Ferghana region plans a specialised technopark in Rishtan with a Chinese partner

Ferghana governor Khayrullo Bozorov and China's Shandun Singke Holding agreed to develop a technopark in Rishtan district focused on import-substituting and export manufacturing.

Traders Fair comes to Uzbekistan for the first time, set for 14 November in Tashkent

FINEXPO brings its global trading and fintech expo to the JW Marriott Hotel Tashkent, adding another date to Uzbekistan's crowded autumn fintech calendar.

IT Park Uzbekistan holds its first corporate ideathon, 24 teams pitch internal AI and export ideas

Around 100 IT Park employees split into 24 teams for an internal ideathon judged by Astana Hub, CS Angels Club and IT Park Ventures. Nexus, Joinme, ITPMS and HELPS took the four category wins.

Four IT Park resident executives receive state awards on Entrepreneurs' Day

Founders and executives from East-games, Uzum Technologies, United Soft and Tasnif Group were decorated by presidential decree for their contribution to entrepreneurship and the business climate.

Uzbekistan becomes the only Central Asian full member of the IEC from January 2027

Minister of Digital Technologies Sherzod Shermatov and IEC Secretary-General Philippe Metzger confirmed in Tashkent that Uzbekistan moves from associate to full membership of the International Electrotechnical Commission on 1 January 2027.

Uzbekistan takes four medals at IOI 2026 as every team member reaches the podium

At the 38th International Olympiad in Informatics on home soil in Tashkent, all four members of Uzbekistan's national team won medals - one silver and three bronze - for the first time in the team's history.

IT Park Uzbekistan opens high-tech talks with Oman on semiconductors, AI and quantum

An IT Park delegation met Oman's ICT ministry, the Oman Investment Authority and local tech firms in Muscat, and invited the Omani side to ICT Week in Tashkent this September.

Event: ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026

US insurance BPO firm GGA Solutions scouts Navoi, Samarkand and Fergana for a delivery hub

GGA Solutions, which currently runs operations in Mexico and Honduras, is assessing three Uzbek regional cities - not Tashkent - for its next international delivery centre.

Yandex Maps launches shade-aware "Green" walking routes in Tashkent

Uzbekistan is the first country to get the feature, which uses a neural-network tree map of Tashkent built from satellite imagery at roughly 90% recognition accuracy.

Russia and Uzbekistan to run "Digital Bridge" IT business mission in Tashkent this September

The 21-24 September mission will bring Russian IT vendors together with Uzbek regulators and enterprise buyers for demos, B2B meetings, and joint-venture talks.

Uzbek startup Cerberus wins Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 final

The AI cybersecurity startup took first place in the Central Eurasia regional final, winning $50,000 plus $50,000 in OpenAI API credits and a slot at Startup Battlefield 200 in San Francisco.

Tashkent to host AI Data Center Infra Central Asia 2026 on 10–11 September

A two-day conference at the Hyatt Regency Tashkent will gather data-center operators, cloud and telecom providers, vendors and investors around Central Asia's AI infrastructure build-out — days before ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026.

Six Uzbek startups reach Road to Battlefield 2026 regional final, with three tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt on the line

Silkroad Innovation Hub held the regional final of Road to Battlefield on 12 August. Six of the 22 finalists are from Uzbekistan — MoliyAI, Sino AI, Deepen, Fermopolis, Oqim App and Cerberus — competing for three places at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 in San Francisco.

Uzbekistan to build 3D digital models of 50 Timurid artefacts held in foreign museums

The Agency for Innovative Development is funding a project to produce high-precision 3D models and animations of 50 Timurid-era artefacts kept in museums in Russia, the UK and Türkiye, with the results published openly for researchers and the public.

SCO Business Council explores investment in Uzbek IT startups

A delegation from the SCO Business Council met IT Park Uzbekistan to review investment prospects in local IT startups, digital infrastructure, data centres and R&D, and signalled preliminary interest in backing Uzbek projects.

AWS Community Day Central Asia lands in Tashkent on 25 September, speaker call closes 25 August

The AWS User Group Tashkent will close out ICT Week Uzbekistan with a community-led cloud conference at CAEx on 25 September 2026. Talk and workshop submissions are open until 25 August.

Uzbek engineer builds AI-guided laser counter-drone system ARGUS-SYS

Ikromjon Muydinjonov presented ARGUS-SYS, a laser-based anti-UAV system using the YOLOv8 computer-vision model, at the "Engineers of the Future" review competition.

Uzbekistan unveils Shunkor-8, a domestically built interceptor drone

Engineers at the Center for Innovative Technologies under the Agency for Defence Industry presented Shunkor-8, an octocopter interceptor with 45% local production and approval for mass manufacture.

IOI 2026 opens in Tashkent: 386 contestants from 97 countries

The 38th International Olympiad in Informatics opened in Tashkent on 9 August — the first time Uzbekistan has hosted the world's oldest competitive programming olympiad for school students.

Event: International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2026 — Tashkent

Central Bank orders non-bank credit organisations to keep biometric data inside Uzbekistan

Microfinance firms, pawn shops, mortgage refinancing organisations, guarantee providers and factoring companies must now store biometric identification data domestically. The rule took effect on 6 August.

Paynet, Payme and Click post 971 billion soums of combined profit in the first half of 2026

Uzbekistan's three largest payment operators grew combined net profit 85.8% year on year. Paynet led on dividends from the National Interbank Processing Center, while Click slipped as IT Park tax benefits expired.

Uzbekistan signs $6 billion of private AI investment deals and targets 800 MW of compute by 2030

First Deputy Minister of Digital Technologies Oleg Pekos says existing computing infrastructure is already running at about 90% utilisation, with new capacity due in November and a top-50 global AI ranking targeted by 2029.

Uzbekistan to Host the Global Startup Ecosystem Awards for the First Time

IT Park Uzbekistan and StartupBlink will stage the Global Startup Ecosystem Awards in Tashkent on 23 September, inside ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026 — the first time the ceremony has been held in the country.

Samarkand-2028 satellite transmits its first image from orbit

Uzbekistan's hyperspectral Earth observation satellite sent back its first orbital image — of Athens — within hours of its 5 August launch from China's Haiyang spaceport.

Senate approves constitutional law creating "Enterprise Uzbekistan" digital technology centre

Uzbekistan's Senate has approved the Constitutional Law establishing Enterprise Uzbekistan, an International Digital Technology Centre inside IT Park running on a special legal regime based on English law principles.

IT Park, School 21 and East Games Announce the 35 LVL Game Jam

A three-day game development jam runs 21-23 August at School 21 in Tashkent, with an online track open across Uzbekistan. Teams get 72 hours to turn an idea into a playable prototype.

UZCERT warns of widespread cyberattacks targeting RDP across Uzbek organizations

Uzbekistan's incident response service reported a wave of attacks on exposed Remote Desktop Protocol services, with some organizations already suffering compromised systems and encrypted data.

President sets new AI priorities as Uzbekistan's NVIDIA supercomputer hits 90% utilisation

Uzbekistan climbed 25 places in global AI readiness rankings to 62nd, while the NVIDIA-based cluster at the Digital Government data centre entered the world's top 321 and filled up within a month.

Yandex Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Transport launch the country's first National Transport Hackathon

Teams spent 72 hours at the Radisson Blu in Tashkent building AI services for aviation, rail and road transport, competing for a 320 million UZS prize fund.

Uzbekistan's mobile internet users grow 4.3-fold in a decade to 33.3 million

Mobile internet subscriptions in Uzbekistan have reached 33.3 million, a 4.3-fold increase since 2015 and a key enabler for the country's digital services and startup sector.

IT Park members now export to 102 countries

Uzbekistan's IT Park says its member companies export to 102 countries, up from just 8 in 2017, with 1,050 exporting firms and 315 of them based outside Tashkent.

IT Park takes export push to Kashkadarya as regional firms eye US and African markets

IT Park Uzbekistan held an open discussion with eight resident companies in Kashkadarya region, focused on growing IT service exports and new jobs outside Tashkent.

Samarkand-2028 satellite launches with the first AI module built by Uzbek engineers

China's Star Vision launched the Samarkand-2028 hyperspectral Earth observation satellite on 5 August. It carries an on-board AI module developed by Uzcosmos specialists — the first time Uzbek engineers have built AI for a satellite.

TUIT team wins IT Park Code Cup 2026, earns trip to Baku training camp

IT Park Uzbekistan has announced the winners of its Code Cup team programming contest. Eight teams reached the offline final at TUIT on 1 August; the top three advance to an international competitive programming camp in Baku.

National AI Hackathon opens registration for its Qarshi stage on 15-18 August

After Navoi, Uzbekistan's National AI Hackathon moves to Kashkadarya. Registration for the Qarshi stage closes on 13 August, with a MacBook Air and cash prizes on the line and a route to the December grand final in Tashkent.

Central Bank, CAFA and ONESEC hold closed banking cybersecurity seminar in Tashkent

Bank and fintech security leads met at JW Marriott Tashkent to discuss social engineering, threat intelligence and building a cybersecurity culture across the financial sector.

Beeline Uzbekistan's digital revenue jumps 21% as VEON reports H1 2026 results

VEON's Uzbek subsidiary grew Q2 revenue 5.3% year-on-year, with digital revenue up 21% and digital financial services revenue nearly doubling in the first half of 2026.

NEXUS30 hackathon takes 40 teams into a 72-hour build in Tashkent on 14-16 August

A new three-day product hackathon opens in Tashkent's Mirzo Ulugbek district: 40 teams of three, five tracks from healthcare to fintech, free entry for builders aged 16-30. Applications close on 7 August.

Yandex Auto becomes technology partner for Li Auto in Uzbekistan

Yandex Uzbekistan and Chinese carmaker Li Auto have agreed a technology partnership that puts the Yandex Auto platform into Li L9 vehicles sold on the Uzbek market — the first factory integration of the local Yandex stack in an imported premium car.

Foreign tech firms paid 143.8 billion soums in Uzbek taxes in the first half of 2026, up 84%

Ninety-seven foreign technology companies paid 143.8 billion soums under Uzbekistan's digital services tax in H1 2026. Apple, Google and Meta account for two thirds of the total, and AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI now appear in the ranking.

$6 million on the table: President Tech Award and President AI Award deadlines fall through August

Uzbekistan's two presidential startup competitions are still taking applications. Incubation and Acceleration tracks close on 10 August, the President AI Award on 15 August, and the Best Startup track on 31 August.

Yandex Maps launches real-time location sharing in Uzbekistan

The mapping service has switched on live location sharing for users in Uzbekistan, aimed at crowded venues and trips to Charvak and Chimgan.

Uzbek AI startup Speko joins Y Combinator

Speko, a voice-AI routing platform founded by Nukus-born Beknazar Abdikamalov, has been accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.

Apple Pay and Google Pay could launch in Uzbekistan within months, Central Bank says

The Central Bank says technical integration with Humo, Uzcard and commercial banks is under way, clearing the last hurdle for Apple Pay and Google Pay in Uzbekistan.

Jizzakh gains a BPO centre serving US freight operations

DMGB LOG SERVICE opened as a new IT Park resident in Jizzakh, dispatching interstate freight in the United States, with plans to grow from 26 to 100 specialists.

Jizzakh software firm Silk Road Intellect targets $10 million in annual IT exports

IT Park leadership visited the Chinese-founded developer, which already serves clients in the UK, Brazil and Iran from Jizzakh.

GBSF 2026 closes in Tashkent with 450 participants from 45 countries

The Global Business Services Forum wrapped up in Tashkent on 24-25 July, with IT Park reporting 3,800+ resident companies and digital services exports past $1 billion.

Event: Global Business Services Forum (GBSF) 2026

IT Park trains regional branches to court foreign IT firms

A workshop for regional branch teams focused on lead generation, positioning and deal-closing, with a 90-day mentoring period and KPIs to follow.

Emapta weighs Uzbekistan as a hub for global outsourcing

The 10,000-strong outsourcing and EOR provider met Uzbekistan's digital minister at GBSF 2026 and agreed to draft a cooperation roadmap.

Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia launch virtual cardiology commission

A Saudi health delegation toured Uzinfocom's healthcare digitalization work as the two countries opened a joint telemedicine commission for complex cardiac cases.