Eleven winners of the AI Talents Almaty education project from Almaty have travelled to Silicon Valley in the United States. They will represent Kazakhstan at an international technology platform and take part in an artificial intelligence conference.
The project teaches school students programming and artificial intelligence and is supported by Almaty’s Digitalization Department. It also welcomes children with no previous IT experience.
A total of 10,000 students took the initial test, and 1,500 were selected for advanced training. More than 1,000 participants completed the course, earned Junior Developer certificates and presented their own digital products.
The practical programme included three in-person hackathons. Eleven winners of AITK Fest 2026 earned the opportunity to visit Silicon Valley. In the United States, they have already met Abhijeet Joshi, a senior technical programme manager at NVIDIA.
One of the main events on the trip is TechEquity AI Summit 2026, taking place from November 3 to 6. The students are scheduled to attend on November 5. The conference focuses on AI development and applications across industries; its announced speakers include experts from NVIDIA, Google, Google DeepMind, Snowflake, Meta, IBM, Adobe and Stanford University.
The students will also take part in the Company Brain Hackathon and visit Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Their schedule includes PATH@40, an international event marking the 40th anniversary of the California PATH research programme. It will showcase developments in artificial intelligence, autonomous transport and smart urban infrastructure.
