Deadline: 10-Aug-21
The Sharjah Advanced Industry Accelerator (SAIA) is offering Disrupting the Future Industries Together, the second edition of an exciting hybrid venture scaling program in the Middle East. Unleash your startup to access the advanced industry landscape across the region.
Focus Areas
- Mobility: Software equipped with Big Data/AI technology that stores a vast amount of business & construction data to help automate operational & construction processes.
- Smart Cities: Materials designed to have controllable and adjustable properties depending on external stimulus such as stress, moisture, electric or magnetic fields, light, temperature, pH, or chemical compounds.
- Sustainable Technologies: Solutions that allow sustainable architectural designs seeking to optimize natural resources and processes in buildings (selection of materials, proper use of space, ideal selection of the places…) to reduce the environmental damage.
- Manufacturing & IOT: Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers both anapproach and the application of processes towards a building’s life-cycle environmentally responsible and resource-efficient.
- Advanced Healthcare: Tools involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places to save time and detect potential issues before they cause a problem.
- Additive Manufacturing: Reducing costs, time and increasing flexibility through solutions based on 3D printing technologies to create highly detailed models and print life-size objects -or parts of them, that are difficult to produce.
- Future Construction: Solutions based on technologies to catch signals of upcoming threat of infrastructures. They are also looking for cross-sector solutions (e.g. mobility) to improve connection and cooperation along the construction value chain.
- Modularization / Prefabrication: Solutions based on modular building to increase productivity, simplify logistics, minimize risks, help to decrease material waste and create less impact to the surrounding environment.
Benefits
SAIA 2021 / 2022
- 20 Finalists
- Prize pool of up to $1,000,000
- Equity Free grants of up to $100,000
- Commercial Contracts worth $150,000 with leading corporates
- Soft landing prizes worth up to $50,000
- Piloting and market access support will be provided to the finalists in the UAE.
- Advisory & Mentorship from market leaders
- Access to MENA’s largest additive manufacturing & Fast prototyping hub
- Access to investors, academic & private network
Technologies
- Big data
- 3D Printing
- Internet of Things
- Robotics
- Digital twin
- Augmented reality
- Artificial Intelligence
- Clouds
- Blockchain and Cyber security
- Demand-driven supply chain
For more information, visit https://srtip.ae/accelerator/