On September 21, the International educational corporation hosted the final stage of the Sustainable Smart City 2024 incubator program, where young innovators and professionals presented their solutions for the future of our cities. The event was attended by students of 1-5 courses of the IEC and other universities, as well as young specialists and innovators who worked on real cases from the BI Group company with the support of Most BI.
The incubator program started with more than 150 participants and 40 teams, but only the 10 strongest of them reached the finals. During the incubation, the participants took master classes and mentoring sessions from the leaders of the construction industry, which helped them develop their projects and bring them to the presentation stage. The finalists presented their solutions at the pitching, where a prize fund of 1,000,000 tenge was awarded and an opportunity to cooperate with BI Group was provided.
In addition, a project was presented to solve the removal of construction debris, for which a separate prize fund of 100,000 tenge was awarded.
The jury included business angels, venture investors, as well as experts from the construction and startup industries. Aigazy Amirlanovich Kusainov, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the International educational corporation, was appointed Chairman of the jury.
The victory was won:
School engineers — 1st place
ReCo — 2nd place
Real design — 3rd place
Shecodeimpact — the audience award was awarded to free training at the RnD Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems of KAZGAS and free access to the Digital Marketing course from Netpeak Kazakhstan on the Influencers educational platform.
Demo Day became a significant event that brought together the best young minds of Kazakhstan, who proposed innovative solutions for sustainable urban development.
