U.A.E Customer experience, who's the best in the Gulf? The judges with a rep from the Dubai Department of Economic Development. (Images via Awards International) Customer experience. A... Archana Menon • 26 January, 2016 Dubai Police Virtual Technology Center British Orchard Nursery International Awards
Lebanon JSconf Beirut 2016 JSconf is a professional, not-for-profit, labor-of-love conference for the JavaScript community. It is an invitation for the... Wamda • 25 January, 2016 Jsconf beirut Developers
Lebanon Applications open for SwitchMed Green Entrepreneurs Training Programme Are you a green entrepreneur? Do you have a green business idea in mind but don´t know where to start? Would you like to learn how to ... Wamda • 25 January, 2016 Green entrepreneurs applications SwitchMed
U.A.E First Collaborative Entrepreneurship workshop, Wamda and Expo2020 get started Habib Haddad kick starting the day (Images by Wamda) Expo 2020 Dubai and Wamda’s collaboration is already underway. By acting as the ... Maya Rahal • 25 January, 2016 Roundtable Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship
U.A.E Entrepreneur Journey Series: Determining the Right Financing Option for your Business Join the Young Arab Leaders (YAL) as they kickstart the Entrepreneur Journey Series 2016 with an exciting session with Chris Thomas,... Wamda • 25 January, 2016 lecture Chris Thomas finance
Maghreb Seedstars Africa Seedstars World (SSW), the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is joining forces... Wamda • 25 January, 2016 International startups Seedstars Africa morocco
U.A.E Wharton Business School's Strategic Thinking & Leadership program Wharton Business School's Strategic Thinking & Leadership program, to be held in Dubai, is designed for senior leaders and business... Wamda • 25 January, 2016 Business program Wharton
Kuwait Passion for food and design brought Basil AlSalem back to Kuwait This article is a crosspost with Nuwait. Kuwaiti entrepreneur Basil AlSalem discovered his passion for food and design when... Maya Rahal • 25 January, 2016 Cocoa Room B+F Nuwait
Regional Global startups circle MENA at WFES forum Masdar's interactive model showing its energy activities from Pakistan to North Africa. (Images via Rachel Williamson) Amid a... Rachel Williamson • 24 January, 2016 IRENA water-energy nexus wind energy
Maghreb Morocco's New Work Lab grows coworking space into entrepreneurship training center Eyes were riveted on startup at a Pitch Lab. (Images via New Work Lab) Last Thursday, 35 Moroccan startups exhibited their services and... Aline Mayard • 24 January, 2016 New Work Lab Coworking Training
Regional MENAT’s internet growth and barriers [Infographic] Despite the apparent prevalence of the world wide web in people’s lives, there are still a many who go without internet access. According t... Lucy Knight • 24 January, 2016 eMarketer MENAT internet penetration
Regional Health and education apps dominate at Arab Mobile Challenge Five teams from five countries are heading to the world finals in Barcelona. (Images via Arab Mobile Challenge) Third time’s the c... Aline Mayard • 22 January, 2016 Arab Mobile Challenge Arab Mobile App Challenge algeria
U.A.E $20M series C round for Bayut.com’s owners UAE's quickly growing real estate landscape The landscape of UAE's real estate. (Image via Spacing.ca) The owners of... Lucy Knight • 21 January, 2016 Bayut.com Zameen Series C
U.A.E Sharjah’s Sheraa sets sail An ecosystem building series, an innovation lab, an idea lab and a growth lab - these are the first four programs coming with the launch of... Archana Menon • 21 January, 2016 Sheraa YCombinator Support
Regional The competitive advantage of good customer service [Opinion] It should be self-evident. Good customer service increases revenues and decreases costs. (Image via tnooz.com) Inadequate or non-existent... Johnny Matta • 21 January, 2016 competitive advantage leaky bucket customer loyalty
Kuwait A cost effective and environmentally friendly way to cook your food, straight out of Kuwait As reported previously on Wamda, the teams attending the first Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge were trying to answer questions... Ana Tadic • 21 January, 2016 Solar cooker Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge MEMakers