Event14 September 2026

AISteppeTechHack Hackathon: The Results

At the CyberSteppe conference, teams built AI projects in a single day and presented them to the jury. The winners were Sandwich, ProGen and Hong Kong.

1,000,000 ₸prize fund1 dayper projectMini-MBAgrant from BGA
Participants of the AISteppeTechHack hackathon

We ran the AISteppeTechHack hackathon as part of the CyberSteppe conference organised by MSSP.Global. In a single day the participants built AI projects and presented them to the jury. The hackathon took place at the Alem.AI venue together with Business Growth Academy; the total prize fund was 1,000,000 tenge.

The winners

  • 1st place — Sandwich
  • 2nd place — ProGen
  • 3rd place — Hong Kong
  • Mini-MBA study grant from Business Growth Academy — Bahandi Team

The hackathon was sponsored by Medet Turin, founder of 2600 Qazaqstan and OSCE national expert on cybercrime in Kazakhstan.

The jury

  • Almira Kazkenova — tracker, Head of MedVentures
  • Bauyrzhan Mukanov — managing director for cloud services at TTC
  • Marzhan Zhumabekova — CEO of BGA
  • Zhanar Sabazova — CEO of Steppe Tech Lab

Our thanks to MSSP.Global, Alem.AI, Palo Alto Networks and Business Growth Academy, and to the Astana city administration, Astana Innovations and the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development for their support.

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