SIDI 2012 Programme Includes ‘Entrepreneurship 101’ Workshop, Led by Saudi Aramco

SIDI Pro­gramme includes an inter­ac­tive work­shop ‘Entre­pre­neur­ship 101’ tak­ing place on 25 March 2012, which will be led by Fahad A. Al-Semari, Direc­tor, Sau­di Aram­co Entre­pre­neur­ship Cen­tre. Sau­di Aram­co is play­ing a key role both in the work­shop and with­in the forum main agen­da which will direct­ly pro­mote part­ner­ships and clus­ter development. 

Sau­di Inno­va­tion, Diver­si­fi­ca­tion & Invest­ment (SIDI) 2012 is tak­ing place in Riyadh, Sau­di Ara­bia on 25–27 March 2012, held under the esteemed sup­port & offi­cial­ly opened by: H.E. Dr Taw­fig F Al-Rabi­ah, Min­is­ter of Com­merce & Indus­try. The event will focus on ‘indus­try led job cre­ation’ and ‘Saudiza­tion’, the role of the pri­vate sec­tor and the incen­tives and oppor­tu­ni­ties being imple­ment­ed by the Gov­ern­ment and stakeholders. 

Sabic’s for­mer EVP for Tech­nol­o­gy and Inno­va­tion, Dr Abdul­rah­man Al-Ubaid will add his for­mi­da­ble knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence to the agen­da as the CEO Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of SADIG (Sau­di Ara­bi­an Devel­op­ment and Inno­va­tion Group) — his expe­ri­ence nur­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy and inno­va­tion for the com­mer­cial sec­tor will direct­ly ben­e­fit young Saudi’s.

“Diver­si­fi­ca­tion is essen­tial for an economy’s sta­bil­i­ty. Inno­va­tion is nec­es­sary for it to pros­per. SIDI serves as a cat­a­lyst for idea exchange the plan­ning the future of gen­er­a­tions to come” Dr Abdul­rah­man Al-Ubaid, MDSADIG 

The Forum and Exhi­bi­tion is ful­ly sup­port­ed by HH Dr Tur­ki Al Saud, Vice Pres­i­dent for Research Insti­tutes at KACST, as well as Ahmed Abdulka­rim, CEO of the Cadre Eco­nom­ic City who is respon­si­ble for the man­pow­er devel­op­ment that will form the back­bone of the multi­bil­lion dol­lar Eco­nom­ic City devel­op­ments at the heart of the Kingdom’s eco­nom­ic strategy. 

SIDI will focus on indus­tri­al devel­op­ment and local con­tent strate­gies that will add real com­mer­cial val­ue to the pri­vate sec­tor and that will diver­si­fy the eco­nom­ic out­look of the King­dom. SIDI looks at how local­i­sa­tion strate­gies direct­ly impact tech­nol­o­gy trans­fer and the devel­op­ment of tal­ent and leadership. 

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion contact: 

Esha Sofat
Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er
The CWC Group
+44 20 7978 0020
esofat@thecwcgroup.com

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