AI REWIND 2022 - Artificial Intelligence Festival

On February 18 of this year, the "AI REWIND 2022" - Festival of Artificial Intelligence was organized at "New Uzbekistan" University.

The festival was organized together with the "Machine Learning" community consisting of students and young people, and works were organized in 4 directions.
Direction 1 – organization of seminar-training sessions.
Within the framework of the direction, potential specialists of the field who achieved great achievements using artificial intelligence were attracted, and seminar-training sessions were organized for young people. Including:
- General director of "Alif Tech" company (annual turnover of 96 million dollars) N. Lafizov;
- S., analyst of the investment company "IMAN invest" (2 million dollars). Marufkhojaev;
- One of the founders of "Billz" company (0.5 million dollars) V. Zakharyan;
- Founder of the "Uzbek Voice" project (a platform for providing free manuals on artificial intelligence) B. Khasanov and others (a detailed list is attached);
These seminar-training sessions covered 1,342 young people, 1,117 of them visited the University and 225 participated through online broadcasting.

The 2nd direction is to unite young people interested in artificial intelligence into one community, implement collective projects and create favorable conditions for further development of their knowledge.
For information: professions based on artificial intelligence are based on a complete team, in which there is no possibility for the staff to act alone.
To date, 600 young people have joined the "Machine Learning" community, and by the end of the event, more than 400 more young people have joined them, and the number of members has increased to over 1,000 (this number is planned to reach 1,500).

The 3rd direction is to attract influential companies that widely use artificial intelligence and create a platform for them to communicate with young people.
Exhibition of 10 companies in this direction, such as "Alif Tech", "Uzum Market", "Uzum Fintech", "Billz", "Beeline", "Ucell", "Uzinfocom", "Bellissimo Pizza", "IMAN invest" at the University were organized and various competitions for young people were held by them.
As part of this, companies had the opportunity to attract potential young people to work and implement innovative projects with their participation.

Direction 4 is aimed at school students, especially graduates, to help them choose a future profession.
Announcements about the festival were widely publicized among general education schools in cooperation with the Ministry of Preschool and School Education, and 402 schoolchildren attended the event. The festival was organized on the basis of sponsorship, in which sponsorship funds were provided by "Alif Tech" and "Bellissimo Pizza" companies.