UAE Innovation Week - TECOM Group

The people we are surrounded by either enhance our life or detract for it. They lift us up or pull us back. Applying these principle to our business network can mean better quality business in less time. So you can spend more time doing what you love instead of chained to a desk. Want to know how?

Open Data as a practice and culture is widely recognized as an effective innovation tool that can be leveraged by governments and societies to create new economic and social opportunities and find solutions for the challenges they face.

In the UAE, open data is adopted to mainly help in perusing the country’s vision to be among the most innovative nations in the world and the home of smartest cities. Within this context, a new open data law is expected to be issued in Dubai soon.

Disruptive innovation is all around us, and is creating new, more efficient, markets through the use of technology. The session will provide real life examples of innovation and industry disruption, with a specific focus on the emergence of Peer-to-Peer Finance in the UAE.

A brief history of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and how the industry has evolved and innovated to what it is today. The session will include search engine ranking factors that mattered then and the ones that matter today including both on-page and off-page factors that determine rankings on search engines such as Google

Running a business is ultimately about freedom. The Gazelles International Scaling Up methodology and associated growth tools show business leaders how to get their organizations moving in sync to create something significant and enjoy the ride. In order to grow your business, there are four decisions that you have to get right or risk leaving significant revenue, profits and time on the table. These four decisions are People, Strategy, Execution and Cash. This interactive session will help you start to think about which one to tackle first as well as experiencing a selection of the Gazelles Growth tools.

Angel investing has been around for long time. Recently we are seeing a number of different online platforms that try to aggregate and create a community matching venture ideas, funding needs, human capital needs and investors, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial job seekers. These platforms are independent, belong to educational institutions or even governmental and non-governmental institutions. How is this sector being shaped and who will be the global leaders in this space.

Part of a speakers series to discuss how to develop insight and market intelligence

Space Syntax is a UK-based international, multi-disciplinary firm providing an evidence-based approach to the evaluation, strategic design and functional performance of buildings and urban planning. Space Syntax's creative approach combines global experience with original technology that forecasts the impacts of planning, transport, economic and design decisions on people and property for all scales of development. Science-based and human-focused, Space Syntax brings creative and innovative rigor to the process of making cities, urban places and buildings.

Millions of Apps are released in the App stores, hundreds are published daily and it became harder to reach out users. These are the tips and tricks to reach out your next active users.

This session takes the creative core of your activities and looks at how you can develop a marketing strategy which maintains a strong and genuine connection between your product development approach and your marketing messages whilst being customer focused.