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BDL Accelerate 2015 Team Visit Universities

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Our team is at USEK today rolling in a golf cart through campus to prepare for presentations. In the spirit of finding the next generation of entrepreneurs, the BDL Accelerate 2015 team has been visiting all major universities in Lebanon to inspire youth to join the startup movement and attend the conference. NRJ Radio, Aghani, and Nostalgie have been tagging along to spread the word further and farther. High school students are also encouraged to attend, with a couple of schools already scheduling class trips for their senior students.

Idea Stage Workshop: Session #4

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The fourth workshop session started with an overview of how things will roll at the BDL Accelerate 2015 conference next week. Following that SETT checked out the teams’ prototypes of what they’ve been developing in response to the Reimagine Lebanon theme assigned to them.

The teams were then provided with a business model canvas so that instead of spending months planning and researching and then writing a lengthy business plan, the teams can jot down their hypotheses in a framework called the ‘business model canvas.’ The business model canvas allows them to look at all 9 building blocks of their business on one page, each component containing a series of hypotheses they need to test.

The workshop is the fourth of five weekly workshops in the series of design thinking workshops offered by SETT, part of the BDL Accelerate Idea Stage Startup competition that is sponsored by Daher Capital and themed Reimagining Lebanon. 24 participants were selected and assembled into 8 teams of 3 to develop a startup idea to address a problem assigned to them. The participating teams will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges in front of an audience during Banque du Liban Accelerate 2015 for the chance to win 5,000 USD.

Colm Reilly – PA Consulting Group – London

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Colm Reilly has substantial experience enabling public and private sector organisations to deliver substantial benefit by improving project performance. He works in technology-rich environments on complex project start-ups, turn-rounds and change programmes, and has accelerated system and product developments.

Over the past 10 years Colm has worked with a range of government clients to support their economic development objectives by directly working with companies to develop and expand their regional footprints.

Colm has also started and exited three companies in the past – Eureto, Aviareto and Lucid. These clients have included UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), JETRO (Japan), the State of British Columbia, Department of Enterprise and Trade (Ireland), and the Central Bank of Lebanon acting as CEO of the UK Lebanon Tech Hub.

For these organisations he has operated a number of accelerators and start-up environments including Sirus, UKLTH and Andromeda.

Mario Berta – FlySpaces – Manila

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Mario Berta is currently the Founder and CEO of FlySpaces a tech-start up that empowers SMEs to get access to flexible office and retail space.

Formerly Nova Founder’s director for growth, a tech incubator and VC firm that boasts among its investor Richard Li (among HK’s richest tycoon) and Asia Regional Co-Founder of Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi.

True global professional with extensive experience in leadership, strategy, innovation and expansion. Passionate about empowering and enabling people, developing businesses, and supporting companies and institutions all around the World.

Driven by success, strongly believes that we live in a World where relationships are the key to standing out of the crowd and excelling at doing business in present competitive environment.
Built, managed and trained successful sales teams in Africa and in the APAC region, including Papua New Guinea, Macau, Angola, Nigeria, Philippines, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Area of expertise: Start-ups, IT / E-commerce, Mobile Payments, Social Media, Telecoms, Advertisement, Business Development / Sales, Training and Coaching.

“Asia Expert” by founding and running multiple businesses for 6 years +.

Fluent in 4 languages: Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese

Contestant in the famous business reality show “The Apprentice”, Spanish version.

Master Degree in Business & Economics from University of Turin with exchange in IE Business School (Madrid)