UAE Business: MoIAT and Edge Launch ‘Pioneers 4.0’ Hackathon Series – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: MoIAT and Edge Launch ‘Pioneers 4.0’ Hackathon Series – Gulf Digital News

The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) and Edge Group have completed the first ‘Pioneers 4.0’ Hackathon series, as part of a series of initiatives to accelerate digital transformation.

This follows the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the two parties in August 2022, which aims to expand the offerings of Edge’s Learning & Innovation Factory to the UAE’s industrial ecosystem, and to collaborate on the establishment of an Industry 4.0 Enablement Centre.

The ‘Pioneers 4.0’ Hackathon series will host two challenges per year. Each challenge will have a unique problem statement that addresses industrial pain points to encourage digital transformation and operational excellence in various factories setups, and to enable participants to better predict and prepare for the industry’s needs and future requirements.

Innovative solution

The inaugural challenge of ‘Pioneers 4.0’ took place from November 21 to 22, 2022 at the Edge Learning & Innovation Factory in Abu Dhabi in partnership with Microsoft as a Technical Partner.

It enabled 15 students from some of the UAE’s leading universities, including the American University of Sharjah, Higher College of Technology, Khalifa University, Mohammed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), New York University Abu Dhabi, Zayed University and the University of Manchester, to collaborate in