JetBrains x ICPC: The 2024–2025 Season at a Glance
JetBrains has long supported the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), one of the world’s most respected competitive programming contests. Since 2017, we’ve been the ICPC Global Programming Tools Sponsor, providing professional IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and CLion, along with Kotlin, one of the official ICPC programming languages.
We’ve been expanding our reach: Last year, JetBrains’ involvement with the ICPC engaged more than 50,000 students and coaches from over 3,000 universities in 111 countries. We visited new regions, launched new activities, and strengthened our engagement with local communities, students, and educators. As part of our participation in 400+ on-site competitions ranging from regional qualifiers to the world finals, we provided JetBrains tools, hosted booths, gave lectures, ran challenges, recruited interns, presented our new AI products, and supported this brilliant community.
Here’s a look at where we’ve been and what we’ve done to support ICPC participants globally.
World Finals
Last year featured an unprecedented three ICPC World Finals. We wrote about the two simultaneous ICPC World Finals in Luxor and the ICPC World Finals in Astana.
Europe
We started the 2025 season by visiting key regional contests. These regional contests are particularly close to our hearts, as they represent the first step for many students on their journey to the World Finals.
We attended the Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (SWERC), the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC), the Central Europe Regional Contest (CERC), the Southeastern Europe Regional Contest (SEERC), and the European Championship.
A standout moment occurred at the European Championship: the Sigma++ team from our partner institution Neapolis University Pafos earned a bronze medal and advanced to the next World Finals! Congratulations!
At our booth, the blind coding challenge was a hit – inspired by the tech session we hosted in Egypt. Watch the original video to see it in action with famous ICPC contestants like ‘tourist’, ‘ecnerwala’, ‘pashka’, and ‘Egor’.
Asia
We had a strong presence in Asia, attending major events in person.
At the Asia East Continent Final (China), our colleagues gave a talk and connected with educators from the continent’s top 30 universities.
At the Asia Amritapuri Regional Contest (India), we joined the largest ICPC event in India, which was attended by 217 teams.
Our tools were used across Japan, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia – even when we couldn’t attend in person.
The Americas
In this region, the Southern California Regional contest stood out – we were the only on-site sponsor, giving talks, hosting booths, and sharing resources with over 100 teams and 30+ coaches.
We also participated in the North America Championship (NAC), which is attended by leading schools like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and a number of other top universities. JetBrains gave talks and had a booth at the showcase.
ICPC competitors are among the top minds in programming: Many now work at leading AI labs or start their own companies. By giving them the right tools early on, JetBrains helps them learn faster and work smarter.
Even when we can’t attend in person, JetBrains is still prominently visible. JetBrains IDEs are installed on contest machines, and Kotlin is one of the languages open to participants. We are represented by branding on printed materials – venue branding, press walls, banners, brochures, the famous ICPC balloons, and the uniforms of everyone involved.
We are proud to support one of the most talented programming communities in the world.
See you at the next contest!
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