A week for Impact
COP27 and sustainable change is on the forefront of everyone's mind. Its time ESG is more than just lip service.
Call for Climate Tech Startups launched at COP27
#COP27 President Special Rep & Ambassador Wael Aboulmagd kicked of the week with Theme #1 of this year’s COP: Doing, not talking.
He said “It's fine to show good intentions and get the headline. But if there's no follow-up, it becomes empty words and people start losing confidence in the entire process,”
Future50 NetZero Initiative #PwCFuture50ME
At PwC Middle East we are acting on ‘doing’ with our launch of the Future50 NetZero Initiative
If your company is based/operating here in the region and developing technology with the potential to make a difference to climate change that affects our region we want to hear from you.
Jon Blackburn, PwC Middle East partner, Energy, Utilities, Resources and Industrials, commented
“Climate tech is crucial to our net zero ambitions. It works to tackle one of the hardest challenges of our time. We want to highlight 50 Middle East based innovators through our “Net Zero Future50” initiative, to identify the top disruptive technologies addressing the biggest climate challenges facing our region that would benefit from investment and scale up.
Read more from PwC ESG Leader Dr Yahya Anouti Here
Developing women founder ecosystems
PwC teams where out in the community this week contributing to the ESG agenda this week supporting a number of women founder initiatives.
AHK Women Founders Forum
Scale Lead Patricia Keating spoke to the UAE-German Forum at IFZA Business Park on Monday, giving a talk on Women Founders in the UAE. Patricia provided an overview of to the startup ecosystem across the UAE.
She shared insights into challenges faced by women entrepreneurs focusing on actions and activities women and enable to overcome hurdles facing them in investment, procurement and growth.
It was followed by talks from Cooling and Heating Technologies Leonnie Banzer on their climate tech energy business as well as startup pitches from Climate techs The Waste Lab, Biyiy Electric Bikes, Fintech Sav Money and P2P data platform and neuroscience tech Zarela
TiE Global Women Entrepreneurs
Women from the PwC marketing teams and emerging tech teams delivered masterclasses to TiE Women global competition global virtual accelerator programme for the winners and runners up of the regional and national competitions in the lead up to the finals in Hyderabad, India in December.
The PwC Marketing team provided three lightning sessions on marketing 101, personal branding & social media. Digital services demonstrated allyship with their digital manager Saif delivering a session on paid marketing.
The all women emerging tech team shared insights on Web3, building rapid prototypes of emerging and current technologies with relevant business needs. The all women tech team gave insights into the ‘essential 8’ and deep dived into XR, Artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing and web AR experiences.
