Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) is building a unique and successful entrepreneurship ecosystem in Uzbekistan. As a result, innoWIUT Entrepreneur's lab invited its recent graduate, a successful IT developer and the first hero of CNN’s new project #TheGenerationNext Durdona Bakhronova for an open discussion “Empowering Female Tech Entrepreneurs” on campus.

Her mission is to encourage more women and young people to join the IT world. Durdona works for a tech firm, Super Dispach, and has become a mentor for many young developers, particularly women.

WIUT's students and graduates have a strong track record in innovation and entrepreneurship that has recently become even more prominent. Mokhinur Botirova, a WIUT BSc degree student in Economics with Finance, won the national final of "100 ideas for Uzbekistan" competition with her startup project “E-Med”, while three WIUT startup teams were amongst the 40 winners of the 5th cycle of the "Startup Initiatives" competition, a joint project of the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations and the United Nations Development Program, "Promoting Youth Employment in Uzbekistan". In December, two students organised the first TEDx event in the country, TEDxWIUT, having been granted an official license from the TED organisation.

At the same time, WIUT is constantly creating various courses and platforms in supporting and developing promising new talents, such as the Virtual Reality course to help students develop their own VR projects for Android Smartphones and Arduino - an open-source hardware and software project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. A Masters degree has more recently been launched at WIUT particularly for creative entrepreneurs.