Today, Saturday, October 24, 2026, Al-Qassim University concluded the activities of the \u00abFood Loss and Waste Hackathon\u00bb, which was organized by the university represented by the Institute of Studies and Consulting Services, in cooperation with the General Authority for Food Security, over two days in the main lobby of the university campus, where 50 innovative ideas, including 25 in-person and 25 remote ones, qualified for the final event within 5 tracks.
The hackathon was held under the title \u201cToday we innovate for tomorrow without loss or waste\u201d, after accepting more than 220 innovative ideas, with the aim of involving experts in addressing the issue of food loss and waste through practical, implementable solutions, and stimulating innovation across the five stages of the food value chain.<\/p>
The hackers also aimed to employ technology, data, and artificial intelligence in developing solutions to improve supply chains and measure loss and waste indicators, and to strengthen the active partnership between the various sectors involved in food, contributing to achieving the objectives of the Saudi Vision 2030, and supporting the \u00abLasting\u00bb national program to reduce food loss and waste, with the participation of the successful partners, the main sponsor Bank Al-Bahr, Al-Sawala \u2013 Our Value, representatives from Shor Technology, Rive Foundation, Rive Academy, Waqaa Center, and Mroog Foundation.<\/p><\/p>
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اختتمت جامعة القصيم، اليوم السبت 24 أكتوبر 2026م، فعاليات «هاكثون الفقد والهدر الغذائي»، والذي نظمته الجامعة ممثلةً بمعهد الدراسات والخدمات الاستشارية، بالتعاون مع الهيئة العامة للأمن الغذائي، على مدى يومين في البهو الرئيس بالمدينة الجامعية، حيث تأهلت 50 فكرة ابتكارية منها 25 حضوريًا و25 عن بعد، ضمن 5 مسارات إلى الحفل الختامي.وأقيم الهاكثون تحت عنوان […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":81873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"topofweek-line":[],"sdgs":[117],"post-setting":[49],"departments-list":[],"class_list":["post-81867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","sdgs-sdg17","post-setting-top"],"permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81876,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867\/revisions\/81876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81867"},{"taxonomy":"topofweek-line","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topofweek-line?post=81867"},{"taxonomy":"sdgs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sdgs?post=81867"},{"taxonomy":"post-setting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-setting?post=81867"},{"taxonomy":"departments-list","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qu.edu.sa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departments-list?post=81867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}