Uzbekistan is positioning itself as an emerging hub for global business services.
On 24–25 July 2026, Tashkent hosted the Global Business Services Forum 2026, bringing together leaders from BPO, KPO, digital outsourcing and export-oriented IT.
Why the positioning is credible
With a growing talent pool and expanding digital infrastructure, Uzbekistan is becoming more than a market to enter — it is becoming a platform for international operations and regional growth.
Those are two genuinely different propositions. Entering a market means selling into it. Operating from a market means basing delivery capacity there and serving customers elsewhere.
The second requires different conditions: a workforce at scale, language capability, reliable infrastructure, predictable regulation and cost structures that hold up against established outsourcing destinations. Uzbekistan's demographics and its ongoing regulatory buildout — Enterprise Uzbekistan's special legal regime among them — are aimed squarely at that second proposition.
What Georgian companies should take from it
Georgia has pursued a version of the same positioning, with a smaller population and a different set of advantages.
The realistic reading is not competition but complementarity. A company building regional delivery capacity has reason to look at both: Uzbekistan for scale, Georgia for proximity to European markets and its own regulatory environment.
Companies that understand both markets are better placed than those choosing between them on incomplete information.
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Source: IT Park Uzbekistan.