85_crop_l_20_t_61_w_5452_h_3067-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Astana Hub Battle 2018\" data-id=\"352\" data-link=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/?attachment_id=352\" class=\"wp-image-352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/b7b156c0f3c83706441134cc79beae85_crop_l_20_t_61_w_5452_h_3067-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/b7b156c0f3c83706441134cc79beae85_crop_l_20_t_61_w_5452_h_3067-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/b7b156c0f3c83706441134cc79beae85_crop_l_20_t_61_w_5452_h_3067-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/Scal8R.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/b7b156c0f3c83706441134cc79beae85_crop_l_20_t_61_w_5452_h_3067-953x536.jpeg 953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Innovation\u00a0Forum Digital Bridge<\/strong> took place in Astana on November 5, 2018. The Forum organized by the Ministry of Information and Communication of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Co-organizers were the National Info communication Holding &#8220;Zerde&#8221; and the Astana Hub international Technopark of IT-startups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary goal of the Forum was to create a dialogue platform between the countries of Europe and Asia, promoting ideas of digital transformation, e-government, technological entrepreneurship, and the 4th industrial revolution.\u00a0Digital Bridge\u00a0was a new opportunity for uniting participants in the international innovation movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Forum brought together key representatives of the international IT-community, prolific technologies experts, business leaders, State institutions representatives from different countries, digital developing professionals, scientists, capitalists, and investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Digital Bridge Awards<\/strong>\u00a0were held\u00a0under the auspices of the Forum as the first innovation award in Kazakhstan, which stimulated the IT-market and public authorities for outstanding results in the digital transformation of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Bridge Awards\u00a0determined the leaders in the following categories:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Best Digital Initiative,&#8221; &#8220;Best Digitization Office&#8221;\u00a0and\u00a0&#8220;Best Startup.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Bridge forum&nbsp; has also contained two exclusive events under the auspices of&nbsp;Astana Hub&nbsp;international technopark of IT-startups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Astana Hub Battle<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; a presentations format competition of startups. Young technical projects competed for three monetary prizes: <strong>1st place &#8211; $15 000; 2nd place &#8211; $5 000; 3rd place &#8211; $1 000;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and\u00a0<strong>Astana Hub Awards<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; the best Kazakhstan&#8217;s startup award for achievements in the IT-industry in the following nominations:\u00a0<strong>\u201cTechpreneur of the Year&#8221;; \u201cDiscovery of the Year&#8221;; \u201cBest Technological Startup&#8221;;\u00a0\u201cBest IT-project for the State Sector&#8221;; \u201cBreakthrough of the Year.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As one of the successors of the Great Silk Road, we strive to be not only the intersection of highways, but also become a digital bridge between Europe and Asia<\/p><cite>Dauren Abayev, Minister of Information and Social Development<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the Digital Bridge forum gave its participants an opportunity to hold <strong>30-minute\u00a01:1 B2B meetings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Bridge became one of the leading innovation events in Kazakhstan last year. More than 30 speakers on the unique dialogue platform of the Forum discussed the latest international digitization, investors and world-class mentors held more than 10 seminars and masterclasses, where they shared best practices and business models in the Digital sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong> of the forum included\u00a0<strong>Jean-Francois Gauthier<\/strong>, CEO of \u201c<strong>Startup Genome<\/strong>&#8220;;\u00a0<strong>Dirk Ahlborn<\/strong>, CEO of \u201c<strong>Hyperloop Transportation Technologies<\/strong>&#8220;;\u00a0<strong>Bob Dorf<\/strong>, businessman, consultant and mentor of the \u201c<strong>Startup Academy<\/strong>&#8220;, the author of a number of best-sellers on the subject of startup;\u00a0<strong>Aliya\u00a0Prokofieva<\/strong>, founder and owner of \u201c<strong>Galaxy<\/strong>&#8221; private space company;\u00a0<strong>Jeff Hoffman<\/strong>, co-founder of \u201c<strong>Priceline Group<\/strong>&#8220;;\u00a0<strong>Kamran Elahian<\/strong>, chairman and co-founder of \u201c<strong>Global Innovation Catalyst<\/strong>&#8220;,\u00a0as well as other key experts of the IT-community from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Yesterday I had a chance to meet more than 60 startups. It is very inspiring that Kazakhstanis are starting to work in this direction. The engineering area is very developed here, and, thanks to this, in Kazakhstan, startups use simpler and more effective methods. Ultimately, it will result in something more global and useful.<\/p><cite>Bob Dorf, Co-author of Startup Owner&#8217;s Manual<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sponsors &amp; Partners <\/strong>of Digital Bridge Forum: The international group of\u00a0<strong>Eurasian Resources Group\u00a0<\/strong>companies,\u00a0<strong>BTS Digital<\/strong>\u00a0LLP,\u00a0<strong>Cisco<\/strong>\u00a0American transnational company,\u00a0<strong>Lenovo Limited Group<\/strong>\u00a0international technology company,\u00a0<strong>Nokia<\/strong>\u00a0transnational company,\u00a0<strong>Microsoft\u00a0<\/strong>transnational company,\u00a0<strong>Huawei\u00a0<\/strong>international telecommunications company,\u00a0<strong>Dell\u00a0<\/strong>American corporation and one of the largest telecom operators in the Republic of Kazakhstan, Transtelecom JSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scal8r involvement in the forum:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Invitation of international speakers to participate in the event<\/li><li>Negotiations on the speaker\u2019s fees &amp; expectations<\/li><li>Negotiations on the speaker\u2019s logistics<\/li><li>Confirming the speaker\u2019s topics &amp; introductions to the panelists<\/li><li>Finalizing the subtopics of the content delivery with the speakers, not brought by Scal8R<\/li><li>Curating the moderators of the sessions <\/li><li>Agenda management <\/li><li>Astana Hub Battle management<\/li><li>Astana Hub Awards management<\/li><li>Digital Bridge Awards management<\/li><li>Co-ordination with the technical supplier of all the venue locations<\/li><li>Co-ordination of the Media Center<\/li><li>Co-ordination of the Startup Alley<\/li><li>Side activities management<\/li><li>FUndraising and sponsors management<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About International Innovation\u00a0Forum Digital Bridge took place in Astana on November 5, 2018. 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