Acknowledgments

The forum organizing team would like to thank the following people and groups for their contributions to this event:

• Oxford University Press, and Erkan Akmeric - General Manager, Turkey, Central Asia and North Africa

• Assel Baibatyrova - Business Development Manager,InterPress, Almaty

• Jessica Leonard -Regional Director, American Council for International Education, Alamty, Kazakhstan

• Karen Ogulnick - Associate Professor, Long Island University, Post, New York, USA

• Kseniya Ivanenko - Senior Program Officer, University Partnerships, Innovation and Capacity Building, American Council, Washington DC, USA

• Maksat Koshkarbayev - US-Kazakhstan University Partnership Program Coordinator, American Council for International Education, Alamty, Kazakhstan

• John Silver - Central Asia RELOб U.S. Embassy, Nur-Sultan

• Eric Lawrie. - British Council, Kazakhstan, Country Director

• Ardak Bekturova - British Council, Kazakhstan, English Project Manager

• Yelena Kandalina - Ph.D., Head of the International Relations Department. A. Baitursynov Kostanay Regional University

• Sona Penkina - Yessenov University, PhD candidate

• Tatyana Draganova - Head of English Center "Salem", Teacher-trainer, English teacher

• Svetlana Podkhomutnikova - TEA "Renaissance" President, Teacher-trainer, EFL teacher, school-gymnazium #10, Ust-Kamenogorsk,

• Khussan Aminzhanov - student of the 'IT Programming' major at Miras University, Shymkent