• The StartSmart Conference is taking place on March 7 including 13 local and international speakers from prestigious universities and organizations
  • The winners of the 4th MITEF Saudi Startup Competition will be announced on March 7 at King Abdullah Economic City

Jeddah: More than 60 Startups from all over the world including Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Poland along with 27 Saudi teams qualified for the final round of MITEF Saudi Startup Competition are set to participate in the Startups Investment Forum (SIF), which will be held in King Abdullah Economic City from March 5 to 7, 2020.

SIF is organized by the MIT Enterprise Forum Saudi Arabia, part of the MIT Enterprise Forum global network, in collaboration with Bab Rizq Jameel, an initiative of Community Jameel, and in partnership this year with King Abdullah Economic City and the Saudi General Investment Authority (SAGIA) under the theme "Invest in Saudi Arabia", as strategic partners. The nine winners of the 4th MITEF Saudi Startup Competition will be named at the StartSmart Conference on March 7, 2020 that will include 13 local and international speakers from prestigious universities and organizations.

The StartSmart Conference is a one-day conference that inspires, connects, coaches, and informs entrepreneurs to succeed faster and smarter. It is a place where all entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalist firms, students, business organizations and high leadership and executives from private and government sectors meet and engage.

The MITEF Saudi Startups Competition is proud to organize this year the Startup Investment Forum from March 5 to 7, 2020, a three-day exhibition aimed at providing startups and small businesses around the globe the opportunity to expand their businesses to the Saudi market and meet investors. In addition to workshops delivered by leading executives from Prince Mohammad bin Salman College Business and Entrepreneurship and opportunities for networking.

Founded in 2015 as part of a global network dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide, MITEF Saudi Startup aims at promoting and enriching the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Saudi Arabia, and to celebrate and support all potential startups and entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia through our MITEF Saudi Startup Competition.

To register for Startsmart conference and the Startup Investment Forum please visit the link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startsmart-conference-and-exhibition-mitef-saudi-2020-registration-92162964909 

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About MITEF:

MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF) Saudi Arabia is part of a global network of chapters dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide. MITEF informs, connects, and coaches Saudi entrepreneurs—enabling them to rapidly transform ideas into world-changing companies. 

Founded in 2015 with the goal of promoting and enriching the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Saudi Arabia, MITEF aims to celebrate and support all potential startups and entrepreneurs in the Kingdom through Startups and Ideas Competition.

The MITEF Saudi startup competition has three tracks: Startups Track, Social Track and Ideas Track. The competition offers SAR 325,000 cash prize, in addition to workshops and training and guidance sessions supervised by specialists and experts in all economic and social sectors. The finalists will have the opportunity to participate in StartSmart, one of the MIT Global Forum’s programs which is organized before the announcement of the winners and attended by specialists from MIT University, USA. The aim of the program is to encourage, motivate and guide entrepreneurs to achieve success at the level of the three tracks: ideas, social enterprises and business enterprises through workshops and enrichment programs directly related to technology and creativity.  

As a part of the MITEF Pan Arab Region, the 9 winning teams of the MITEF Saudi Arabia Competition will be invited to participate in the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition.

Community Jameel

Driven by a commitment to creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and youth, Community Jameel works across six major fields of development: livelihoods, the arts, education, health, climate, and evidence. Community Jameel is active worldwide by directly implementing programmes and by collaborating with major international institutions and grassroots organisations.

Community Jameel was established in 2003 to continue the Jameel family’s tradition of supporting the community, a tradition started in the 1940s by the late Abdul Latif Jameel, founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel business, who throughout his life helped tens of thousands of disadvantaged people improve their lives.

The term “Community Jameel” refers broadly to several distinct, separate and independent legal entities. Community Jameel is not itself a corporate entity, association or conglomerate run by

an overarching parent company but merely refers to a group of distinct and wholly independent separate legal entities that are collectively referred to as “Community Jameel.”

For more information, please contact:
Abir Ben Bechir,
Community Jameel International
Mobile: 971551012621+
Email: abir@communityjameel.org  

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