Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, is hosting the Eurasian Economic Forum. The delegation from the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was led by Vasily Leonidovich Gursky, Chief Scientific Secretary of the NAS of Belarus. The UIPI of the NAS of Belarus was represented by Andrei Aleksandrovich Govin, Deputy Director General for Research and Innovation. Also included in the delegation was Denis Viktorovich Mukha, Director of the Institute of Economics of the NAS of Belarus.

The main theme of the 2026 forum was "The EAEU in the Global Digital Race: Betting on Artificial Intelligence." As part of the business program, Andrei Aleksandrovich Govin participated in thematic sections devoted to the following issues:

- Artificial intelligence and cross-border markets of the EAEU;

- Digital transformation of industry;

- Responsible use of AI in Eurasian integration;

- Prospects for the development of Eurasian economic cooperation.

The key event of the UIPI NAS of Belarus's participation in the forum will be the signing of the Cooperation Program between the Eurasian Economic Commission and the UIPI NAS of Belarus in the field of artificial intelligence for 2026–2027. The document was signed by Andrei Aleksandrovich Govin and Varos Arutyunovich Simonyan, member of the Board (Minister) for Internal Markets, Informatization, and ICT of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

The program aims to develop joint projects in the following areas:

- Big data infrastructure and the use of supercomputer technologies;

- Intelligent speech and text processing;

- Robotics and computer vision;

- Digitalization of the agricultural and logistics sectors;

- Geographic Information Systems and Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis;

- Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Medicine.

Particular attention is paid to the exchange of experience, joint educational programs, and the development of AI competencies among specialists within the EAEU.

The signing of the program marked an important step in strengthening the international cooperation of the Joint Institute for Informatics and Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in the field of artificial intelligence and the promotion of Belarusian innovative developments in the Eurasian region.