Coming up Events and Competitions that You don’t Want to Miss

• Ye! Global Awards 2017

The Ye! Global Awards is an annual award that acknowledges and celebrates an outstanding young entrepreneur’s work in deploying innovative solutions and business models in a startup company that demonstrates not only high growth potential, but also high impact on the society.

Any entrepreneur, from any country who is under 30 years old and whose startup has been officially running for over a year with proven customer base and potential for sustainable job creation, can apply.

The winner of Ye! Global Awards will receive the prestigious award during the Global Inclusion Award Gala in Berlin on May 3rd and an exclusive invitation to take part in the high-level G20 GPFI Forum.

 - Apply here 

 - Deadline: 15th March

• The AUC Venture Lab FinTech Accelerator Ideation Sessions

The AUC Venture Lab FinTech Accelerator in collaboration with CIB hold a series  of Ideation Sessions where they bring up finance, business & technical graduates and professionals together to a session about "Inclusion."  This session –that is on March 21st- aims to brainstorm ideas that will create opportunities for financial services and financial inclusion.

 - Apply here to get your invitation

 - Deadline: Reserve your invitation as soon as possible 

• Maker Faire Cairo 2017

Maker Faire is the greatest showcase of inventions where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning. The event is to showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. Maker Faire Cairo aims to entertain, inform, connect and grow the innovation community through workshops, sessions, talks, projects, exhibitions and performances. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to entrepreneurs to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers; they are of all ages and backgrounds.

 - Apply here

 - Deadline for Early bird tickets 24th of March

• Startup Reactor Spark

Startup Reactor is a 5­-month program aimed at supporting and accelerating startups in Egypt with a high potential for accelerated growth. 30 startups will qualify for the First Bootcamp Stage and will receive mentorship and training. The top 3 startups will receive 15,000 Euros worth of cash prizes and investment opportunities from Innoventures and VC4Africa. The prizes are 8,000 Euros, 4,000 Euros, and 2,000 Euros respectively and a bonus prize worth 1,000 Euros will be provided through audience vote.

If you are an entrepreneur who is less than 35 years old or at least have one of team members who is younger than 35, have a 3 year old startup aka in operations, based in Egypt and willing to join the program in Cairo moreover, your startup received more than 100,000 EGP funding then don’t miss this chance and apply.

 - Apply here

 - Deadline: 1st of April

• ElRe7la

ElRehla or “The Journey” is a 4 day camping experience outside of the city bringing together 60-90 entrepreneurs, leaders and people who make things happen for a connective experience. ElRehla is trying to connect talented individuals, leaders, teams and entrepreneurs together more effectively.

The next camp will be at the end of April so don’t miss your chance and apply today. To know more click here

 - Apply here

 - Deadline: 8th of April

Don’t miss your chance to network, to compete, and to share your ideas to get feedback.