Round Table “AI in Engineering: Tool, Partner or Competitor?” at Almaty Technological University
📍 Almaty, Almaty Technological University · 📅 20 March 2026
On 20 March 2026, the Department of Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Information Technologies at Almaty Technological University (ATU) hosted the round table “Инженериядағы AI: құрал, серіктес әлде бәсекелес?” (“AI in Engineering: Tool, Partner or Competitor?”). Welcome remarks were given by Bakhodir Aliev, ATU Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation, and Feruza Malikova, Dean of the Faculty of Information Technologies. Speakers included researchers from Loughborough University (UK), IICT, Al-Farabi KazNU and Zeid Security.
🧭 Team participation
- Saltanat Adilzhanova, PhD, Head of the Department of Computer Engineering at ATU, moderated the round table.
- Gulshat Amirkhanova, PhD, Associate Professor, spoke about a digital twin of a food-industry enterprise (project BR24992975) and received a letter of thanks from the ATU Faculty of Information Technologies for her active participation.
- Bauyrzhan Amirkhanov (DocumentKZ, DigitalEgiz Lab) presented the “Kamilya” platform.
- Meruert Sakypbekova, PhD, was also among the speakers.
📚 Topics
- digitalisation of industry: digital twins, artificial intelligence, IIoT;
- fundamental science and cybersecurity;
- educational technology;
- productivity and the ethics of AI;
- intelligent agents and multimodal systems;
- fake-news detection.
Participants also toured the ATU research laboratories.
🏆 Outcomes
Participants agreed that AI is becoming a high-tech partner for engineers, and that future engineers need critical thinking, the ability to verify content, and adaptability.
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