JEDDAH: King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology’s (KACST) Badir for Technology Incubators will organize a workshop in Riyadh on May 20 on technological business initiatives in cooperation with Global Connect at San Diego University in California.
“It will hold a similar entrepreneurship workshop at Effat University in Jeddah on May 23,” a statement issued by Badir said. The program aims at promoting technological business initiatives and expediting implementation of technological projects,” it added. Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Haraqan, CEO of Badir, called upon Saudi youth to make use of the programs, adding that the workshops would be conducted by international experts, explaining suitable steps to market technological products and solutions.
“It’s part of a series of workshops being organized by Badir in order to promote free enterprises and produce a new generation of technological entrepreneurs in the Kingdom,” he said.
The workshops target technological entrepreneurs, investors and financers in the sector, university representatives and those involved in the field including lawyers and chartered accountants in addition to all those concerned with technology.
KACST launched the Technology Incubator Program in 2007. “Badir” means “to initiate” and is a national program aimed at accelerating the growth of emerging technology-based businesses in Saudi Arabia.
“The Badir program is open to all Saudi Arabian technology entrepreneurs who have an early-stage technology based business, prototype, or proof of concept product or service that can benefit from incubation,” Al-Haraqan said.
Global Connect is an applied research and technical assistance consultancy within the University of California, San Diego. Its experienced and diversified team focuses on partnering with regions seeking to build innovation capacity, accelerate technology commercialization, and build global connections. It also provides carrier-class network infrastructure solutions for the communications industry, large enterprises, government agencies and resellers.
Badir to organize technology workshops
