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| GE Marathon |
January 20, 2012
GE Office, Building 18 DIC |
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GE Employees conducted the first annual GE 5K Fun Run! The run in support of Children with Special Needs was cosponsored by GE and Dubai Internet City. It was open to people of all abilities, GE employees, family and friends.. |
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| Dubai Internet City Excellence Series:Search and Social(To be Heard You Need to be Found First) |
31 Jan 2012
Thuraya Hall, DIC 3 |
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Social media has gained popularity but many organisations are struggling to gain business benefits from these tools. Optimising social media assets can significantly impact search engine rankings as there are millions of searches taking place within social platforms.
The session was hanlded by Lee, the General Manager of Sekari, an international search and social optimisation agency with offices in Dubai and Singapore.
The key learnings from the session were:
-Social strategy should also be viewed from an SEO perspective
-Combining search and social strategy can drive more visibility across search engines and social media
-Basic and simple techniques can make a real difference to a company’s visibility |
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| Dubai Internet City Excellence Series : How can you make an App like Siri? |
15 Feb, 2012
Thuraya Hall, DIC 3 |
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This session on voice based command and control helped attendees understand the inside scoop on what’s latest with voice control, voice bio metrics and voice to text. The speaker Kunal Grover is an Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at Emerging Technologies Abu Dhabi. Kunal Grover is a start-up mentor with multifaceted involvement in many upcoming bright ideas. He is a self-proclaimed technology evangelist, investor and business development expert. Highly motivated and full of energy, he is currently driving a mass movement for adoption of voice based command and control across Middle East and Africa.
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| Dubai Internet City Excellence Series : What is the art of ICT investments for your business? - More bang for your buck! |
21 March, 2012
Thuraya Hall, DIC 3 |
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In today’s competitive scenario, it is important for SMEs to understand the successful and economic deployment of ICT. This is critical to their business and they have to look beyond the tactical cost and take into account the total cost of ownership when considering any ICT investments for small business.
An SME must look beyond the key principles what small businesses should consider when making ICT or telecommunications investments. The session was handled by John Lincoln, Vice President, Marketing (Enterprise segment), du, an international senior telecommunications sales, marketing, business development and customer service delivery executive with general management, P&L, product development and revenue management expertise.
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| DIC Excellence Series-Demystifying Entrepreneurship |
25 April 2012
DIC Building # 3, Thuraya Hall |
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An entrepreneur can only grow business by understanding the right opportunities and being able to create mileage by increasing business margins and profits. The workshop will touch on areas such as becoming innovators, learning to identify every opportunity to create new ventures, understanding the nuances of starting a business and recession proofing one’s r career.
The speaker, Hari Krishnan, Chairman and Founder of UniPropitia is a seasoned serial entrepreneur and technology executive with over 20 years of experience in the Technology Industry, Hari Krishnan has founded two successful technology companies in a short span of 12 years. Hari spearheaded Percipia, one of the companies, from a small technology startup to a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of over US$ 100 million.
Hari has a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University, USA and a second MS degree in Mathematical Sciences. He also holds a B.E (Honors) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, India. |
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| DIC Excellence Series:Bank Finance for Service and IT SMEs |
23 May 2012
DIC Building No 3, Thuraya Hall |
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Post economic recession, receiving finance for any kind of business is becoming challenging. Therefore SMEs have to understand all the aspects of business in order to gain long term benefits. SMEs have to learn how banks perceive service companies and how they can showcase their strengths to lenders.
The session will be managed by Vikram Venkataraman, a career banker with 25 years of experience in banking in India and the Middle East with banks like HSBC, ABN AMRO, Dubai Bank and Mashreqbank. Presently Vikram is a Director at Salvus Strategic Advisors.
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