Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan hosted the inaugural International Conference on Secure and Intelligent Digital Ecosystems (SIDe’26), organised by its School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with the IEEE Kazakhstan Section.
The conference received 343 research papers from about 30 countries. Participants from more than 100 universities and companies discussed cybersecurity, machine learning and AI voice agents for the Kazakh and Russian languages.
“Without security, even the most advanced system cannot be reliable or trusted,” said Provost Rehan Sadiq. One speaker stressed that deepfake detectors can make mistakes and that human verification remains essential.
