The highly anticipated Step Conference, The Leading Tech Festival in Emerging Markets, is celebrating a decade with a back-in-person edition in February 2022 in Dubai! Since its inception, Step has had more than 1220 startups showcasing across Fintech, Digital Media, AI, Transport, E-commerce, Edtech, Foodtech, and more. The 10th edition will take place at Dubai...
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CaterpillHERs 12-week Career Accelerator Program in Pakistan Launched
Jan 12th, 2022, (Karachi, Pakistan): CaterpillHERs has launched the first-ever career accelerator program where participants meet and network with powerful and inspiring women from all over the world coming together to up-skill and accelerate their careers. CaterpillHERs is an entrepreneurship and career accelerator for women that provides a world-class curriculum vetted by experts, 1:1 high-touch...
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Step Conference celebrates a decade with back-in-person edition in Dubai
The highly anticipated Step Conference, The Leading Tech Festival in Emerging Markets, is celebrating a decade with a back-in-person edition in February 2022 in Dubai! If youre a startup looking to showcase your products and services or just want to attend the event to watch big speakers and expand your network, this event is for...
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Give A Child the Best Start in Life
Rana El Sakhawy is the founder and CEO of MonkiBox, an early learning platform that provides stage-based play tools and activities grounded in science and child-development research. On a mission to help parents feel confident and support their childs early development, Rana focuses on increasing awareness of the importance of the early years and advocating...
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First Saudi NFT marketplace, Nuqtah, closes Pre-Seed Round
Nuqtah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabias first and leading NFT marketplace, closed their Pre-Seed round led by Shorooq Partners and joined by strategic angel investors. The Company founded by Salwa Radwi plans to become the de facto platform for the Saudi and MENA digital creative economy. NFTs represent a major transformation for artists to safely...
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Knitting Perfection
Long before Covid-19 led to loungewear becoming a major fashion trend, Aman & Rajan Gill were quick to identify a gap in the market and a need for quality nightwear and loungewear at affordable prices. Rajan, a Business graduate from the University of Buckingham & Aman, a Masters graduate in Economics launched Annabelle in 2011,...
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Samar Baba: Enabling The Youth Digitally
Tell us a bit about yourself and your journey that culminated in where you are today? My name is Samar Baba, from Tunisia, in the Middle East & North Africa and I am currently the Lead Developer Advocate responsible for the IBM Z Global Student Hub. I hold an Engineering degree in Applied Mathematics and...
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Melissa Sassi: Accelerating Innovation In Tech
Tell us a bit about yourself and your journey that culminated in where you are today? I studied International Business Management and Linguistics in undergrad, got two Masters in Supply Chain and Finance and started my career in procurement. I found that this career path did not fire me up and I was not able...
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Enabling Pakistani Women in Ecommerce
The number of Internet users in Pakistan has increased by 11 million between 2019 and 2020 states the Digital 2020: Pakistan report by Simon Kemp. With 76.38 million Internet users in Pakistan by January 2020, the digital landscape promises immense economic potential. And it certainly is not rocket science to see that the ecommerce sector...
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Nurturing Womens Economic Empowerment
March 10th, 2020, Ras Al Khaimah (UAE): Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) has celebrated this year’s International Women’s Day with a Business High Tea & Networking event exclusive for UAE businesswomen. Attended by women business leaders, the event held in Waldorf Astoria Ras Al Khaimah served as an excellent platform to connect and learn...