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We don’t run events. We run initiatives that outlive the room.

Every programme on this page started as a gap somebody complained about in a meetup — and became something with a cohort, a deadline and an output. This is the full list, with what each one has actually produced.

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6
Active initiatives
40+
Meetups delivered
1,000
Creators in training
10
Student startups built
The ledger

What we started, and where it stands.

Ordered by how much of our week each one takes. Nothing here is a concept deck — every entry has run at least one full cohort or season.

01Students building AI solutions in class
Running now

AI For Students

A four-Saturday programme that turns a classroom into a startup floor. Students find a real problem inside their own school or faculty, validate it, build an AI solution and pitch it to a panel of investors. Piloted at Kaumeya Language School with Edge — 50 students, ten working solutions, one now in daily use inside the school and five students placed into internships. Now running at Dar El-Tarbia, across MSA University and at ESLSCA.

50 students10 solutions5 internships3 universities
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02Egypt Eternal Voices
Round 1 live

Egypt Eternal Voices

A national generative-AI storytelling programme built with Dr. Zahi Hawass. Creators learn to interpret Egypt’s history with generative video — verified historical context paired with the tools of the future — across five tracks: storytelling, AI voice, video, animation and translation.

1,000 creators~24,000 learner-hours$10,000 prize pool
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03GenAI Club night
Monthly

GenAI Club & GenAI Nights

Egypt’s generative AI community. A standing room for the people actually making things with generative tools — filmmakers, designers, engineers and founders — plus GenAI Nights, our recurring live format of screenings, build-alongs and studio sessions. Powered by People of Data and Skew, featured by StartupScene and IDSC.

Powered by PoD & SkewStudio partnersCommunity partner: Startup Haus
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04A People of Data meetup
Ongoing

The Meetup Series

The initiative everything else grew out of. Free, open, monthly rooms where practitioners explain what they actually built — not what they read. Forty-plus meetups delivered, and a standing presence across the ecosystem: RiseUp Summit, DSC MENA, TechShift, Techne, Connect X, AI Salon Cairo, GrEEK Campus, and campus sessions from MSA to ESLSCA and Creativa Hub Benha.

40+ meetupsFree & openEcosystem-wide
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05People of Data Data & AI Leaders Meetups
Invite only

Monthly Data & AI Leaders Meetups

No panels, no pitch decks. An elite circle of technology executives, AI specialists and investors in one room to answer a single question: how can functional AI accelerate Egypt’s economy over the next 18 months? Participants included leaders running data ecosystems serving more than 50 million users in Egypt.

Monthly280 at the flagship50M+ users representedCovered by Wamda
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06Corporate AI training session
Running now

Skilllz for Corporates

Our AI school taken in-house. Structured tracks for technical teams, for the non-technical majority of a workforce, and a separate closed-door track for executives and CEOs who have to make the adoption call. Delivered on site, in the company’s own tools and its own data.

AI FluencyClaude FoundationsAgentic AIIndustry-focused
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Next up

Two things already in build.

October 2026

AI Film Festival — Round Zero

The films made inside Egypt Eternal Voices come out of the edit and onto a screen, in front of a jury and an audience. The first festival in Egypt where every frame was made with generative tools — and where the prize goes to the story, not the software.

Coming soon

Agentic Club

The next community after GenAI Club, for the people building agents rather than prompts — tooling, evaluation, orchestration and the operational reality of putting an agent in front of real users. Opening for founding members shortly.

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Every initiative here began with one conversation.

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AI For Everyone, Everywhere!

Not a slogan. A test we hold every programme to — if it only reaches Cairo, or only reaches people who already had a head start, we haven't done the work.

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