The Academy hosted its first TEDx Youth event on Saturday, 26 May, with a selection of speakers that included recently graduated Diploma Programme students.
On 29 April 2018, the Province of Ontario and the Aga Khan Academies network of schools formally extended their partnership on mutually beneficial education initiatives.
In an article in the Houston Chronicle, Gabriella Rowe, Head of The Village School in Houston, Texas, refers to the Aga Khan Academies as an example of how "A pluralist society begins in the classroom".