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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.

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[ 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)

Run by
Saudi Water Innovation Center (Saudi Water Authority)
Equity
Not published
Format
Hybrid
Where
Multiple cities
Duration
about 4.5 months (Aug-Dec 2026), then 6-8 months of incubation for winners
Stages
Idea · Pre-seed
Sectors
Water · Desalination · Wastewater · AI · Cleantech

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Checked against the operator's own pages on 2 October 2026.

Sources:app.waterinnovationplatform.comswa.gov.sa