KUWAIT: Zain and Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity (SACGC) – a center of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), have jointly hosted a workshop for students from Kuwait University’s College of Life Sciences, Department of Information Science. The insightful session covered the essentials of digital innovation and entrepreneurship.

This workshop came under the strategic partnership between Zain and SACGC, part of the Innovation Nation initiative that strives to foster creativity, innovation, digital upskilling, and entrepreneurship in the community. The initiative strives to share private sector expertise with students and graduates from schools and universities across Kuwait and has contributed to empowering thousands of aspiring young people through tens of interactive programs.

The workshop was attended by students and faculty members from the College of Life Sciences. It featured essential topics like establishing startups, building effective teams, creating an impactful brand, attracting potential investors, and developing strategies, services, and products. The session also gave the students exercises to make their own startups and pitch them to investors to achieve sustainable growth.

This step is a continuation of the fruitful collaboration between Zain and the Department of Information Science, College of Life Sciences. Last year, Zain hosted a special tour of its Subahiya datacenter for a group of graduate students from the department. The visit provided the students with a firsthand understanding of Zain’s cutting-edge infrastructure and its role in supporting Kuwait’s digital transformation journey.

This initiative adds to the long list of programs co-presented by Zain and Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity under their joint vision to achieve a number of strategic pillars, like fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, upskilling young people, empowering startup owners, investing in youth’s digital skills, and more.