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Join us for the Ruya AI Hackathon on February 14th co-hosted by our partners @AUDubai . Build self-improving agents that learn, adapt, and optimize. Builders, students, researchers, and engineers, register now: hackathon.ruya.ai

Thank You to everyone who joined us for the Ruya Hackathon 2026 yesterday! 200 of us hacked, had fun and built the future of AI together! See you at the next hackathon!

Meet The Speakers: Ezzat Mohamed, AWS @awscloud Strategic AI/ML sales leader with 18+ years driving enterprise cloud AI transformation, go-to-market execution, and partner ecosystem growth across MENAT. Proven track record building and expanding customer relationships with FSI, Retail, sovereign entities, and high-growth ISVs. Deep expertise in AI/ML solution selling, technical enablement, and executive advisory.

Meet The Speakers: Dr Wael Bazzi Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Computer Engineering at American University in Dubai. @AUDubai

Our partner @awscloud will support a selected team not just at the prototype stage, but all the way to building a real company. As they take the next step and incorporate in the UAE, AWS will award $10,000 in credits to help accelerate development and scale what they’ve started.

Meet The Speakers: Mohamed Saieed, @datamellon Mohamed is an AI Growth Director in the GCC, tech expeer, and digital transformation strategist. He helps enterprises scale through AI, cloud, and data solutions while building one of the region’s most influential tech creator communities. With a strong presence across the Middle East, Mohamed bridges innovation, business growth, and future technology.

Your challenge: Build an AI multi agent system that can improve itself over time, meaning it should: ⚫️learn from feedback, ⚫️update its strategy, ⚫️get better at completing tasks, and show measurable improvement across runs.

Over the course of one intense build day, your team will architect, prototype, and demo an agent that improves itself. Maybe it's a coding assistant that gets faster at debugging the more bugs it encounters. Maybe it's a research agent that sharpens its search strategies after every query. Maybe it's a multi-agent system where individual agents teach each other. The direction is yours - the only rule is that your agent must be measurably better at the end of a run than it was at the beginning.

What happens when an AI system stops waiting for instructions and starts getting better on its own? That's the question at the heart of this hackathon. We're bringing builders together to tackle one of the most exciting frontiers in AI: agents that evaluate their own performance, identify their weaknesses, and actively work to close the gap, without being retrained from scratch.

Final 24 hours. 500+ Applications. 130 Participants chosen to compete for 25,000 USD in prizes. Judging panel: Experts from Palantir, AWS, ClickHouse, Ruya AI and Berkeley BASICS Startup Incubator. Do not miss your chance to build the future of AI.

We’re excited to welcome @AntlerGlobal as an official partner of the Ruya AI Hackathon. @AntlerGlobal will award one standout team a direct seat in their April 6th Dubai Residency, giving each participant the chance to build with Antler from day zero, independently or together, with access to up to $500K in potential investment.

We are pleased to announce the judging panel for the RUYA AI Hackathon on February 14: @aberbic94 (@Ruya_AI), @tylerhannan (@ClickHouseDB) , @JunaidQx (@Ruya_AI), @MikeSJacobs1 (@QluuLab), Siddhant Dayal (@PalantirTech), @sakows (Independent), Akash Manilal (@A2_SV), Ezzat Mohamed (@awscloud). Leaders from frontier AI, cybersecurity, and biotech.

Build something that matters. 25,000 USD total prize pool. Sponsored by @Ruya_AI and our partners @ClickHouseDB @awscloud @datamellon_ltd @elevenlabs. 1st Place: 10,000 USD. 2nd Place: 6,000 USD. 3rd Place: 4,000 USD. We will also be giving away 3,000 USD in AWS and Datamellon credits (1,000 USD for each of the winning teams). All participants receive access to Amazon Bedrock on the 14th and one month of ElevenLabs Creator tier. Winning team members also receive 3 months of @ElevenLabs Pro and Best Project built with their solution receives 6 months of Scale per team member. We thank our partners from @USAinUAE and @AUDubai for their support. February 14th — American University in Dubai. Apply now: hackathon.ruya.ai