Seneca Hacks 2025 is an AI and Data Engineering hackathon organized by the Seneca Innovation Center and Junior Enterprise INSAT, held from September 12 to 14, 2025.

The event brings together university students and recent graduates to tackle a high-impact technical challenge focused on building high-performance NLP and data processing pipelines. Seneca Hacks provides a competitive, industry-oriented environment with expert mentoring, professional jury evaluation, and non-cash prizes, where participants design, implement, and demonstrate solutions, evaluated on performance, technical quality, innovation, and user experience..

During Seneca Hacks 2025, I participated as a core member of a team of four named Data4Speed, where we designed and developed StriveAI, an AI-driven athlete health monitoring solution. StriveAI addresses the critical challenge of undetected cardiac risks in high-performance training by combining a smart integrated bodysuit with real-time biometric data processing and AI-powered predictive analysis. As a result of our work, our team achieved 4th place, earning recognition award in the Outstanding Design & Innovation category for the originality, impact, and technical depth of our solution.

Hacka4Environnement: Green Minds was an environmental innovation hackathon organized by Enda held from July 29 to August 1, 2025, at Maison des Jeunes Jedaida, Manouba.

The event brought together young participants to collaboratively design projects addressing pressing environmental challenges such as climate change, water scarcity, waste management, and sustainable energy. Working in small multidisciplinary teams, participants developed innovative and practical solutions while strengthening their skills in creative thinking, project structuring, and pitching ideas before a jury. 

AI Challenge for CSR Hackathon was held on May 24 and 25, 2025, at the Regency Hotel, Gammarth, organized by IEEE, Tunisie Telecom and the Association Tunisienne pour l’Intelligence Artificielle.

The hackathon brought together students, young researchers, and emerging startup founders to develop innovative AI-based solutions addressing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) challenges. Participants collaborated intensively to design practical, impactful applications, presenting their solutions to a jury and competing for recognition and awards. 

DataQuest was a two-day Data Engineering competition held on February 22 and 23, 2025, at the INSAT, organized by the IEEE CS INSAT SB in collaboration with ACM INSAT.

The competition centered on solving diverse, real-world data science and AI challenges, encouraging participants to apply machine learning, deep learning, and analytical techniques to practical scenarios across different domains. Emphasis was placed on building accurate models, extracting meaningful insights from data, and delivering solutions that demonstrate real impact, innovation, and strong problem-solving skills.

Go Data Science (GODS) was a 24-hour Data Science hackathon organized by IEEE ENSI CIS Student Branch, held on February 15 & 16, 2025, at Ibn Khaldoun University, Soukra.

The event brought together students, professionals, and data enthusiasts to tackle real-world challenges using advanced techniques in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Through an intense competitive environment combined with immersive workshops on cutting-edge technologies, GODS fostered collaboration, innovation, and hands-on problem-solving.

D-Clickathon 2024 organized by the International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF), was held on December 7 & 8, 2024, at Espace El Maken, La Marsa. 

The event focused on creating video game prototypes that promote the French language through cultural and educational innovation, combining game development workshops, AI integration, mentorship, and a competitive hackathon to encourage creativity and recognize the most innovative and entrepreneurial projects.

AquaQuest – “Water’s Crisis, Climate’s Call: Innovate Now!” was an event held on November 30, 2024, at the Institut Supérieur d'Informatique, organized by IEEE SIGHT, IAS, and RAS ISI SB.

Bringing together technology enthusiasts and innovators, the event addressed critical challenges related to water scarcity and climate change through a combination of a hands-on bootcamp and a focused hackathon, encouraging the use of IoT and smart technologies to design sustainable and impactful solutions.

INJAZ Tunisia, presents the Innovation Camp, an immersive, four-hour workshop for students held on the 30th of October 2024 in the ESEN's B01 class. 

This interactive event is a golden opportunity to gain essential skills for transforming innovative ideas into viable projects. Participants will explore the foundations of entrepreneurship, work in teams to tackle creative challenges, and engage in a friendly competition to apply their new skills in real time.

Organized by the UVT, this program started with the “IA et Apprentissage Automatique" training, conducted fully online from September 4 to October 24, 2024. 

This training focused on building solid foundations in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, AI ethics, and Microsoft Azure applications, aiming to develop both technical expertise and responsible AI awareness. The initiative concluded with the “Hackathon en IA”, held from October 25 to 27, 2024, at the Hôtel Regency Tunis, Gammarth, where participants compete to transform innovative ideas into practical AI solutions, benefiting from mentorship, collaboration, networking opportunities, and pitch sessions that encouraged impactful and ethical AI adoption across socio-economic sectors.

TechX was a two-day flagship event organized by the IEEE CS ENICarthage Student Branch, held on September 7–8, 2024 at the City of Science, Tunis. 

Aimed at students and young professionals, the event combined technical innovation and professional development through keynote talks, workshops, and interactive sessions led by IEEE figures and industry experts. TechX focused on emerging technologies while also highlighting essential soft skills such as leadership, public speaking, and career readiness.

HACK4IOT (2nd Edition) was a two-day hackathon organized by IEEE IAS ISSATM SB, held on July 9 to 10, 2024 at the Centre Culturel et Sportif de la Jeunesse de Ben Arous. 

The event bringing together IoT and cybersecurity enthusiasts to address security challenges in the IoT ecosystem, featured a mix of technical and non-technical workshops led by experts, followed by an intensive 12-hour hackathon where participants collaborated to design innovative IoT security solutions. 

The Artificial Intelligence National Summit (AINS) is a landmark three-day event organized by IEEE CS INSAT SB, held in Sousse from June 7 to 9, 2024, at the Hôtel Riviera Resort. 

Bringing together expert talks, hands-on competitions, and interactive sessions, the summit focuses on spreading AI knowledge and making it accessible to young minds across the country, with the goal of inspiring and equipping future innovators to shape tomorrow’s tech landscape.

Hack4Data was a two-day Data Engineering hackathon organized by the ESEN's Administration in collaboration with Club Joker ESEN, held on April 26 & 27, 2024 at Class B01, ESEN, Technopôle Manouba. 

The event challenged participants to transform a large real-world dataset into actionable insights by covering the full Data Engineering lifecycle, including ETL, data modeling, KPI definition, and dashboard creation. Working with a dataset of millions of transactions, teams were expected to design a data warehouse, compute business and marketing KPIs, and build interactive dashboards that reveal customer purchasing behavior and support data-driven decision-making, all within a very tight time frame.

Idéation Camp was a Three-days empowering workshop held from August 29 to 31, 2022, at Espace El Kahina, Cité Ettahrir.

Designed to help young aspiring entrepreneurs transform their passions into impactful projects, the camp brought together participants to generate innovative, market-aligned ideas and guided them through the ideation process. Led by expert trainer Sana Touihri, the event strongly aligned with Enda’s mission of fostering sustainable and positive societal transformation.