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Apply to the Vital Voices GROW Fellowship

This year's Vital Voices GROW Fellowship has strated receiving applications. The VV GROW Fellowship is a highly competitive one-year...

VV fellowship Leaders Women

U.A.E

1776 Challenge Cup Regional Finale at Dubai

Are you a startup with big ambitions to solve a meaningful problem for the world? From teachers to transportation or food to finance, 1776...

2016 1776 challenge cup Apply

Regional

MENA’s forecasting situation

The power of the wind, important for MENA. (Image via Utilities-me.com) The MENA region population growth has been explosive. According to...

Weather forecasting El Noor Geh MEMakers

Regional

Busting MENA's top 4 myths about bitcoin

(Image via SDTimes) Remember bitcoin? Despite making periodic headlines around the world and sparking debates among tech and finance...

Silk Road Mt Gox bitcoin wallet

U.A.E

TURN8: Investor Demo Day

The graduation of Dubai-based TURN8 accelerator's fifth batch of entrepreneurs will take place on their Investor Demo Day on 16 ...

turn8 Demo Day accelerator

Europe

Sign up for THNK's Creative Leadership Program in Amsterdam

The Creative Leadership Program is a part-time, 6 month, divisive program including four week-long modules on campus, in the...

THNK Amsterdam Creative Leadership Program

Regional

Extended Deadline: 9th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition in Jeddah, KSA

Update: the deadline has been extended to January 18.The 9th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition is now receiving applications. ...

MITEF ksa MITEF Arab Business Plan Competition

U.A.E

Attend the Mobile Growth Workshop in Beirut for FREE with our promocode!

Mobile Growth Academy is organizing a Mobile Growth Workshop in Beirut on December 16, at the UK Lebanon Tech Hub. The workshop is an...

Mobile growth Academy Workshop beirut

Jordan

Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) Anniversary Conference

Zain Jordan is inviting you to attend its Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) Anniversary Conference that will be held on 17th of December 2015 a...

King Hussein Business Park anniversary ZINC

Saudi Arabia

ArabNet Riyadh 2015 [20% discount]

The 4th edition of the ArabNet Riyadh forum, expecting over 1,000 participants from across the region, will take place on December 14-16, 2...

Design+code day summit riyadh

U.A.E

Cisco Dubai successfully hosts IoT World Forum Hackathon

In first place SmartX team with the judges. (Images via BeMyApp) Right on the heels of the Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) in...

IoTWorldForum IoT MEMakers

Egypt

Si-Ware's miniature MEMS worlds

Imagine looking through a microscope and seeing a fully-operational machine, with tiny motors and micro-sized mirrors to redirect...

fabless spectrometer Siware

Saudi Arabia

What to expect from Arabnet Riyadh 2015

A snapshot of last year's Arabnet Riyadh summit. (Images via Arabnet) Gearing up for their "largest digital gathering in...

Islamic Digital Economy Arab women summit

Regional

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority's Annual Tech Startups Pitching Competition

For The Entrepreneur Day, tech entrepreneurs from all over the world are invited to apply to DSOA's Annual Tech Startups Pitching C...

DSOA competition Dubai

Egypt

Startups urged to use Egypt's wealth of waste

Rubbish piled in the streets and beside waterways is a common sight in many of Egypt's cities and rural areas. (Image via...

PET flakes El Misbah El Mudii Tagaddod

U.A.E

The Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF) Cisco Hackathon in Dubai

The Internet of Things World Forum (IoTWF), held for the second consecutive year at the Dubai World Trade Center, will feature its...

cisco hackathon Hackers

U.A.E

Mix N' Mentor Dubai 2015

Wamda's Mix N' Mentor is coming to Dubai on December 10 bringing together promising entrepreneurs with top regional and global mentors at H...

fireside chat Dubai Networking

Jordan

Join Dave McClure & 500 Startups for a "COME ONE, PITCH ALL!" event

Join Dave McClure & 500 Startups on December 10 for a "COME ONE, PITCH ALL!" community pitch event hosted by 500 Startups, Microsoft an...

Dave McClure 500 startups Pitching

Lebanon

Seedstars Beirut 2015

Seedstars World is coming back to Beirut! On November 26 2015, the top 10 to 12 best startups in Lebanon will be invited to...

seedstars competition beirut

Regional

4YFN Mobile World Congress Startup event

The highlight of the 4YFN program, organized by Mobile World Capital Barcelona and GSMA, the 2016 Mobile World Congress is the world’s larg...

February Mobile World Congress 4FYN

U.A.E

Big Data leading innovation, SmartCon 2015

Bora Arslan believes that big data is overused and exaggerated, creating mistrust in people. (Images via Pamela Kesrouani) Big data “will t...

smartcon Smart Cities MEMakers

Saudi Arabia

EwIV's The Impact Bootcamp in Riyadh

After graduating over 60 entrepreneurs in Cairo and Dubai, ATC’s Entrepreneurship with Impact Ventures (EwIV) is conducting The Im...

ATC The Impact riyadh

Lebanon

An eco-friendly solution to dispose of pharmaceutical waste in Lebanon

A 'pill-board' building. (Image via Ziad Abi-Chaker) This article is a crosspost with the MIT Technology Review Arab Edition written by N...

MIT Technology Review Arab Edition cedar environmental expired medication

Jordan

German Jordanian University (GJU) Health Hackathon

As part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, the German Jordanian University (GJU), throught its Innovation and Entrepreneurship Team (...

Health hackathon German Jordanian University competition

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