On October 3, 2025, during the Digital Bridge Forum in Astana, the Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI) at Nazarbayev University and SHAI.PRO, an enterprise AI platform, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence.
The agreement was signed by Dr. Huseyin Atakan Varol, Founding Director of ISSAI, and Alibek Polatov, Director of SHAI.PRO.
This partnership builds on the dialogue initiated during SHAI.PRO’s visit to ISSAI in August 2025, where the parties explored opportunities to integrate SHAI.PRO’s enterprise solutions with ISSAI’s cutting-edge research in multilingual and multimodal AI. The MoU outlines joint efforts in developing secure, localized, and high-impact AI technologies for Kazakhstan, with a focus on automation, data processing, and digital security.
Through this strategic cooperation, ISSAI and SHAI.PRO aim to accelerate Kazakhstan’s digital transformation and contribute to building sovereign, enterprise-grade AI solutions aligned with national priorities.