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DOHA: As Qatar progresses towards its ambitious National Vision 2030 plan for a more diversified, knowledge-based and sustainable economy, there are boundless opportunities for technology pioneers and innovators to play a leading role in the country's economic development.
That was the message from the keynote address on day two of the inaugural Qatar-India Business and Investment Conference (QIBIC), organised by the Indian Business & Professionals Council (IBPC) in Qatar, and Reach Events, in collaboration with the Indian Embassy in Qatar. The agenda-setting forum was created to explore new and innovative ways of building on a history of positive bilateral diplomacy between the two nations and fostering entrepreneurship.
TV Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Global Education India @2030, delivered the keynote address ‘How tech entrepreneurs will create a $10 trillion economy' on the second day of the summit at Rotana City Center Doha.
The keynote address was followed by a thought-leading panel discussion titled ‘Technology and Innovation', focusing on the latest trends boosting technology and innovation in Qatar. Moderated by Maha Al Sulaiti from Qatar National Bank, the discussion session involved high-caliber luminaries including Sanjay Jain: Chief Innovation Officer- Center for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship IIM Ahmedabad; and Visham Sikand- Founder, Goals 101.
The final session of the two-day conference, ‘Infrastructure: New Tides of Opportunity' attended by Sujoy Bose, CEO, National Investment & Infrastructure Fund of India, NIIF who gave a keynote speech. Bose was then joined by panelists from Qatar National Bank Group (QNB) to discuss the possibilities for investors in both Qatar and India.
In his keynote speech Bose focused on the importance of infrastructure and that all the technologies have to depend on good infrastructure services so it can flourish and this creates so many opportunities for countries.
He confirmed that infrastructures has only started to develop properly three decades ago and the quality of maturity in decision making on infrastructure started improving.
The event concluded with an address from P Kumran, Indian Ambassador to Qatar, in which he outlined the successful first staging of QIBIC, and with a speech by Ali Ibrahim Abdullah Al Malki, Independent Director, Board of Directors, Doha Bank who focused on the importance of Qatar-India relations which both need to explore more each other's capabilities and formalize the bilateral relations.
The Indian Ambassador said: 'It is the first time an Investment and Business Conference happens between the Embassy and IPBC, and we were very happy with the quality of panel discussions and speakers from Qatar and India as well as the type of participation from the business community which encourages us to hold this conference again in the future.
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