INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP in Albania, September 18 -20, 2018
Innovation Festival in Tirana, the first of its kind in our region, coincides with the Toronto World Summit Festival, Canada, designed as the “Future World’s Festival ” organized by Trend Hunter.
Why this format?
Globalization stimulates the increase of competitiveness. In the global market are emerging new competitors, especially in low-cost countries, but also great opportunities to enter the global markets, while stimulating the development of the necessary knowledge, to create sustainable competitive advantages and this is possible through continuous INNOVATION.
For every business that operates on the market there is a permanent challenge to maintain and protect a certain position in the market, it is even greater the challenge to export and explore new markets:
What has to be done to be successful?
Ready to change and act without interruption; Understanding the Trends, Prediction of Changes; Becoming more competitive.
For this reason, implementing changes that bring new values, it means that the entrepreneur successfully develops INNOVATION.
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tirana, considering the need to increase the added value of products and services, exploring new markets, has brought the focus of new companies and early investors, to direct their portfolio of investment in innovative projects.
Investments in tourism, technology and energy are seen as new entrepreneurial opportunities.
This leads to the need to promote human resources capacities, younger generation to invest in new technologies that increase the productivity and competitiveness of Made in Albania trademark. Entrepreneurship considers as a partner the central and local government to stimulate INNOVATION together.
Over 500 participants from across the region come together to promote and present their best practices, ideas and innovative projects in Tirana.
Categories;
1.Start-up
2.Tourism
3.Technology
4.Banks
5.Energy
6.Telecommunication
Target groups that bring technological and innovative change.
Partnership;
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tirana will cooperate with the Municipality of Tirana, Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Protik, Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Albania (WKO), Regional Chambers in Balkan, G77, UNIDO, etc.
This partnership comes as a need that the best presented projects, selected from a professional jury, find their way to be implemented on field. So, it is not thought to award a price, but to implement this innovative ideas.
In the festival days, all the interested companies, and/or individuals that have an innovative idea to present, are welcomed to apply within 15th of June 2018, in the following e-mail address: çi.tirana@çi.al
Members of the jury:
- Representatives from the Ministry of Energy.
- Representatives from the Municipality of Tirana
- Representatives from AIDA.
- Representatives from University of Tirana.
- Representatives from the Business Sector.
It is suggested in partnership with Protik, on 10th and 11th of Septmeber 2018 a Training from Protik Innovation Center on the preparatin of the presentation of projects in Information Technology, Innovation, Youth Entrepreneurship in technology. This final training phase will serve the projects’ presenters to bring their product worthily during the conference days.
Audience;
Being a dedicated event in specific areas, part of it will be only the companies participating during the three days, the commercial attaches in our country that will bring companies from their countries to support new ideas of Albanian and regional companies. A long list of companies from all the countries of the region, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro etc. Also companies from Austria, Slovenia, United Arab Emirates, etc., who will have B2B meetings, also supporting the best projects. It is also aimed a live conference with the Toronto Summit at the opening of this Festival.
Draft Program
Date 18th-20th of September 2018
Time 10:00 – 17:00
Date 18th of September 2018, Tuesday ;
Day I; Categories; Start ups/Tourism.
Sessions: A 3-4 min presentations for thoshe who passed the first phase and /Workshops /B2B.
Presentation from the Special Guest- Key Speaker- Success Model
Date 19th of September 2018, Wednesday;
Day II; Categories; Infrastructure (Renewable energy / Telecommunication).
Sessions; A 3-4 min presentations for thoshe who passed the first phase and /Workshops /B2B.
Presentation from the Special Guest- Key Speaker- Success Model
Date 20th of September 2018, e Thursday–
Day III; Categories; ICT’s/ Financial institutions & Banks
Sessions; A 3-4 min presentations for thoshe who passed the first phase and /Workshops /B2B.
Presentation from the Special Guest- Key Speaker- Success Model
18:00pm+ – “Taste celebration”- exploring cocktails and experimenting in taste (Host bartender)
