Your week's schedule, what we ask of you, and how to travel and get paid. Start by opening your week.
AI Station runs the AgroBank Corporate Accelerator together with AgroBank. Twenty startups spend eight themed weeks learning what the bank and its clients need and building toward it, then four weeks running pilots inside the bank and with its SME clients.
Your masterclass, workshop and 1:1 sessions move the founders from one week's output to the next. If anything is unclear or your plans change, message me.
Each week runs Monday to Wednesday. Click your week below to see the full schedule.
Samarkand base · Agro In-Vitro, Jizzakh · School 21
OPOlga PotaptsevaIn personAKAndrey KryukovIn personEveryone stays at a hotel in Samarkand for three nights. A daily bus runs to Agro In-Vitro, AgroBank's agricultural biotech site in Jizzakh region. Your 1:1 slot times are shared on the day.
Tashkent · online masterclass + in-person mentor
AEAdrian ErlingerOnlineDVDmitry VatyutovIn personTashkent · one mentor, in person all week
MHMatina HatzipavlouIn personTashkent · online masterclass + in-person mentor
RKRachael KuronboevOnlineAKAlmira KazkenovaIn personTashkent · online masterclass + in-person mentor
NGNiall GahanOnlineVSVitalia ShutovaIn personTashkent · one mentor, in person all week
ANAntonia N.In personTashkent · online masterclass + in-person mentor
RKRachael KuronboevOnlineVIVahit IminovIn personTashkent · one mentor, in person all week
RRohithIn personAgroBank and client sites · trackers lead
AKAndrey KryukovLead trackerCohort 1 has no Demo Day. Some mentors are invited back for pilot reviews; we'll ask you directly.
We agree the focus, the cohort's needs and what startups just delivered.
Topics, format, exercises and your session language.
Leaves time for our review and any changes.
Founders arrive having read it, with questions.
Founders work on their own company in the room, not on case studies.
Say what isn't working and what to do instead.
Early teams selling to a state bank, its subsidiaries, farms and rural SMEs.
One feedback-form entry per startup, the same day. Payment is based on these.
Startup data, pilot results and AgroBank's internal business stay inside the program.
Program materials may go to AgroBank in reporting. Flag proprietary slides at the sync call.
Ask us once; we approve in writing and clear it with the partner. No team names, numbers or results.
Declare any investment in, advisory role with, or competition with a cohort startup.
No gifts, payments or hospitality to or from bank staff or anyone in a selection or pilot decision.
Tell us early. Named experts can only be replaced with the partner's written consent.
On your sessions: you know how to run a room, so we won't prescribe a format. Keep it hands-on, and close with one concrete action per team. English is a second or third language for many founders, so keep slides light.
Before your week you'll get a profile pack: what each startup does, its stage, its target buyer, and last week's output.
AgroBank divisions with named problems for the program.
AgroLab, Agro In-Vitro and other group companies.
The bank's borrowers. Pilots run with 3–5 per startup.
Agriculture and water ministries, IT Park.
Every startup has a tracker for all twelve weeks. Andrey Kryukov is lead tracker; ask us for a tracker brief before your 1:1s.
For in-person mentors. Send passport details as soon as we ask so we can book.
Many nationalities are visa-free. Check yours at e-visa.gov.uz once your dates are set.
Tashkent International (TAS), 20–30 minutes from the centre. Tickets come by email.
Weeks 2–8 in Tashkent; hotel and venue are named in your engagement email.
About 0–10°C by day, below freezing at night. Jizzakh is colder and windier.
Use the Yandex Go app rather than airport drivers. Card or cash.
Uzbek so'm; cards work widely. eSIM before you fly. Type C/F sockets.
One feedback-form entry per startup: topic, main problems, next actions. Same day.
Within a week of your last session, matching your engagement email.
Payment follows once your sessions are logged and the invoice checks out.