Uzbekistan Pitches IT Outsourcing Hub at London Tech Week

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — A delegation from IT Park Uzbekistan participated in London Tech Week, staging a dedicated "Digital Uzbekistan" session that drew roughly 80 delegates including representatives from the Bank of England, the EBRD, Mastercard, and 500 Global, the organization announced June 12.

The session served as a live showcase for Uzbekistan's software export capabilities, with leading domestic companies — Datox, KPI, Radiant Energy, Fido Studio, Geomotive, Moneff, and Deepen — presenting their products and export offerings to an audience of international financial and technology institutions. Several participants entered into active negotiations on venture capital investment and export contracts following the presentations.

The visit's most strategically significant outcome was a detailed discussion between IT Park Uzbekistan and Germany's Schwarz Group — the retail and technology conglomerate behind the STACKIT cloud platform — on using STACKIT's cloud infrastructure as a gateway for Uzbek IT companies to enter the European Union market with reduced regulatory friction. The arrangement would leverage IT Park's existing German office as the operational bridge. Schwarz Group confirmed readiness to promote promising Uzbek technology solutions through its European partner networks.

A "Compatriots Meetup" brought together Uzbek professionals working at London offices of Citibank, Bloomberg, Sega, and other major corporations, focusing on engaging the diaspora in the development of the country's digital ecosystem. The session produced a tangible result: the founders of tech startups StudyIn and Papyrio announced decisions to establish their back-office operations in Uzbekistan — a signal of growing investor confidence in the country's IT infrastructure and talent base.

The London visit forms part of a broader IT Park strategy to position Uzbekistan as the primary technology outsourcing hub for Central Asia, targeting Western European and UK clients who are increasingly looking beyond traditional outsourcing destinations for software development capacity.