The objective of this project is to draw attention to significant parts of daily life while also offering solutions to urgent problems relating to the environment, food, water, and health.

To meet the requirements of the present and future generations in a balanced, adaptable, and integrated manner, that does not threaten human lives, we must increase food security and environmental sustainability. Industry experts meet at our hackathon to discuss technology, environmental sustainability, and food security. Only 22 of the initial 100 teams, including 350 competitors, finished the race. Each team spends three days researching modern technologies and digital solutions in fields including food security and environmental sustainability.
The technology industry expected to contribute $14 trillion to the global economy by 2020 (Accenture).

We believe that the hackathon helps with food provision, gives inventive and creative developers the opportunity to offer solutions while also making a financial contribution, and advances the development of environmentally beneficial strategies, practices, and technologies that will allow us to meet SDGs (goal 3), and achieve (goal 15) on ocean life protection. Furthermore, some solutions may be able to help achieve (goal 11), which calls for more sustainably designed cities (goal 7), besides our needs over time.

https://services.kfu.edu.sa/Hackathon

• Saudi Arabia

• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• Remote and rural communities
• Owners of ideas, Software Developers & Technicians, Specialists & interested in food security and the environment, Sustainability areas, Entrepreneurs, Academics & Students.

The IT hackathons can be repeated annually or every six months, taking into account the applicable SDGs and the needs of humanity both now and in the future. Not only the academic community, but also countries that frequently host conferences on the UN SDGs, can use it.

We believe that the hackathon helps with food provision, gives inventive and creative developers the opportunity to offer solutions while also making a financial contribution, and advances the development of environmentally beneficial strategies, practices, and technologies that will allow us to meet top SDGs like (3,7,11,15) besides regularly humans needs over time.

KFU is motivated to find solutions to issues such as food security and environmental sustainability in order to contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The solutions proposed by participating teams may contribute to the provision of food, allow us to meet SDG Goals. How the KFU HAKATHOON met the SDGs goals (3, 7, 11, and 15)? We at KFU focus on attaining the mentioned UN's Sustainable Development Goals through our major business activities by improving instructional, learning, and scientific research methodologies, establishing community collaborations and growing our innovation and business development sector. We have tremendous faith in the institution's agility and skilled workers to manage impending changes and developments, allowing us to alter our plans as needed. The details below show how the goals of King Faisal University and the hackathon coincide with the SDGs of the UN. -GOAL #3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING Through the Guidance and Counseling Unit, KFU provides many developmental, preventive, and health guidance services, academically, educationally, socially, psychologically, and professionally. -GOAL #7: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY The Research and Consultation Institute of KFU provides expertise and scientific consultancies to serve the community. KFU provides a study to the Ministry of Energy, Industry, and Mineral Resources on the storage of renewable energy in the Kingdom -GOAL #11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES Students and staff are encouraged to participate in those activities. The public can use the KFU sidewalk to exercise or bike, access to its buildings and important landmarks, including school students’ visits, & benefit from the university library. -GOAL #15: LIFE ON LAND A program for treating organic waste. A program for inorganic waste from our campus to the government waste plant. A management program for (solid/liquid/gaseous) hazardous waste directed by a service company in collaboration with the College of Science and Medicine.