For the first time in Central Asia: Web Summit Spotlight

• Uzbekistan is set to host its first Web Summit Spotlight on September 27, 2025, in Tashkent;
• The meetup marks the region’s debut collaboration with Web Summit, the world’s most influential technology event, whose flagship event, in Lisbon, gathers over 70,000 attendees each year.
• Web Summit Spotlight: Uzbekistan aims to showcase the country’s growing role as an emerging global innovator.

Uzbekistan is set to showcase its growth as an emerging global innovation hub by hosting its first Web Summit Spotlight on September 27 in Tashkent. The meetup will join leading international experts, venture capital investors, startup founders, and IT industry leaders.

Web Summit runs the world’s largest technology events, connecting people and ideas that change the world. What started as a 150-person tech conference in Dublin in 2009 has grown into global gatherings, including its flagship Web Summit in Lisbon every November, and events like Web Summit Rio, Web Summit Qatar, and Web Summit Vancouver. It is a meeting point where startups are launched, multimillion-dollar agreements are concluded, and the technology agenda for years ahead is defined.

The arrival of Web Summit Spotlight in Uzbekistan reflects the country’s steady progress toward becoming a global center for innovation and technology. The Web Summit Spotlight program will focus on Uzbekistan’s potential as an innovation hub, opportunities for international corporations in emerging markets, prospects for venture investment, and global trends in IT.

Forum program

Date: 27 September 2025 Venue: Ministry of Digital Technologies

• 09:00 – 09:30: Registration and welcome
• 09:30 – 09:40: Cultural program
• 09:40 – 09:50: Welcome address by Minister of Digital Technologies Sh. Shermatov

Unlocking the Innovation Frontier

• 09:50 – 10:00: Keynote address “Uzbekistan: Unlocking its Potential as an Innovation Hub”
• 10:00 – 10:15: Keynote address – International Report
• 10:00 – 10:40: Panel discussion – “Global Venture Investment Trends and Their Impact on Emerging Markets”
• 10:00 – 10:50: Keynote address – “What’s Next for the Creator Economy”
• 10:50 – 11:30: Panel discussion – “Why Invest in Central Asian Startups?”
• 11:30 – 11:40: Keynote address – “Breaking Borders, Building Futures: The Uzbek Founder’s Playbook”
• 11:40 – 11:50: Keynote address – “All in on AI”
• 11:50 – 12:00: Closing remarks

• 12:00 – 13:00: Networking lunch 
• 13:00 – 15:00: Investors’ Room — rapid networking sessions between startups and venture capital investors (each meeting lasting 7–10 minutes, focusing on maximizing the number of direct connections).

The day should become a catalyst for the advancement of the nation’s technology ecosystem. It is an opportunity to showcase Uzbekistan’s ambitions and potential to the world, attract strategic partnerships and investment, and inspire the new generation of entrepreneurs to develop projects of global impact.

About Web Summit

Web Summit runs the world’s largest technology events, connecting people and ideas that change the world. Web Summit events – Web Summit in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in South America, Web Summit Vancouver in North America, RISE in Asia, and Web Summit Qatar in the Middle East – have gathered half a million people since Web Summit’s beginnings as a 150-person conference in Dublin in 2009.

To take part in: https://sites.google.com/websummit.com/spotlight-uzbekistan-hub/home?authuser=0