Marketing for Startups

KAUST Entrepreneurship Center Building 23, 2nd floor, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

To ensure you understand how business development and commercialization work in the real world, it helps to learn from practitioners—what we sometimes call a “pracademic” approach. Our New Ventures School was established with this idea in mind. The program consists of free evening...

KAUST Career Fair

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Students and graduates meet company representatives to discuss summer internship options and full-time employment opportunities. Presentations and meet-and-greet networking opportunities will be available to students with several of our industry partners.   Looking to hire talented interns or full-time employees from...

Hikma IP-Based Startup Accelerator (Opening Day)

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Hikma is the Arabic term for “wisdom,” alluding to the vision for KAUST as a modern-day “House of Wisdom.” The Hikma IP-Based Startup Accelerator was formed to help identify, develop and speed the formation of intellectual-property-based startups—and thereby grow the Kingdom’s knowledge economy....

New Ventures Accelerator (Opening Day)

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

The KAUST New Ventures Accelerator is run by experienced mentors who apply best practices in Lean and customer development. All types of startup ideas and teams with a mix of technologies, products and services are encouraged to join the program...

Arabian Tech Tour

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Entrepreneurs will have an unprecedented opportunity to meet 80+ international and regional VCs, CVCs and Business Angels in the upcoming Tech Tour hosted at KAUST. The tour will showcase 25 emerging companies and 25 companies in the development/growth stage. One-to-One meetings...

How to Attain the Grit of the World’s Highest Achievers

Register now for the upcoming entrepreneurship speaker series with Scott Ragsdale to learn the secret behind the consistency and perseverance of high achievers like Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Beethoven and others. Chairman and co-founder of Naseba, international business information company,...

Financial Modeling for Startups, by John Eager

Conference Center (Building 19), Level 3, Hall 2

Join us to learn from John Eager, CEO and founder of WinAbu Consulting, how to build a financial model for your startup. About John Eager On qualifying as an accountant in 1994, John's first assignment was in the dynamic growth-by-acquisition Adare PLC....

REVelate Winter

REVelate is a three-day innovation program designed to help a wide variety of organizations in the Kingdom apply innovation methodologies and entrepreneurship techniques within their corporate environments to improve efficiencies and increase competitiveness.

Innovation by Design, by Brian Hayes

Conference Center (Building 19), Level 3, Hall 2

To ensure you understand how business development and commercialization work in the real world, it helps to learn from practitioners—what we sometimes call a “pracademic” approach. Our New Ventures School was established with this idea in mind. The program consists of free evening...

New Ventures School at Jeddah

Bab Rizq Jameel

To ensure you understand how business development and commercialization work in the real world, it helps to learn from practitioners—what we sometimes call a “pracademic” approach. Our New Ventures School was established with this idea in mind. The program consists of free evening...