Techne Drift Round in Assuit

Assiut University held the first round of the Tecne Drift Summit for Technology and Entrepreneurship, held under the patronage of Minister of Industry and Trade Tarek Kabeel. Ahmed Abo Ghais, President of Assiut University, in partnership with the Integrated Technology Transfer Unit of the University of Assiut, with the support of the Program of Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development of USAID, the American Consulate in Alexandria, the German International Agency (GIZ), the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Scientific Research and Technology, the Entrepreneur Magazine, the Egyptian Business Angels Network “EGYBAN “Malaikah” and a number of institutions and partners such as the Entrepreneur’s Cafe Initiative, the Entrepreneur Magazine, the Nahdet Al Mahrousa Society and the Dot Com and Incubator Platform. 6 Labs and others.

Eng. Samir El-Alaily, Chairman of EGYBAN, said that the aim is to activate human and economic resources in Upper Egypt governorates and to help young people with creative ideas and emerging companies to access the funding platforms and communicate with investors and the decision makers to get support for their projects, and activate the role of technology and entrepreneurship in solving the social problems in the fields of agriculture, energy, industry and others in the provinces, and create more employment opportunities for young people as well as the introduction of the Techne Drift Technology and Entrepreneurship Summit to be held in Alexandria in September, For emerging companies in the field of technology in Egypt and the Middle East, which is expected to involve a large number of experts and technology celebrities in the world as well as young entrepreneurs in Egypt and Arab and African countries.

The meeting witnessed several sessions, including: “Challenges facing entrepreneurship in Egypt”, which aims at introducing entrepreneurship and identifying the most important problems facing entrepreneurship such as finance, marketing, laws, culture, etc., and enlightening young people on various funding platforms. Social Entrepreneurship Bnhada Al Mahrousa and Mohammed Sultan Senior Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship in SEED, Magda Mahmoud Ali, director of the e-learning sector at Assiut University; Ayman al-Nahhas, entrepreneur; Merit Zaki, director of Giza System; and Ahmed Najem, co-founder of Rabeh, which aims to solve the congestion problem in the streets of Cairo.

It is noteworthy that the tours in the high will see three main stations in three cities: Assiut, Sohag, Aswan, in days followed by two tours in the cities of Delta and Canal.