Winners of the International competition “AI Journey 2021” visited the IT Park branch in Tashkent

On November 16, 2021, the winners of the international competition “AI Journey 2021” visited the IT Park branch in the city of Tashkent.

During their visit, the young girls got acquainted with the activities of IT Park, with the infrastructure, projects implemented within the framework of the organization’s activities and the opportunities that the organization provides to the younger generation.

The meeting was also attended by Deputy Minister of Public Education Rustam Karimjonov and Director of IT Park Farhod Ibragimov.

It is notable that  the schoolgirls were awarded valuable gifts from IT Park and the Ministry of Public Education.

A tour of the new building of the IT Park branch in Tashkent was held for the guests.  The director of the branch, Sherzod Abdurakhmonov, personally conducted an excursion and showed the workflow.  Additionally, the schoolgirls visited the specialized school of Al-Khorezmi.

Director of IT Park Farhod Ibragimov invited talented girls to take part in the IT Park acceleration program, where they can do complex work on their project and fully implement it, working with experts, mentors and gaining knowledge, experience and networking from the whole process.

Farhod Ibragimov also stressed that the doors of IT Park are always open to talented young people who try to develop and contribute to society through the field of information technology.  He noted that IT Park is ready to support and help in the implementation of the girls’ project ideas and will do everything possible to open the doors that were previously closed for them.

Deputy Director of IT Park Jahangir Rajabov, in turn, added that girls are given the opportunity to go to the acceleration stage without selection within the framework of the «Tumaris Tech» project to support female technological entrepreneurship in the IT sector in Uzbekistan, where they will also be able to successfully apply their project and show their  potential at a large-scale level.

As a reminder, on November 10-11, 2021, Moscow hosted the Artificial Intelligence Journey International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, within the framework of which a competition was held among schoolchildren on the use of artificial intelligence technologies in various socially significant areas.  A team of young developers from Uzbekistan «IT Queens» also partook  in this competition and won the nomination «Data lady».

«IT Queens» is a team from Uzbekistan and the members  are: Yuliana Lutsenko, Anastasia Koroleva, Ksenia and Anastasia Badyan, as well as Lana Nasrulina.  At the first stage, the girls developed a project in the field of artificial intelligence,  which is aimed at detecting «Deepfake» materials.