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Category: Hackathons And Competitions
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Startup Kyrgyzstan: The First National Competition, 320 Applications, 30 Teams
In August 2019, Kyrgyzpatent — the State Service for Intellectual Property and Innovations under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic — announced a national…
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Before the Hackathon: What Most Programs Get Wrong
In November 2016, before KG Labs ran its Travel & Tourism Hackathon, we ran four sessions. Panel discussions with industry professionals. Open meetups at…
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Ecommerce and FinTech Hackathon 2019: Three Pre-Events, Three Days, Two Winners
By the time the 2019 E-Commerce and FinTech Hackathon opened on the evening of Friday, June 14, in the State Patent-Technical Library in central…
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Creative Business Cup Kyrgyzstan 2018: From Panel to Pitch to National Champion
On the evening of September 6, 2018, at Loft Tseh in Bishkek, the National Final of the Creative Business Cup 2018 — Kyrgyzstan ran…
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Media Hackathon Bishkek 2017 — Safe City, Safe Environment
From 9 to 11 June 2017 the Media Hackathon ran in Bishkek under the theme “Safe City, Safe Environment,” co-organised by Youth Council C5+1…
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Travel and Tourism Hackathon 2016: From Ideation to Pitching
From the evening of Friday, December 2, 2016, to Sunday evening, December 4, around twenty teams worked nearly without sleep across two Bishkek venues…
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The Pitch Bishkek 2015: Asylbek Abdikarimov to Startup Nations Summit Monterrey
On September 22, 2015, a pitch competition at a venue in Bishkek selected the Kyrgyz startup that would travel to Monterrey, Mexico and compete…
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Garage48 Bishkek 2015: 48 Hours, AUCA, and the First Hackathon at Scale
From September 11 to 13, 2015, the new campus of the American University of Central Asia on Aaly Tokombaev Street hosted something Bishkek had…
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Future Agro Challenge 2015: Tilek Toktogaziev Wins Bishkek, Athens Trip Funded by UNDP
In June 2015, KG Labs organized the first Future Agro Challenge competition in Kyrgyzstan — and in Central Asia. The Future Agro Challenge is…