{"id":399869,"date":"2025-11-26T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=399869"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:10:36","slug":"kuwait-to-host-ai-focused-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/kuwait-to-host-ai-focused-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait to host AI-focused hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Kuwait is committed to accelerating digital transformation and will host an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hackathon next February, Kuwaiti state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuna.net.kw\/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=3261845&amp;Language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KUNA<\/a> reported, as part of its coverage of the Innovation Day Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the forum, Sundus Bushahri, General Manager of SAP Kuwait, announced the first hackathon in partnership with Kuwait University. According to Bushahri, the initiative will bring together government agencies, universities, and emerging innovators to develop advanced AI solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAP is a German multinational company specializing in enterprise software, cloud solutions, and technical support services, with operations worldwide. Recently, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with Kuwait\u2019s Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) to equip young people in the country with future-ready skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Innovation Day Forum organized by SAP, Kuwait\u2019s Minister of State for Communications, Omar Al-Omar, highlighted the government\u2019s commitment to accelerating the country\u2019s digital transformation and building a modern system to boost governmental efficiency and support a competitive national economy. He emphasized that digitalization has become a key pillar for strong economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-kuwait-plan-to-expand-trade-exchanges\/\">Brazil, Kuwait plan to expand trade exchanges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-399866\">\u00a9Arif H\u00c3\u00bcdaverdi Yaman\/Anadolu\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP held the Innovation Day Forum in the Arab country and announced a 2026 innovation marathon centered on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":399866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[8265,8266,55167,3667,29322,35968],"class_list":{"0":"post-399869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-innovation","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-hackaton","11":"tag-innovation","12":"tag-inovacao-en","13":"tag-inteligencia-artificial-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"SAP held the Innovation Day Forum in the Arab country and announced a 2026 innovation marathon centered on artificial intelligence.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}