Partnership
The AI community infrastructure for Central Asia: 300 sign-ups across two meetups, NPS +78, 80+ companies. We're looking for partners who join as equals.
Data from meetups #1 (April 25, 2026) and #2 (June 20, 2026). Post-event surveys, sample size noted under each figure.
Why now
The window in which the region can stop being a consumer of other people's solutions is open right now — and closes without a community of people who build.
AI is entering banking, telecom, public services, education and healthcare across the region. Demand for people who can build with it vastly outstrips supply.
Central Asia can stay a consumer of others' solutions — or grow its own community of people who build. That window is open right now.
The market is saturated with hype and sales-driven conferences. An honest venue becomes valuable in itself. Trust can't be bought — and we already have it.
Streams
We show status honestly: live, in progress, or planned. Nothing here is sold as finished until it actually is.
Meetups, Fail Stories, hackathons — the engine of the whole ecosystem.
The community's social projects. The first is Suhbat, anonymous support with AI involved.
Honest assessment of AI skills and programs built by practitioners.
Support for startups: engineering, grants, access to investors.
Not a fifth stream, but the foundation under the other four: open source code the community owns and runs itself. MIT / Apache-2.0, no paid gates on SSO or audit logs.
build.aiqadam.org →Ways to contribute
Every contribution leaves something with the community. The choice is how long you're ready to commit for.
Money or resources for one meetup or hackathon — venue, catering, prize pool, infrastructure.
Steady monthly support, in cash or in kind — the way HyperApp keeps stream infrastructure running.
A yearly commitment, tied to a stream or to a chapter launch.
An annual partnership is tied to one of the streams: Events · Education · Accelerator · People.
Where we draw the line
Community, not channel, isn't a slogan — it's a condition of the deal. Here's what we take on, and what we turn down.
Partners
We don't sell access to the audience, trade participant data, or dress up sales pitches as expert talks. What's in and out of bounds is spelled out in the partner deck.
Materials
The same case in a format you can forward to colleagues: numbers, streams, the chapter model and ways to contribute.
PDF, ~1.2 MB · May 2026 version · current numbers are on this page
Next event — August 26. Next meetup — September, CFP is open.
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