Name: II buildingSMART Kazakhstan Awards 2026
Start: 2026-10-22T09:00:00+05:00
End: 2026-10-22
Location: Renion City Hotel

01About the event

One day to understand how to work with the national BIM mandate (TIMSO) on open standards.

On 1 August 2026 Kazakhstan began a phased transition to mandatory information modelling. The conference brings clients, designers, state expert review, software vendors and universities together to look at what is changing in practice and how the open standards IFC, IDS, BCF and bSDD help make the transition without lock-in to a single software vendor.

For clients and public bodies

How to specify model requirements, accept the model and own the asset data across its whole life cycle.

For designers and contractors

Lessons from the first projects under the new requirements, model checking, exchanging issues between project parties.

For universities and students

Student SMART Cup, international certification and a path into the profession through open standards.

02Speakers

Who is speaking

More speakers are being confirmed. The full programme will be published on this page.

Bakhytzhan Zhunisbekov

Chairman of the Committee for Construction, Housing and Utilities

Ministry of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Salamat Serikhaliyev

GR Director

buildingSMART Kazakhstan · Gosexpertiza RSE

Momchil Marinov

Vice President, Project Office

One Nemetschek Cloud

Zhasulan Abishev

Co-founder, COO

AIDAN BIM

Sergey Gorshkov

Founder

DataVera

Andrey Yashanov

Technical Director

Genpro

Imanali Dyussen

BIM Development Manager

ENGINEERING CENTER LTD

Alexandr Shakhnovich

Chair

buildingSMART Kazakhstan · KazNIISA JSC

Zarina Kabzhan

Vice-chair

buildingSMART Kazakhstan · KazNIISA JSC

03ProgrammeBeing updated

Preliminary programme for 22 October

Confirmed topics. The programme is being completed; the timetable will be published later.

Digitalisation of the construction industry in KazakhstanTalk by the Committee for Construction, Housing and Utilities, Ministry of Industry and Construction

Nemetschek and Allplan: engineering at the speed of AIGeneral partner talk

buildingSMART Kazakhstan’s course in the storm of AI adoptionChapter chair’s talk

360-degree engineering data managementPartner talk

Using BIM models on the construction sitePartner talk

Masterclass: expert review of a building information modelTips and common mistakes of design firms

A designer’s practice: AI for BIM and buildingSMART standardsIFC, BCF, IDS

Awards 2026 ceremony Student SMART Cup →Best openBIM Project →

Buy a ticket →Book for a company →25,000 ₸ until 16 October inclusive, 35,000 ₸ from 17 October.

04Awards 2026

Two awards

15 October

Student SMART Cup

Finding and recognising talent among those just starting out in the profession. An openBIM competition for student teams, judged by practitioners. Winners receive their prizes at the conference on 22 October.

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22 October

Best openBIM Project

An award for delivered projects that put open standards into practice: model exchange in IFC, requirements in IDS, coordination via BCF.

Details… →

05How it went

1st conference and Awards, 2025

The first buildingSMART Kazakhstan conference brought together industry, universities, public institutions and technology companies in Almaty. Its results gave grounds to expand the 2026 programme and make it more practical, international and open.