Intigral, Middle East’s leading digital media solutions provider and Saudi Telecom Company is inviting all Saudi developers to its first-ever ‘Sports themed Hackathon’ in Riyadh.

The day-long event is open to all developers, both novice and advanced, and will take place on Thursday, January 10 from 8:30 am. In addition to learning skills from Intigral’s leading developers prizes will also be awarded to participants.

Popular world over, hackathons are community-focused events that bring together application developers, computer programmers, software professionals and technology enthusiasts to collaborate, learn and develop new apps and software.

“The developer community in Saudi has been growing at an exponential rate and has shown huge potential especially when it comes to creating local, regionally relevant content,” said Mazroua Almazroua, Developers Community Manager, Intigral. “The hackathon aims to bring together all Saudi software developers to drive new innovation and raise the level of awareness on the recent trends in operating systems and applications on a regional level.”

The sports hackathon is an STC initiative and part of a series of events aimed at application developers across Saudi Arabia.