Wamda

Morocco

Screendy: focusing on product, not customer outreach

What if entrepreneurs no longer needed to look for customers and could just focus on creating the best product for them? This is what...

association Business entrepreneurs

Jordan

Startup with Purpose

Startup With Purpose has recently announced that it will be hosting its first week-long entrepreneurship bootcamp at King’s Academy...

Jordan entrepreneurship startup

Regional

Cohort 4 Acceleration Program

The U.S. hardware accelerator, "Make in LA", is recruiting International and MENA hardware startups for the Cohort 4 Program in...

LA acceleration accelerator

Regional

4 startups that are changing Maghreb healthcare

A woman fainting at a railway station in Morocco, while waiting for the train that would take her three hours away for dialysis treatment,...

tunisia morocco Medtrucks

Regional

Fincluders Startup Challenge Amman

The Fincluders Startup Challenge is looking for innovative fintech talents and entrepreneurs championing inclusive and fair finance for...

amman Fintech Innovation

Lebanon

Agrytech Hackathon

Berytech's Agrytech Hackathon calls on innovators to develop and build working prototypes for agri-food solutions, which...

agrytech hackathon Technology

Lebanon

Innovate Education

Innovate Education is a 3-day social entrepreneurship competition. In this competition, Lebanese and Syrian university students will...

Education refugees Technology

Saudi Arabia

Musharakah Program

Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) and Takamol Holding for Business Services (Takamol) encourage Saudi Investors and VCs to apply...

Saudi Arabia Innovation Investment

U.A.E

Lean and Agile Middle East Summit 2017

Lean and Agile Middle East (Agile ME) and Heriot-Watt University Dubai (HWUD) are organizing the third annual Lean and Agile Middle East...

agile summit Dubai

U.A.E

Gulf Capital SME Awards 2017

For the 6th year in a row, the Gulf Capital SME Awards continues to celebrate and recognize outstanding SMEs from the UAE that have shown...

sme Gulf Capital SME Awards Dubai

U.A.E

Mohamed Bin Zayed Majlis for Future Generations

On March 7-8 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center, the ‘Mohamed Bin Zayed Majlis for Future Generations’ will host 3,000...

abu dhabi MBZFutureGen Technology

U.A.E

Dubai Lynx 2017

The Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity is the region’s annual event for the creative communications industry to learn,...

Innovation Technology communication

Regional

Cloud10 Scalerator Program

Applications are now open for the second round of the Cloud10 Scalerator program, where ‘scale-ups’ (revenue...

Bahrain accelerator Innovation

Regional

Innovation Arabia 10

In its tenth annual edition, Innovation Arabia, the region’s leading congress on education, business, environment, healthcare and...

Innovation Technology entrepreneurship

Egypt

WeMENA Resilient Future [call for applications]

Women Entrepreneurs for a Resilient Future in the Middle East and North Africa (WeMENA) is a business model challenge launched to...

women entrepreneurs MENA Innovation

Egypt

Maker Hackathon 2017

For the third year in a row, Maker Hackathon returns to empower innovators and makers to create functioning prototypes of...

Egypt hackathon Hardware

Regional

What's happening to innovation in the GCC? #Wamda2016

Stagnant oil prices mean the GCC’s economic situation today does not look rosy, and the 2016 Global Innovation Index (GII) shows the...

Wamda2016 MENA startups

Lebanon

Speed@BDD Acceleration Cycle [Call for Applications]

Do you have a technology startup that you want to grow into a successful business? Speed@BDD, the first ecosystem-backed technology...

lebanon accelerator Innovation

Egypt

ROVArab Competition

Applications for the upcoming ROVArab competition have recently opened for students of all educational levels, whether university,...

Egypt robot ROV

Tunisia

Spark Tunisia student geekout bridges social divides

Two members of the winning team at Spark Tunisia came from a high school in Aïn Draham, one of the poorest areas in the country. A...

Innovation Technologie Start-up

Regional

Innovation Arabia 10 [Call for papers]

Empirically valid research methods and data-backed analysis are something the region still lacks. If you have done research on the...

Innovation academics Research

Saudi Arabia

8 things we learned about Saudi at the Misk Global Forum

Outside the world of oil, Saudi Arabia is putting itself on the map. Currently 70 percent of the Saudi population is under the age of...

Saudi Arabia Misk Global Forum ksa

Regional

MSD Innovation Factory

MSD is eager to find new and better ways to provide healthcare services to patients and healthcare professionals around the world. That...

healthtech biotech Healthcare

U.A.E

UAE Ministry of Finance Festival of Innovation

The Ministry of Finance Festival of Innovation will be taking place on November 21-22 at The Annex (Burj Khalifa). The event will include...

Dubai Innovation entrepreneurship

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