September 15-20, 2024, the International Exhibition Center EXPO in Astana will host the World Championship in Sports Programming - 2024 ICPC World Finals 2024. 142 teams from all over the world will gather in the capital to compete for the title of champion of the world Olympiad among promising IT talents representing prestigious universities of the planet. Kazakhstan will be represented by 5 teams.

The 2024 ICPC World Finals program includes:

September 15 – Team Arrival & Registration
September 16, 16:30 – Opening Ceremony, Presidential Center
September 17 – ICPC Tech Trek presented by JetBrains, and the ICPC Challenge powered by Huawei
September 18, 11:00-13:00 – 2024 ICPC World Finals Astana Dress Rehearsal
September 19, 11:00 – 16:00 – 2024 ICPC World Finals Astana
September 19, 14:00 – 2024 ICPC World Finals Astana Press Conference
September 19, 16:30 - 18:30 - 2024 ICPC World Finals Award Ceremony
September 20 – Departure

For accreditation for the 2024 ICPC World Finals, please send an application to the email address - WFPress2024@icpc.global indicating your full name, publication, position, contact information (WhatsApp phone number, e-mail), with the subject Accreditation ICPC in the subject line. Applications for accreditation are accepted until 16:00, September 13, 2024.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a Collegiate Team Programming Contest, the most prestigious team programming Olympiad in the world among students, which has been held since 1970. The main goal of the competition participants is to solve algorithmic problems using code, under limited time conditions with a minimum number of errors and incorrect attempts. Every year, up to 59,000 participants from 110 countries and 6 continents take part in the ICPC. ICPC finalists receive job offers from major leading IT companies in the world.

General partners of the Kazakhstan Competitive Programming FederationFreedom Holding Corp. and the 'Freedom Shapagat' corporate fund. Sponsors of the 2024 ICPC World Finals are Huawei and JetBrains.