The second summer start-up nFactorial Incubator on the development of mobile applications took place in Almaty with the support of Kcell. 120 participants during 10 weeks shall create and launch 50 Kazakhstani mobile applications in AppStore and Google Play in order to repeat the success of Instagram, MSQRD and Angry Birds.
nFactorial Incubator was held for the second time this year. The owners of the incubator are interested Kazakhstani programmers Arman Suleimenov, Almas Tuyakbayev and Bakhytzhan Baizhikenov. The organizers say that the talent is distributed all over the world equally, but the possibilities are not equal everywhere. Their aim is to level up the chances of Kazakhstani and Western youth in IT-education and acquiring the experience in creation of the breakthrough mobile applications, as well as to determine Kazakhstan as a competitive player on the IT map of the world.
«This summer shall be hot for the participants, as they have to create products for foreign B2C and local B2B audience. Organizers shared the information with us that they had received 20 applications from Kazakhstan business with requests to develop target applications, which proves that the country needs to develop its own intellectual capital, and the companies are ready to invest into our developers. One of such companies is Kcell, as we are interested in motivating our talented youth to create innovation products here in our country, and to further promote the country brand to the world. We are happy to become a partner of nfactorial Incubator and make our own input into the development of IT-potential of young Kazakhstani developers», – Natalya Eskova, Head of the Corporate Communications Department of Kcell JSC, noted.
Participants of the Incubator who are pupils, students and adults who are ready to change their careers shall study during the whole project. Graduates of such world leading Universities, like Princeton, CMU, LSE, finalists of the World Championships on Programming and Computer Science, representatives of Instagram, Facebook, Google, and other Companies from Silicon Valley as well as Kazakhstani entrepreneurs from the Forbes list have been invited to share their knowledge with our participants. At that the first month shall be fully dedicated to theoretical and practical studies, e.g. participants shall clone the existing popular applications in order to apply their peculiarities in their own developments.
The teams, which consist of developers, designers and marketing specialists, shall have ambitious goals. Not only to create the product, but to promote it in AppStore and GooglePlay, so that 10 thousand people would like to install it on their smart phones and the business representatives would like to purchase it.
The final stage of the Incubator shall be the Demo Day. This day the teams shall launch their created projects in AppStore and GooglePlay, present them to users, investors, top management of Kazakhstani companies, mass media and recruiters.
It is worth noting that in 2015 within this summer program the participants launched 37 mobile applications in AppStore . One of them is Kelin, which is now very popular among Kazakhstani women and is one of the most discussed local applications in the social networks. By the way, the participant of the last Incubator in 2015, Anuar Serikov, is now in the Silicon Valley with the internship in Google.
«There are many talented young people in Kazakhstan and it is clear that our market faces the lack of critical quantity of employees and critical number of attempts. In order to express our country in the competitive world of the Western start-ups it is enough to present just one success story. Let’s write it together!» – Arman Suleimenov, CEO of «ZerotoOneLabs.com» Company and organizer of the Incubator, urges the audience.
For more information about the Incubator please visit: www.n17r.com