In a presentation-based competition, innovators and generation disruptors will present their concepts in front of a panel of judges.
Kuwait: To further enable start-ups that are innovating in their industries, KPMG Kuwait announced in July 2022 that it would host its first Global Tech Innovator festival. Given the increased participation and growing interest in all sectors, the company has extended the most recent application date from August 25 to September 8, 2022. This will give eligible organizations another opportunity to apply in case they haven’t done so the first time. The festival will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Kuwait and will aim to give Kuwaiti generation corporations the global visibility they so desperately need.
The festival is encouraged through launch-based television screens and will aim to provide local entrepreneurs, startups and tech startups with the flavor they so desperately need by giving them a platform to present their concepts to the country’s most sensible industry. experts
Commenting on the start of the festival in Kuwait, Ankul Aggarwal, partner and head of business advisory at KPMG in Kuwait, said: “I am very pleased to see the number of programs we have won and continue to get for Global Tech Innovator. “festival. Some of the applicants use state-of-the-art technologies and have cutting-edge business concepts to disrupt the Kuwaiti market. We are also inviting industry leaders from the Kuwaiti market to be part of our judging panel and will soon announce their names on our social media channels. Since many marketers would likely have missed the opportunity to apply for the first time, given the scale of the festival and the effect it can have on companies in their early stages, we are postponing the application date to give them another chance. “
The level of the festival in Kuwait follows the wonderful good fortune of the 2021 edition around the world and in the GCC region. Interested traders and start-ups can apply by 8 September 2022 (23:00) by visiting the KPMG Kuwait kpmg online page . com/kw or the direct link.
Applications will be reviewed by KPMG Kuwait experts, and then shortlisted participants will be asked to provide their strategic concepts and ambitions to a panel of Kuwaiti industry leaders. To be considered generation innovators, corporations interested in Kuwait must meet the following eligibility criteria:
The winner will be crowned Kuwait Technology Innovator 2022 and will have the chance to participate in the Web Summit World Final in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2022. There, your proposal will be evaluated with the other local winners based on six parameters, namely disruption and innovation, market foresight, visitor adoption, market traction and market positioning, long-term foresight and launch quality. The decision of the jury will be final.
The emerging winner will be declared Global Tech Innovator 2022 and will appear in KPMG’s “Winners Report”. You will also have the opportunity to link up with investors and network with other corporations and other individuals belonging to a field. In 2021, the festival saw the participation of approximately 700 innovators and influencers, with four of the 17 finalists from the GCC region alone. These were Taajer, a Bahrain-based agribusiness company, SkipCash, a qatari cellular payment app, KLAIM, an insuretech platform from the United Arab Emirates, and Natufia, a wise plant grass startup from Saudi Arabia.
The Brazilian agrotechnology company Krilltech NanoAgtech has been chosen as the winner of the KPMG Private Enterprise Global Tech Innovator 2021 competition.
For more information on the main points of the contest, visit kpmg. com/kw
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