London hosted the Third International O‘zbekistonlik Forum on October 18. At the Old Royal Naval College, Uzbekistan's club presented a brand new magazine, new projects of the club and its master residents, and premiered Episode 4 of O‘zbekistonlik.
More than 200 members of Uzbekistan's diaspora from all over the world, delegates from Uzbekistan, local dignitaries, business people and diplomats of the United Kingdom attended the event.
Following the opening speech by Bakhtiyor Khodjaev from Uzbek embassy in London, a distinguished guest of the event, Odile Renaud-Basso, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) made her remarks.
O‘zbekistonlik Forum aims to nurture global networking about Uzbekistani spread across the planet and to promote Uzbekistan as a land of intellectual, talented and hard-working people. Previously these forums have taken place in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France.
The key part of the forum was the premiere of O‘zbekistonlik Episode 4. The series that has conquered the hearts of hundreds of thousands in Uzbekistan and beyond continues telling the stories of Uzbekistanis who achieved success in the overseas. This time, the film featured Kamola Makhmudova, EBRD Director and Temur Yunusov, a biologist at Cambridge University. It goes on air on Youtube and MY5 TV channel on October 19 at 18:00.
The TOP 20 Most Progressive Uzbekistanis, according to the editorial version, were announced in the new issue of the Uzbekistan's club magazine. This list is regularly compiled to identify the most worthy representatives of the nation and draw public attention to their activities. Another trend of the magazine is the popularization of ESG. For this, the editors compiled the top seven socially responsible businesses and announced the best projects from this list in the first issue of the magazine.
At the forum in London, Uzbekistan's club team presented the full functionality of the online platform uzbekistans.club and the Android and iOS mobile applications of the same name. Through this platform, it will be possible to join the initiatives of the club, and get acquainted with the news of our diaspora and the content being created. For active Uzbekistanis living abroad, there is an opportunity to become a resident of Uzbekistan's club by submitting a free application. The "bridge" created by the club between the homeland and diasporas is bearing its results. Uzbekistan's club master resident, investor and financier Alisher Jumanov is the new GulfCA Corp. shared the company's plans. He established this company with fellow citizens of Uzbekistan to attract investments worth more than 10 billion US dollars from the GCC countries. Another resident of the club, Mirshod Shokirov, the owner of several successful businesses, spoke about the Uzbex.com platform. He is developing this platform to help entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan take their business to the world level and spread the "Made in Uzbekistan" brand to the world.
Forum guests also learned about the details of new creative projects of Uzbekistan's club. The new TV series O'zbekistonlik.Students. It shows the world's best universities and talks about the process of entering such educational institutions through the example of talented students from Uzbekistan. In November, December and January, 3 more episodes of this series filmed in Great Britain will be shown to the audience. The next season will be dedicated to higher education institutions in the USA.
Uzbekistanʼs club is an international nonprofit founded by the professionals of the creative industries in Uzbekistan. All the projects of the team has become possible due to the generous support of its sponsors and partners.
At the end of the event in London, the team of Uzbekistan's club, according to tradition, announced where and when the next forum and the premiere of the new episode of "O'zbekistonlik" will be held. The next destination for the team will be the USA. The events will take place in the spring of 2024.
