Global Tech Weekend (GTW), the region’s largest decentralized tech movement, successfully hosted its Business Week in San Francisco from March 23–27. The five-day program brought together international business leaders, investors, startup founders, and corporate managers, offering them direct access to Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem.
The Business Week was not a traditional event centered around a single stage. It was a movement. The program unfolded across high-level networking sessions, strategic meetings, and direct VC dialogues, from SHACK15 to the Georgian Innovation Hub, from the Silkroad Innovation Hub to Frontier Tower. Different spaces, different formats, but a single, unified dynamic.
The week’s main event, “Where Silicon Valley Meets Central Eurasia,” brought together more than 200 investors, founders, and business ecosystem leaders under one roof. Participants explored venture capital and investment opportunities firsthand, visited Silicon Valley’s leading hubs, and built connections that translated into concrete agreements. The business immersion program was attended by GTW’s own co-founders Guri Koiava, Jaba Kikvidze, and Nodo Ivanidze, alongside CMO Irakli Arjevanidze.
This is precisely what sets GTW apart from traditional conferences: founders, investors, and public sector representatives from the Caucasus and Central Asia came to San Francisco not merely as attendees of a single event, but as members of a unified global network, one that connects ecosystems from San Francisco to the Caucasus and Central Asia.
“This week was not an exposure for us. It was integration into the global ecosystem,” said Jaba Kikvidze, Co-Founder of Global Tech Weekend.
Decentralized Format: Beyond the Conference Model
GTW’s approach differs fundamentally from the standard conference format. Where a traditional conference concentrates everything around one stage and one day, GTW builds a system in which connections form naturally, across multiple venues, over multiple days. It is precisely this throughput that transforms ideas into real projects.
Following the successful San Francisco Business Week, Global Tech Weekend will continue its regional trilogy across the Caucasus and Central Asia: Tashkent (May 15–17), Tbilisi (June 19–21), and Baku (October).
