Fu**up Talks will take place in Tashkent on October 24: entrepreneurs will discuss their business failures

Fu**up Talks will take place on October 24 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at C-Space Yunusabad (Tashkent, 21A Ahmad Donish St.). At the event, entrepreneurs will openly discuss their business failures: projects that were shut down, money and clients lost, and mistakes in hiring and partnering. They’ll analyze what went wrong, what warning signs they missed, and what lessons they learned.

Three speakers will take the stage. Madiyar Bakbergenov, CEO and co-founder of PanDev, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list; PanDev.io builds a system for managing IT teams. Before starting his own business, he worked in sales at the Choco holding company, then consulted with startups on building sales departments and communicating with investors. Alisher Tojiev, CEO and founder of DOMO; DOMO is building a HomeTech and FinTech platform in Uzbekistan used by more than 2.4 million people.

The third speaker, Umid Gafurov, is the CEO and founder of taps.so and troll.uz. He has been running Troll.uz since 2013 and has built an ecosystem around it: the Tirikchilik brand to support creators, an advertising agency, and a brick-and-mortar store in Tashkent. In 2026, he was awarded the title of “Honored Mentor of the Youth of Uzbekistan.”

Format: three presentations, a Q&A session after each, and networking with founders, investors, and members of the startup ecosystem. The event is for founders, managers, investors, and anyone who is building or planning to build their own business. Registration is open; all fields on the form are required, and applications with incomplete responses will be rejected.