Overview
This session is exclusive to The Global Startup Program participants.
The Global Startup Program is an innovation program spearheaded by the Italian Trade Agency and the Italian Government to support Italian startups expand their growth in international markets and scaleup.
Dubai Future Foundation and AREA 2071 will host an 8-week acceleration program from February 22 to April 15 welcoming 11 startups. During the program we will focus on how to drive innovation into governments, introduce UAE’s innovation ecosystem and provide them with access to setting up in the UAE, capacity building workshops, innovation challenges and investor introductions.
In this journey with DFF, the Italian startups will accelerate their knowledge and market expansion. And in return, Dubai Future Foundation hopes that these startups engage with the ecosystem and create opportunities to become part of the innovation economy of the UAE.
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Dr. Marwan AlZarouni, will join us to deliver a session the Future of Blockchain to give more insights on the following:
Blockchain mandate of the UAE and the Blockchain Council
The adoption of blockchain technologies in the UAE and POCs
The Dubai Blockchain Centre
Blockchain and the Future: working together towards the road ahead
Speaker:
Dr. AlZarouni is not only the CEO of Dubai Blockchain center but also the Director of Information Services at Dubai Electronic Security Center. He founded the region's first innovation hub for blockchain technology. The center was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai on the 15th of May 2018 and is encompassed within Area 2071 in Emirates Towers. The center aims to bring together blockchain thought leaders, developers, investors, and educators. It is a place to engage with the blockchain community. The center therefore continuously hosts blockchain related courses, events, meet-ups, and hackathons. Before establishing the blockchain center, Marwan was an early crypto investor that started Bitcoin mining in early 2013. He also created Dubai’s first crypto payment processing and blockchain software development company in January 2014. In February 2018 he launched OTC Supply DMCC, the region’s first fully licensed over-the-counter crypto commodity trading entity. His latest venture is Co-Founding Quanterium, a technology solutions provider focusing on providing social impact solutions for organ and blood donation based on technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, IoT and genomics.
Agenda
1:30pm to 1:35pm - Introduction
1:35pm to 2:15pm - Session
2:15pm to 2:30pm - Q&A
Registration is closed.
