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I have over 20 years of experience in the IT market, in technical and managerial positions of many IT projects and companies. Currently, in the position of Global Chief Executive Officer of the IT Services Competence Platform, I’m participating in the most exciting project in my professional life.

Nestled between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Kazakhstan holds many interesting opportunities for airlines, none more so than its flag carrier Air Astana. As CEO Peter Foster explains, the airline is in rude health and has bold plans for the future, including branching out into low-cost carrier operations, reinforcing the business strategy, and standing up in the battle against climate change.

We started our journey in 2014 with the obsession of making data access as simple as searching for a restaurant on Google. We are radically changing how people can interact with data on a daily basis. In order to do that we have to overcome different technical challenges from Data Science and user experience points of view.

We’ve created the #knowyouroptions series to feature NewSpace entrepreneurs and inspire more people to join the space race. This time our guest is Awais Ahmed from Pixxel, the former student whose team is currently preparing for the launch of the first in-house built EO satellite. The whole constellation is to come.

Dangerous climate change is with us now and we only have a short time window to get the planet back on a sustainable basis.

Sustainability is a business opportunity for us. We won’t be the only bank doing this – but we do want to be a front runner.

Along with my co-founder, Alex Cohen, we spent time in the real money gaming industry and then the social gaming industry and thus, after gaining significant experience in both, we decided there was a gap in the market for a content creator who could bring the best of social into real money gaming.

Chip Register, Argano’s Group CEO, is making his vision of a tech strategy and integration firm built for the 21st century into a reality.

So, in 2016 I decided to hold the first data science conference in Kyiv. Suddenly, it turned out to be the right decision: we’ve got a lot of attendees and great feedback. There were only a few networking events in this field in Ukraine, and people wanted to know more.

In this interview, Alex Melen, Co-founder and CEO of SmartSites, discusses the importance of automation and data-driven decisions.