Tamakkan new season kicks off with exciting line up: Emirati entrepreneurs share secrets to success

Tamakkan, an entrepreneurship and innovation organization will showcase successful entrepreneurs linked to the "I Love UAE" organization at its upcoming seminar on 17 September from 6pm till 8pm at Al Mamoura Auditorium, Abu Dhabi; offering personal perspectives on how to achieve success in the UAE.

"We decided this Tamakkan would highlight the great role models from the "I Love UAE" entrepreneurship organisation; to show the incredible energy and initiative that is taking place among young business owners who will certainly contribute to growth of the country's economy," said Tamakkan founder Sana Bagersh.

At the seminar Amal Al Agroobi, Founder of the "I Love UAE" initiative will share her vision for the entrepreneurship organization and introduce some of the exciting enterprises that it has nurtured.

Abdullatif Al Sayegh, CEO of Al Sayegh Media will give a presentation entitled "How I Built a Media Company in Three Months," and will share his experience of how his business went from startup to media empire dominating the sector. The Co-Founder of X Architects, Fareed Esmail will talk about "How to Manage Small and Compete Big" while Talib Al Hashemi, the co founder of Next Level Recruitment, the UAE's first and only Emirati recruitment company, will share his idea of the critical success factors of true business leadership, in his presentation, " The Vitamin Cs That All Leaders Need."

"We're excited that the next Tamakkan will offer real life case studies of Emirati businesses that grew rapidly from concept board to viable commercial entities, and we hope the stories of these entrepreneurs will inspire a new breed of intrepid business startups," said Bagersh.

The programme interludes will include a short animation called "Mad Camel" by Mohammed Fikree, an Emirati animator who has won numerous film festival competitions, along with a surprise feature from Amal Al Agroobi, who is also an accomplished film maker. American spoken word poet Dorian 'Paul D' Rogers will present one of his original poems, and the programme will round off with a Tamakkan compilation of the "Top 10 Hot Franchises for the Middle East".

Established in June 2009, Tamakkan is a social enterprise run by BrandMoxie, a leading advertising and marketing agency in the UAE. Tamakkan aims to nurture entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation through a knowledge sharing platform that includes free monthly seminars to encourage networking and business development.