The festival kicks off this Friday, June 24, at 13:00.

Venue: KIMEP University, entrance gates in front of the bus stop in Abai Street

Dress code: Business casual (since it is the festival of professional networking)

Important: Please do not wear high-heels if possible, as the KIMEP campus area is covered with grass and the heels may damage the lawn. Thank you!

Cleanliness and orderliness: Every participant of the festival should keep it clean and orderly, so please take care.

Food: There will be a food court at the festival where you can buy various snacks or drinks.

Extras: Please take care of your health and bring a throw with you as music sessions will take place outdoors and the weather might be cool.

This year’s festival is supported by Chevron, MOST business incubator, Batyrkhan Shukenov Foundation, WeProject, Baribar, Econetwork, 48 Hours Film Project, Obscura company, as well as the American Space & MakerSpace Almaty.

Register for the festival in advance.

But even if you didn’t have time to register, you are welcome anyway! You can register onsite at check-in counters available outdoors.

Keep in mind that offline registration closes on June 26 at 12:00, and the festival will be unavailable to all unregistered participants after 14:00.

Important: Take a name tag and write your name on it (be sure not to lose it for three days of the festival).

You can find a QR link for the detailed programme on the reverse side of the name tag. Now you have the name tag and wrote your name on it? Great! It’s time to read the navigation signs now. 

There will be navigation maps with locations in the lobby. You can find them easily by names of the cities:

• Almaty
• Bishkek
• Dushanbe
• Ashgabat
• Tashkent
• Houston 

Depending on what you are concerned with, make sure to plan what session you want to attend or which speaker you want ask your question. You’d better review the programme in advance (see below).

It is important to remember that this year’s festival is aimed at strengthening the community so that all of our participants and guests can meet each other and make friends.
So once you have registered and explored the venue, feel free to enter some information on the networking wall. 

Networking wall is a board where you can leave your business cards and information about yourself. The board is divided into four parts:

1. Go Work (leave your business card if you want to find a job or traineeship)
2. Go Mentor (leave your business card if you are looking for a mentor)
3. Go Сooperate  (leave your business card if you offer opportunities/work)
4. Go Team  (if you have an idea! Looking for a team/people)

Choose what suits you best, and be sure to leave “your mark” as we call it. We also encourage you to be proactive, find and share business cards during the festival (what other opportunity will you have if not at this festival?).

The programme is available online. We remind you that you will also find a short outline of the programme on the back of the name tag.

The programme will consist of:

• Panel discussions, where you can listen to panel speakers, ask your questions, and possibly find a solution to your problem or get motivated to take on new challenges.

• Master classes, workshops, where you can boost your skills. For example, work with influencers (day 1), make films in a limited time period (day 2), learn the basics of blockchain (day 3).

• Games and field quests on relevant topics

• Ongoing activities from our partners throughout all festival days (time) in the campus, where you can have a lot of fun

• Music sessions, DJ sets, art performances, and NFT exhibition of modern art, and TechLab, as well as demo games from Kazakhstan-based developers.  All these sessions will be interesting for both adults and children, so take your younger siblings, nephews, nieces, and kids with you. 

Oscar Garcia is our special guest. He’s the founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of Aspira Consulting, a Silicon Valley company. At the festival, Oscar will tell about how start-ups can develop without investments. Together with Kazakhstani business angels, he will take part in the start-up expo, where start-up founders will be pitching their projects and get feedback from experts.

Write down insights from the speakers, ask your questions to the speakers between sessions, or post them all to your social media to make sure you don’t lose anything.

Make your unique photo zone at the festival! Make as many photos and videos as possible – be creative on the spot!

Post your stories, post your notes, tag @goviral.ca and be sure to tag #GoViralFestival2022 #SearchInventSolve #GoViralAlmaty

Be active in the contest and win: 

• 1st place – smart watch + merch 
• 2nd place - tripod + merch
• 3rd place – wireless charger + merch

Please rate us here. Who else but you can tell us how it all was?

We need your feedback and comments every day, after every session. It will help us improve our work, project and further events.