Pak Angels, the Silicon Valley-based organisation founded and led by Mohammad Anwar Khan, has released the results of a participant survey conducted across the first three cohorts of the HEC Generative AI Training and Hackathon Program, a nationwide initiative conceived, developed, organised, and programme-managed by Pak Angels in collaboration with HEC Pakistan, National Computing Education Accreditation Council, ULEFUSA, iCodeGuru, and ASPIRE Pakistan. The survey drew 5,828 respondents from a total participant base of 16,600 students, faculty members, and professionals who participated across the three cohorts, representing universities from more than 200 institutions across Pakistan. The next cohort of the programme is scheduled to begin on August 23, 2026, and registration is open at pakangels.com/hec-generative-ai-training-program.
The survey results across the three cohorts demonstrate a level of participant satisfaction and practical outcome that places the programme among the more effective large-scale technology training initiatives conducted in Pakistan in recent years. A total of 98.9 percent of respondents found the training highly effective, while 96.4 percent reported being satisfied or highly satisfied with their overall experience. The same proportion, 96.4 percent, indicated that they are motivated to continue learning artificial intelligence following their participation, suggesting that the programme has succeeded not just in delivering content but in cultivating sustained interest in a field whose relevance to Pakistan’s technology economy is growing rapidly. Perhaps the most consequential practical outcome indicated by the survey is that 90.6 percent of participants successfully built a working application during the programme, and 66.2 percent went a step further by deploying their artificial intelligence application online, producing a concrete, publicly accessible output from their training rather than simply completing a curriculum.
The programme’s design philosophy prioritised practical building over theoretical instruction, a choice that the survey results suggest was well-calibrated to the needs and motivations of the participant population. Rather than delivering a conventional lecture-based curriculum, the programme encouraged participants to build, experiment, deploy, collaborate in teams, and compete in hackathons, creating an environment where the learning was inseparable from the act of producing something real. The hackathon component of the programme produced particularly strong feedback, with 91.1 percent of hackathon participants finding the experience valuable and useful, and 89.3 percent of overall participants reporting confidence in pursuing Generative AI development following the programme. These figures reflect a programme that has moved the needle on practical AI capability across a participant base that spans the full range of Pakistan’s higher education institutions rather than being concentrated in a small number of elite technical universities.
The institutional backing of the programme gives it a reach and credibility that independent training initiatives rarely achieve at comparable scale. HEC Pakistan and NCEAC’s promotion of the programme provided the institutional legitimacy needed to mobilise participation across more than 200 universities, while ULEFUSA’s sponsorship provided the financial foundation for a programme that was delivered at a scale that would otherwise have required significantly more commercial infrastructure to sustain. iCodeGuru and ASPIRE Pakistan’s operational partnership gave the programme the delivery infrastructure needed to serve a participant base of 16,600 people spread across institutions nationwide, a logistical challenge of considerable complexity that the survey results suggest was managed effectively enough to maintain high levels of participant satisfaction across all three cohorts.
With Cohort 4 scheduled to begin on August 23, 2026, the programme is entering a new phase that Pak Angels has indicated will expand access to Generative AI, Agentic AI, artificial intelligence entrepreneurship, and innovation-driven learning across Pakistan. For students, faculty members, and professionals who were not part of the first three cohorts and want to participate in a programme that has demonstrated strong practical outcomes at national scale, registration for Cohort 4 is available at pakangels.com/hec-generative-ai-training-program. The survey results from the first three cohorts provide incoming participants with a well-evidenced basis for confidence that the programme delivers on its commitment to building practical artificial intelligence capability rather than simply introducing participants to the concepts.
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