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Hako and a camel crossing Qatar's sunlit dunes.

Doha, Qatar January 2027

HakaitonQatar 2027

Learn the tools. Build something real.
The AI hackathon coming to the Gulf.

Get early access How it works

Qatar Science &
Technology Park

Three virtual sessions.
One intensive day in Doha.

No coding required.
Proven format

25+ editions.Real briefs, balanced teams and ideas built under pressure.

Three virtual sessionsOne intensive day in Doha

Explore the format

The gap

Capital can be
acquired.
Capability has to
be practised.

The timing isn't accidental. The infrastructure in Qatar is already in place, but the region still can't find the people to use it.That's not a tech gap. It's a practice gap.

US$2.5B
committed by Qatar through its Digital Agenda 2030
71%
of employers across MENA report they cannot find candidates with AI skills

HAKAITON started as an internal training session in a single office. Our own team needed to learn how to use artificial intelligence in their work. So we built a way to practise it. It worked, so we ran it again. And again.

Track record

Before Qatar, the format already worked

One sector per edition: marketing, the audiovisual industry, fintech, tourism. Real briefs, real teams, judged the same day.

25+
Editions run
3,000+
Professionals trained
100+
Live projects pitched
900+
Hours of training

The format

Three sessions.
One big day.

From your first prompt to your final pitch. A practical path for every professional profile.

Find your place
  1. Virtual session

    The toolkit

    Get hands on the models and tools that actually move work forward. Live, guided, no prior AI experience assumed.

    Explore the tools
  2. Virtual session

    Applied practice

    Take the tools to real tasks from your own field. Leave with a working method you can use the next day.

    Put AI to work
  3. Virtual session

    Building the brief

    Meet the challenge. Meet your team. Different skills come together around one real industry problem.

    Find your team
  4. In person · Doha

    Solve. Build. Pitch.

    One intensive day at Qatar Science & Technology Park. Build against the clock and present your solution to a jury.

    Make it happen
Hako, the HAKAITON robot mascot, wearing a Qatari ghutra and maroon bisht.

Your guide

A familiar face.
A new frontier.

Meet Hako. Your companion from the first virtual session to the floor at Qatar Science & Technology Park.

Curiosity is the only prerequisite. Bring yours.

Hako character design shown from four angles.

From Argentina to Qatar

Built on experience.
Bound for Doha.

Delivered by HAK and MASH Global at Qatar Science & Technology Park.

Hako on the Doha Corniche with the West Bay skyline.

Doha

The next chapter
Hako on Avenida Corrientes in Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires

Where it started
Hako and a camel on the dunes of Qatar.

Al Rayyan

A new perspective

The film

What if learning AI
were the experience?

HAKAITON brings a new way of learning: hands-on practice, real challenges, collaboration and creativity. An experience that turns knowledge into action.

Applications open soon@hakaiton.qa

Applications open soon

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in Doha

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