The company itself
What it builds, how it earns and what the culture feels like when nobody is presenting a slide.
Demo Days
See the company before you apply to it
A series of off site masterclasses where volunteers of IT Community of Uzbekistan walk into leading IT companies and study the industry from the inside: the teams, the processes, the workplaces and the way people actually get hired.
IT Community of Uzbekistan
Visitor
DEMO DAY
Host company
TBC Bank
Holder
Community volunteer
Access
Full office
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Demo Days held since February 2025
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companies and tech hubs opened their doors
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cities: Tashkent, Nukus, Namangan
What it is
A day inside a real IT company
No stage, no conference hall. Volunteers come to the office, meet the people who build the product and leave with an honest picture of the work.
Every visit follows the same promise: the company shows what it really does, and answers everything it is asked.
How the work is organised
Team structure, roles, processes and the tools that hold a product together.
Real workplaces
The floors, the labs, the equipment and the technologies people use every day.
The way in
Practical advice on entering the profession, internships and growth inside the company.
The format
How a Demo Day runs
Each host shapes the day around its own work, and the frame stays the same from the first handshake to the last coffee.
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Doors open
The group arrives, meets the team over coffee and settles into the common area before anything formal starts.
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The company speaks
A talk about the business, the products behind it and the structure that keeps them running.
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Deep dive
A masterclass from an engineer, a security specialist or a founder on how the work is actually done.
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Walk the floors
Workspaces, meeting rooms, labs and rest areas, in small groups so every question gets an answer.
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Questions without a script
An open question and answer session about hiring, internships, first salaries and the mistakes worth skipping.
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Stay a little longer
A quiz, a group photo and a coffee break that turns into contacts and, more than once, into a first interview.
The log
Doors we have already walked through
Every Demo Day held so far, with what happened inside.
The first Demo Day of the season took volunteers inside TBC Bank and Payme. Sardor Yuldashev opened the technical part with insights into backend development, and Valeriya Mikirtumova spoke about the hiring potential of the company, career paths and real cases from the team.
The programme closed with a question and answer session and a tour of the office. The visit continued a partnership that started a year earlier with IT Eco Fest and the Hacknovation hackathon.
Speakers
Sardor Yuldashev, Valeriya Mikirtumova
The day began with a masterclass by Ilkhomjon Aliev on what it takes to build a startup that survives its first year. After the talk the group went through the space and saw how laser and 3D technologies are used in live projects.
Speaker
Ilkhomjon Aliev
Volunteers spent the day with the technologies that are shaping the digital map of Uzbekistan, from network infrastructure to cloud services and devices. The practical part let everyone try the hardware instead of watching a demo.
Several participants admitted afterwards that they would gladly come back to the same office, this time as employees.
Volunteers looked into the working processes of a cybercrime fighting company: how it is structured, what a day in the operations centre looks like and what a candidate needs to be hired there.
After the presentations came a quiz with prizes and a coffee break that turned into one of the strongest networking sessions of the season.
Two Demo Days in a row at one of the key payment systems of the country. The masterclasses covered how banks and fintech products work in practice, what happens in the seconds after a card is tapped, and how not to become a victim of fraud at an ATM.
Volunteers were shown an ATM from the inside, and the company presented Intern Academy by UzCard together with an open invitation to apply for internships.
The first Demo Day held outside Tashkent. Participants went behind the scenes of IT Park Karakalpakstan and heard startup managers share what launching a product in the region really takes.
The day was organised together with local volunteers and became the opening move for the regional part of the project.
Speakers and organisers
Rasul Kosnazarov, Kundiz Zhalgasbaeva, Shakhriyar Makhmadiyarov
The regional series continued in the Namangan branch of IT Park. Participants got inside the building and learned how IT Community of Uzbekistan works, what support IT Park gives to startups and what it takes to become a resident.
Invited officials answered every question in an open session.
Organisers
Javokhir Mirzakhalov, Dilshodbek Fazliddinov, Sardorbek Khabibullaev
Around 45 participants spent a full day at Yandex Uzbekistan. It started on the sixth floor in an informal setting, with games, coffee and the first conversations with the team.
Three talks followed: how Yandex works in Uzbekistan, how to build a CV that gets read, and the personal story of one employee about studying, setbacks and professional growth. The day ended with an office tour in four groups and a common photo.
Voices
What volunteers took home
Demo Day at Huawei was a real discovery for me. We are used to thinking of it as a phone maker, and in fact the company builds far more than that.
The practical part with the two phones and the cloud package was the most exciting one. It was great to touch everything and try it ourselves.
Today I visited Demo Day at UzCard and left with a strong impression. I liked how the event was organised and how clear and useful the presentations were.
Geography
The project moved out of the capital
Demo Days started in Tashkent, and the regional series is now running so volunteers can meet the industry without leaving their own city.
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Tashkent
Banks, fintech, cybersecurity, big tech and hardware studios.
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Nukus
IT Park Karakalpakstan and the first visit held outside the capital.
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Namangan
IT Park Namangan, residency rules and the local startup support system.
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Your city
New regions join the schedule as local volunteer teams take shape.
For companies
Open your office for a day
A Demo Day costs a few hours of your team and puts your company in front of the people who will apply to it next year.
Meet candidates before the CV stage
A motivated audience of students, juniors and career changers who came to your office on purpose.
Show the culture a vacancy page cannot
Your floors, your team and your products explain the employer brand better than any description.
Build the internship pipeline
Present your programmes directly, the way UzCard did with Intern Academy, and collect applications on the spot.
Project owner
Islomjon Sheraliyev
Runs Demo Days end to end, from the first call with a company to the report after the visit. Write to him about partnership, dates and format.
For volunteers
Demo Day is a closed door with a key
Places are reserved for volunteers of IT Community of Uzbekistan. The path in is short and it is the same for everyone.
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Become a volunteer
Fill in the community form and take part in the projects that are running in your city.
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Watch the announcements
Every visit is announced in our Telegram channel with the host company and the number of seats.
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Register early
Offices have limits, so the list usually closes within a day of the announcement.
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Come with questions
The value of the day is in what you ask. Bring the questions no job description ever answers.