UAE university, Al Ain sports and cultural club organize “Artificial Intelligence Football Hackathon” and Sports Media Content competition

UAE university, Al Ain sports and cultural club organize “Artificial Intelligence Football Hackathon” and Sports Media Content competition

UAE university, Al Ain sports and cultural club organized “Artificial Intelligence Football Hackathon and Sports Media Content competition” event, which brings together innovation and technology in the realm of sports, with the attendance of His Excellency Hamad Nakhirat Al Ameri, who is the managing director of Al Ain sports and cultural club, His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Ali Al Raisi, who is the university’s acting president, an elite congregation of creators and innovators in the field of artificial intelligence and sports, as well as the faculty members and students. The event took place in the grand hall at the crescent building within the university campus at the city of Al Ain.

His Excellency Hamad Nakhirat Al Ameri, who is the managing director of Al Ain sports and cultural club, referred to the fruitful cooperation between the university and Al Ain sports and cultural club, as this major event reflects the spirit of integration between the academic institutions and sport, emphasizing over the importance of the combined efforts for the sake of realizing comprehensive integration within our country. This initiative proved that integrating advanced technology with the sports sector opens new horizons to develop the up-and-coming talents. Through the Football Hackathon and the Sports Media Content Creation competition, UAE university’s students excelled in providing innovative solutions that relies on artificial intelligence to analyze performance and improve strategies, in a way that bolsters the technological awareness among future generations.

His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Ali Al Raisi, who is the acting president of the university explained “that this event comes in cooperation with Al Ain sports and cultural club, as part of UAE university’s strategic initiatives for social partnership, where Al Ain sports and cultural club is considered one of the major partners with the university. As a result of this cooperation, several initiatives, insights, and an action plan took shape through this partnership. We, at UAE university, believe in the significance of integrating variant roles and efforts for the sake of effectively contributing to achieve sustainable development in the city of Al Ain, in line with the Year of the Community 2025.    He added the following statement: “We announce a research partnership between UAE university and Al Ain sports and cultural club, by providing a research project in the field of using artificial intelligence technologies to raise the efficiency of sports work within Al Ain football club, we will also be working with Al Ain football club and the strategic partners to improve outputs of research results.”

Artificial Intelligence Football Hackathon, which is the unique event that brings together innovation and technology in the realm of sports, aims to embody a futuristic vision to analyze sports performance by using artificial intelligence, along with reforming the club’s historical storytelling through creative content driven by technology. This event comes as part of a more extensive strategy by the United Arab Emirates to bolster digital transformation, for the sake of building local talents in the fields of artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence Hackathon also contributes in establishing the position of Al Ain football club as a leader in adopting the intelligent technologies, with the ability to export successful models to the global football clubs, in a way that boosts technological cooperation with the academic institutions.

During the “Artificial Intelligence Football Hackathon and the Sports Media Content competition” event, the participating projects were reviewed and the names of the winner students and teams were announced. Within the Sports Media Content Creation competition, the first position went to student Khaled Oussama, the second position to student Shahd Emad, while the third position went to student Noura Abdullah. As for Artificial Intelligence Hackathon, The Boss team “AI&Seen” won the first place, while “Talente.dev” team won the second position, and the third position went to Al Namous team “Oasis&innovative mind”. As for the best user experience design, the award went to “GoalNet AI” team.