Schedule - GO VIRAL FESTIVAL 2020

11:00

Access to “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound” documentary film. Midge Costin. Film will be accessible via the link that you should receive by email. It will be available from June 12 until June 17.

Midge Costin

Culture

Midge Costin holds the Kay Rose Endowed Chair in the Art of Sound Editing at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and is the producer/director of the award-winning feature documentary, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound. For over 25 years, she has been a feature film sound editor having freelanced at every major studio in Hollywood. Costin has edited sound for filmmakers such as Tony Scott (Crimson Tide), Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock), John Waters (Crybaby), David Wolper (Imagine: John Lennon) and Amy Heckerling (Look Who’s Talking Too). Two of the films, Crimson Tide and Armageddon, for which she edited sound effects and dialogue, received Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing.

11:00-12:00

Five-day workshop: Inna Tskhay “No-Code” #1

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Inna Tskhay

Business

Inna finished web and graphic design courses from Igor Atwork, Valentina Tsvinger and a course in Tilda from Kristina Anfalova. Inna led Tilda courses for Astana Hub, developed their corporate style and website, printed materials for latest projects by blogger @tysya and trading school by Artyom Nazarov.

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14:00-15:00

Four-day workshop: "IT school for women" #1.

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15:00-16:00

Keynote: Chris Burry “How to Leverage the Silicon Valley for Global Market Entry”.

Chris Burry

Business

Mr. Burry is the CEO of the US Market Access Center in Silicon Valley and a Global Ambassador for the University of California (Berkeley) Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. His work at bout USMAC and SCET is driven by his belief that great innovators and founders exist all over the world, but their access to knowledge, capital (financial and social), markets and human networks limits their growth in emerging ecosystems.

A serial entrepreneur (9 companies, 3 exits), Mr. Burry has spent the last 10 years helping 2,500+ startup founders in more than 40 countries reach their full potential. In addition to his work with founders, Mr. Burry is an adviser to governments on how to build strong, sustainable entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems in their country.

Prior to founding USMAC, Mr. Burry was a co-founder of Avanade. Today, Avanade is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, with over 30,000 employees.

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16:00-17:00

Keynote: Aiganysh Aidarbekova "Open source investigations and verification" part 1.

Aiganysh Aidarbekova

Media

Aiganysh works at Bellingcat Kyrgyzstan. Her main occupation is investigations on open sources concerning corruption, war, conflict and data research. She is also leading Bellingcat digital investigation and verification trainings for journalists and activists around the world.

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17:00-18:30

Panel Discussion: Eric Abdykalykov, Eldar Akhmetgaliyev, Mardon Anvarov, Alexander Shamilov “Startups and Entering New Markets”. Moderator: Yussubaliyev.

Eric Abdykalykov

Business

Eric is a cofounder of lifestyle app for female Muslims FitJab valued at $5 mln. Civic activist, TEDx speaker, founder of ILGERI project, Rotaract Nomad Club youth movement and documentalist (“Bishkek 140”).

Alexander Shamilov

Business

Alexander graduated from the Russian-Tajik Slavic University with a degree in Finance and Credit. He worked at Megafon Tajikistan for 10 years, three of which as the CFO and launched a fintech business. Since 2020, he has been working as the Director of Money Transfers at Alif. Alif was founded in 2014. In 7 years it has become a leader in POS-crediting and electronic payments. It also created the Alif academy and entered a new market. Alif: history, products, perspectives Company history (reasons, vision, mission). How Alif makes life easier. How Alif managed to create a brand of technological and innovative company. How Alif enters markets in other countries.

Mrat Yussubaliyev

Business

Mrat is seasoned business professional with 10+ years of hands-on work experience in investment management, strategy consulting and venture development. Sharing entrepreneurial passion for innovation and technology, Mrat constantly seeks for opportunities to empower businesses for value creation and growth. He will moderate the panel discussion “Startups and Entering New Markets”.

Eldar Akhmetgaliyev

Business

Eldar is a senior data scientist at Sportradar, where he is helping develop AI-powered algorithms for betting applications. He joined Sportradar in 2017 as a part of the acquisition of MOCAP Analytics - a Silicon Valley startup where he was a co-founder. Prior to that he obtained his PhD from Caltech in applied mathematics. Eldar is also a trustee of the Yessenov Foundation in Kazakhstan Participating in the panel sharing my experience and helping startups from Kazakhstan.

Mardon Anvarov

Business

Mardon Anvarov was born in 1986 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 2008 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with merit, receiving a bachelors degree in the area of trade and economics.

In 2007 Mardon Anvarov started his career as a financial analyst at KPMG Financial Advisory CIS/Russia. Later he worked in the legal department of KPMG CIS/Russia. Over two years of work in the Moscow office, he gained rich experience in such areas as Risk Management Group, Financial Investigations, and Anti-money Laundering.

Since August 2014, he has been engaged in his own investment and IT projects.

He is the founder and CEO of the payment system PAYMO.

In 2018 he founded PulPul fintech company in Uzbekistan.

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18:30-19:30

Panel Discussion: Farid Shirindjanov, Shabnam Shermatova “Creative Economy and restaurants”. Moderator: Parviz Ruziev

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18:30-19:30

Keynote: Togzhan Sultan "Tech in Politics, Community Building and Decision Making"

Togzhan Sultan

Technology

Originally, Togzhan is from Kentau, South Kazakhstan. She moved from there at 18 years old to study Economics at Nazarbayev University. Upon graduating with honors she moved to New York City where she studied Data Science at Columbia University. She started her career in New York City at a small startup, where she had a chance to create projects for big companies like Bloomberg and even participate in Mayor Bloomberg's presidential run. Currently, she is a Data Scientist in a private equity sector, where she helps increase value of the company's portfolio.

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19:30-20:00

Concert: Chorshanbe Alovatov (Dushanbe)

Chorshanbe Alovatov

Culture

Chorshanbe entered the big stage in the 6th grade and performs in the fusion style. The artist admits that from childhood he constantly listened to the performances of his father, who performed traditional folk songs in the falak genre, therefore the little singer performed his first performances in the same genre. Alovatov won his debut major victory in 2011 at the Golden Voice competition, taking first place.

In 2014, he also performed falak at the "Flowers of the Capital" ("Shukufakhoi Poytaht") competition and again became the undisputed winner, in 2017 he repeated his success at the "Parvin" festival.

In 2019 he became the sole winner of the Bob Music Awards.

In December 2019, Chorshanbe participated and became the winner in Central Asia's Got Talent - this is an analogue of the British TV show Britain's Got Talent. After winning this show, Chorshanbe gained great popularity throughout Central Asia.

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