MiyahThon (Water Hackathon)
SWA's annual water hackathon, run by SWIC: teams go through bootcamps in several cities and a prototype phase, pitch at the IDWS conference, and the winners move into SWIC's incubators.
Closed for now.
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Last intake closed 10 September 2026
[ What you get ]
Digital and in-person bootcamps with technical and business mentoring, a prototype phase, a final at the IDWS conference, and SWIC incubation and acceleration for the winning teams (SWA described the 2025 winners' incubation as 6-8 months)
[ Who it's for ]
MENA track: individual innovators and startups from the Middle East and North Africa (an international track for companies outside MENA is run separately by RIET, Tsinghua)
- Stages
- Idea · Pre-seed
- Sectors
- Water · AI · Sustainability
[ Elden Studios ]
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- 5 days leftCompetition
Saudi Makes Future – Startup Competition
Search On Media Group S.r.l. (organiser of WMF – We Make Future) with PNG KSA
Riyadh · AI · No equity
