OT Cybersecurity Hackathon
About the OTC-CoE
Operational Technology Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (OTC-CoE), is a global platform for extending boundaries of shared knowledge and facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration to advance shared interests in cybersecurity. The Center was established in collaboration with Aramco, the founding partners include: Honeywell, Neom, Sabic, Schneider Electric and SITE.
About OT Cybersecurity Hackathon
The Operational Technology Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (OTC CoE), in collaboration with Aramco, is hosting The OT Cybersecurity Hackathon, a competition aimed at driving collaboration across sectors to develop innovative ideas and strategies for safeguarding critical infrastructure.
The four-day OT Cybersecurity Hackathon will be hosted at Dhahran Techno Valley. It is designed to address real-world cybersecurity challenges affecting operational technologies across oil and gas, electricity, water and utilities. The Hackathon will bring together participants from industry, academia, Firms’ experts and technology vendors to develop practical strategies, prototypes and threat models that strengthen critical infrastructure resilience, presented to a judging panel of cybersecurity industry leaders.
Initiative Objectives
- Proactive Risk Mitigation and Technical Validation
- Enhancing Regulatory Compliance and Governance
- Cultivating Critical Infrastructure Talent
Format
- Four challenge tracks tackled by up to 40 groups of 5 members each.
- You may register as a team or as an individual; individual registrants will be assigned to teams upon arrival. Your skills and experience details will help us form balanced teams.
Benefits of Participating
- Develop practical solutions to OT cybersecurity challenges affecting critical infrastructure.
- Gain access to expert mentorship to develop practical security solutions
- Prizes totalling SAR200,000: SAR 120,000 for the winning team and SAR 40,000 each for the first and second runners-up
Registeration
Registration Deadline: 23 Augest 2026
For questions or more information, please email ot-coe@gcforum.org
