Wamda

Visualizing the World with Cairo's Trend Compass

While the events of Tahrir Square have irrevocably opened the door for economic policy change in Egypt, the transition has, in the...

Going Global After a Decade at Eskadenia Software

Product innovation and success in industry are two faces to a hard currency in Jordan. The environment for growing industry is challenging...

What Should Have Happened in Expotech 2010

This is a second post regarding ExpoTech 2010. The first one was titled "What Happened in ExpoTech 2010". In this post I'll highlight the...

What Happened in ExpoTech 2010

On Tuesday, 2nd November 2010, ExpoTech Week was launched. we’ll be writing two blog posts about our presence there, these two posts are t...

Global

Religious readings get innovative

This article is a crosspost with MIT Technology Review Arab Edition. It is quite common in religious circles to read Islam’s holy...

Brandwise-apps Quran Khatma sawab

Global

The future of everything: tech of 2016 [Infographic]

The technology you hear about everyday - artificially intelligent robots, self driving cars - are just the tip of science these...

Systems Metabolic Engineering open AI perovskite

U.A.E

Dubai: a city built on data [Wamda TV]

Cities are not built on a whim, but today a new kind of data is used to sculpt modern metropoli from the bare bones of steel and...

cellular data Dubai du

Regional

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab's "Innovate for Refugees" Competition

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Region is on a mission to #CracktheCrisis by finding and rewarding tech-driven solutions that help alleviate...

refugees MIT

Regional

Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai Workshop #MLDubai

Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,...

Workshop MIT Media Lab Dubai

Lebanon

Applications now open for Speed@BDD's third acceleration program

Speed@BDD is recruiting 10 aspiring startups for their upcoming acceleration program in September, where selected...

application Speed@BDD beirut

U.A.E

From Corporate to Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur Journey Session by Young Arab Leaders

As part of their Entrepreneur Journey Sessions, Young Arab Leaders (YAL) are organizing a "Corporate to Entreprenuerhsip" session by the...

Entrepreneur Journey session YAL Young Arab Leaders

Egypt

Startup Weekend Cairo 2016

Startup Weekend is coming to Cairo this year on Thursday April 14 until Saturday April 16 at The British University In Egypt. Once ...

German university 2016 startups

U.A.E

The Retail Show Middle East 2016

The Middle East is a great region to do business in the retail industry, with billions of dollars being invested into ground-breaking...

ecommerce middle east 2016 Speakers

U.A.E

ACCESS Conference at Middle East Film and Comic Con (MEFCC) 2016

ACCESS Conference will once again run alongside Middle East Film and Comic Con (MEFCC), the first and largest popular culture festival in...

access MEFCC Dubai World Trade Centre

Jordan

Launching Arab Women In Technology (Jordan Chapter)

Arab Women in Computing (ArabWIC) have joined forces with Oasis500 to launch their Jordan chapter. An introductory event will be held at...

launching ArabWIC Jordan

Saudi Arabia

Mobily App Hackathon 2016 in Riyadh

Saudi telecom company Mobily has launched its 2016 App hackathon, a weekend competition which aims to innovate Arabic applications in the s...

2016 mobily riyadh

U.A.E

The Hive: Startup, Showdown at Future Technology Week

Future Technology Week is the event set to redefine technology for business. A huge platform with four live events, it will take place at...

startup demo The hive future technology week

Lebanon

Open Design Day at BDD

The Myriad community for design is organizing Open Design Day, a free design day aimed at explaining the concepts of design and the ...

Free architects Freelance designers

U.A.E

The Mobile Show Middle East 2016

Mobile is changing the way that all businesses engage, influence and ultimately sell to the new digital customer. Being a ‘mobile first’ c...

The mobile show ecommerce show Alumni conference

U.A.E

Cards and Payments Middle East 2016

Commerce is constantly evolving and technology continues to transform the way consumers, businesses, citizens and governments connect, ...

ecommerce middle east Cards and payment 2016

Lebanon

INJAZ Lebanon's Innovation Camp (iCamp) for schools in Tripoli

INJAZ Lebanon, an NGO member of INJAZ Al-Arab and Junior Achievement Worldwide, are running a one-day event, Innovation Camp (iCAMP), in T...

innovation workshop Injaz Lebanon schools

U.A.E

Entrepreneur Journey Session - Founder Series, with AFKARMENA CEO Maurice Tanas

Young Arab Leaders (YAL), an independent organization which aims to empower the next generation of leaders in the Arab World, is ...

AFKARMENA Maurice Tanas founder series

U.A.E

Codemotion Dubai 2016

Codemotion confernece, the biggest tech conference in Italy and one of the most important in Europe with a network of more than 30,000 ...

Codemotion Dealmakers impact hub dubai

Lebanon

Girls got IT: Encouraging girls to choose tech

On the 12th of March 2016, five organizaions dedicated to supporting women in tech will be bringing together 400 female high school ...

DOT girls who code schools

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