Telecom Egypt’s innovation hub, managed by Significa: building an innovation ecosystem around the operator, from academies and hackathons to startups, partnerships and board reporting.
A cybersecurity ecosystem, built from scratch.
Cybersecurity academy
Three tracks (offensive, defensive, and governance, risk & compliance) over two rounds, with business and entrepreneurship training.
National hackathon
Egypt’s leading cybersecurity hackathon of the year.
Accelerator
An acceleration track for three cybersecurity startups.
A programme, not a single event.
From 2023 to 2025: two academy rounds, two national hackathons, an accelerator with grant-funded startups, conference partnerships and an always-on community.
- March 2023
Delivery partners on board
DX Technologies for the cybersecurity academy and CyberTalents for the hackathon.
- May 2023
First national hackathon
Three days at CDIS 2023 in Cairo, brought by WE and EG-CERT and sponsored by NTRA.
- 2023
Academy, round one
Offensive, defensive and GRC tracks, with business and entrepreneurship training.
- First half of 2024
Academy round two and the accelerator
The second academy round closed, and the winning startups went through acceleration with legal support on their contracts.
- May 2024
Second hackathon, CDIS 2024
523 applicants, 77 teams, 75 mentorship hours and five winning teams.
- June 2024 to January 2025
Community and grants
A Cybersecurity Innovation Series event, partnerships with CSIS Egypt and the Arab Academy’s entrepreneurship conference, and the final grants to startups including Pianat.ai and ZeroSploit.
One funnel, from skills to scale-ups.
WE INNOVATE manages and develops Telecom Egypt’s innovation funnel. Five stages take people and ideas from first skills to investment, and five enablers keep the whole funnel running.
Started in cybersecurity. Today, expanding into
- AI
- Deep tech
- IoT
- WE INNOVATEACADEMY
Academies and bootcamps that build skills for founders and talent.
- WE INNOVATEHACKATHON
Hackathons that turn skills into ideas and teams.
- WE INNOVATESTAR
The Star programme takes the strongest teams to viable businesses.
- WE INNOVATEVENTURE CLIENTING
A dedicated programme placing startups with TE business units as paying pilots.
- WE INNOVATECVC
Corporate venture capital (CVC) for the startups that prove themselves.
- Digital platform
Applications, pipeline and reporting in one place.
- Media management
The programme’s story, told across channels.
- Partnerships development
Hubs, universities and technology partners.
- Internal capability building
Training TE’s own teams to run innovation.
- Governance & reporting
Board-grade scorecards and programme governance.
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