Enable innovators to reach new levels of efficiency
to improve people’s lives, skills and capabilities

4 years and counting to build qualified
Arab calibers in the new technologies

About us

High Schools, Startups, or Graduation Projects,
choose your track and start the innovation journey!

Challenge Tracks

It’s not just a competition,
it’s a Knowledge Hub for all AI & IoT geeks!

The Knowledge Hub

What is Arab IoT & AI Challenge?

Arab IoT & AI Challenge is a regional capacity building and pre-incubation program for Senior University Students, High Schoolers and Startups that have innovative ideas in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related fields. Local challenges in Egypt, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirate qualify their top winners to compete in the Arab IoT & AI Challenge regional finals.
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Why Arab IoT & AI?

The Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the evolution that will dramatically change all existing industries. Services and products powered by both will achieve digital transformation, making corporates and big technology providers, as well as governments, put significant efforts into developing solutions for their beneficiaries, which will enable them to reach new levels of efficiency and optimization to improve people’s lives, skills and capabilities.

Why to join?

Top Tier Trainings

Mentorship

Media Exposure

Networking Opportunities

Equity Free Prize Money

Who can join?

Graduation projects with ideas related to IoT or AI technologies

Startups with AI or IoT powered solutions

High school students making use of AI or IoT in a certain application

Initiatives, NGO’s, academic institutions, or industry leaders who are interested in taking the lead to establish the challenge in their countries

Egypt

Since 2016, Egypt IoT & AI challenge has been launched to provide the young innovators and startups with a pre-incubation program to unleash their capabilities. 5 years and counting, it’s still here working in collaboration with the Academy of Scientific Research & Technology to support the development in the areas of IoT and AI, which will be the next evolution in the technical world.

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Emirates

In light of the UAE's continuous endeavors to enable innovation, support digital transformation, and empower the youth, the UAE IoT & AI Challenge is sponsored by Dubai University as a platform for innovation where university students and startups can share their innovative ideas in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related fields.

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Jordan

Sponsored by the Jordanian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Jordan IoT & AI Challenge is created as a pre-incubation program for the innovative young minds, as the Internet of Things & Artificial Intelligence are the next evolution that will drastically change the existing industries.

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Morocco

As one of Morocco’s endeavors to spread innovation and technology across the country, the Morocco IoT & AI Challenge is launched to stimulate and help build the ecosystem supporting the Moroccan community through empowering senior university students, high school students, and startups that have innovative ideas in the areas of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related fields.

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Oman

Oman IoT & AI Challenge is a pre-incubation and capacity building program designed to empower university students and startups, create new career opportunities. It also aims at supporting the technological projects in the fields of AI, IoT and marine applications. It is organized by The Research Council at Sultanate Oman.

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Palestine

Digital transformation, powered by AI and IoT, helps us lead better lives. Here comes the Palestine IoT & AI Challenge, supported by the Palestine Higher Council for Innovation and Excellence, to gather the Palestinian innovators and open new horizones for them to create and design creative solutions for the 21st century challenges.

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Tunisia

As one of Tunisia’s projects is to spread the technologies of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, the Tunisia IoT & AI Challenge is launched to create innovative ideas for a better Tunisian ecosystem and support the youth who have projects to establish smart cities.

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Arab IoT & AI Knowledge Hub

The Arab IoT & AI Knowledge Hub is a program for capacity building to qualify Arab youth and build future calibers in the new technologies. It comprises courses, tutorials, and interviews with technology leaders to help anybody interested in AI & IoT.

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The Challenge Tracks

High Schools

Graduation Projects

Startups

Challenge
Tracks

High Schools Track

This track is introducing young talents in high schools to the technologies of Industry 4.0, its applications, concepts of digital transformation, and design thinking. The program is done in each country within a partnership with its ministry of education. Students get trained on design thinking and selected technical topics related to new technologies in a semester-long program. By the end of the program, students are required to deliver a graduation project showcasing what they have learnt.

Graduation Projects

This track is targeting senior university students of related schools who are willing to complete their graduation projects in one of the IoT and AI fields in general. This track starts by a roadshow and info sessions to the senior students to bring to their attention the pool of opportunities they can pursue with their graduation projects and ideas. Participants get access to technology and innovation resources and will have the opportunity for financial support/sponsorship for their projects as well.

Startups

A pre-incubation program for tech startups who are already working or willing to work on applications that support digital transformation. During the competition, participants go through intensive technical, business and innovation training and get offered the needed resources to help them develop working prototypes and business models for their products/services.

Registration

In each country, interested applicants register in their tracks of interest.

Ideation
Phase

Participants receive intensive training on business ideation and product development. After the training, participants present their ideas in a pitching competition. Selected teams pass this filtration phase to the technical support phase.

Technical
Support

Participants receive further mentorship, access to fabrication labs and technical assistance to build their working prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP).

Local
Demo Days

Each country organizes a local demo day to choose the winners in each track (High Schools, Graduation Projects, Startups) to be qualified to the regional finals.

Regional
Finals

Winners from each country participate in the final demo day to compete for the regional winners title. Regional finals are held every year within the activities of the IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things.

*The exact timing and dates of each phase are up to the local organizers to suit their internal circumstances and national calendars.

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A regional capacity building and pre-incubation program for innovative ideas in the areas of IoT, AI, and related fields.

Enable innovators to reach new levels of efficiency
to improve people’s lives, skills and capabilities

4 years and counting to build qualified
Arab calibers in the new technologies

High Schools, Startups, or Graduation Projects,
choose your track and start the innovation journey!

It’s not just a competition,
it’s a Knowledge Hub for all AI & IoT geeks!

What is Arab IoT & AI Challenge?

Why Arab IoT & AI?

Why to join?

Who can join?

Local Challenges

Egypt

Emirates

Jordan

Morocco

Oman

Palestine