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TASMU: FROM SMART QATAR TO A COGNITIVE QATAR
MWC26 DOHA: SECOND EDITION THEME: THE AGE OF INTELLIGENCE
TAKWEEN CITY WORKSHOPS AT THE QITAF QURANIC FORUM
3D PRINTING & SMART MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE 2026
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NASA Space Apps Challenge comes to QSTP: 14–15 November, 80 seats, free to join 🚀🇶🇦
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Coffee & Community in Lusail, plus an Aster Privilege Card for the Startup Grind Doha community ☕🇶🇦
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Four Startup Qatar companies pitch at Web Summit Lisbon 🚀🇶🇦
Indica Amarasinghe speaks at MWC26 Doha 🎤🇶🇦
⏳ It starts tomorrow!
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Perfect your pitch and impress investors 🎤🇶🇦
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SMALL PROJECTS FORUM QATAR UNIVERSITY · 9 NOVEMBER
SKEEK AL DOHA CALLS QATAR'S VENDORS & FOUNDERS
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COFFEE & COMMUNITY LUSAIL · SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER
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FINJAN MAJLIS MEETS IN LUSAIL PAYLATER PITCHES ITS GROWTH ROUND
QIC'S LAQTA HACKATHON ONE DAY, ONE AI-BUILT CAMPAIGN
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AI FOR STARTUPS: FIRST WORKSHOP TODAY
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DOWNTOWN TECH SUMMIT DOHA · 17 NOVEMBER 2026
BUILD YOUR STARTUP ON A SOUND LEGAL FOUNDATION
FUNDABLE TODAY, ACQUIRABLE TOMORROW
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Turn your idea into a working product: QSTP × Replit Buildathon, 28 October 🛠️🇶🇦
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World Investment Forum in Doha, 25–27 October, with an entrepreneurship track 🌐🇶🇦
WISE EdTech Accelerator: applications close 31 October 🎓🇶🇦
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MWC26 Doha opens 8 November, with Vora’s founder among its speakers 📡🇶🇦
Snoonu founder Hamad Al Hajri speaks at Downtown Tech Summit, 17 November 🚀🇶🇦
Law is the foundation of a lasting venture ⚖️🇶🇦
QBIC picks 17 startups for the Pre-Accelerator Program 2026 🚀🇶🇦
NextGen Founders Hackathon: tech for food and packaging 🌱🇶🇦
Qai × Hugging Face Hackathon 01: 48 hours to build in Doha 🤗🇶🇦
QSTP is launching Pitch to The 300: Investor-Startup Connect, a biweekly session that puts startups in front of The 300, its community of women impact investors. Four to five startups pitch each time, and the investors decide who earns their investment.
GenAI in Practice for Startups 🤖🇶🇦
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Qatar Development Bank is development sponsor of the Doha International Conference on AI & Security 2026, and invites companies in the sector to exhibit at the accompanying exhibition with support from its Local Exhibition Sponsorship grant.
In her first media interview since becoming QSTP President about a year ago, Rama Chakaki told Al-Sharq that applications to join the park rose from about 670 in a year to more than 4,600 the following year, after a new direction set in May 2025.
Qatar Leadership Centre holds the third Leadership Innovation Forum, its flagship annual convening, on Wednesday 28 October, 8:30am–2:45pm, at Raffles Doha, Katara Hall. The theme: "Strategy Before Activity: Building Institutions That Outlast the Leader."
Snoonu Academy wrapped "Build Your Own App in Two Days" at Qatar Chamber on 29–30 September, in partnership with Lovable, teaching people to build websites and apps with no coding background.
San Francisco early-stage VC firm Alif is hosting a mixer with Qatar Science & Technology Park, a member of Qatar Foundation, during SF Tech Week.
GrowthX Capital is taking startup pitch decks through its website, and has published a step-by-step guide after a wave of questions on how to send one in.
Qatar launches two new cyber risk frameworks 🔐🇶🇦
Finland courts Qatari capital for its €250bn tech goal 🇫🇮🇶🇦
Vora wins the Startup World Cup Qatar Regional 🏆🇶🇦
Doha AI Security Summit 2026 🛡️🇶🇦
EO Qatar invites founders to apply 🤝🇶🇦
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Najah Qatari returns for its 8th edition ✨🇶🇦
Scale Now opens Cycle 5 🚀🇶🇦
Your Game is My Idea hackathon 2026 🎲🇶🇦
Empowering SMEs to adapt to regional change 🇶🇦
What does it take to build a company that lasts? 👀
Invest Qatar has signed an MoU with Aurion Capital, a global investment group, and LG NOVA, LG Electronics' Silicon Valley-based North America Innovation Centre.
Al Thakhira Girls' Forum, part of Al Thakhira Youth Centre, has wrapped up She Innovates, an event for young women's projects, in collaboration with the Young Entrepreneurs Club (YEC), supported by Qatar Chamber and sponsored by Snoonu.
Inc. Arabia and Msheireb Properties bring the Best in Business Awards to Qatar for the first time on 18 November 2026 at Msheireb Downtown Doha, after editions in Dubai and Riyadh. Winners are named at an awards gala dinner.
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Doha hosts the Startup World Cup regional final on 29 September, on the Global Innovation Stage at QFEX 2026, Hilton Doha, before regional venture capitalists and technology executives.
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QVenture Capital Association brought members, sponsors and partners together at The St. Regis Doha. Nearly a dozen venture funds were represented, alongside professional services firms and other stakeholders, plus newcomers to Qatar joining the local venture community.
Qatar Science & Technology Park published a piece by Ali Abusheikh on 20 September 2026 on the Founder-Market Fit workshop led by entrepreneur and investor Youcef Oudjidane during the Sprint phase of its redesigned Fall 2026 Incubation Program.
HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, launched Doha Investment at the Qatar Economic Forum: UNGA Special Edition in New York on 20 September 2026.
Y Combinator has published the Fall 2026 edition of its Request for Startups — thirteen ideas it would like founders to tackle. RFS is a long-running tradition: a signal of what gets funded, not a requirement to apply, and a fraction of what YC backs.
The annual Google Cloud Summit lands in Doha on Tuesday 22 September 2026, starting at 8:30 AM at the Qatar National Convention Centre, Exhibition Halls 8 and 9, Al Rayyan.
Invest Qatar Gateway has added a Venture Capital Funding Module, developed with the Qatar Investment Authority and open to every Gateway member.
Nama Social Development Center, part of Qatar Foundation for Social Work, has opened the third edition of its Social Entrepreneurship Award.