Expert in the field of new media, multimedia journalism. Certified mediatrainer. Participated in the creation and development of the New Reporter online magazine. Worked as the coordinator of the project "Development of new media in Central Asia", within the framework of which was implemented a convergent format of work in 12 media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.

Photographer, documentary maker, civil activist, one of the most popular Instragram-photographers in the world, cooperated with Apple, Instagram and other companies of the world.

Laureate of the ""Padida"" national award for literature of the Writers Union of Tajikistan for innovation in literature, as well as the Central Asian ""Golden Chair"" award. The official speaker of the 80th jubilee session of the World Congress of Writers of PEN club from Central Asia with a report on the situation of female writers in the Central Asian region. Author of the ""Devanagrad"" prose and poetry book. The winner of the Olympiad in philosophy held among the post-Soviet republics, organized by the Higher School of Economics. She studied directing and scripting under such great masters of the film as Irakli Kvirikadze and Fred Kelemen. The author of the short film ""Atonement"" (""Iskupleniye""), which premiered at the 28th ""Kinotavr"" Open Russian Film Festival.

Сoncept artist and illustrator at LUCASfilm in London. Jama worked on "Ready Player One", "Avengers: Age of Ultron", "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "Guardians of the Galaxy", and many other films.

Sevara is the only student of the Uzbek State Conservatory with vision disabilities and also the first one with such disability who was accepted to the Conservatory. Despite her young age, Sevara is an internationally acclaimed musician and a very positive person. She is convinced, that all our fears and anxieties are just self-imposed illusions. She was a speaker for the first TEDx conference in Uzbekistan. Her inspirational, musical, and heartfelt performance is available here: http://tedxmustaqilliksquare.com/video/

Sketch comedy show about a fictional city called ""Zharayt City"", which very much resembles the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. These are short sketches of everyday life situations faced by the inhabitants of this great city. The first season was devoted to different eternal values: love, friendship, work, etc. Through the prism of humor, the project raises city issues such as: corruption, garbage, ignorance of people.

Kaki King - is a famous American guitarist and composer. She is known for her jazz-tinged melodies, energetic live shows, use of multiple tunings on acoustic and lap steel guitar, and her diverse range in different genres. In addition to a 10-year career that includes six LP and two EP albums, King has also scored music for television and film. She worked alongside Eddie Vedder and Michael Brook, while creating music for the soundtrack to Sean Penn's «Into the Wild», for which the trio received nomination for a Golden Globe Award for the Best Original Score.

Electric Child is an extremely gifted and talented guy from Almaty, who writes absolutely unique music for this place. Perhaps, the main name in the electronic scene of Kazakhstan. Conquered the hearts of fans of high-quality music in the CIS countries and not only! Recognized by the label of Ivan Dorn, the largest music communities, such medias' as Esquire, Buro 24/7 and Harper's Bazaar, and so on. The young artist has already managed to perform at authoritative music festivals in Russia, Georgia, the United States and other countries.

Arys Arenov is a producer of electronic music, DJ, a graduate of the legendary RedBull Music Academy in Tokyo. Under the pseudonym Aresibo he produces electronic music with a characteristic cosmic and psychedelic sound, often using Central Asian motifs.He is engaged in DJing for 5 years, and constantly performs at various parties and festivals in Almaty. In his flawlessly adjusted DJ sets, you can hear Disco, Funk, Boogie, Italo-disco, Space-Disco, House, Electro.Link to tracks and DJ sets Aresibo: https://soundcloud.com/aresibo/sets/dj-sets

Photographer and a documentalist from US. He is one of the founders of «VII» Photo Agency. Stanmeyer has received several prestigious awards for his works: «Photo of the Year» - World Press, Robert Capa Gold Medal, «Magazine Photographer of the Year» from Pictures of the Year International and a «National Magazine Award» for Photojournalism.

Co-Founder and technical projects supervisor of inclusive education center “Education for All”. Global Solutions Program graduate from Singularity University’s (NASA campus, Silicon Valley, USA). Started her journey in inclusive education by creating the idea of distance learning platform for people with disabilities “NomadEd”, winner and finalist of several national and international competitions with this project. Co-founder of the inclusive theater “KIT”, co-founder of assistive technology library “Tech for All”.

She runs a foundation to help develop urban communities and promote youth civic and environmental engagement. She has been working on number of projects from building community gardens in outskirts of the city, bike-powered events to air quality monitoring project AUA.