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Marat Shaken

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IT columnist, has 12 years of experience in IT and startups, author of the @ShakenLive Telegram channel, founder of the @thetechkz Telegram channel, former vc.ru columnist in Kazakhstan, worked in the Astana Hub team for more than 4 years. Columnist of the-steppe, the-village, esquire, weproject and other publications in different years.

Nurzhan Kulshebaev

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A graduate of the Yerzhan Tatishev Foundation, he has extensive experience as a financial analyst in companies such as KazGerMunai, TCO and Kusto Group. As a financial consultant, he has developed more than 50 financial models, 30 accounting systems for businesses, helped to raise more than $3 million and $450 million in loans.

Sholpan Dosmakhanbet

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Sholpan has 8 years of experience in venture capital and startups, more than 5 years of experience in marketing and communications at Qaztech Ventures and Qazaqstan Investment Corporation. She maintains a blog about technological entrepreneurship on bluescreen.kz. She has implemented a series of projects aimed at popularizing startup culture in Kazakhstan.

Botagoz Gabdullina

MSc Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship at Manchester Business School, Investment Analyst, VC Ecosystem builder and fundraiser, helping CA startups to get global investors outreach, stock trader, financial modeller