Projects
Completed initiatives across every TransforNATION track — from regional diagnostics to accelerators and digital services.
Innovators of the future
Samsung Solve for Tomorrow · 2021–2026
6 seasons, 11,450 participants: school teams build technology solutions to real social problems.
Invent Future Global · 2025–2026
The Central Asia track of the international IFGIC challenge — school students build prototype solutions to real problems.
HalykIdea · 2023
A prototype digital platform where citizens describe problems and propose solutions to improve life in the country.
Jas Innovator → Creative Start · 2025–present
An 8-week incubator for teens aged 14–18: social entrepreneurship and creative industries. Grew into the Creative Start programme.
RFMSh — series of workshops · 2019–2020
9+ sessions: high schoolers build prototypes and defend them in a pitch, alongside workshops for teachers and parents across two age groups.
Momentum — a product management school · 2019–2020
A two-part product management and marketing course with a demo day; a separate cohort for a team in Tel Aviv.
UMAI Boizhetken · 2020–2021
A programme for girls: a boost module, the core Boizhetken course, and project defense — a path from idea to finished solution.
Samsung DT for KIDS · 2021
A design-thinking programme for children supported by Samsung (September 2021) — an early version of mechanics later established in Solve for Tomorrow.
Integrity.kz — DT for Kids · 2022
Design thinking as a tool for anti-corruption education for children: a programme in Atyrau (March 2022) and a second wave in School format (June 2022).
Teens in AI · 2023
The Kazakhstan track of the international Teens in AI programme (February 2023) — teens build projects based on artificial intelligence.
Technovation Girls Kazakhstan · 2025
The Kazakhstan track of the global Technovation Girls competition (February 2025) — girls build technology projects to solve community problems.
TOP-100 college students of Kazakhstan · 2019
An intensive for the TOP-100 college students of Kazakhstan (December 2019) with the Kasipkor holding, and a problem-solving session for the organization in February 2020.
NurJAM · 2019
An urban innovation jam (October 2019): teams go from a city problem to a solution prototype in 1–2 days.
Creativity in schools: Binom · Prometheus · 2022–2023
Two workshops on developing creativity among school students: Binom for Kids (May 2022) and the Prometheus Creativity Workshop (April 2023).
Youth intensives: Youth Congress · School of Diplomacy · 2019–2020
Two youth design-thinking intensives: the School of Diplomacy (November 2019) and the Youth Congress (November 2020).
Google for Startups (Astana Hub) · 2023
Mentoring and tracking teams across three cohorts of Google for Startups — support from idea to investor-pitch readiness.
MOST — IRA + Smart City Accelerator · 2023
Mentoring across several cohorts of the IRA and Smart City accelerators at the MOST business incubator — from workshops to project defense.
NURIS — Growth-Hacking for Startups · 2021
Growth-hacking, marketing, and acceleration for NURIS teams — from a forum to a pitch defense.
TechCup Acceleration · 2023
Mentoring support for teams in the TechCup acceleration programme for technology startups.
Plug&Play Uzbekistan · 2023
Mentoring teams in the Uzbekistan track of the international Plug&Play accelerator.
AIESEC: InnovateX · SheCodes · CreativeOne · GoExchange · 2023
A series of AIESEC programmes for young leaders — InnovateX, SheCodes, CreativeOne, GoExchange.
Astana Hub — series of programmes · 2020–2025
Five years of collaboration with Astana Hub — from WOW Service and CustDev to Digital Bridge VC and GCA.
Teachers of the future
Auyl Innovation Teacher · 2024–2025
A STEM/STEAM program for teachers at rural Kazakhstani schools — a response to the education-quality gap between rural and urban areas.
STEM Alliance · 2023–2025
A unified platform for Kazakhstan's STEM initiatives — from Solve for Tomorrow to engineering competitions and the IFGIC contest.
Teacher of the Year · 2021
Work with finalists of the «Teacher of the Year» competition (August 2021, together with the Foundation for Socially Significant Initiatives) — design thinking for leading educators.
Design Thinking for Teachers · 2023
A design-thinking program for teachers in partnership with Prometheus (August 2023) — the methodology as a working tool, not a one-off workshop.
ITeachMe — «Think Different» · 2020–2021
A three-stage program for teachers: a design-thinking module (October 2020), the «Think Different» course (December 2020), and the launch of a board of trustees (June 2021).
Creators of the future
Almaty Creators Co-Creation Session · 2021
A meetup of Almaty's creative community — introductions, collaborations, and joint idea-generation for the industry's development.
Creative Pavlodar · 2021–2022
Kazakhstan's first regional Map of Creative Industries and the design-thinking-based «Creaton» accelerator.
Cultural Third Places (France) · 2025
A study visit exploring the French model of «third places» — cultural spaces as infrastructure for the creative economy.
Astana Creative Hub · 2023
A concept for the capital's creative hub — a shared space for developing the creative industries and the local creative community.
«Investing in Creative Industries» meetups · 2024
Two meetups — in Almaty and Astana — bringing creative entrepreneurs together with investors around financing the creative industries.
Central Asian Creators meetups · 2025
A regional meetup series that expands the creators-community format beyond Kazakhstan to all of Central Asia.
Creative Industries for Public Administration (UNDP) · 2024
A program for civil servants on the role of the creative industries in the economy — delivered with UNDP at the Academy of Public Administration.
British Council — creative-economy series · 2023–2025
Three years of collaboration with the British Council: sessions and lectures on developing the creative economy — from Astana to Ashgabat.
Ololo Creative Week + Creative Bus Tours · 2023
A festival and bus tour of Kyrgyzstan's creative spaces — an exchange of experience on developing the region's creative economy.
Film industry: Eurasian Film Market · children's cinema · 2024–2026
A series of sessions on film-industry development — the Eurasian Film Market and a separate line on children's cinema, 2024–2026.
BAZAART — a creative-entrepreneurship accelerator · 2025–2026
A five-module program for developing creative entrepreneurship among Central Asian artisans — from the first business prototype in Dushanbe to a joint festival in Almaty.
Impact entrepreneurs of the future
Turkestan Smart City · 2019
Turkestan Smart City: human-centered diagnostics and a digitalization roadmap for the region.
GreenTech Hub · 2023–2024
A two-year foresight study across seven GreenTech directions — from renewable energy to clean transport — with a map of niches, barriers, and a roadmap.
AgriTech Hub · 2023–2024
A foresight study across six agribusiness directions — from breeding and genetics to agricultural digitalization.
Green Economy and Low-Carbon Development · 2021
Training 700 Central Asian civil servants in green economy and low-carbon development, jointly with the UN and the Public Administration Academy of the RK.
SBS — Self Business Strategy · 2020
Co-authorship of the Self Business Strategy accelerator for small and medium businesses — a joint program for entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan and Russia.
PAA — New-Generation Leader · 2020–2025
5 years moderating the flagship retraining program for political civil servants, delivered jointly with Nazarbayev University.
ICT Export Support · 2023
A series of strategic sessions on effectively organizing export support for ICT companies — with business and government agencies — organized by QazInnovations together with MDDIAI.
TOMIRIS — mentoring a women's accelerator · 2022–2023
About two years of mentoring at the TOMIRIS women's leadership accelerator — from project development to defense before experts.
Strategic sessions for ministries · 2020–2021
Three strategic sessions for ministries: technical and vocational education, labor and social protection, and internal state audit.
Antikor — project office · 2019
Organizing a project office for the anti-corruption department — structuring the unit's tasks and process work.
MamaPro — a long-term partnership · 2019–2023
Five years of partnership with MamaPro: six-plus design-thinking and service-design programs for mothers transitioning from maternity leave into entrepreneurship.
Solnechny Mir · 2019
A session with the partner public foundation Solnechny Mir, which works in the field of early rehabilitation and inclusion.
Social projects: Qamazhai · Papa Pro · Zhardem · BestForKids · HeyBaby · 2019–2025
A series of targeted methodological engagements with Kazakhstan's social projects — from family support to children's initiatives — over six years.
International talks: HPAIR (Harvard) · ISACA Hong Kong · 2019
TransforNATION's first international appearances in 2019: the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) and the ISACA conference in Hong Kong.
International platforms: Qurultai Malaysia · Global Tech Wave · Invest HK · 2024–2025
Three international appearances in 2024–2025: Qurultai in Malaysia, Global Tech Wave, and Invest Hong Kong.
Change agents
BI Group — Corporate Learning Ecosystem · 2019–2025
Six years of partnership with BI Group: 20+ projects — from the BI University corporate university to change management programs.
MUNIS — Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan · 2025–2026
A strategic accelerator for the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and 35 research institutes under the World Bank's MUNIS project ($50 million) to modernize the national innovation system.
Kazatomprom — Corporate Facilitators · 2020–2022
Internal facilitator training program for national company Kazatomprom: two training cohorts plus critical thinking and design thinking modules.
Corporate Transformations and Strategy Sessions · 2019–2025
A portfolio of strategic sessions and transformation projects for large companies and national holdings — from Samruk-Kazyna to Coca-Cola, over six years.
Executive Education: GBS · Manhattan BS · Narxoz · AlmaU · KAZGUU · 2019–2022
Design thinking modules in MBA and executive programs at five business schools: Geneva Business School, Manhattan Business School, Narxoz, AlmaU, KAZGUU.
El Umiti — Elbasy Academy · 2020–2021
A 9-month program training sectoral change managers at a state think tank — 11 sectors, problem-focused sessions, roundtables.
Concept of Public Administration · 2020
A crowdsourcing platform collecting proposals for a new concept of public administration in Kazakhstan — from personnel policy to digitalization of public services — with the participation of government agencies, experts, and UNDP.
Reform of the Quasi-State Sector · 2020
A platform collecting proposals for reforming Kazakhstan's quasi-state sector (6,534 entities) — research and discussions with the participation of government agencies, experts, and UNDP.
Concept of Local Self-Government · 2020
A platform collecting proposals for developing local government and self-government in Kazakhstan — research and discussions with the participation of government agencies, experts, the World Bank, and UNDP.
Presidential Administration × UNDP · 2020
Strategic sessions for the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Government for Citizens · 2020
A change management program for the State Corporation 'Government for Citizens': four employee groups and an open TownHall.
Government programs: Bolashak · Rukhani Zhangyru · Khabar 24 · DAMU · AIFC · 2019–2024
A series of targeted engagements with government programs and development institutions — from the 'Bolashak' network to AIFC — over five years.