ITLI Alexandria and Cairo participation in Smart Suez Canal Hackathon

The Deans of International Transport and Logistics Institute (ITLI) in Cairo - Prof. Mohamed Ali and Alexandria - Dr Islam EL-Nakib has organized and participated in The Smart Suez Canal Hackathon. Which is the first hackathon in Egypt that considers innovation in turning our new canal into a smart one. As estimated the number of vessels expected to pass on daily basis in the new canal is up to 97 vessels, various challenges will emerge such as logistics optimization, security, energy consumption, support services, etc. Massive opportunities for the young leaders and creative startups to have a major role in this hackathon.

TIEC stands up and be accounted for having inputs in this mega project by calling the finest to derive the best ideas and concept and connecting industry with startups to have global products in the domain of challenges.

The process of hackathon starts by presenting challenges by the Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. Followed by the ideation where challenges are translated into ideas. Finally the Hackathon, ideas will be translated into prototypes. The objective of this hackathon is to tackling logistics problems of the new Suez Canal and coming up with innovative solutions for smart ports.

Event URL: http://tiec.gov.eg/SuezCanalHackathon/pages/frontend/index.html