Deadline: 21-Sep-22
If you’re a team of inventors looking to use your talent to solve some of the big challenges related to technology in the service of people, water Innovation, green hydrogen or e-fuels then apply now and show your critical-thinking skills.
Goals
- To foster open inclusivity and innovation across Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning start-up community, turning great ideas into viable businesses.
- To establish a unique platform, where homegrown talent can pioneer cross-sector innovation – supporting NEOM’s ambition to tackle global challenges.
- To build a vibrant ecosystem, where ideas are accelerated from labs to market.
- To establish a dedicated home for young talents, researchers and creative thinkers to collaborate in a real-life testing environment.
Focus Areas
- Water: Water innovation to develop sustainable solutions addressing scarcity challenges – from advanced desalination and brine management to water recycling and smart water technologies.
- Technology: Develop technology in the service of people, that respects individual choice and enhances life through personalized, predictive and autonomous services intuitively integrated into the environment.
- E-Fuels: Explore technologies that leverage e-fuel solutions to reduce CO2 emissions in the transport and heating market – all the way to climate neutrality, with the goal to be fully powered by 1OO% clean energy.
- Green Hydrogen: Hydrogen will play a key role in the renewable energy transition, decarbonizing end uses. New clean technologies to use green hydrogen will be the biggest driver for the future of global decarbonization.
Focus Capabilities to be used for the Challenge
- Advanced sensing & internet of things
- Robotics, automated guided vehicles & drones
- Material science & nanotechnology
- Big data analytics & artificial intelligence.
Eligibility Criteria
- Males and females
- Teams of two to six, aged 18-65
- Saudi-based with a Saudi national as team leader
- Programmers, developers, designers, students, academics, founders, marketers, entrepreneurs
- Critical thinkers with big ideas.
For more information, visit https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/oxagon/hackathon