International business accelerator conference in Lebanon

The Bank of Lebanon is organizing its third annual international conference on startups under the title, ‘Bank of Lebanon Business Accelerator Conference’ this November 3 at Forum De Beyrouth. The theme of the 3-day event is ‘innovation: entrepreneurship inside the big companies and entrepreneurships in general’, and creating diversity in an interactive dynamic venue.  It will host start-up enterprises and big corporations coming to showcase their leading edge innovations. A lifted platform has been especially designed for the occasion which will include inspiring lectures and debates. The conference is expected to hit a new record for similar events organized in the Mediterranean region, for it will receive influential figures and managers of companies in the technology industry, in addition to experts in innovation from around 195 cities in 52 countries from around the world. The conference is also expected to attract more than 20,000 guests, including over 1,000 participants, 4,000 professionals, 3,000 entrepreneurs, and 2,000 students. On this special event, the director of the Central Bank’s Governorship, Marianne Howayek, disclosed that the Bank has since mid-August 2013 embarked on a policy to motivate commercial banks on investment in startups, and has, to this effect, issued the Circular No. 331 related to the support of the knowledge-based economy. As part of its efforts to highlight the importance of similar enterprises, Howayek stated, the Bank of Lebanon has decided to organize this conference and associated exhibition. (Al Diyar, October 26, 2016)