The 2nd Qatar Chamber SMEs Conference, being held under the patronage of Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, will begin from January 17. The two-day conference is being jointly organised by Qatar Chamber, ICC Qatar and The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB).
“As part of Qatar Chambers continuous mission to empower SMEs, we are planning to host the 2nd SME conference in Doha, once again with the aim to promote entrepreneurship, to stimulate services for SMEs, to support diversification and to create employment opportunities for the national work force,” announced Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani (pictured), Chairman of Qatar Chamber and ICC Qatar.The event is sponsored by QNB, Qatar Development Bank (QDB) Doha Bank as well as NBK and Expo Turkey by Qatar.
Khalid Al Naemi, Assistant General Manager (AGM), SME Banking, QNB, said: “QNB is always proud to be part of such important events that have a special significance to the banking sector in general and the economy of Qatar in particular. SME’s growth follows a strong upward trend and we will continue to support them with all the resources and expertise we have, as we believe the SMEs will continue to be a key driver of the economic growth,” he added.
M Rifat Hisarciklioglu, President of TOBB, will join the event with a delegation of 150 Turkish business leaders.
Khalid Abdulla Al Mana, Executive Director of Business Finance, QDB, said: “The strong partnership between QDB and Qatar Chamber is aimed at promoting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is precisely the type of corporate engineering that will result in the achievement of our strategic national development plan, Qatar National Vision 2030".
Through this SME conference, our joint organisational focus is to inculcate a culture of creativity, entrepreneurial spirit and innovativeness across the nation through providing a supportive environment for entrepreneurs so that we may play our respective organizational roles in creating a well-diversified, knowledge-based economy in Qatar.”
