On 23 September, the EXPO International Exhibition Centre in Astana hosted HackAlem AI, the world's largest agentic-AI hackathon. The event set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the largest number of participants in an AI hackathon, and its partners included OpenAI and NVIDIA.
Among thousands of developers from Kazakhstan and other countries were our students from the Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence programmes:
- Danial Ospan
- Bekzhan Nartbay
- Sagir Sembeyev
- Adilzhan Nurtayev
The team worked on an AI solution for gamifying the employee lifecycle and learning: using game mechanics to make onboarding, development and staff training more engaging and effective.
In five hours of the hackathon they went from an idea to a working prototype — valuable experience with real-world tasks and cutting-edge AI tools.
