Entrepreneurs key to shaping future
dubai — Entrepreneurs across the UAE have an important role in shaping the economic future of the country, said Mohammed bin Sulaiman, senior manager of Member Relations at the Dubai Chamber.
“The UAE’s growing competiveness in entrepreneurship reflects the winning culture of innovation, high performance and excellence, especially the support of the UAE’s wise leadership in ensuring the success of entrepreneurs in the country,” he said on day one of the National Treasure Initiative conference by Knowledge Expansion.
Organised under the patronage of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and in partnership with Tejar Dubai, the event brought together a number of distinguished speakers, who shared their experiences in different fields.
“This global initiative, being held for the first time in the UAE and the region, complements Dubai Chamber’s initiative of Tejar Dubai entrepreneurship development programme whose aim is to find and train creative and commercially-minded youth to help them turn their business ideas into a reality,” Bin Sulaiman said.
Dr Maryam Matar, founder of UAE Genetic Disease Association, shared her experience of creating public awareness about genetic disorders, and how taking initiatives on her own helped her to make a big change.
Another speaker, Carol Talbot, NLP expert and professional speaker, spoke about how successful people do things differently and
The UAE’s growing competiveness in entrepreneurship reflects... the support of the UAE’s wise leadership in ensuring the success of entrepreneurs in the country Mohammed bin Sulaiman, Senior manager of Member Relations at the Dubai Chamber
how it is possible to find success by training ourselves to focus on the positives rather than the negatives. She explained that a good way to give ourselves a confidence boost is by mentally encouraging ourselves to focus on positive points. “You get a much better result if you feel good about yourself,” she said.
Sigbert Dhas, founder of National Treasure and CEO of Knowledge Expansion, disclosed that they had received a very strong interest from young professionals in leading universities for the conference. “We feel very validated as we wanted to create an extraordinary conference that inspires young professionals and their feedback so far is extremely positive.”
Neha Shaikh, co-founder of National Treasure, added that the delegate interest for the inaugural edition of the event was extremely encouraging. “We are very happy to see that months of creative brain storming and planning have come to such a successful start today. National Treasure was conceptualised to be a catalyst of positive inspiration and learning for the people of UAE,” she said.
— rohma@khaleejtimes.com