Meet Hans Henrik Christensen, Director of DTEC — Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Centre
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English - February 28, 2018 06:28 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBBusiness Education coworking entrepreneur technology future decentralised sharing economy sustainability machine learning artificial intelligence Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
[00.43] Hans Background and DTEC [04.34] Coworking Landscape in Dubai [06.04] Smart City Development Incubator [08.36] IOT and Smart Device Workshop [10.16] DTEC Membership [12.12] DTEC Marketing Strategy [13.14] DTEC Vision in Five or Ten Years [14.50] DTEC Events Programming
[00.43] Hans Background and DTEC
Hans career is mixed between with working for large corporations or setting up startups.
He's started an incubator in Dubai called Silicon Oasis Founders. Silicon Oasis founders was a small incubator which started with funding from Dubai Silicon Oasis. They expanding into a very large hub with hundreds tech startups and we have accelerators, events, learning ventures, investment capability and labs accelerators.
[04.34] Coworking Landscape in Dubai
DTEC is the largest coworking space. There will be a lot of competition which is good because it should have alternatives but the prices remain steady.
[06.04] Smart City Development Incubator
The smart city accelerator is focused on the smart cities space. People can join as much as they can send an application and there will be a selection. DTEC actually a group of investors who have come together to fund the accelerator which is run by startup boot camp.
[08.36] IOT and Smart Device Workshop
DTEC building a smart city called Silicon Park project which is a place of residential commercial retail and space.
The next accelerators DTEC looking for probably be retail and FinTech
[10.16] DTEC Membership
DTEC proposing a new model of membership, for those who come in and out of Dubai who is not residents and if need a place to work out of months at the time.
[12.12] DTEC Marketing Strategy
Organically. DTEC have grown a phenomenally steady rate for three years without even needing to do a lot of advertising.
[13.14] DTEC Vision in Five or Ten Years
Obviously, DTEC needs to grow because fully. DTEC also proposed different opportunities to the tenant either funding events, learning labs, and acceleration.
[14.50] DTEC Events Programming
DTEC have a hundred plus events per year, basically every week twice or third events. It's technology events called tech forum, either talk about AI or blockchain which is currently in the market. Signature events called Entrepreneur Day is both a workshops and meet ups networking.
DTEC Website | Startup Boot Camp | Silicon Oasis Founders | Silicon Park | Entrepreneur Day
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