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In this webinar, we launch the seventh edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 7). The SCI is designed to track the development of technology and financial centres across the world in their support for and readiness for new technology applications.Investors, entrepreneurs, scientists, media, academics, governments, and regulators can attune their cities to attract innovation and growth in Science, Technology, Energy Systems, Machine Learning, Distributed Ledgers, or Fintech. Tuning a city for innovation is complex. Z/Yen began studying successful and unsuccessful business innovation clustering some 15 years ago, and published in 2018 the Smart Jurisdictions Index. Building on the results of that research we have created a novel factor assessment index based on three dimensions - innovation support, creative intensity, and delivery capability.The SCI is designed to track the readiness of business centres across the world to support new technology businesses. The SCI uses assessments from private and public sector individuals, along with over 120 instrumental factors, to rate the centres. This important project that will grow substantially as more people pay attention to the ways centres can help globally innovative businesses thrive in rapidly changing times.
Speaker: Bekzhan Mutanov works as the Director of the Astana Tech Hub and oversees the functional development of the fintech ecosystem and has experience in this field since 2016. At the AIFC, he began his career as a fintech coordinator at the Bureau of Continuing Professional Development. In 2019, he headed the Department of Financial Technologies at AIFC Administration, where he developed a strategy for the development of the Fintech Hub, which became the Tech Hub in 2021. Prior to joining the AIFC, he founded a company to attract technology and investment to Kazakhstan and Central Asia from South Korea. At the same time, he oversaw the investment and technological projects of the Korea Water Resources Corporation in Central Asia. Bekzhan has experience in strategic consulting, deal structuring and business development in IT and fintech. He is an experienced financial technology coordinator with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. Bekzhan is keen on physics and is a trainer of the National Team of Kazakhstan in physics and economy at international Olympiads. Moreover, Mr. Mutanov is skilled in financial technology, blockchain, and nuclear physics and a strong professional in administration with a Global Master degree of Public Administration (GMPA) from Seoul National University. As well, Bekzhan received his master's degree from the faculty of physics and technology from Kazakh National University after al-Farabi. Mr. Mutanov is the author of articles in Physics of Plasmas and the author of model potential equations - potential of interaction of elementary particles in plasma. At the same time Bekzhan passed advanced training courses at the Skolkovo School of Management.
