Pitch Competition - Entrepreneurship Summit

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The “Entrepreneurship Summit” is one of the Entrepreneurship Initiative’s flagship programs. It aims to rally the initiative’s ambassadors in the region to create entrepreneurship events in their sections. These events include talks, panels and most importantly, a pitch competition.

This year is focused on the topic “Advance Technology for Humanity: Sustainable Engineering” in form of a competition for established teams or formed startups that present their thematic solutions at a local competition.


IEEE Young Professionals team, in collaboration with the 2020 IEEE R8 Entrepreneurship Initiative ambassadors in Lebanon, will bring forward to IEEE members and other students and young professional in Lebanon the opportunity to benefit from a suite of Entrepreneurship workshops, participate in a regional entrepreneurship competition, and access mentorship and networking opportunities with experts in the regional entrepreneurship ecosystem. To do so, the team is organizing a national Entrepreneurship Summit under the theme “Smart Sustainable Cities”.


The rules for the competitions are:
- Teams of 3-5, preferably with at least one IEEE student or young professional member, or
a team member with previous affiliation with IEEE.
- The team is required to have a minimum viable product (MVP) or a prototype
- Teams are allowed (and encouraged) to get external sponsors
- Innovation is aligned with state of the art in sustainable engineering


We value (evaluate):
- Innovative and ambitious vision from sustainable engineering area
- Originality and “wow-effect”
- Clarity, quality and replicability of the innovation
- Interdisciplinary approach


  Date and Time

  Location

  Hosts

  Registration


  • Date: 28 Nov 2020
  • Time: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM
  • All times are (GMT+02:00) Asia/Beirut
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  Speakers

Topic:

Pitching 101

Mr. Zahi Hilal, Smart Innovation Hub Accelerator Program Officer, BeryTech




Agenda

November 28th, 2020 (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm) - Pitch Competition

Judges/Speakers:

- Mrs. Sarah Abdallah, "Founder, LIBRO”

- Mrs. Yusr Sabra, "Co-Founder, Wakilni”

- Mrs. Mona Fawaz, "Professor at AUB”

- Mr. Salah Awad, "Deputy Program Director, BeryTech”

- Mr. Zahi Hilal, "Smart Innovation Hub Accelerator Program Officer, BeryTech”

- Mr. Richardos Lebbos, "Founder and CEO of the US-based company Startchy Inc. Agripreneur of the year 2017"

- Dr. Imad El Hajj, "Professor at AUB & Co-Founder of SAUGO 360, the first startup to be incubated at AUB.”

- Mr. Mohamed El Dallal, "Co-Founder and CEO, Innovideas LLC, for Markerting & Advertising”


IEEE Lebanon Entrepreneurship Initiative Ambassadors Team