Under the Erasmus+ ELBA project implemented at the International Information Technology University, on 15 December University of Manchester PhD student Arman Zharmagambetov held a seminar on “Big Data Analysis” for IITU master's students, professors and doctoral students. Arman's talk attracted the interest of the ELBA project team, and participants discussed various approaches to working with big data in different fields. Data analysis professors Yergali Dauletbek, Lyazzat Naizabayeva, Aidos Sarsembayev, Aigul Satybaldina and others praised the research of Arman, an IITU graduate. After the seminar, the IITU ELBA team discussed further plans for achieving the project objectives.