The hackathon squad inside Kanban Studios. Real problems, a hard deadline, a working build by demo time.
One medal per documented result · drag to spin · tap one to find it
6 builders, one open slot. Tap a card to flip it.
Awaiz AhmedLeading Kanban Studios
Bilal FerozChief Product Officer
Mohammad UmarChief AI Officer
Huda MueenCTO & Co-Founder
Farooq ShafeekTeam Lead
Fuad AhamedActive rosterCheques, certificates, result slides - and the rooms they were won in. Tap one.
18 competitions are documented here: 7 first-place finishes, 4 podium placements, 2 further awards or recognitions, and 5 entries with no result on file.
🥇 1st · 🥈 2nd · 🥉 3rd · ⭐ recognition · 🏅 scored award · 🎯 entered, no result on file
A camera that flags unsafe movement, on-device.
Read the buildWaste classified at the bin, with a tamper-evident log.
Read the buildOne buyer order, split across nearby farms, in Arabic.
Read the buildLive NASA asteroid data behind an impact simulator.
Read the buildA bug replay in, a reproducible test and a patch out.
Read the buildA spoken note turned into a vet-ready record, offline.
Read the buildA property sale gated by KYC, documents and settlement.
Read the buildA finished, playable game for a national game jam.
The clock sets the scope. Whatever survives had to exist.
A brief drops us into a domain we did not pick.
Models, runtimes and hardware get tried here first.
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Team Kanban is the competition and experimental build team inside Kanban Studios F.Z.E, a software and AI studio in the United Arab Emirates. A small group of the studio's engineers enters hackathons, game jams and innovation challenges, builds a working system against the deadline, and keeps the ones worth keeping. Projects span health, climate, space, agriculture, robotics and developer tooling.
Yes. Team Kanban is not a separate company. It is the competition and experimental build team inside Kanban Studios F.Z.E, staffed by the studio's own engineers, and it is how the studio runs its experiments.
Working systems rather than slideware. The record includes on-device computer vision for injury prevention, edge AI for verified waste reporting, an Arabic-first farm coordination platform, a near-Earth object simulator on live NASA data, an automated bug-reproduction pipeline, and a game.
Yes, and in game jams and innovation challenges. Team Kanban has entered 90+ hackathons, game jams and innovation challenges over 6 years, and won 35+ of them. 18 competitions are documented here: 7 first-place finishes, 4 podium placements, 2 further awards or recognitions, and 5 entries with no result on file. Each documented one carries its competition, project, result and, where one exists, a link to the case study, the live build, or a photograph of the certificate or prize.
Most stop there, and that is the point of the format. A project that holds up is written into a case study under /work, and a prototype with a plausible route to real users can go on into Kanban Labs, which handles hosting, launch, and support.
The United Arab Emirates. Kanban Studios F.Z.E is based in Abu Dhabi, and Team Kanban competes mainly in UAE hackathons and innovation challenges, alongside online events.
The current Team Kanban roster is Awaiz Ahmed, Bilal Feroz, Mohammad Umar, Huda Mueen, Farooq Shafeek and Fuad Ahamed. The team is small on purpose: a competition weekend has no room for a handover, so it is sized at the number of people who can hold the whole build in their heads.
Apply on this page. It takes about two minutes: pick what you are strongest at, say how many hackathons you have done, and pitch what you would build in 48 hours. The team reads every application.
