Over 40,000 investors, entrepreneurs, innovators and startup companies are expected to attend this year’s BIBAN Conference in Riyadh September 17th-20th. The 4-day summit, hosted by The Small and Medium Enterprises Authority, aims to raise community awareness about the importance of innovation...
read moreDetecting floods can be the link between city planning and saving lives in disaster relief situations. For KAUST researchers turned entrepreneurs Ahmad Delwah, Edward Canepa and Moustafa Moussa, it’s now their job. They were students at KAUST when floods hit...
read more‘Promising Saudi Startups’ is a term Forbes Middle East has associated with a number of KAUST startups this year. Forbes Middle East recently published a list of startups they announced as The 50 Most Promising Saudi Startups featuring KAUST startups...
read moreWhat a great experience! The Global Grad Show at Dubai Design Week took place from the 24th – 29th of October 2016 in Dubai, attracting over 50 Universities from 30 different countries. The show has grown to become the world’s...
read moreKAUST Startup SONATE: Top 6 at SLUSH Singapore! SLUSH is a student-driven non-profit movement originating in Finland in 2008, that facilitates founder and investor meetings in an effort to to build a world-wide startup community. SLUSH Singapore was their first foray into Asia and...
read moreAs part of its broader innovation and economic development mission, KAUST is expanding its support and training for entrepreneurship to meet the growing interest amongst students (and young people across the Kingdom) in innovation, creativity and design. There are some...
read moreEight startups, mentored by the Entrepreneurship Center and Innovation Fund, competed for $80,000 USD in prizes at KAUST Innovation’s Startup Accelerator Showcase on March 10, 2016. Each team presented their company pitch and were judged by a panel of judges...
read moreTwo KAUST students won a ‘Best Poster’ award at the ‘Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference on Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy,’ which was held in Jeddah from December 7 to 9, 2015. Mustafa Mousa and Ahmad Dehwah, KAUST PhD students...
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