Arab Artificial Intelligence Summit 2019

Phi Science Institute, in cooperation with Beyond Limits, Minister of Information and Communications Technology and Minister of Youth, decided to take the lead of gathering 1600+ AI professionals, scientists, governments, start-ups, and different stakeholders, at one place and from all over the world to discuss, challenge, and share future prospects of artificial intelligence in the Arab region.

Themes:

• General Awareness.
• AI for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
• Digital Transformation.

Eligibility:

1. Applicants must be between 18 and 40 years old.
2. All Arab nationalities are eligible to apply.
3. The applications can be submitted either by:
   • Startup companies that work in the field of AI.
   • Individuals or teams of developer up to 4 members.

Terms and Conditions:

1. Applications’ submission starts from June 21st, 2019 until:
   • Midnight of Aug 21st, 2019 for developers (Individuals/ Teams).
   • Midnight of Oct 1st, 2019 for startups.
2. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
3. All applications must be fully completed, otherwise will be excluded immediately.
4. Only applications submitted through the website form will be accepted.
5. Scientific fraud and misconduct at any level of the competition will lead to exclusion from any Phi competition. This includes plagiarism, forgery, use or presentation of other’s work as one’s own and fabrication of data.
6. All contributors to the idea must be mentioned and stated.
7. An application submitted must submit one leading person for contact and competition administrative purposes.
8. Biases and facts-manipulation applications will be directly eliminated.
9. Projects must not contain any potentially harmful or abusive applications. And must be aligned with the principles of international law and human rights.
10. The top chosen applicants from the first stage will be asked to send the following:
    • A short 1-2 minute video summarizing their projects.
    • Their pictures and biographies.
    • Their presentations/ prototypes at least 1 week before the summit.
    • A poster to be presented at the summit exhibition summarizing their work.
11. Phi Science Institute will have an equity of the business side without having any royalties. This equity will be as follows so we can recycle that return to fund other promising projects:
    • 10% from winners in the “Developers” track
    • 1% from winners in the “Startups” track
12. Any sufficient programming language can be used through any suitable platform to satisfy the goal. 

Prizes:

• For Startups: $15,000 USD for the first winner.
• For ideas from Individuals/ teams: $7,500 USD for the first winner.