IT TEAM PARTICIPATED IN "GHEDEX 2023" CONFERENCE IN MUSCAT

The IT Team from UTAS-Ibri participated and presented a talk in a reputed conference "GHEDEX 2023" in Tuesday, 2nd May 2023. The Global Higher Education Exhibition (GHEDEX) is a conference on innovation and entrepreneurship which was held at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre – Muscat where several experts from various universities, industrial experts as start-up owners, entrepreneurs and professionals across Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and India presented their proposals and ideas. The UTAS-Ibri team which is represented by Dr Wilfred blessing NR (IT Lecturer) who talked about "The Rise of Successful Student Start-ups from International Universities", and Mr Rashid Mohammed Al Jabri (IT student), a student delegate who got the chance to interact with the start-up exhibitors for the knowledge acquisition and for learning experience.
During the talk, in order to inspire and motivate the student community, the speaker presented the start-up projects that rises from colleges or universities and today that are successful. The speaker adds the research-based recommendations for, “why is college the best time for a student to do start-up?”. The presentation aimed to initiate incubation centres, a place to develop and provide platforms for creative aspirants where their innovative ideas and concepts will be incubated; start-up co-working spaces, a place where to work and develop their ideas that they can enhance after they graduate; acceleration, a program that gives developing companies and investors the access to mentor that will help them become stable and self-sufficient future entrepreneurs. The UTAS-Ibri team received appreciation and acknowledgement from the conference organizing committee for presenting the ideas on start-ups, innovation and entrepreneurship.