 أجل والدين will be starting in 10 minutes this Lush Doha thing So ladies and gentlemen, start-ups Hopefully we will have everybody in the front row ورش ساعت Welcome to the start-up scene and today is the slush day Right? So we will be starting our first activity for the Innovation Theatre 2014 And I would like to welcome our start-ups for competing today To be in the biggest start-ups and investment events taking place in Helsinki in 2014, November 2014 So I don't see Abdulaziz. Where is Abdulaziz Shalhoub? Yeah, Abdulaziz. Welcome aboard So today we have a start-up competition This competition originally was designed to be between regional start-ups So we had invited three Saudi start-ups and three Qatari start-ups Unfortunately, two of the Saudi start-ups were not able to make it for various purposes That came at the last minute So we will be having four start-ups instead of six And I mean, we will be having a lot of activities We will be having a talk presented by Intel Capital باريش اكسوي The Senior Director for Investment in Intel Capital will be there with us very soon And we will be having a very interesting panel discussion on how can you fly your start-up globally So I would love to invite Henry, Henry Holm Representing the start-up sauna foundation He will be orienting us on what is Slush And what is the aim of Slush Doha And then he will take us on this interesting journey Henry, thank you so much Good afternoon everyone Good afternoon My name is Henry Holm I am here to present the start-up sauna foundation Finland I would like to spend a few minutes with you just to run through the agenda for the afternoon So we will be covering a little of the background of the start-up sauna and the Slush event That gives a little bit of the glimpse and insight to the cold winter event now in a late spring early summer here in Doha Also, we will be going through various stages of the evaluation of the ideas and the start-ups We will have a chance to coach and discuss Every time when you present your own ideas and your ideas of your company there's a possibility for new discoveries Some of the old ideas becomes obsolete and some of the old ideas becomes actually the new ideas which are then the prominent and the drive of the company and the product what you present At 4pm we will have the pitching competition It's a 5 minute very intense straight to the point pitch Why would I invest to this particular event or company or product? And like mentioned earlier we will have a panel discussion about going global and then finally announcing the winners for the event Without any further due I also want to send regards from the CMO of the start-up sauna Martin Talvary Martin was here today very early morning hours but because of the visa regulations he was not able to enter the country with the 72 hour visa which we thought would be possible so my apologies for that but the presentation covers all the key messages what Martin wanted to leave with us So, Slash and Start-up Sauna Program So, Start-up Sauna is an organization which was created around one country Finland in a very crucial state I would put it this way because the country was taking a lot of youth into a company called Nokia and that saga which lasted from mid 90s till 2007 8.9 until now being a part of the Microsoft Corporation a handset division took a lot of talent from the schools and at the time when we went to the schools and we asked students how many of you would like to be an entrepreneur very few raised their hands and at the time you know the entrepreneurship was not seen as a very glamorous choice it was seen as a different choice to the one where people would take large corporates but every time when we look back into the nation's growth it is important to recognize that everything starts from small and we need to incubate the ideas and the spirit of entrepreneurship no matter what so we remind ourselves also in the Start-up Sauna our meeting room one of the meeting room is actually looking like a sauna it is a place where you go you sit down you share your ideas and thoughts the whiteboard a good wifi connection and you may book the venue at your wish and this is part of the whole idea how this is put into a conversation it is a conversation where we want the ideas to find the ones who want to invest and then also nurture the ideas because not necessarily is the first idea the best one we run twice a year program we start the spring program after the March and April local events in May now it's finishing in May June 4th starting on May 5th and during that 5 week intense program not only we learn a lot about the new Start-up Companies but also the Start-up Companies they learn a lot about themselves so the founding members get to know each other in a totally different depth and even ideology because sometimes the ideas have to be driven by a much deeper vision or passion than just making money and during this July there's a Silicon Valley Visits and then we start the second program in October and the first program actually finishes into a slash event in November these 70 plus local events accumulates about 10 Start-ups per event 700 Start-ups coached we get about 1,800 applications that will actually be twice as much going forward now and those 8 patches which we have done so far over 100 alumni companies has graduated and if you look at the investment amount it's still a relatively small amount but we talk about smaller economies investing into the companies so in a prorated ratio actually it is already a significant amount we have 100 investors and venture capitalists who are helping to start-up companies to grow and then coach them and this is really to share the network what these people have built or each one of us have built over the years on doing the international business and here's the catch we are a non-profit and it is an organization which is not taking equity in your company so each one of us participate to this one to bring your company into a greater new heights and giving you the opportunity to actually grow then about the slash slash event is something that during the cold winter month of November there is no reason really to go outside it's cold, it's miserable it's slashy, it's icy weather so it's a good idea to stay inside and innovate make your best ideas to flourish and come and share those with us in 2008 and 2010 it was very very small almost in the event where people who were really enthusiastic about building this new ecosystem of start-ups and putting this vision of 2020 we will have a flourishing very new breed of businesses coming out of the new countries it was just a matter of tens of companies coming together 2011 and 12 it became hundreds so suddenly we realized that 3,500 visitors 550 companies has been with us and the numbers are growing now 2013 we had 7,000 attendees which we expect now to be 15,000 this year 68 countries crossing 100 hopefully during the next event and then 1,221 start-ups crossing then 2,500 this major event gives an opportunity for then matchmaking 1,221 conversation between the investors and then the start-ups again we take no stake on that we facilitate, we give the premises Finnish government supports the and the Helsinki government supports the event and gives us the venue overall 70 billion dollars of worth of assets these venture capital firms are presented in the event also large media coverage so why to do this we believe that we have to build a really well-functioning start-up ecosystem across Eurasia and what do we mean by well-functioning is actually connecting this ecosystem then to the rest of the world developing ecosystem there is not just one ecosystem there is actually many and us uniting our thoughts and ideas as well together we can actually generate more wealth more also opportunities and more jobs for the future generations so all this voluntary organization hundreds of people they put their own personal time and thought to make this all happen and we would like to then of course to share this thought with all the competitors so from today's event the winning company will be joining us to the slash event in November 1819 in Helsinki and let's see what it's all about I think we have the energy so who would like to be in slash in November I would love to guys I would love to invite our competing start-ups to be there in stage so I will start with the guest I will start with عد العزيز from Saudi I will invite سعدة وسلحب so I would love to welcome you all and wish you a very interesting slash journey and please present your start-ups to the audience and bear in mind that there is audience voting so I think we should show that audience are contributing into this so عد العزيز please proceed do we have a mic please first of all I want to thank you for inviting me from Saudi Arabia to this great and fantastic event my name is عبد العزيز أرشل هوب I'm from Saudi Arabia I graduated from King Saudi University from computer science and today I'm going to present a new idea that I just started around maybe 4 months from now it's called عد سوق the idea is about connecting the advertiser and publisher through the social media and maybe we'll continue more about the idea when we present it at 4pm إن شاء الله and again thank you I would like to thank the organizers of this event for giving us the opportunity to present our companies today and I am the co-founder and the creative director of Garnass Company we are a creative local Qatari studio that makes local games and creates local content and we have launched a few games already in the market من يرز من فرنسي من يرز دهسري the managing director and the co-founder of Garnass you know what's the challenge today the challenge is that usually in Qatari when you have you're hosting someone usually let them win but today unfortunately we cannot let you win I'm sorry this is the first wifi advertisement company in Qatari we both met in stars of science the scientific show which is assured by Qatari foundation for young scientists and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas and we decided to take one of our ideas a bit further and actually implement it in the market so we've started we're keen to present it to you and looking forward to to present it in maybe a few minutes السلام عليكم مجددا as my partner said actually briefly we're here to win we're here to go to Finland I'll see you there wait for us okay السلام عليكم I'm Akhil I'm co-founder I'm a startup with an idea called ticket fun which is like the most happening thing here because it's events what we do and we do online tickering with recommendation engine like the first time in the Middle East and the region so watch us out for the presentation and we're looking forward for Slush yes السلام عليكم my name is Hamid Rwadi founder and CEO of ticket fun and we're here to compete with these gentlemen and we're here to win and we will win thank you very much great so we'll be having four winners then I like the energy so I'll pitch for Ablaziz so we'll be partners together we invited the three Saudis we would love to have them on board thank you so much thank you so much guys