After graduating from AUCA summa cum laude in 2015, Ulukbek began his career as a project manager at Avisa Technologies. Within several months, he was promoted to Director of Educational Programs due to his contribution to the success of two projects – one related to child safety measures in emergency situations and another devoted to digitizing books. In 2016, Ulukbek became a finalist of the Erasmus+ scholarship program for a master’s degree program in Strategic Project Management at three universities across Europe including the UK, Italy, and Sweden. During his studies at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Ulukbek and his team accepted the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for the “MI-care” project, which aimed to utilize cloud-computing technology in Milan’s Healthcare System. Driven by a desire to bring a global perspective to his community, Ulukbek organized Silicon Valley Week in Bishkek in the summer of 2018, which brought mentors from Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and other companies from the U.S. to train local teams in Kyrgyzstan in STEM and social entrepreneurship fields. Most recently, Ulukbek won the “Best Pitch” award at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Ottawa, Canada for his original idea, “Model OGP”, which encourages youth to actively engage in policy processes of their countries. “Model OGP”will be presented to the 57 countries within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).