Redis Mini Hack Dubai - Oct 28, 2025

This is a four-hour, in-person mini-hack focused on production-ready demos built with sponsor tooling (Redis). The event is physical, limited to 60 attendees, and focuses on working prototypes with observable results; registration is open now and space is limited. The session runs from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM Dubai time.

Event Details

• Date and time: October 28, 2025, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Attendance cap: 60
• Location: Venue details provided to accepted attendees only (Dubai-based)
• Registration: Open now; space is limited. Sign up with your email and a social handle (LinkedIn and GitHub).

Note: Location details are withheld publicly and shared post-acceptance.

What to Expect

• 4-hour, hands-on mini-hack; build a working prototype.
• Teams of 2–4 people; on-site mentoring from sponsor engineers; access to sponsor tools and infrastructure.
• No slides, no pitches; demos must be production-ready and runnable.
• Demos will be evaluated on production readiness, not just concept.

How to Prepare

• Bring a laptop with your usual dev stack.
• A practical problem you are solving with Redis in real-time data processing.
• Ensure you can access sponsor APIs and cloud resources provided at the venue.
• Be ready to demo a working prototype within the session time.

Prizes

• Redis & AI Tinkerers Dubai exclusive swag!!
• More being announced in the coming days!

Program and Schedule

5:00 - 6:00 PM: Registration
6:00 - 6:20 PM: Demos by Sponsors
6:20 - 8:30 PM: Hackathon
8:30 - 9:00 PM: Prizes, Celebrations & Group Photoshoot

Sponsor Spotlight

Redis - Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. It provides extremely low-latency data access by storing data in memory rather than on disk, supporting structures like strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets. Redis is widely used for real-time analytics, caching frequently accessed data, session management, and pub/sub messaging. It supports persistence, replication, clustering, and Lua scripting, making it both fast and versatile for distributed, high-performance applications that demand sub-millisecond response times.

AI Tinkerers Dubai Stats

• Attendees: This elite community of 1,106 technical professionals comprises approximately 42% dedicated AI/ML engineers, 38% full-stack developers, and 15% technical architects. Members possess deep expertise in Python, cloud-native architectures, and advanced agentic RAG frameworks. Notable achievements include pioneering sovereign AI initiatives with G42 and securing top honors in prestigious regional hackathons, establishing this group as Dubai's premier hub for AI innovation.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants and platforms like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Spotify, and Oracle, alongside regional innovators such as Emirates, e& enterprise, Property Finder, and Noon, and emerging startups like CAMB.AI, Onlyvision, and Aokumo, and more
• Demos: Across AI Tinkerers – Dubai meetups, 62 demos were submitted and 35 were presented. The strongest themes have covered practical LLM and agentic application building, retrieval-augmented search and document understanding, multimodal pipelines from speech/vision to structured outputs, conversational systems for querying and automation, and infrastructure patterns for reliable deployment. Technical focus has also included hybrid retrieval, function/tool calling orchestration, schema enforcement, and observability/safety evaluation.
• Testimonials:

  “I really enjoyed the hands-on AI technical demos — they were practical and inspiring. These kinds of sessions are incredibly valuable for the developer community. I’d love to see more of them happening regularly , the more frequent, the better!”

  — Solution architect, AI agency on June 29, 2025

  “Honestly, everything was great. I really liked how the whole event didn’t make us stick to the usual or boring topics, all of us could think freely and create anything that we wanted. That openness made the whole learning experience super fun.”

  — AI engineer, IoT systems on May 31, 2026

  “The demos are great and helped me to think of my next ones”

  — Accelerator program associate on October 06, 2024

  “I loved the atmosphere of the event. It was light and enjoyable, unlike other hackathons. Mr. Mohamed was an amazing host and organizer. Plus, he gave us valuable feedback during the hack!”

  — Cybersecurity intern & developer on May 04, 2025

  “The smooth coordination of sessions and the day's organization were impressive.”

  — Senior AI Engineer on August 24, 2025

  “One of the best venues, spacious, comfortable, and very well organized.”

  — Senior AI Engineer on August 24, 2025

  “great job. This was much better meet up than most of what I have attended in past”

  — Accelerator program associate on September 07, 2024