Our guest is Shavkat Karimov, Head of the IT Community of Uzbekistan. Long time ago Shavkat started his path as a writer and filmmaker. He tried to make his career in Hollywood and even got some success — but it was not enough to move on. So he switched to IT long before it became mainstream. He started as an SEO specialist and made a great career in this field. For example Shavkat was Head of SEO and Principal manager in Microsoft at its headquarters in Redmond. For 25 years Shavkat lived outside of Uzbekistan — in the USA and Canada — and finally came back to his homeland. Now he is a speaker, investor, mentor and an inspirational figure for young generation of Uzbek IT community