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High-Profile Saudi Delegation Visits Dubai Future Accelerators Headquarters

Dubai, Dec 20, 2016 - A high-profile delegation from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), went to the Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA) program's head office in Jumeirah Emirates Towers Offices.

The Authority was recently established to sustain and develop little and moderate enterprises in Saudi Arabia, and enhance their contribution to the economic advancement of the Kingdom.

The delegation, headed by Dr. Ghassan Ahmed Al-Sulaiman, Governor of the General Authority for Small and Tool Enterprises, were introduced to DFA's method to locating sustainable solutions to the difficulties dealing with - or that are prepared for to deal with - fields of strategic top priority for the UAE. The Dubai Future Accelerators has actually come to be the world's most attractive business acceleration program, bring in, in its first round, as several as 2,274 of the most innovative projects from 73 countries worldwide in much less than a month.

In addition, His Excellency Saif Al Aleeli, CEO of the Dubai Future Structure (DFF), provided a detailed discussion, highlighting the value of the program, and its function in expecting and preparing for the future. The discussion additionally explored the function of scientific research and Fourth-Industrial- Revolution modern technologies in changing existing difficulties right into chances
for future generations.

H.E. Al Aleeli said: "The Dubai Future Structure is working to execute the Dubai Future Foundation by taking on future-focused campaigns that seal Dubai's position as a global platform to prepare for and prepare for the future. This consists of the Dubai Future Accelerators program, which has experienced remarkable success and is currently the center of regional and global focus."

" We are honored to be inviting a delegation from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises," H.E. included, "as this resonates with our purposes and initiatives to spread knowledge and encourage the exchange of understanding and knowledge between all relevant and prominent establishments."

Meanwhile, Dr. Ghassan Ahmed Al-Sulaiman stated: "This is my initial browse through to the Dubai Future Accelerators program and I hope that it will certainly not be the last. I was very impressed with the top quality of the firms in the program and the products and tools that they are working with establishing. I congratulate the monitoring of the Accelerators on creating such an innovative model that is developed around the technical innovation requirements of Dubai and on their desire to develop sustainability for the program through commercializing the business model of the accelerator."

The Dubai Future Accelerators is an intensive 12-week program that pairs top companies and sophisticated entrepreneurs with effective companions in Dubai to create innovation options together. It explores and establishes the technologies of the future and employs them to deal with troubles and difficulties facing the cities of the 21 st century. The program intends to develop a global platform to draw in the brightest minds from worldwide to find innovative solutions for the challenges of the future and apply them in the city of Dubai.

The program organizes three annual rounds, taking place for three months each. In every round, innovative companies from around the globe work to recognize difficulties and find technical solutions for them, all the while flagging potential chances. DFA supplies training workshops to establish organisations and models that could be examined in Dubai before generating profitable business models that can be carried out worldwide.

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