Following last weeks on the ground in person activities in Dubai; this week it was all about the virtual as we embarked on a week of multilateral activities to support startup ecosystems across the region. Part of the Kingdoms vision to build a sustainable thriving technology ecosystem as part of its 2030 vision requires a strong foundation of future talent to meet the growing demand of business.
Fintech Saudi brought together the #FintechCareersFair virtually with +10K attendees to visit 36 partner booths exploring 180+ fintech jobs. An interesting concept of crafting a real world booth into the virtual one. Candidate’s interests ranged from technical and digital roles in computing engineering, software development , cybersecurity, and fintech to more vocational roles in accounting and law.
PwC Middle East’s new AlUla office, the 6th in the Kingdom; and new consulting HQ in Riyadh meant lots of diverse roles and opportunities to the visiting professionals. A team of PwC volunteers from across the firm contributed their evenings to the booth as the career fair insights team there to answer any questions and share experiences of Life@PwC. We are excited to see who from the fair joins our teams in Saudi to become our next generation of fintech talent for the firm.
Behind the scenes the ventures team were hard at work lining up 6 further mentors for next week’s activity when PwC experts in KYC, regulation, licensing as well as pitching, business modeling and value proposition will be paired with Fintech Saudi’s twelve selected next generation financial innovation entrepreneurs.
On the international front - our ventures team joined forces with our PwC India fintech team to deliver a workshop for the The British High Commission (BHC) along with International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSC) and Gujarat International Financial Tec-City (GIFT City).
They invited a complement of India’s Fintech techs to learn more about the UK and the Middle East fintech ecosystems, exploring partners, markets and opportunities to encourage cross border economic development.
This work now extends to a call for Fintechs to join them for their Market Access via Innovation Day Program on 21-22 March 2022. Market Access via Innovation day aims to source challenges, use cases, and innovations of tomorrow from the industry and invite domestic and international startups to showcase their solutions and products that address these challenges.
Register here to participate