AI & Digital Bridge 2026: Kazakhstan's main tech forum is all about AI this year

Astana Hub presented the agenda of AI & Digital Bridge 2026 — Central Asia's largest technology forum, built entirely around AI this year. The program spans the state AI strategy, international investors and corporations, a Central Eurasian startup battle, and tracks on taking Kazakhstani teams to global markets, Silicon Valley included.

The forum mirrors the country's shift: AI has gone from a breakout-session topic to the backbone of Kazakhstan's entire technology agenda — with money, infrastructure and political priority attached. The concentration of players in one place, from ministries to funds, is a rare chance to assemble in two days a picture that would otherwise take months of meetings.

A business owner — even one far from IT — should come to such venues with a specific request: not to "hear about AI" but to find a solution for their own task, be it accounting automation, customer work or analytics. Practice shows a short conversation with those who have already deployed saves more than months of solo research.