The 2019 Entrepreneurship World Cup Finals
MiSK, a non- profit organization by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, has just announced that it is launching the second edition of its Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC), an initiative set up to provide support to the nation’s young business minds, helping them turn their ideas into successful business ventures. The upcoming event will be hosted virtually in line with strict safety measures still in place to curb the spread of COVID-19.
2020 has been tough. But we're resilient, and always here to help you succeed. For #EWC2020 we've adapted our platform take this year’s competition online, to keep you all safe but still working to support you and your businesses.
— Misk Global Forum (@MiskGlobalForum) July 13, 2020
Find out what’s new https://t.co/lvIxk7At5d pic.twitter.com/vTiN00c9Sr
The upcoming event, which has five stages of participation and is the world’s largest entrepreneurship ecosystem, is set to attract hundreds of participants from across the globe. EWC 2020 will offer various training programs aimed at supporting the Kingdom’s young entrepreneurs, helping them to develop their business models, while gaining new skills and strengthening existing ones. Participants will be guided and helped at every step of their journey by mentors and specialists in various fields.
This is Osh Agabi, who ranks 2nd among our #EWC Class of 2019’s Top 10 Entrepreneurs! Based out of the USA, Agabi is the founder & CEO of Koniku, the biological neuron programming startup.
— Misk Global Forum (@MiskGlobalForum) July 19, 2020
Stay tuned as we pick out a new player card each week and celebrate the EWC alumni. pic.twitter.com/Msh2giTvUw
According to MiSK Foundation’s Twitter account, the second edition will specifically offer a social enterprise track, new competition categories, access to Google Cloud, website design support, more than 1 million US dollars in cash prizes, and over 70 million US dollars of in-kind support services. To know more about the competition, visit www.entrepreneurshipworldcup.com.
EWC is not the first event that MiSK has launched in support of Saudi Arabia youth, particularly during these unprecedented times that has seen the nation’s young minds having to put many of their aspirations on hold. Prior to this event, MiSK launched the “Never Disconnect” online campaign website earlier in 2020, as an extension to its role in supporting education and development. The platform was created as a hub for MiSK’s diverse initiatives and programs, enabling anyone to easily access and benefit from available educational and developmental opportunities.
Misk is offering exciting initiatives “that seek to turn this crisis into an opportunity and promote the participation of all society members in community service through various training and volunteering opportunities.”https://t.co/YAfv0E1Zyc
— About Her (@AboutHerOFCL) April 23, 2020
Indeed, the organization aims to help the nation’s youth “overcome the standing obstacles, to continue self-development under any circumstances, and not to surrender to global challenges,” as explained on its official website.
