The public record

What we convened in Bishkek, between 2015 and 2019.

Fifty-nine recordings — panels, ideation sessions, alumni talks, hackathon moments — that map how KG Labs spent its first half-decade. Names, places, and arguments are preserved as they were said in the room. Recent work on AI governance and digital public infrastructure (2023–2026) lives at kglabs.org until it returns to video.

59 videos · 6 series · 2015 — 2019 archive

Visit youtube.com/@kglabsfoundation →

Series

Six convening threads

Each card is a playlist of recordings from a single event family. All six series are populated from inventory/videos.json.

Creative Economy & Open API

Bishkek 2018 · 3 videos · pilot

Travel & Tourism Hackathon

Bishkek 2016 · 15 videos

Media Hackathon

Bishkek 2017 · 20 videos

Silicon Valley Talks

San Francisco 2017 · 7 videos

Ecommerce & FinTech Hackathon

Bishkek 2019 · 8 videos

TechWomen / GES Alumni

Bishkek 2016–2017 · 4 videos

Featured · pilot

Open API in Kyrgyzstan’s Financial Sector

Panel discussion, recorded in Bishkek on 19 December 2018, hosted at Ololohaus, co-organized with IPC. Filed here as the pilot record so the editorial format and writing-guidelines spec can be reviewed against one full record before scaling to the other 58.

Открытые API в финансовом секторе Кыргызстана — Панельная дискуссия · 37:57 · RU · panel

Recorded 19 December 2018. KG Labs convened bank operators, regulators, and payment-system leads in Bishkek. The conversation sits upstream of the digital public infrastructure work the Foundation continues today.

Watch: Open API in Kyrgyzstan’s Financial Sector — Panel (Bishkek, 2018)

Related on kglabs.org:
→ On Kyrgyzstan’s DPI baseline
→ Policy before performance
→ ICT ecosystem map

Catalogue

All 59 videos

All 59 recordings, organised by year. Each title links to the video on youtube.com/@kglabsfoundation.

#	Title	Series	Duration
2015
19	Garage48 Bishkek (Bishkek, 2015)	Standalone	1:28
2016 — Travel & Tourism Hackathon · GES & TechWomen Alumni
1	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Mannequin Challenge (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	2:19
2	GES Kyrgyzstan Alumni Talk (Bishkek, 2016)	TechWomen / GES	36:14
3	GES Kyrgyzstan Alumni Talk — Q&A Session (Bishkek, 2016)	TechWomen / GES	21:14
4	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Ideation Session 2 (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:10:34
5	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Ideation Session 3 (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	45:42
6	TechWomen Kyrgyzstan Alumni Talk (Bishkek, 2016)	TechWomen / GES	47:58
7	Global Tourism Trends — Kyrgyzstan Investment Experience (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	50:26
8	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Final Pitch: Team Challengers Trelper (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	18:09
9	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Mentors: Jaanus Sakkis, Garage48 (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	2:49
10	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Mentors: Kai Isand, Garage48 (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:46
11	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Mentors: Leonid Pustov (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	3:22
12	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Andrei Minkin (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:14
13	TechWomen Alumni Talk (Bishkek, 2016)	TechWomen / GES	2:38
14	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Team Challengers (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:51
15	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Team Myth (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:17
16	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Team Hard Skilled: Project Trelper (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:49
17	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Team Zorguide (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:34
18	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Team Wishmaster (Bishkek, 2016)	T&T Hackathon	1:29
2017 — Media Hackathon · Silicon Valley Talks
20	Media Hackathon 2017 — Ideation Session 1 (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	6:51
21	Media Hackathon 2017 — Elina Karakulova, Internews: Ideation Session 1 (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	7:55
22	Media Hackathon 2017 — Gulnura Toralieva: Ideation Session 1 (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	48:25
23	Media Hackathon 2017 — Ideation Session 2 (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:34:18
24	Media Hackathon 2017 — Ideation Session 3 (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	21:24
25	Media Hackathon 2017 — Opening (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	49:19
26	Silicon Valley Talks — Albert Shau: Learning from Data, Cask Data / Stanford (San Francisco, 2017)	Silicon Valley	20:59
27	Silicon Valley Talks — Daniel Lee: Senior Product Manager, Green Chef (San Francisco, 2017)	Silicon Valley	23:02
28	Silicon Valley Talks — Daniel Low: Career Hacking Microsoft & LinkedIn (San Francisco, 2017)	Silicon Valley	33:16
29	Silicon Valley Talks — Kevin Lin, Facebook Software Engineer, Part 1 (San Francisco, 2017)	Silicon Valley	7:01
30	Silicon Valley Talks — Kevin Lin, Facebook Software Engineer, Part 2 (San Francisco, 2017)	Silicon Valley	29:25
31	Silicon Valley Talks — Jennifer Tsau, Google Product Manager, Part 1 (San Francisco, 2017)	Silicon Valley	27:05
32	Silicon Valley Talks — Jennifer Tsau, Google Product Manager, Part 2 (San Francisco, 2017)	Silicon Valley	20:09
33	Travel & Tourism Hackathon — Pitching Day (Bishkek, 2016–2017)	T&T Hackathon	34:01
34	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Beshenye Pandy (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	2:23
35	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Coal Labs (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:36
36	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: DNA (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:19
37	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Everest (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:42
38	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Hardskilled (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:36
39	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: I Coder (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:31
40	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: John Doe (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	0:45
41	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Kloop Media (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	2:43
42	Media Hackathon 2017 — Media Grammars (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:45
43	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: MMG (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	2:14
44	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Pro KG (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:17
45	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Random 5 (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:40
46	Media Hackathon 2017 — Team: Red Eyes (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	2:04
47	Media Hackathon 2017 — First Day (Bishkek, 2017)	Media Hackathon	1:42
2018 — Creative Economy & Open API
48	Creative Industries in Kyrgyzstan — Panel Discussion (Bishkek, 2018)	Creative Economy	1:35:34
49	What Is a Creative Startup? — Daniyar Amanaliev (Bishkek, 2018)	Creative Economy	1:12:26
50	Open API in Kyrgyzstan’s Financial Sector — Panel (Bishkek, 2018)	Creative Economy	37:57
2019 — Ecommerce & FinTech Hackathon
51	Ecommerce & FinTech Hackathon 2019 — Day 1 Highlights (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	3:02
52	Ecommerce & FinTech Hackathon 2019 — Full Day 1 Recording (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	1:11:30
53	Ecommerce & FinTech Hackathon 2019 — Full Final Day Recording (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	1:26:11
54	Ecommerce & FinTech Hackathon 2019 — Participant Testimonials (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	9:11
55	Cross-Border Trade and E-Commerce — Technology Panel (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	1:08:27
56	Case Battle — QR Code Payments (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	46:34
57	Stimulating FinTech in Kyrgyzstan — Part 1 (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	43:31
58	Stimulating FinTech in Kyrgyzstan — Part 2 (Bishkek, 2019)	Ecom & FinTech	20:16
Re-upload
59	Garage48 Bishkek — Archive HD (Bishkek, 2015) · re-upload of #19	Standalone	1:28

What’s not on YouTube (yet)

2020–2026: a recorded gap

The channel went quiet around 2019–2020. KG Labs’ work on AI governance, the GIRAI index, the Stimson fellowship, and the Foundation’s policy research from 2023 onward has not yet been documented on video. That is a gap, not an omission — and the next phase of this archive is to close it.